Book List: Seminar in Information Science
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?
- 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.
- Braman, S. (Ed.). (2003). Communication Researchers and Policy-Making. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Brown, J. S., & Duguid. (2002). The social life of information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
- Bush, V. (1967). Science is not enough. New York: William Morrow.
- Campbell, J. (1982). Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Churchland, P. M. (1995). The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Dretske, F. (1981). Knowledge and the flow of information. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
- Dreyfus, H. L. (1992). What Computers Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Gardner, H. (1985). The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution. New York: Basic Books.
- Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, fire, and dangerous things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Pérez-Montoro, M. (2007). The phenomenon of information: A conceptual approach to information flow. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.
- Raskin, J. (2000). The humane interface: New directions for designing interactive systems. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.
- Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of Innovations. New York: Free Press.
- 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.
- Shannon, C. E., & Weaver, W. (1949). The mathematical theory of communication. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- Shneiderman, B. (2002). Leonardo’s laptop: Human needs and the new computing technologies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Stephenson, N. (1999). Cryptonomicon. New York: Avon Press.
- Taylor, R. S. (1986). Value-added processes in information systems. Norwood, N.J. : Ablex.
- Tufte, E. R. (1990). Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
September 12, 2010 @ 7:21 pm
I am not sure how I got to your web site, similar interests? perhaps, but it is an uncanny coincidence. You might find my blog interesting. Oh yes, I am part of the IIS as well.
Guillermo
September 14, 2010 @ 1:50 pm
Hi! Met you in the SLIS 6000 class.
I am also interested in how you actually made it here. I’ve just now started posting on IIS stuff. Though, I am a user experience designer / information architect / interaction designer / user interface designer / and of course an anthropologist – so there are other interests on here that may have coincided with yours.
September 15, 2010 @ 10:09 pm
Diana, I just wanted to say thanks for posting this – I’m saving this list for later when I’m looking for reading on the same. I wish had more books to add, but this is a field I’m not experienced in, so I’m just absorbing and reading from yours. Hope all is well, and congratulations (belatedly) on your milestone-towards-the-PhD! Looking forward to seeing you in Tempe, if you’re coming to FUDCon again – I’d love to catch up with you there.
October 9, 2010 @ 7:15 am
It was an interesting meeting, and inspiring to meet people with interest in the social implications of information and related issues. I am meeting with an ANTH person next week to discuss forming a social network. It’s early to tell what will happen but your skills and interests would fit well.