Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
President, International Communication Association 2006-2007
4005 Social Sciences and Media Studies (SS&MS)
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 92106-4020
office: 805-893-8696; dept.: 805-893-4517; dept. fax: 805-893-7102
email: rrice (at) comm.ucsb.edu
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice

These sites are valid as of  March 2019.  However, WWW sites change all the time. Some of the sites may have been removed or changed since they were listed here.  Please let me know if any of these links are dead or have changed.  Thanks!

Use your graphical Web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.) and enter the appropriate URL (universal resource locator) address. The standard format is something like:

Internet and computer timelines and history:

• Excellent sequential and searchable computer timeline from the Computer Museum History Center, with photos, biographies, and explanations: http://www.computerhistory.org
  
• History of computing, from the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?reload=true&punumber=85  
• Informative History of Computer Programming: http://www.certstaff.com/trainingcatalog/computer-programming-history.html
• A brief history and timeline of the Internet, with photos of the major contributors (this is on a commercial broadband/wireless site): http://www.broadbandsuppliers.co.uk/uk-isp/recap-the-history-of-internet/
• From 500 B.C. to 2002: http://trillian.randomstuff.org.uk/~stephen//history/timeline.html
• Internet Society links, including Hobbes' Internet timeline v8.2: http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
• Open Source Initiative: http://www.opensource.org/
• The roads and crossroads of Internet history (first 5 years of the WWW): http://www.netvalley.com/intvalweb.html
• BBC’s raw interview footage from The Virtual Revolution series (These include coverage of many influential actors in the growth of the Internet and Web): http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/interviews.shtml
  
• Computer history: http://www.vii.org/afcomhis.htm
• Computers before PCs:  http://www.old-computers.com/
• MhelpDesk: Computer History: Storage, Software and Memory (1998-2004): https://www.mhelpdesk.com/computer-history-storage-software-memory/
• Founding Fathers and Mothers of Programming (succinct overview of the origin, founders, languages, and timeline of computer programming): https://www.hrank.com/founding-fathers-and-mothers-of-programming
• SIGCIS (Special Interest Group: Computers, Information & Society) Syllabus Repository (has a section on syllabi/courses about histories of computing), http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi
• SIGCIS (Special Interest Group: Computers, Information & Society) History Resources (archives and museums, journals, professional associations, online historical documents, oral histories, key books and articles on the history of computing, other kinds of resources): http://www.sigcis.org/resources
  
• Apple computers history:  http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=tam&page=history
• The machine that changed the world: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html
• Other links from this site: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/overviews.html
• PBS project on computer nerds: http://www.pbs.org/nerds/
• BBS Documentary Video Collection (a varied set of video items collected by Jason Scott, curator of textfiles.com. These are recorded interviews -- with video, audio, photos -- about and from the era of the domination of ASCII and Dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (roughly the 1970s through the 1990s, with examples far before and after that): https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary
• The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Pioneers Project (describes the backgrounds and contributions of the founders and major contributors to human-computer interaction design): https://hcipioneers.wordpress.com/
• And, for a really tongue-in-cheek analysis of computer and Internet jargon, see: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/
  

Some books on the history of computing, the Internet, the web, and other new media:

• A list of the top Internet and digital technology books of the 2000s: Thiere, A. (Dec 29, 2009). The digital decade’s definitive reading list: Internet & info-tech policy books of the 2000s (Internet policy -- cyber-law, digital economics, information technology politics, etc): on The Technology Liberation Front. http://techliberation.com/2009/12/29/the-digital-decades-definitive-reading-list-internet-info-tech-policy-books-of-the-2000s/
  

• See also the journal Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culturea and Society.  https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=rint20&
• And Course syllabi on computing topics, such as the history of computing: Special Interest Group Computers, Information and Society: https://www.sigcis.org/syllabi#sy2
  

• Abbate, J. (1999). Inventing the Internet.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Agar, J. (2003). The government machine: A revolutionary history of the computer. The MIT Press.
  
• Anderson, J. Q. (2005). Imagining the Internet: Personalities, predictions, perspectives. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Barbrook, R., & Cameron, A. (1997). The Californian ideology. Hypermedia Research Centre, University of Westminster. Available at: www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/theory-californianideology-main.html
• Bardini, T. (2000). Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, coevolution and the origins of personal computing.  Stanford University Press.
  
• Berners-Lee, T., Fischetti, M., & Foreword By-Dertouzos, M. L. (2000). Weaving the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. HarperInformation. https://vk.com/doc185399367_297636844
• Briggs, A., & Burke, P. (2010). Social history of the media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. Polity.
• Brunton, F. (2013). Spam: A shadow history of the Internet. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Campbell-Kelly, M., Sspray, W., Ensmenger, N. & Yost, J. R. (2013). Computer: A history of the information machine (3rd ed.). Westview Press.
  
• Castells, M. (2000). The rise of the network society (2nd ed.; chapter 1: The Information Technology Revolution). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
• Ceruzzi, Paul E. (1983).  Reckoners: The prehistory of the digital computer, from relays to the stored  program concept, 1935-1945. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
• Ceruzzi, Paul E. (2003). A history of modern omputing.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Clark, D. D. (2018). Designing an Internet. The MIT Press.
• Driscoll, K. (2014). Hobbyist inter-networking and the popular Internet imaginary: Forgotten histories of networked personal computing, 1978-1998. Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2014. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/444362/rec/2
• Flichy, P. (2007). The imaginary of internet. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Freiberger, P., & Swaine, M. (2000). Fire in the valley: The making of the personal computer. NY: McGraw-Hill.
• Friedman, T. (2005). Electric dreams: Computers and American culture. NY: NYU Press.
• Gleick, J. (2012). The information: A history, a theory, a flood. Vintage.
  
