School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

INLS 584, Information Ethics
Fall 2009

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Abelson, H., Ledeen, K., & Lewis, H. (2008). Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. [Davis - QA76.9.C66 A245 2008]

Allen, A. (2003). Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. [Davis - HM676 .A45 2003]

Baase, S. (2003). A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. [SILS, Davis - QA76.9.C66 B3 2003]

Berry, D.M. (2008). Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source. London: Pluto Press, 2008. [SILS - QA76.76 .S46 B47 2008]

Boyle, J. (1996). Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Davis, UL - K1401 .B69 1996]

Brin, David. (1998). The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. [Davis - JC598 .B75 1998]

Bugeja, M. (2005). Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age. Oxford University Press. [Davis - HM846 .B84 2005]

Cassell, J., & Jenkins, H. (Eds.). (1998). From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis, UL - GV1469.17 .S63 F76 1998]

Demmers, J. (2006). Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity. Athens: University of Georgia Press. [Music, Law - KF3035 .D46 2006]

Dempsey, J. X., & Cole, D. (2002). Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. Washington, DC: First Amendment Foundation. [Law - KF4558 .D45 2002]

Dibbell, J. (1998). My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. New York: Holt. [Davis - HV6773.2 .D53 1998]

Elmer, G. (2004). Profiling Machines: mapping the Personal Information Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - HF5415.32 .E488 2004]

Fink, J. (1999). Cyberseduction: Reality in the Age of Psychotechnology. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. [SILS - QA76.9 .P75 F53 1999]

Foerstel, H. N. (2004). Refuge of a Scoundrel: The PATRIOT Act in Libraries. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. [SILS, Davis - KF4315 .F64 2004]

Gauntlett, A. (1999). Net Spies: Who's Watching You on the Web? London: Vision Paperbacks. [SILS - TK5105.59 .G38 1999b]

Gillespie, T. (2007). Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press [SILS, Davis - K1447.15 .G55 2007]

Godwin, M. (2003). Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis, Undergrad, Law - KF4772 .G63 1998]

Gurstein, P. (2001). Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life. Vancouver: UBC Press. [Davis - HD2336.3 .G87 2001]

Halbert, D. J. (1999). Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Ownership Rights. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. [SILS, Law - KF2979 .H35 1999]

Hamelink, C. J. (2000). The Ethics of Cyberspace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 H35413 2000]

Heins, M. (2001). Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth. New York: Hill & Wang. [SILS, Davis - Z658 .U5 H42 2001]

Katz, J. E., & Rice, R. E. (2004). Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [SILS, Davis - HM851 .K38 2002]

Knuth, R. (2003). Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries During the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Prager. [Davis - Z659 .K58 2003]

Lange, D.L., & Powell, H.J. (2009). No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment. Stanford, CA: Stanford Law Books. [Davis, Law Library - KF2979 .L37 2009]

Levin, B. (2003). The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War against the Counterculture. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. [SILS - KF3080 .L48 2003]

McLeod, K. (2005). Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity. New York: Doubleday. [SILS, Davis- KF2979 .M348 2005]

McSherry, C. (2001). Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Davis - KF2979 .M37 2001]

McWilliams, B. (2005). S*pam_Kings: The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing PORN, PILLS, and @*#?% Enlargements. O'Reilly and Associates. [Davis - HE7551 .M38 2005]

Moore, A. D. (2001). Intellectual Property & Information Control: Philosophic Foundations and Contemporary Issues. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. [SILS, Davis - KF2979 .M66 2001]

Molz, R. K., & Dain, P. (1999). Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [SILS - Z731 .M639 1999]

Mossberger, K., Tolbert, C.J., & McNeal, R.S. (2008). Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - HM851 .M668 2008]

Norris, P. (2001). Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge University Press. [Davis - HN49.I56 N67 2001]

O'Harrow, R., Jr. (2005). No Place to Hide. New York: Free Press. [Davis, Law - HM851 .O4 2005]

Perelman, M. (2002). Steal this Idea: Intellectual Property and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity. New York: Palgrave. [SILS, Davis - KF2979 .P47 2002]

Peters, T. A. (1999). Computerized Monitoring and Online Privacy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. [SILS, Davis - JC596.2 .U5 P45 1999]

Rushkoff, D. (2002). Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace. Manchester: Clinamen Press. [Davis - HQ2044 .U62 S47 2002]

Schneier, B. (2000). Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. Wiley. [SILS, M/P - QA76.9 .A25 S352 2000]

Shade, L. R. (2002). Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet. New York: Peter Lang. [Davis - HQ1178 .S52 2002]

Stoll, C. (1995). Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts about the Information Highway. New York: Doubleday. [Davis, SILS, Law - QA76.9 .C66 S88 1995]

Stone, A. R. (1995). The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 S883 1995]

Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. 2nd ed. New York: Simon & Schuster. [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 T87 1995]

Warschauer, M. (2003). Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Davis - HN49.I56 W37 2003]


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