Reading List
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism.
Call Number: HF5415.32 .Z83 2019 (Young Library - 4th Floor)ISBN: 9781610395694Publication Date: 2019-01-15
AI Superpowers by
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee--one of the world's most respected experts on AI and China--reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace. In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781328545862Publication Date: 2018-09-25
The Big Disconnect by
Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Pick; Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year Clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution are profoundly changing childhood and family dynamics, and offers solutions parents can use to successfully shepherd their children through the technological wilderness.
Call Number: HQ784.I58S73 2013 (Young Library - 4th Floor)ISBN: 9780062082428Publication Date: 2013-08-13
Reclaiming Conversation by
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity-and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground. We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Call Number: P96.T42 T85 2015 (Young Library - 4th Floor)ISBN: 9781594205552Publication Date: 2015-10-06
In the Plex by Call Number: HD9696.8.U64 G6657 2011 (Young Library - 4th Floor)ISBN: 9781416596585Publication Date: 2011-04-12
The Facebook Effect by
The inside story of Facebook, told with the full, exclusive cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company's other leaders. In little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide.
Call Number: HD9696.8.U64 F335 2010 (Young Library - 4th Floor)ISBN: 9781439102114Publication Date: 2010-06-08