• Hafner, K., & Lyon, M. (1998). Where wizards stay up late: The origins of the Internet. Simon and Schuster.
• Hauben, M., & Hauben, R. (1997). Netizens: On the history and impact of Usenet 1028 and the Internet. Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. Online at http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120
• Hicks, M. (2017).  Programmed inequality: How Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing.  The MIT Press.
• Isaccson, W. (2015). The innovators: How a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution.  Simon & Schuster.
• Johnstone, B. (2003). Never mind the laptops: Kids, computers, and the transformation of learning.  IUniverse.
• Kidder, T. (1982). The soul of a new machine. NY: Avon.
• Kidwell, P.A., & Ceruzzi, P. E. (1994).  Landmarks in digital computing: A Smithsonian pictorial history.  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Levine, Y. (2018).  Surveillance valley: The secret military history of the Internet.  Public Affairs.
• Levy, S. (2001). Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution (Vol. 4). New York: Penguin Books.
• Lewis, M. (1999). The new new thing: A Silicon Valley story. WW Norton & Company.
• Mansell, R. (2012). Imagining the Internet: Communication, innovation, and governance.  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• McIlwain, C. (2019). Black software: The Internet & racial justices, from the AFronet to Black Lives Matter.  Oxford University Press.
• Moreau, R. The computer comes of age: the people, the hardware, and the software. The MIT Press.
  
• Mosco, V. (2004). The digital sublime. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Sterling, B. (1993). The Hacker crackdown: Law and disorder on the electronic frontier. Bantam.
• Raymond, E. S. (1999).  The cathedral & the bazaar. Musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.
• Rheingold, H. (2000). Tools for thought: The history and future of mind-expanding technology (2nd Rev. ed.) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Rogers, E. M. & Larsen, J. K. (1984).  Silicon valley fever: Growth of high-technology culture.  NY: Free Press.
• Salus, P. (1995). Casting the net: From Arpanet to Internet and beyond.  Addison-Wesley.
• Smith, D. K., & Alexander, R C. (1988). Fumbling the ruture: How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer. NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
• Turner, F. (2010). From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism. University of Chicago Press.
• Waldrop, M. M. (2001). The dream machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the revolution that made computing personal. NY: Penguin.
• Wheeler, T. (2019). From Gutenberg to Google: The history of our future. Brookings Institution Press.
  
• Winston, B. (1998). Media technology and society: A history from the telegraph to the internet. London: Routledge.
• Woolgar, S. (2002). Virtual society? Technology, cyberbole, reality. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Yar, M. (2014).  The cultural imgainary of the Internet: Virtual utopias and dystopias.  Pivot.

