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The Digital Decade’s Definitive Reading List: Internet & Info-Tech Policy
Books of the 2000s
by Adam Thierer <http://techliberation.com/author/adam-thierer/> on December
29, 2009 · <http://techliberation.com/2009/12/29/the-digital-decades-definitive-reading-list-internet-info-tech-policy-books-of-the-2000s/#comments>
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[image: book stack]<http://techliberation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/book-stack.jpg>So,
did the decade just end or do we have another year to go? Honestly, I’ve
never understood when the cut-off is from one decade to the next. (My friend
Larry Magid struggles with the same question in his recent column on “The
Decade in Technology<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/28/scitech/pcanswer/main6032377.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesSecondary>.”)
Nonetheless, I’ve seen a lot of best-of-decade lists published recently, so
I thought I would throw my own out there even though it is still a work in
progress.
I have been attempting to compile the definitive bibliography for our
digital decade—the definitive list of Internet policy books, that is. I
started throwing this together two years ago when I was penning my list of “The
Most Important Internet Policy Books of
2008<http://techliberation.com/2009/12/29/2008/12/07/the-most-important-tech-policy-books-of-2008/>”
and continued to work on it as I was finishing up my 2009
installment<http://techliberation.com/2009/12/29/2009/12/19/the-10-most-important-info-tech-policy-books-of-2009/>
as
well. I grabbed every book off my shelf that dealt with the future of the
Internet and the impact the Digital Revolution is having on our lives,
culture, and economy and threw the title and a link onto this list. (I’m
also using the list to help structure my thoughts for a forthcoming book of
my own on Internet Optimists vs. Pessimists, something I’ve been writing a
lot<http://techliberation.com/2008/09/06/grouping-recent-net-books-internet-optimists-vs-pessimists/>
about here<http://techliberation.com/2009/08/23/can-humans-cope-with-information-overload-tyler-cowen-john-freeman-join-the-debate/>
in recent<http://techliberation.com/2008/11/11/the-pragmatic-internet-optimists-creed/>
years.)
Below you will find what I’ve got so far. There are around 80 90 books on
the list. I’ve divided the list by year, but you may be wondering what
determined the order the books appear in. In essence, I’ve listed what I
feel are the 1 or 2 most important titles first and then just added others
randomly. Eventually, I plan to post a “Most Important Internet Policy Books
of the Decade” list outlining which titles I believe have been the most
influential. I suspect I’ll name Benkler’s *Wealth of Networks *to the top
slot followed closely by Zittrain’s *The Future of the Internet*,
Lessig’s *Free
Culture*, and Chris Anderson’s *The Long Tail. *Anyway, that’s for another
day.
For now, I would just like to ask for reader suggestions regarding what
other titles that should appear on this list. I will add titles as they come
in. I want to stress, however, that I am trying to keep this list limited to
books that have something to say about *Internet policy* (cyber-law, digital
economics, information technology politics, etc).
I hope others find this useful. And yes, I have read all* most of the books
on this list! As I’ve noted here before, I’m a bit of book
nerd<http://techliberation.org/ongoing-series-adam-thierers-book-reviews/>.
(*Now that I’ve received so many helpful additions to the list, there are
some titles on the list I have not had a chance to read through yet).
