Books and Other Online Resource

Readings: There are readings for each week of the course. These readings vary in length, mode and sophistication. The required readings include sections of eight books, none of which is assigned in its entirety.

• Lawrence Lessig, Code 2.0 (Basic Books, 2006), online at: http://codev2.cc/.
• Tim Berner-Lee, Weaving the Web.
• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks (Yale University Press, 2006), online at http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page.
• Doron Ben-Atar, Trade Secrets (Yale University Press, 2004).
• Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008).
• John Palfrey & Urs Gasser, Born Digital (Basic Books, 2008).
• John Henry Clippinger, A Crowd of One (Public Affairs, 2007).
• William W. Fisher, III, Promises to Keep (Stanford, 2004), online at http://www.tfisher.org/.
• Dan Gillmor, We the Media (O’Reilly, 2005), online at http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/ and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp.
• Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (2005), online at: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/books.htm.
• David Weinberger, Everything in Miscellaneous (Times Books, 2007).
• David Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined (Basic Books, 2002).
• Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford, 2006).

Many of these books are available entirely online for free as downloads, though of course you can buy or borrow the book from the library. Copies of each one should be on reserve at the HLS library.