• Alter, A. (2017). Irresistible: The rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked. London, UK: Penguin.
• Anand, B. (2016). The content trap: A strategist's guide to digital change. New York, NY: Random House Group.
• Anduiza, E., Perea, E. A., Jensen, M. J., & Jorba, L. (Eds.). (2012). Digital media and political engagement worldwide: A comparative study. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Aspray, W. & Ceruzzi, P. E. (Eds.). (2008). The Internet and American business. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Athique, A. (2013). Digital media and society: An introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• Banks, M A. (2007). Blogging heroes: Interviews with 30 of the world's top bloggers. NY: Wiley.
• Barney, D., Coleman, G., Ross, C., Sterne, J., & Tembeck, T. (Eds.) (2016). The participatory condition in the digital age. University of Minnesota Press.
• Battelle, J. (2006). The search: How Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture.  Portfolio press. 
• Bauerlein, M. (2011). The digital divide: Arguments for and against Facebook, Google, texting, and the age of social networking. London, UK: Penguin.
• Beal, A. & Strauss, J. (2008). Radically transparent: Monitoring and managing reputations online.  Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing (under the Sybex imprint).
• Benkler, Y. (2007). The wealth of networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Bennett, L., Chin, B., & Jones, B. (Eds.). (2015). Crowdfunding the future: Media industries, ethics, and digital society (No. 98). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
• Berger, T. (2017). @ Worship: Liturgical practices in digital worlds. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Berry, D. M. (2015). Critical theory and the digital. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
• Beyes, T., Leeker, M., & Schipper, I. (Eds.). (2017). Performing the digital: Performance studies and performances in digital cultures. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript-Verlag.
• Botto, R. & Resende, L.M. (2017). Digital transformations: Technological innovations in society in the connected future. Independently published via Amazon Digital Services.
• Boyd, D. (2014). It's complicated: The social lives of networked teens. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.
• Brogan, C., & Smith, J. (2009). Trust agents: Using the web to build influence, improve reputation, and earn trust.  NY: Wiley.
• Bruns, A. (2008) Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and beyond: From production to produsage (digital formations). Peter Lang. 
• Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2014). The second machine age: Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. New York, NY: WW Norton & Company.
• Buckland, M. (2017). Information and society. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Bunz, M., & Meikle, G. (2017). The Internet of things. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• Carr, N. (2008). The big switch: Rewiring the world, from Edison to Google. Norton. 
• Carr, N. (2011). The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains. New York, NY: WW Norton & Company.
• Castells, M. (2009). Communication power. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• Castells, M. (2015). Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the Internet age. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• Castells, M., Fernandez-Ardevol, M., Qiu, J. L., & Sey, A. (2006). Mobile communication and society: A global perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Chayko, M. (2017). Superconnected: The internet, digital media, and techno-social life. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Cheney-Lippold, J. (2017). We are data: Algorithms and the making of our digital selves. New York, NY: NYU Press.
• Chun, W. H. K. (2017).  Updating to remain the same: Habitual new media. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Couldry, N. (2012). Media, society, world: Social theory and digital media practice. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Cover, R. (2015). Digital identities: Creating and communicating the online self. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
• Cubitt, S. (2016). Finite media: Environmental implications of digital technologies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Daley, B. (2015). Where data is wealth: Profiting from data storage in a digital society. Play Technologies.
• Dey, A. (2018). Nirbhaya, New media and digital gender activism. Bingley, UK: Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Pub Ltd.
• Dourish, P., & Bell, G. (2011). Divining a digital future: Mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Ellcessor, E. (2016). Restricted access: Media, disability, and the politics of participation. New York, NY: NYU Press.
• Elliott, D., & Spence, E. H. (2017). Ethics for a digital era. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.
• Ford, M. (2015). Rise of the robots: Technology and the threat of a jobless future. New York, NY: Basic Books.
• Fotopoulou, A. (2017). Feminist activism and digital networks: Between empowerment and vulnerability. New York, NY: Springer.
• Gershenfeld, N., Gershenfeld, A., & Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. (2017). Designing reality: How to survive and thrive in the third digital revolution. New York, NY: Basic Books.
• Gillespie, T., Boczkowski, P. J., & Foot, K. A. (Eds.). (2014). Media technologies: Essays on communication, materiality, and society. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Gilmore, D. (2006). We the media: Grassroots journalism by the peple, for the people.  O’Reilly Media (impact on news, journalism, info dissemination).
• Goldsmith, J. & Wu, T. (2006). Who controls the Intenet: Illusions of a borderless world. Oxford University Press.
• Goldsmith, K. (2016). Wasting time on the Internet. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.
• Gomez, J. (2007). Print is dead: Books in our digital age. Palgrave Macmillan. 
• González-Bailón, S. (2017). Decoding the social world: Data science and the unintended consequences of communication. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Goodman, M. (2015). Future crimes: Inside the digital underground and the battle for our connected world. New York, NY: Random House.
• Gordon, E., & Mihailidis, P. (Eds.). (2016). Civic media: Technology, design, practice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Graff, G. M. (2007). The first campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the race for the White House. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 
• Graham, R. (2014). The digital practices of African Americans: An approach to studying cultural change in the information society. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
• Gronlund, M. (2016). Contemporary art and digital culture. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Halligan, B., Shah, D., & Meerman, D. (2009).  Inbound marketing: Get found using Google, social media, and blogs (The new rules of social media).  NY: Wiley.
• Hanna, N. K. (Ed.). (2016). Mastering digital transformation: Towards a smarter society, economy, city and nation. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
• Hauben, M. & Hauben, R. (1997). Netizens: On the history and impact of Usenet and the Internet. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.
• Hiltz, S.R. & Turoff, M. (1978). The network nation.  Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley.
• Hu, T. H. (2015). A prehistory of the cloud. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Humphreys, L. (2018). The qualified self: Social media and the accounting of everyday life. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Ito, M., Baumer, S., Bittanti, M., boyd, d., Cody, R., Stephenson, B. H., Horst, H. A., ... & Tripp, L, (2009). Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out: Kids living and learning with new media. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• James, C. (2014). Disconnected: Youth, new media, and the ethics gap. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Johnson, C. A. (2015). The information diet: A case for conscious consumption.  Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Katz, J. E. & Rice, R. E. (2002).  Social consequences of Internet use: Access, involvement and interaction.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Kelty, C. M. (2008). Two bits: The cultural significance of free software. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Kember, S., & Zylinska, J. (2012). Life after new media: Mediation as a vital process. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Kluver, R., Jankowski, M. W., Foot, K. M., & Schneider S. M. (Eds.). (2007). The Internet and national elections: A comparative study of web campaigning. London: Routledge.
