Book List: Seminar in Information Science

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I thought some of you may find this interesting. It’s my book list for one of my intro PhD courses. Which would you pick? What would you add based on what you see here?

  1. Berners-Lee, T., Fischetti, M., & Dertouzos, M. L. (1999). Weaving the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. San Francisco: Harper.
  2. Braman, S. (Ed.). (2003). Communication Researchers and Policy-Making. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  3. Brown, J. S., & Duguid. (2002). The social life of information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
  4. Bush, V. (1967). Science is not enough. New York: William Morrow.
  5. Campbell, J. (1982). Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  6. Churchland, P. M. (1995). The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  7. Dretske, F. (1981). Knowledge and the flow of information. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
  8. Dreyfus, H. L. (1992). What Computers Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  9. Gardner, H. (1985). The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution. New York: Basic Books.
  10. Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  11. Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, fire, and dangerous things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  12. Pérez-Montoro, M. (2007). The phenomenon of information: A conceptual approach to information flow. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.
  13. Raskin, J. (2000). The humane interface: New directions for designing interactive systems. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.
  14. Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of Innovations. New York: Free Press.
  15. Seife, C. (2006). Decoding the universe: How the new science of information is explaining everything in the cosmos, from our brains to black holes. New York: Viking.
  16. Shannon, C. E., & Weaver, W. (1949). The mathematical theory of communication. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  17. Shneiderman, B. (2002). Leonardo’s laptop: Human needs and the new computing technologies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  18. Stephenson, N. (1999). Cryptonomicon. New York: Avon Press.
  19. Taylor, R. S. (1986). Value-added processes in information systems. Norwood, N.J. : Ablex.
  20. Tufte, E. R. (1990). Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.