This may be of interest to some. ---------- From: Phil Agre To: Red Rock Eater News Service Subject: [RRE]Reading List for Information Studies Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 9:39PM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). Send any replies to the original author, listed in the From: field below. You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the "redirect" command. For information on RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, see http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: info rre =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Reading List for Information Studies Phil Agre http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/ November 1998 This is a reading list that I prepared for the students in a master's program in information studies. To keep the list within reasonable bounds, I have arbitrarily restricted it to books published within the last several years. Feel free to forward this list to others. Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg, eds, Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape, MIT Press, 1997. Philip E. Agre and Douglas Schuler, eds, Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Studies in Computing as a Social Practice, Ablex, 1997. Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt, Contextual Design: A Customer- Centered Approach to Systems Designs, Morgan Kaufman, 1997. Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law, eds, Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, MIT Press, 1992. R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse, eds, Future Libraries, University of California Press, 1995. Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, and David Knights, eds, Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks, and Integration, Oxford University Press, 1997. Max H. Boisot, ed, Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions, and Culture, Routledge, 1995. Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star, William Turner, and Les Gasser, eds, Social Science, Technical Systems and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide, Erlbaum, 1997. Lisa Bud-Frierman, ed, Information Acumen: The Understanding and Use of Knowledge in Modern Business, Routledge, 1994. Graham Button, ed, Technology in Working Order: Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology, Routledge, 1993. Leona Carpenter, Simon Shaw and Andrew Prescott, eds, Towards the Digital Library: The British Library's Initiatives for Access Programme, British Library, 1998. John M. Carroll, ed, Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Mark Casson, Information and Organization: A New Perspective on the Theory of the Firm, Clarendon Press, 1997. Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, Blackwell, 1996. Walt Crawford and Michael Gorman, Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness and Reality, American Library Association, 1995. Michael Curry, Digital Places: Living with Geographic Information Technologies, Routledge, 1998. Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak, Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment, Oxford University Press, 1997. Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Religion in the Information Age, Harmony, 1998. Meinholf Dierkes and Ute Hoffman, eds, New Technology at the Outset: Social Forces in the Shaping of Technological Innovations, Campus Verlag, 1992. Lawrence Dowler, ed, Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning, and Research, MIT Press, 1997. Peter Droege, ed, Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution, Elsevier, 1997. William H. Dutton, ed, Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities, Oxford University Press, 1996. William H. Dutton, ed, Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, Oxford University Press, 1998. Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, MIT Press, 1996. Cliff Figallo, Hosting Web Communities: Building Relationships, Increasing Customer Loyalty, and Maintaining a Competitive Edge, Wiley, 1998. Mike Godwin, Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age, Times Books, 1998. Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin, Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places, Routledge, 1996. Eileen Green, Jenny Owen, and Den Pain, eds, Gendered by Design: Information Technology and Office Systems, Taylor and Francis, 1993. Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng, eds, Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems, Erlbaum, 1990. Saul Greenberg, ed, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware, Academic Press, 1991. Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, Simon and Schuster, 1996. Linda Harasim, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles, and Murray Turoff, Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning Online, MIT Press, 1995. Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy D. Stephen, eds, Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in Twenty-First-Century University, State University of New York Press, 1996. Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik, eds, High Wired: On the Design, Use and Theory of Educational MOOs, University of Michigan Press, 1998. Deborah Hurley, Brian Kahin, and Hal Varian, eds, Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property, MIT Press, 1998. Deborah Hurley and James Keller, eds, The First 100 Feet: Options for Internet and Broadband Access, MIT Press, 1998. Steven G. Jones, CyberSociety 2.0: Revisiting CMC and Community, Sage, 1998. Brian Kahin and Janet Abbate, eds, Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure, MIT Press, 1995. Brian Kahin and Charles Nesson, eds, Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure, MIT Press, 1997. Rob Kling, ed, Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, second edition, Academic Press, 1996. Timothy Koschmann, ed, CSCL [Computer Supported Collaborative Learning]: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm, Erlbaum, 1996. Neil Kotler and Philip Kotler, Museum Strategy and Marketing: Designing Missions, Building Audiences, Generating Revenue and Resources, Jossey-Bass, 1998. Herbert Kubicek, William H. Dutton, and Robin Williams, eds, The Social Shaping of Information Superhighways: European and American Roads to the Information Society, St. Martin's Press, 1997. Morten Kyng and Lars Mathiassen, eds, Computers and Design in Context, MIT Press, 1997. James Andrew LaSpina, The Visual Turn and the Transformation of the Textbook, Erlbaum, 1998. John Law, ed, A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination, Routledge, 1991. Derek Leebaert, ed, The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, MIT Press, 1998. Michael Lesk, Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, and Bucks, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997. Merete Lie and Knut H. Sorensen, eds, Making Technology Our Own? Domesticating Technology into Everyday Life, Scandinavian University Press, 1996. Don Mankin, Susan G. Cohen, and Tora K. Bikson, Teams and Technology: Fulfilling the Promise of the New Organization, Harvard Business School Press, 1996. Robin Mansell and Roger Silverstone, eds, Communication by Design: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, 1996. Giuseppe Mantovani, New Communication Environments: From Everyday to Virtual, Taylor and Francis, 1996. Mark T. Maybury and Wolfgang Wahlster, eds, Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998. Sharon M. McKinnon and William J. Bruns, Jr., The Information Mosaic, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992. Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P. Bailey, eds, Internet Economics, MIT Press, 1997. Steven E. Miller, Civilizing Cyberspace: Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway, ACM Press, 1996. William J. Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, MIT Press, 1995. Redmond Kathleen Moiz and Phyllis Dain, Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age, MIT Press, 1998. Walid Mougayar, Opening Digital Markets: Battle Plans and Business Strategies for Internet Commerce, second edition, McGraw-Hill, 1997. David Noble, The Religion of Technology, Knopf, 1997. Donald A. Norman, The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution, MIT Press, 1998. Geoffrey Nunberg, ed, The Future of the Book, University of California Press, 1996. Pat Oddy, Future Libraries, Future Catalogues, Library Association, 1997. Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby, eds, Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier, MIT Press, 1996. Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggio, eds, The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, University of Chicago Press, 1991. Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Paul Quintas, Social Dimensions of Systems Engineering: People, Processes, Policies and Software Development, Ellis Horwood, 1993. Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly, 1998. Wolff-Michael Roth, Designing Communities, Kluwer, 1997. Donald A. Schon, Bish Sanyal, and William J. Mitchell, eds, High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology, MIT Press, 1998. Karen A. Schriver, Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Texts for Readers, Wiley, 1996. Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka, eds, Participatory Design: Principles and Practices, Erlbaum, 1993. Douglas Schuler, New Community Networks: Wired for Change, Addison-Wesley, 1996. Mark A. Shields, ed, Work and Technology in Higher Education: The Social Construction of Academic Computing, Erlbaum, 1994. Ben Shneiderman, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, third edition, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. Daniel F. Spulber, The Market Makers: How Leading Companies Create and Win Markets, McGraw-Hill, 1998. Mark Stefik, Internet Dreams, MIT Press, 1996. Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents, City Lights, 1997. Hal Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, Harvard Business School Press, 1998. Terry Winograd, ed, Bringing Design to Software, Addison-Wesley, 1996. David B. Yoffie, ed, Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence, Harvard Business School Press, 1997. end