• Kressel, H., & Lento, T. V. (2007). Competing for the future: How digital innovations are changing the world. Cambridge University Press.  
• Krieger, D. J., & Belliger, A. (2014). Interpreting networks: Hermeneutics, actor-network theory & new media (Vol. 4). Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript-Verlag.
• Kvedar, J. C., Colman, C., & Cella, G. (2017).  The new mobile age: How technology will extend the healthspan and optimize the lifespan.  Amazon Digital Services.
• Lessig, L. (2008). Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy. Penguin Press HC.
• Levy, D. M. (2016). Mindful tech: How to bring balance to our digital lives. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.
• Li, C. & Bernoff, J. (2008).  Groundswell: Winning in a world transformed by social technologies.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
• Lindgren, S. (2017). Digital media and society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Lingel, J. (2017). Digital countercultures and the struggle for community. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Lister, M., Dovey, J., Giddings, S., Grant, I., & Kelly, K. (2009). New media: A critical introduction. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Livingstone, S. (2009). Children and the Internet. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Livingstone, S., & Sefton-Green, J. (2016). The class: Living and learning in the digital age. New York, NY: NYU Press.
• Lundby, K. (Ed.). (2009). Mediatization: Concepts, changes, consequences. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
• Lupton, D. (2016). The quantified self. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• Lynch, M. P. (2016). The internet of us: Knowing more and understanding less in the age of big data. New York, NY: WW Norton & Company.
• Mansell, R., Ang, P. H, Steinfield, C., van der Graaf, S., Ballon, P., Kerr, A., Ivory, J. D., Braman, S., Kleine, D., & Grimshaw, D. J.  (Eds.). (2015). The International encyclopedia of digital communication and society (3 volume set). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
• Martin, W. J. (2017). The global information society. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Montgomery, K. C. (2007). Generation digital: Politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the Internet. The MIT Press. 
• Morville, P. (2005). Ambiant findability. O’Reilly Media. (searching and finding)
• Murero, M. & Rice, R. E. (Eds.). (2006).  The Internet and health care: Theory, research and practice.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Mosco, V. (2017). Becoming digital: Toward a post-Internet society. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Mueller, M. L. (2010). Networks and states: The global politics of Internet governance. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Nafus, D. (Ed.). (2016). Quantified: Biosensing technologies in everyday life. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Napoli, P. M. (2011). Audience evolution: New technologies and the transformation of media audiences. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
• Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. New York, NY: NYU Press.
• Palfrey, J., & Gasser, U. (2016). Born digital: How children grow up in a digital age. New York, NY: Basic Books.
• Penney, J. (2017). The citizen marketer: Promoting political opinion in the social media age. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Phillips, W., & Milner, R. M. (2018). The ambivalent Internet: Mischief, oddity, and antagonism online. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• Pschera, A. and Lauffer, E. (translator) (2016). Animal Internet: Nature and the digital revolution. New York, NY: New Vessel Press.
• Qualman, E. (2009). Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business.  NY: Wiley.
• Rains, S. A. (2018). Coping with illness digitally.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Raymond, E. S. (2000). The cathedral & the bazaar: Musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary. (First presented at the Linux Kongress in 1997). O'Reilly Media.
• Reed, T. V. (2014). Digitized lives: Culture, power, and social change in the Internet era. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Rheingold, H. (1993/2000). The virtual community. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Rheingold, H. (2003). Smart mobs. Basic Books. (collective behavior)
• Rheingold, H. (2012). Net smart: How to thrive online. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Rice, R. E. & Katz, J. E. (Eds.) (2001).  The Internet and health communication: Expectations and experiences.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Rossignoli, C., Virili, F., & Za, S. (Eds.). (2017). Digital technology and organizational change: Reshaping technology, people, and organizations towards a global society. New York, NY: Springer.
• Rowan-Kenyon, H. T., Alemán, A. M. M., & Savitz-Romer, M. (2018). Technology and engagement: Making technology work for first generation college students. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• Rudder, C. (2014). Dataclysm: Love, sex, race, and identity--What our online lives tell us about our offline selves. Crown.
• Ryan, J. (2008). The virtual campfire: An ethnography of online social networking. E-Book.
• Scheff, S., & Schorr, M. (2017). Shame nation: The global epidemic of online hate. Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Schneier, B. (2015). Data and Goliath: The hidden battles to collect your data and control your world. New York, NY: WW Norton & Company.
• Scholz, T. (Ed.). (2012). Digital labor: The Internet as playground and factory. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Schwab, K. (2017). The fourth industrial revolution. New York, NY: Crown Business.
• Shifman, L. (2014). Memes in digital culture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT press.
• Shirky, C. (2009).  Here comes everybody: The power of organizing without organizations.  NY: Penguin Press.
• Social media research: see http://www.danah.org/researchBibs/sns.php, a bibliography from communication, information science, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies, computer science, etc.
• Social Media: 20 free e-books about social media: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/20-free-ebooks-about-social-media/
• Solove, D. (2007). The future of reputation: Gossip, rumor, and privacy on the Internet. Yale University Press. 
• Sonnier, P. (2017). The fourth wave: Digital health.  https://storyofdigitalhealth.com/definition
• Steiner-Adair, C., & Barker, T. H. (2013). The big disconnect: Protecting childhood and family relationships in the digital age. New York, NY: Harper Business.
• Sunstein, C. R. (2006). Infotopia: How many minds produce knowledge. NY: Oxford University Press.  (wisdom of crowds)
• Tapscott, D. & Tapscott, A. (2018). Blockchain revolution: How the technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is changing the world.  New York, NY: Portfolio-Penguin.
• Teten, D. & Allen, S. (2006). The virtual handshake: Opening doors and closing deals online. NY: AMACON.
• Thomas, D. (2002). Hacker culture. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
• Turkle, S. (2011). Alone together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other.  New York, NY: Basic Books.
• Turow, J. & Tsui, L. (Eds.) (2008). The hyperlinked society:  Questioning connections in the digital age. Ann Arbor: The University of  Michigan Press. Available online: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=nmw;;idno=5680986.0001.001
• Turow, J. (2012). The daily you: How the new advertising industry is defining your identity and your worth. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.
• Turow, J. (2017). The aisles have eyes: How retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy, and define your power. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.
• Van Dijck, J. (2013). The culture of connectivity: A critical history of social media. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Vedro, S. (2007). Digital Dharma: A user's guide to expanding consciousness in the Infosphere. Quest Books. 
• Webster, J. G. (2014). The marketplace of attention: How audiences take shape in a digital age. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Weinberg, D. (2008). Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. Holt.
• White, A. (2014). Digital media and society: Transforming economics, politics and social practices. New York, NY: Springer.
• Wiesinger, S., & Beliveau, R. (2016). Digital literacy: A primer on media, identity, and the evolution of technology. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
• Wu, T. (2017). The attention merchants: The epic scramble to get inside our heads. New York, NY: Vintage.
• Zarrella, D. (2009).  The social media marketing book.  O’Reilly Media.
• Zittrain, J. (2008). The future of the Internet: And how to stop it. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

