A curated collection of readings that have informed the research, writing and thinking of the Digital Civil Society Lab team and fellows.
Democracy and publics
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006). “The Civil Sphere.” Oxford:Oxford University Press
Calhoun, C. (1998). “The public good as a social and cultural project. In W.W. Powell and E. Clemens (Eds.), Private action and the public good (pp. 20-35).” New Haven: Yale University Press
Turner, F. (2008). “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whold Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.” Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
Lanier, J. (2014). “Who owns the Future?” New York, NY: Simon and Schuster
Perzanowski, A. & Shultz J.“The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy.” Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Schneier, B. (2016). “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect your Data and Control the World.” New York, NY: W.W. Norton
Governance
Braman, S (2009). “Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power.” Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Castells, M. (2008). “The New Public Sphere: global civil society, communications networks and global governance.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 6161(1), 78-93
Valentine, MA Retenly D, To A, Rahmati, N. , Doshi, T. & Bernstein MS (2017). “Flash Organizations: Crowdsourcing Complex Work By Structuring Crowds As Organizations.” Denver, CO: CHI.
Barassi, V. (2015). “Activism on the web: Everyday struggles against digital capitalism.” Hoboken, NJ: Taylor and Francis
Castells, M (2012). “Networks of outrage and hope. Social movements in the internet age.” Cambridge: Polity Press
Gerbaudo, P (2017). “Social media teams as digital vanguards: the question of leadership in the management of key Facebook and Twitter accounts of Occupy Wall Street, Indignados and UK Uncut.” Information Communication and Society, 20(2), 185-202