*2000*
- George Gilder – *Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwith Will Revolutionize Our
World* <http://books.google.com/books?id=Kzo-KTxdwcEC>
- Christopher T. Marsden (ed.) – *Regulating the Global Information
Society* <http://books.google.com/books?id=sETJaoJ2XiUC>
*2001
*
- Cass Sunstein -*
Republic.com<http://books.google.com/books?id=O7AG9TxDJdgC&dq=Republic.com&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Lawrence Lessig – *The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a
Connected World<http://books.google.com/books?id=6HhPAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Michael Lewis – *Next: The Future Just
Happened<http://books.google.com/books?id=bGp_r8jc2FcC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
***
- Debora L. Spar – *Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and
Wealth form the Compass to the
Internet<http://books.google.com/books?id=KGi5AAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
***
- Siva Vaidhyanathan – *Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of
Intellectual Property and How it Threatens
Creativity<http://books.google.com/books?id=sGjSY0rRC_wC>
*
- Manuel Castells – *The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet,
Business, and Society* <http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1Mo-3ObWWgC>
- Jeffrey H. Rohlfs – *Bandwagon Effects in High-Technology
Industries<http://books.google.com/books?id=rmFag8P4CF8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Marjorie Heins – *Not in Front of the Children: “Indecency,” Censorship
and the Innocence of
Youth<http://books.google.com/books?id=ZOXgAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- National Research Council – *Youth, Pornography and the
Internet<http://books.google.com/books?id=VsvZWDqBBOYC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- National Research Council – *Global Networks and Local
Values<http://books.google.com/books?id=DPWwJXPwFaUC&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Paulina Borsook – *Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly
Libertarian Culture of High
Tech<http://books.google.com/books?id=4OkMKcqNQikC>
*
**
*2002*
- David Weinberger -* Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of
the Web <http://books.google.com/books?id=Ma-bQNkffzIC>*
- Howard Reingold – *Smart Mobs: The Next Social
Revolution<http://books.google.com/books?id=zpArKHohtCMC&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Milton L. Mueller *- Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the
Taming of Cyberspace<http://books.google.com/books?id=sMKmdJq7iE0C&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Richard A. Spinello -* Regulating Cyberspace: The Policies and
Technologies of
Control<http://books.google.com/books?id=CFHsdyarf_oC&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Stan Liebowitz – *Re-Thinking the Network Economy: The True Forces that
Drive the Digital
Marketplace<http://books.google.com/books?id=9rXxYq8KrhsC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Adam D. Thierer & Clyde Wayne Crews (eds.)* – Copy Fights: The Future
of Intellectual Property in the Information
Age<http://books.google.com/books?id=8PC5yEGNMvEC>
*
*2003*
- Lorrie Faith Cranor & Steven S. Wildman (eds.) *- Rethinking Rights and
Regulations: Institutional Responses to New Communication
Technologies<http://books.google.com/books?id=gKjaUTmfkCQC>
*
- Adam D. Thierer & Clyde Wayne Crews (eds.) -* Who Rules the Net?:
Internet Governance and
Jurisdiction<http://books.google.com/books?id=bH6JOe_DFqgC&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Shanthi Kalathil & Taylor C. Boas - *Open Networks, Closed regimes: The
Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian
Rule*<http://books.google.com/books?id=N1zZm6z8nmkC>
- William Landes and Richard Posner* – The Economic Structure of
Intellectual Property
Law<http://books.google.com/books?id=X-KkvbT6F4UC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
**
*2004*
- Lawrence Lessig -* Free Culture: The Nature and Future of
Creativity<http://books.google.com/books?id=cxZp0sV3V80C>
*
- Dan Gillmor –* We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For
the People<http://books.google.com/books?id=Dgfufx9H1BcC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- William W. Fisher –* Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future
of Entertainment <http://books.google.com/books?id=JbMsu2YU1PsC>*
- Joe Trippi *– The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, The
Internet, and the Overthrow of
Everything<http://books.google.com/books?id=w2a1vLvZI3QC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Siva Vaidhyanathan* - The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash
between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the
System <http://books.google.com/books?id=UKotdnpP7cwC>*
- Steven Weber -* The Success of Open
Source<http://books.google.com/books?id=ELieXMxR1h4C>
*
- Alexander R. Galloway - *Protocol: How Control Exists after
Decentralization <http://books.google.com/books?id=7ePFlE5oo7kC>*
- Michael A. Einhorn -* Media, Technology, and Copyright: Integrating Law
and Economics <http://books.google.com/books?id=Ozst29py2sUC>*
**
*2005*
- John Battelle – *The Search: How Google and its Rivals Rewrote the
Rules of Business and Transformed Our
Culture<http://books.google.com/books?id=FR9PAAAAMAAJ&dq>
*
- Edward Castronova -* Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of
Online Games <http://books.google.com/books?id=0OHVdwE5Kb0C>*
- Jonathan E. Nuechterlein & Philip J. Weiser - *Digital Crossroads:
American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet
Age*<http://books.google.com/books?id=tZPgvnoVNMkC>
*2006*
- Yochai Benkler -* The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production
Transforms Markets and