• Afuah, A. (2003). Innovation management: Strategies, implementation, & profits (2^nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Management of technology, related to management strategy and profitability literature. starting from which kind of company is more likely to innovate, how to overcome market uncertainties, what kind of human resources and network relationships you need to use, how to finance innovation and so on.  I (Chapters 2-4): Fundamentals (e.g. models of innovation); II (Chapters 5-10): Strategizing (e.g. strategies for sustaining profits); III (Chapters 11 and 12): Implementation (e.g. of the decision to adopt); IV (Chapters 13-17): Globalization (e.g. the role of national governments). Not limited to, or trapped, in the notion of the individual innovator; rather, the entire enterprise must be involved, and guided by strategy.  1. There is "no better practice than good theory." 2. Competitive advantage is gained and sustained through innovation. 3. Innovation is not limited to high technology. 4. Innovation usually means change and requires cross-functional involvement 5. Both strategy and its implementation are critical to successful applications of innovation. 6. Innovation entails dealing with new knowledge. 7. It’s imperative to understand to apply it; once learned, it must be practiced.
• Allen, T. & Scott-Morton, M. (Eds.) (1994). Information technology and the corporation of the 1990s: Research studies. NY: Oxford University Press.
• Amendola, M. & Gaffard, J-L. (1988). The innovative choice. An economic analysis of the dynamics of technology. Basil Blackwell Limited.UK.
• Anderson, C. (2006). The long tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more. NY: Hyperion.
• Anthony, S. D. (2011). The little black book of innovation: How it works, how to do it. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.
• Bates, S. (2012). The social innovation imperative: Create winning products, services, and programs that solve society’s most pressing challenges. NY: McGraw-Hill.
• Benyus, J. M. (2002).  Biomimicry: Innovation inspired by nature. William Morrow Paperbacks.
• Berkun, S. (20010).  The myths of innovation.  NY: O’Reilly Media. Each entertaining chapter centers on breaking apart a powerful myth, popular in the business world despite its lack of substance.
• Bettencourt, L. (2010).  Service innovation: How to go from customer needs to breakthrough services. NY: McGraw-Hill.
• Bhide, A. (2000). The origin & evolution of new business. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Breschi, S. & Malerba, F. (Eds.) (2007). Clusters, networks and innovation.  New York: Oxford University Press.  The focus of these 16 chapters is on regional clusters (districts, high-tech regions) of competitiveness and innovation, and how network structures, industrial/geographical/social contexts, entrepreneurial activities, and governmental policies can encourage or dampen their development.
• Brynjolfsson, E. & Saunders, A. (2009).  Wired for innovation: How information technology is reshaping the economy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Brown, L. A. (1981). Innovation diffusion: A new perspective.  NY: Methuen. Applied his training in modern and urban geography to expanding the model of diffusion on the basis of geographical proximity and distribution, derived from Hagerstrand’s original 1953 work [cite], both of which consider social, hierarchical, and personal contact fields as an aspect of geography.  Includes suppliers, distribution agencies, marketers.  Also began raising the focus on consequences, and eventually applications to development in Latin America.  Extends the prior emphasis on demand-side to include supply-side aspects, local or regional contexts, and the product life cycle. Identifies three traditions of innovation diffusion: cultural geography/anthropology, Hagerstrand (describing, mathematically modeling, and conceptualizing diffusion patterns, especially communication via interpersonal contacts), and market/infrastructure (emphasizing the supply, availability, and distributing and marketing of innovations).  Distinguishes consumer from firm/technology innovations.

