This is a list of books dealing with topics related to our class. Your group will be responsible for one of these books. You will be responsible for reading 1/3 of your group’s book and sharing that information with your group members. The full list is here in case you are interested in doing further reading.

Anderson, C. (2006). The long tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more. New York: Hyperion.

Ariely, D. (2008). Predictably irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions. New York, NY: Harper.

Barabási, A.-L. (2003). Linked: How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life. New York: Plume.

Carr, N. G. (2008). The big switch: Rewiring the world, from Edison to Google. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Friedman, T. L. (2005). The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Gladwell, M. (2005). Blink: The power of thinking without thinking. New York: Little, Brown and Co.

Gladwell, M. (2002). The tipping point: How little things can make a big difference. Boston: Little, Brown.

Godin, S. (2008). Tribes: We need you to lead us. New York: Portfolio.

Jenkins, H. (2008). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press.

Johnson, S. (2006). Everything bad is good for you: How today’s popular culture is actually making us smarter. New York: Riverhead Books.

Lacy, S. (2008). Once you’re lucky, twice you’re good: The rebirth of Silicon Valley and the rise of Web 2.0. New York, N.Y.: Gotham.

Lessig, L. (2001). The future of ideas: The fate of the commons in a connected world. New York: Random House.

Lessig, L. (2004). Free culture: How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity. New York: Penguin Press.

Pink, D. H. (2005). A whole new mind: Moving from the information age to the conceptual age. New York: Riverhead Books.

Shirky, C. (2008). Here comes everybody: The power of organizing without organizations. New York: Penguin Press.

Sterling, B. (2005). Shaping things. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Sunstein, C. R. (2008). Infotopia: How many minds produce knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press.

Surowiecki, J. (2004). The wisdom of crowds: Why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations. New York: Doubleday.

Tapscott, D., & Williams, A. D. (2006). Wikinomics: How mass collaboration changes everything. New York: Portfolio.

Weinberger, D. (2002). Small pieces loosely joined: A unified theory of the Web. Cambridge, MA: Perseus.

Weinberger, D. (2007). Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Times Books.

Wright, A. (2008). Glut: Mastering information through the ages. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

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