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If you're interested in a decentralized Internet, if you wonder how technology infiltrates politics (for better or worse), or if you're simply itching for a good read— take a look at one of the titles below. You'll find a mix of the pleasurable and the scholarly; but undoubtably something interesting. For my own sake I split the list up into "Reading, To Read, and Read". If you see anything on the list that you recognize, let me know what you thought! If you have a recommendation, drop a line in the comments! Also take a look at my recent Bookmarks Dump for additional reading, tutorials, entertainment, and other content.
Reading
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
—by Joe Trippi
Creating Things that Matter: The Art & Science of Innovations that Last
—by David Edwards
To Read
Steal This Book
—by Abbie Hoffman
Technologies of Freedom
—by Ithiel de Sola Pool
SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
—by Anthony M. Townsend
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
—by James Gleick
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
—by Donella H. Meadows
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
—by Shoshana Zuboff
The Landmarks of Tomorrow
—by Peter Drucker
Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation
—by Brett Goldstein et al.
Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing
—by Malcolm McCullough
Finished
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
—by Roger McNamee
Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
—by Jessa Lingel
Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
—by Jessa Lingel
Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy
—by David Karpf
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, Reviews
—by Amy Webb
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
—by Aaron Swartz et al.
The Pathology of Communicative Capitalism
—by David W. Hill
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
—by Ben Horowitz
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology
—by Timothy Morton
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
—by Sasha Issenberg
Steve Jobs
—by Walter Isaacson
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
—by Robert M. Pirsig
The Doors of Perception
—by Aldous Huxley
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
—by Franklin Foer
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
—by Yuval Noah Harari
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
—by Cass Sunstein
The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology
—by Thomas Hazlett
Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software
—by Matthew Fuller et al.
NODE vol 01
—by Mike Dank et al.
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
—by Claire L. Evans
Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy
—by Daniel Kreiss
The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution
—by Micah White
Never Finished 🤷♀️
The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet
—by Jeff Kosseff
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