• Brown, T. (2009).  Change by design: How design thinking transforms organizations and inspires innovation.  HarperBusiness.

• Burgelman, R., Christensen, C. & Wheelwright, S. (2008).  Strategic management of technology and innovation (5^th ed.). NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

• Chen, M. & Lucas, G. (2010).  Education nation: Six leading edges of innovation in our schools.  SF: Jossey-Bass.
• Chesbrough, H. (2011).  Open services innovation: Rethinking your business to grow and compete in a new era. SF: Jossey-Bass.
• Christensen, C. (1997). The innovator’s dilemma. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
• Coleman, J. S., Katz, E., & Menzel, H. (1966).  Medical innovation, a diffusion study.  Indianapolis, IND: Bobbs-Merrill.  Not the first study of the role of interpersonal networks on the diffusion of innovations (in this case, early prescription of tetracycline), but a ground-breaking one because of the use of both self-reported and actual adoption data, within four bounded medical communities, applying the network concepts of close and weak ties (although focused on dyadic relations only). They make clear conceptual distinctions between traditional individual influences and social (network) influences. Important results included the role of physician reputation and both social and professional networks. Later studies analyzed influences of interactions with pharmaceutical representatives, and commercial flyers at medical conferences.   
• Davies, S. (1979). The diffusion of process innovations. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
• Denning, P. J., & Dunham, R. (2010).  The innovator’s way: Essential practices for successful innovation.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.  This book focuses on how individuals, groups, and organizations and improve the rate of innovation.  They explain eight positive practices: sensing, envisioning, offering, adopting, sustaining, executing, leading and embodying.  For each, they provide examples as well as what to practice to increase these skills. 
• Dodgson, M. & Besssant, J. (1996). Effective innovation policy: A new approach. International Thompson Business Press, London.
• Drucker, P. F. (2006).  Innovation and entrepreneurship.  HarperBusiness.
• Edgerton, D. (2011). The shock of the old: Technology and global history since 1900. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. “We should pay less attention to novelty and invention, he argues, and more to the technologies that people actually use in their daily lives—"a whole invisible world of technologies," many of which have served the poor more than the rich, such as corrugated metal and flat-pack IKEA furniture. Ranging across broad swaths of history, Edgerton offers multiple examples of overlooked technologies that are far more important than they might initially seem, including the condom and the sewing machine, as well as innovations in killing, such as insecticides, slaughterhouses and chemical warfare.”
• Elgar, E. (1995). Economic approaches to innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. UK.
• Fagerberg, J., Mowery, D. C., & Nelson, R. R. (Eds.). (2006).  The Oxford handbook of innovation.  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.  The 21 chapters include a broad interdisciplinary range of approaches to understanding innovation.  The four sections cover creation of innovations (especially by firms and networks); contextual, institutional and organizational influences on innovation; variations in f innovation across economic sectors and time; and consequences of innovation (focusing on economic and competitive aspects).
• Fidler, R. F. (1997).  Mediamorphosis: Understanding new media.  Pine Forge Press.   The mediamorphosis approach emphasizes that the form and rate of media diffusion are pervasively affected by many forces. These include, for example. competition between media, new opportunities and needs fostered by other innovations, regulation and technical standards, and economic factors, such as microprocessor chip costs, depression and globalization.
• Gallo, C. (2010).  The innovation secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely different principles for breakthrough success. NY: McGraw-Hill.
• Garud, R., Praveen, R. N., Shapira, Z. B., & March, J. G. (Eds.) (1997). Technological innovation: Oversights and foresights.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Notes that the probabilities of matching between a company’s internal capabilities and the external environment necessary for successful innovation are low.  So the 18 chapters in this book discuss ways to improve these odds, by explaining technological, economic, and institutional factors underlying both oversights (failing to achieve success, either in developing an innovation, or having it succeed) and foresights (realizing potential of initial insignificant or failed material or product), using both familiar and novel cases.
• Gernter, J. (2012).  The idea factory: Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation. The Penguin Press HC.
• Gladwell, M. (2000). The tipping point: How little things can make a big difference. NY: Little, Brown and Co.  Gladwell’s book provides accessible discussions and examples of concepts from diffusion of innovation theory. It especially focuses on (a) the point after achieving critical largely due to social roles such as connectors, mavens (information specialists), and “salespeople,” (b) characteristics of the innovation such as stickiness or memorability, and (c) natural social groups.
• Goldsmith, S., Georges, G. Burke, T. G. & Bloomberg, M. R. (2010).  The power of social innovation: How civic entrepreneurs ignite community networks for good.  SF: Jossey-Bass.
• Govindarajan, V. & Trimble, C. (2010).  The other side of innovation: Solving the execution challenge.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University  Press.
• Graham, M., & Pruitt, B. (1990). R&D for industry: A century of technical innovation at Alcoa. NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Greehalgh, T., Robert, G., Bate, P., Macfarlane, F., & Kyriakidou, O. (Eds.) (2005). Diffusion of innovations in health service organisations: A systematic literature review.  London: Blackwell Publishing.
• Hagerstrand, T. (1952).  The propagation of innovation waves.  Gleerup, Lund Studies in Geography B-4 (Ph.D. Dissertation). Lund, Sweden: Royal University of Lund. (Pred, A.  translated: (1967). Innovation diffusion as a spatial process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.) Emphasized that diffusion of an innovation (here, cultural artifacts) had to overcome three main barriers of distance, availability of the innovation, and non-adopters.  Some, but not all, of this can be accomplished through mass media and interpersonal communication (such as through postal money transfer, telephone, automobiles, and migration, as well as state and infrastructural indicators).  Included early reference to his concept of time geography..  Emphasized diffusion processes and probabilistic models (esp. Monte Carlo simulations), the use of actual geographical coordinates to match with the infrastructural, communication, and innovation flows) interdisciplinarity, and a shift away from case-specific regional models. 
• Hargadon, A. (2004). How breakthroughs happen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
• Harvard Business Review (2011).  Inspiring & executing innovation.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.
• Hounshell, D.A., & Smith, J. (1990). Science and corporate strategy: DuPont R&D, 1902-1980. NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Howells, J. (2005). The management of technology & innovation: The shaping of technology and institutions of the market economy. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.  This book takes an historical perspective on innovation decision-making in market contexts (invention, technological standards, competition, intellectual property law, finance, organization of expertise and work, the state and reform, using social science research and case studies.
• Hughes, J. (2012). On the origin of tepees: The evolution of ideas (and ourselves). [additional subtitle: Why some ideas spread while others go extinct.] New York, NY: Free Press. Focuses on the spread and extinction of memes, cultural change, and innovation. Combines biology, psychology, history, linguistics, geology, and philosophy.
• Johansson, F. (2006).  Medici effect: What elephants and epidemics can teach us about innovation. Shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory, and offers examples how we can turn the ideas we discover into path-breaking innovations.
• Johnson, B. & Rice, R. E. (1987).  Managing organizational innovation: The evolution from word processing to office information systems.  New York: Columbia University Press.
• Johnson, S. (2010). Where good ideas come from: A natural history of innovation.  NY: Riverhead (Penguin Group).  Johnson emphasizes the situational aspects (shared properties and patterns, networks, physical spaces, supported behaviors)) of innovation (art, natural sciences, technology), and the interconnected nature of innovations (such as path dependence) rather than the individual innovator. The chapters are organized by seven principles of innovation generation: (the adjacent possible, liquid networks, the slow hunch, serendipity, error, exaptation, and platforms.  He uses these analyses to discuss how legal and folk wisdom about innovations more frequently puts up obstacles (patents, trade secrets, intellectual property) to innovative ideas.
• Johnson, S. (2014). How we got to now: Six innovations that made the modern world.  NY: Riverhead (Penguin Group). In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes—from the French publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but forgot to include playback, to the Hollywood movie star who helped invent the technology behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth—How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life. In his trademark style, Johnson examines unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated fields: how the invention of air-conditioning enabled the largest migration of human beings in the history of the species—to cities such as Dubai or Phoenix, which would otherwise be virtually uninhabitable; how pendulum clocks helped trigger the industrial revolution; and how clean water made it possible to manufacture computer chips. Accompanied by a major six-part television series on PBS, How We Got to Now is the story of collaborative networks building the modern world, written in the provocative, informative, and engaging style that has earned Johnson fans around the globe.
• Johnson, S. (2016). Wonderland: How play made the modern world.  NY: Riverhead (Penguin Group). This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argues that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused. Johnson’s storytelling is just as delightful as the inventions he describes, full of surprising stops along the journey from simple concepts to complex modern systems. He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows.
  