Freedom<http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Networks-Production-Transforms-Markets/dp/0300125771/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243622310&sr=8-1>
*
- Chris Anderson –* The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling
Less of More<http://www.amazon.com/Long-Tail-Revised-Updated-Business/dp/B001PTG4BO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243622597&sr=8-1>
*
- Jack Goldsmith & Tim Wu -* Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a
Borderless World<http://www.amazon.com/Who-Controls-Internet-Illusions-Borderless/dp/0195340647/ref=pd_sim_b_12>
*
- Henry Jenkins -* **Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media
Collide<http://www.amazon.com/Convergence-Culture-Collide-Revised-Afterword/dp/0814742955/ref=pd_sim_b_4>
*
- Lawrence Lessig -* Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version
2.0<http://www.amazon.com/Code-Other-Laws-Cyberspace-Version/dp/0465039146/ref=pd_sim_b_2>
*
- Cass Sunstein –* Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce
Knowledge<http://books.google.com/books?id=2LW1-5E7jsQC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Daniel J. Solove, Marc Rotenberg & Paul M. Schwartz - *Privacy,
Information and Technology*<http://books.google.com/books?id=Ze3_NDCHK2IC>
- Ori Brafman & Rod A. Beckstrom – *The Starfish and the Spider: The
Unstoppable Power of Leaderless
Organizations*<http://books.google.com/books?id=be_4LRyepS8C>
*2007*
- Andrew Keen –* The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing
our Culture<http://books.google.com/books?id=Z59TDBx1U2UC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Daniel Solove -* The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy
on the Internet<http://www.amazon.com/Future-Reputation-Gossip-Privacy-Internet/dp/0300144229/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243622449&sr=8-2>
*
- Glenn Reynolds -* An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower
Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other
Goliaths<http://techliberation.com/2009/12/29/the-digital-decades-definitive-reading-list-internet-info-tech-policy-books-of-the-2000s/An%20Army%20of%20Davids:%20How%20Markets%20and%20Technology%20Empower%20Ordinary%20People%20to%20Beat%20Big%20Media,%20Big%20Government,%20and%20Other%20Goliaths>
*
- David Weinberger -* Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New
Digital Disorder <http://books.google.com/books?id=SUsRr93DRKEC>*
- National Research Council -* Toward a Safer and More Secure
Cyberspace<http://books.google.com/books?id=dpPUBEB132QC&>
*
- Tarleton Gillespie -* Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital
Culture <http://books.google.com/books?id=UETvzT_9l0sC>*
- Steve Talbott -* Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age
of Machines <http://books.google.com/books?id=cNiL7wYdhYcC>*
- Jeff Chester -* Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of
Democracy<http://books.google.com/books?id=P85oAAAAIAAJ>
*
- Nancy E. Willard – *Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young
People Learn to Use the Internet Safely and
Responsibly<http://books.google.com/books?id=fDo7f-ldz_EC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
*2008*
- Jonathan Zittrain -* The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop
It<http://www.amazon.com/Future-Internet-How-Stop-ebook/dp/B001B1PQO2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243622449&sr=8-3>
*
- John Palfrey & Urs Gasser -* Born Digital: Understanding the First
Generation of Digital
Natives<http://www.amazon.com/Born-Digital-Understanding-Generation-Natives/dp/0465005152/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243622946&sr=1-1>
*
- Clay Shirky –* Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without
Organizations<http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/1594201536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224515500&sr=1-1>
*
- Nick Carr –* The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to
Google<http://books.google.com/books?id=xUjrxWMQ1FsC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan
Zittrain* *(eds.) –* Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global
Internet Filtering<http://www.amazon.com/Access-Denied-Filtering-Information-Revolution/dp/0262042452/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226073876&sr=1-1>
*
- Daniel Solove –* Understanding
Privacy<http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Privacy-Daniel-J-Solove/dp/0674027728/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223604802&sr=1-2>
*
- Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici -* Self-Regulation in
Cyberspace<http://books.google.com/books?id=2Io235j8HPoC&>
*
- James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer –* Patent Failure: How Judges,
Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at
Risk<http://www.amazon.com/Patent-Failure-Bureaucrats-Lawyers-Innovators/dp/069113491X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224515195&sr=8-1>
*
- Michele Boldrin & David K. Levine –* Against Intellectual
Monopoly<http://books.google.com/books?id=kJtoDeh3P0sC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams *– Wikinomics: How Mass
Collaboration Changes
Everything<http://books.google.com/books?id=DVomiOeBg_YC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis –* Blown to Bits: Your Life,
Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital
Explosion<http://www.amazon.com/Blown-Bits-Liberty-Happiness-Explosion/dp/0137135599/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224515371&sr=8-1>
*
- Lee Siegel –* Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the
Electronic Mob<http://www.amazon.com/Against-Machine-Being-Human-Electronic/dp/0385522657/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224515547&sr=1-1>
*
- Lawrence Lessig –* Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid
Economy<http://www.amazon.com/Remix-Making-Commerce-Thrive-Economy/dp/1594201722/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224515297&sr=8-1>
*
- Michael Heller -* The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks
Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs
Lives<http://books.google.com/books?id=vW1uAAAACAA>
*
- Matt Mason –* The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing
Capitalism<http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Dilemma-Culture-Reinventing-Capitalism/dp/B001GVJB4I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226074163&sr=1-1>
*
- David Friedman –* Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an
Uncertain World<http://www.amazon.com/Future-Imperfect-Technology-Freedom-Uncertain/dp/0521877326/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226074120&sr=1-1>
*
- Cory Doctorow —* Content <http://craphound.com/content/>*
- Don Tapscott —* Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing
Your World<http://www.amazon.com/Grown-Up-Digital-Generation-Changing/dp/0071508635/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226350747&sr=8-1>
*
- Neil Netanel –* Copyright’s
Paradox<http://www.amazon.com/Copyrights-Paradox-Neil-Weinstock-Netanel/dp/0195137620/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226074210&sr=1-1>
*
- Mark Bauerlein- *The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies
Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30)
* <http://books.google.com/books?id=lpq3ryL1c6sC>
*2009*
- Chris Anderson –* Free: The Future of a Radical
Price<http://books.google.com/books?id=lLZbXN2odVYC&dq=Chris+Anderson+Free+book&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Larry Downes *- The Laws of Disruption: Chaos and Control in Your
Virtual Future<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018645/ref=ox_ya_oh_product>
*
- Dawn C. Nunziato *- Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in
the Internet Age <http://books.google.com/books?id=ttgSb_fUkNQC&>*
- David Bollier -* Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital
Republic of Their
Own<http://books.google.com/books?id=IRmJNQAACAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- David Post –* In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of
Cyberspace<http://books.google.com/books?id=8Y9bLgrZ4xIC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Dennis Baron *– A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital
Revolution <http://books.google.com/books?id=VWzgtZMJCwgC>*
- Mark Helprin *- Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s
Manifesto<http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Barbarism-Manifesto-Mark-Helprin/dp/0061733113/ref=pd_ybh_8?pf_rd_p=280800601&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1501&pf_rd_i=ybh&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0XBSGVBWPP35YM7KJTH7>
*
- William Patry –* Moral Panics and the Copyright
Wars<http://books.google.com/books?id=ykpgPgAACAAJ>
*
- John Freeman *– The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey
to Your Inbox <http://books.google.com/books?id=pryzPQAACAAJ&>*
- Gary Reback –* Free the Market! Why Only Government Can Keep the
Marketplace Competitive<http://books.google.com/books?id=Dm5HRfBdJiAC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Lee A. Bygrave & Jon Bing (eds) – *Internet Governance: Infrastructure
and Institutions* <http://books.google.com/books?id=w7F-yZUqij4C>
- Manuel Castells* – Communication
Power<http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Management/TechnologyManagement/?view=usa&ci=9780199567041>
*
- Tyler Cowen* – Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a
Disordered World<http://books.google.com/books?id=CKRDPQAACAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Randall Stross *- Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to
Organize Everything We
Know<http://books.google.com/books?id=-u_uPAAACAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Ken Auletta *- Googled: The End of the World As We Know
It<http://books.google.com/books?id=WXpdPgAACAAJ>
*
- Jeff Jarvis -* What Would Google
Do?<http://books.google.com/books?id=rA-DNwAACAAJ>
*
- John W. Dozier Jr. and Sue Scheff *– Google
Bomb<http://books.google.com/books?id=aXFRPgAACAAJ>
*
- James Boyle* – The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the
Mind<http://books.google.com/books?id=Fn1Pl9Gv_EMC&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
*
- Scott Rosenberg* - Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s
Becoming, and Why It
Matters<http://www.amazon.com/Say-Everything-Blogging-Becoming-Matters/dp/0307451364/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257784879&sr=1-1>
*
- Erik Brynjolfsson & Adam Saunders – *Wired for Innovation: How
Information Technology is Reshaping the
Economy*<http://books.google.com/books?id=WBYeChNzVo8C>
- Matthew Scott Hindman -*The Myth of Digital
Democracy*<http://books.google.com/books?id=DaA6MQ0mOYUC>
______________________________
*And here are some forthcoming titles that could be on the list if we
include 2010 in the decade…*
*2010*
- Jaron Lanier – *You Are Not a Gadget: A
Manifesto<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0307269647/ref=pd_luc_mri?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance>
*
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, *The Googlization of Everything*
- Kevin Kelly –* What Technology Wants and What it Means in Our Life*
- Nick Carr –* The Shallows*
- Tim Wu – ?
- Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal
Rohozinski<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34818>
and
Jonathan Zittrain (eds.) – *Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power,
Rights, and Rule in
Cyberspace<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12187>
*
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