• Kanter, R. M. (1990). The change masters: Corporate entrepreneurs at work.  London: Taylor & Francis.
• Kao, J. (2007).  Innovation nation: How America is losing its innovation edge, why it matters, and what we can do to get it back.  NY: Free Press.
• Katz, E. & Lazarsfeld, P. F. (1955/2005). Personal influence: The part played by people in the flow of mass communication (revised edition from original 1955 book). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
• Lafley, A. G., & Charan, R. (2008).  The game-changer: How you can drive revenue and profit growth with innovation.  UK: Crown Business.
• Larsen, T. J. & McGuire, E. (Eds.) (1998). Information systems innovation and diffusion: Issues and directions. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing. An international group of authors provide 18 chapters on the innovative development and diffusion of information systems.  The general topics include influences on the innovation and diffusion process, the diffusion of software application packages, facilitating technology diffusion, and conceptualizing innovation and diffusion processes. Several chapters offer implications for research on information systems innovation and organizational change.
• Lester, R., & Piore, M. (2004). Innovation: The missing dimension. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Lockwood, T. (2009).  Design thinking: Integrating innovation, customer experience, and brand value. Allworth Press.
• MacKenzie, D. & Wajcman, J. (Eds.) (1999). The social shaping of technology (2^nd ed.). McGraw Hill Education. [keep – development, uses, consequences]  While many books and articles discuss the social contexts of the development, use and consequences of innovations, especially technology, the Social Shaping of Technology perspective is a central source for this perspective.  Using examples grouped into production, domestic/reproductive, and military technology, the 30 chapters underscore how workplace relations, male-dominated social science, and underlying assumptions of the military shape the nature, form, and meaning of innovations.
• Mansfield, E. (1995). Innovation, technology and the economy. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. UK.
• Markert, L. R. (1993). Contemporary technology: Innovations, issues, and perspectives. South Holland, IL: Goodheart-Willcox.
• McCraw. T. K (2010).  Prophet of innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
• Mokyr, J. (1990). The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Moore, G. A. (2002). Crossing the chasm: Marketing and selling disruptive products to mainstream customers. NY: Collins Business Essentials. A pragmatic extension to the traditional adopter categories is the concept of a chasm between early and later adopters, relevant for discontinuous (primarily technological) innovations (Moore, 2002). Firms must cross the chasm from an early market dominated by a few visionary customers (innovators and early adopters) who are interested in the sophisticated technology features or the status of early adoption, to a mainstream market dominated largely by pragmatists (early majority) and conservatives (late majority) who look for value, maintenance of ongoing practices, and ongoing vendor support.
• Mowery, D.C., & Nelson, R.R. (Eds.) (1999). Sources of industrial leadership: Studies of seven industries. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• O’Reilly, C. A. III, & Tushman, M. L. (2002). Winning through innovation: A practical guide to leading organizational change and renewal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.
• Owens, D. A. (2011).  Creative people must be stopped: 6 ways we kill innovation (without even trying). SF: Jossey-Bass.
• Pacey, A. (1986). The culture of technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Panth, S. (1997). Technological innovation, industrial evolution, and economic growth. Garland Publishing, Inc. New York.
• Parson, R. & Keyes, R. (2003).  The innovation paradox: The success of failure, the failure of success. NY: Free Press.
• Poole, M. S. & Van de Ven, A. H. (Eds.) (2004). Handbook of organizational change and innovation.  NY: Oxford University Press. The primary focus of the 13 chapters in this edited book is on concepts and methods for developing and evaluating organizational process theories, integrating both levels of analysis (from the individual to the nation) and time (change and process). 

• Preece, D. & Laurila, J. (Eds.) (2003). Technological change and organizational action.  London: Routledge.

• Prahalad, C. K. & Krishnan, M. S. (2008).  The new age of innovation: Driving cocreated value through global networks. NY: McGraw-Hill.

• Reich, L. S. (1985). The making of American industrial research: Science and business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926. NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Rice, R. E. & Cooper, S. (2010). Organizations and unusual routines: A systems analysis of dysfunctional feedback processes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Richter, M. N. (1982). Technology and social complexity. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• Robertson, T. S., (1971). Innovative behaviour and communication. NY: Holt.
• Rogers, E. M. (2003).  Diffusion of innovations (5^th ed.). New York: Free Press.
• Rosen, E. (2009).  The anatomy of buzz revisited: Real-life lessons in the art of word-of-mouth marketing. Crown Business.
• Rosenbloom, R., & Spencer, W. (Eds.) (1996). Engines of innovation: US industrial research at the end of an era. Cambridge, MA: HBS Press.
• Rossman, G. (2012).  Climbing the charts: What radio airplay tells us about the diffusion of innovation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships between record labels, tastemakers, and the public, Gabriel Rossman develops a clear picture of the roles of key players and the gatekeeping mechanisms in the commercial music industry. Along the way, he explores its massive inequalities, debunks many popular misconceptions about radio stations' abilities to dictate hits, and shows how a song diffuses throughout the nation to become a massive success.
• Ruttan, V.W. (1999). Technology, growth, and development: An induced innovation perspective. NY: Oxford University Press.
• Silverstone, R. & Mansell, R. (Eds.) (1996). Communication by design: The politics of information and communication technologies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sloane, P. (2011).  A guide to open innovation and crowdsourcing: Advice from leading experts.  Kogan Page.
• Smith, D. (2005). Exploring innovation. Berkshire, UK: McGraw-Hill Education.  A useful and usable overview of the basic aspects of innovation – nature (types, the nature of technological change), activities (innovation theories, innovation sources, intellectual property), managing (technology strategy, entrepreneurs, funding, organizing for innovation), and fostering (innovation policy, innovation clusters, and national innovation systems). This is designed as an undergraduate text, particularly for management and business programs, with a British emphasis.
• Tenner, E. 1997. Why things bite back: Technology and the revenge of unintended consequences. NY: Vintage. Innovations, precisely because they change the current of relationships (whether technical, social, biological, economic, environmental, etc.), can generate long-term, unintended negative effects.  Tenner 1997) discusses those that generate new problems, reverse existing solutions, or reinforce the initial problems, with examples from medicine, environment, pest spread and control, sports, hospital treatment, mechanization, computerization, and other areas.
• Tushman, M. & Anderson, P. (Eds.) (1997). Managing strategic innovation and change (2^nd ed.). NY: Oxford University Press.  Taking a management perspective, this lengthy book (42 chapters, mostly reprints) directs our attention to the evolution of technologies within historical contexts, and how that in turn generates organizational change and adaptation.  The sections include overview, technology cycles, discontinuous innovations, dominant designs, incremental change, organizational architectures/change culture, temporal and historical perspectives, innovation and strategy, learning/intellectual capital, internal and cross-organizational linkages, and leadership/managing innovation.
• Utterback, J. (1994). Mastering the dynamics of innovation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing.
• Valente, T. (1995). Network models of the diffusion of innovations. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.  Valente explicitly applies the network perspective (concepts, data, and methods) to understanding different innovation diffusion processes, and what factors influence both the pattern and speed of that diffusion, both at the individual and social system levels.  It particularly applies threshold and critical mass models, and discusses applications to communication campaigns and media effects.
• Van Dijken, K., Prince, Y., Wolters, T., Frey, M., Mussati, G., Kalff, P., Hansen, O., Kendrup, S., Sondergard, B., Rodrigues, E. L., & Meredith, S. (1999). Adoption of environmental innovations: The dynamics of innovation as interplay between business competence, environmental orientation, and network involvement.  Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer.

• Van de Ven, A. H., Angle, H. L., & Poole, M. S. (2000). Research on the management of innovation: The Minnesota Studies. NY: Oxford University Press.

• Verburg, R. M., Ortt, J. R. & Dicke, W. M. (Eds.) (2006). Managing technology and innovation: An introduction. NY: Routledge
• Von Hippel, E. (1994). The sources of innovation.  NY: Oxford University Press. Innovations develop from different sources in different industries – not just the traditional manufacturer -- ranging from end users who find new uses or needs for services or products, and may even develop the modified or new products and processers, to suppliers.  two important topics. Von Hippel's research on the role of users in industrial invention, and, more generally, on the broader question of the locus of inventive activity in what the French call a filiere has changed the way that scholars of technological advance have looked at those questions. His more recent work, on technology sharing, has brought light to an aspect of technical change that scholars had not seen or understood before.
• von Hippel, E. (2006). Democratizing innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. About why customers want customized products, and why lead users are such good sources for innovations. Indeed, organizations should seek out and support such users in developing new products and services.  Related to the more social media-specific concept of pro-sumers, or users who create and share content.
• White, L. (1966). Medieval technology and social change. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (traces the development of medieval warfare to innovations in horse saddlery, specifically, the introduction of the foot stirrup around the 6th CE).
• Williams, F., & Gibson, D. V. (Eds.) (1990). Technology transfer: A communication perspective. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.  The chapters apply interpersonal, group, organizational, and media perspectives on explaining the processes (and obstacles) of transferring technology innovations in one domain (such as universities or technology consortia) to another (such as industries or government). topics range from overviews of technology transfer and intraorganizational environments to cases in the US, Mexico, India, Italy, and Japan.
• Worldwatch Institute. (2011).  State of the world 2011: Innovations that nourish the planet.  W. W. Norton & Co.
• Zaltman, G., Duncan, R. & Holbek, J. (1973). Innovations and organizations. NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Various computer and internet topics:
Introduction to all aspects of the Internet -- Internet 101: http://www.internet101.org

Best of the Web – Internet (a VERY helpful resource on many aspects of computing and the Internet, from companies and education to history and usenet):
http://botw.org/top/Computers/Internet/

Cookies and usage tracking:  FAQ: https://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/cookies-guide/

How to Evaluate Web Resources (a visual guide to assessing websites or posts before you cite it): http://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/evaluating-web-resources/

Internet Dating (guidelines): http://internetdating.net

Internet Politics course and links (privacy, policy, intellectual ownership, etc.): http://www.learnworld.com/COURSES/P172/P172.Links.html

Internet Privacy Information, Tips, and Solutions (Ultimate Privacy Guide: How to Stay Safe Online): https://vpnandgo.com/internet-privacy/

Internet Privacy and Safety: 55 Ways to Save Money on Internet Safety: The Definitive Guide: https://cooltechzone.com/save-on-internet-safety

Internet Search Engines, Usage Statistics, Invisible Web (extensive links to all kinds of text and multimedia search engines and directories, invisible web search tools, evaluations of web resources, web usage statistics, Internet and Web history and analyses, web tools and coding, tutorials and training, weblogs and weblog indexes, Internet domains, other tools): http://www.podbaydoor.com/aengine.htm 

Internet demographics and use:
Audience analysis and measurement of Internet usage:
http://www.nielsen-online.com
Pew Internet and American Life Project reports: http://www.pewinternet.org/reports.asp
Surveys about Internet use: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/

NetLingo (online dictionary of 100s of Internet and computer technology terms, plus smileys, html tips, and chatroom abbreviations): http://www.netlingo.com

Predictions!  The Imagining the Internet Predictions Database examines the potential future of the Internet, based on a survey of 1286 networking and technology experts, while simultaneously providing a peek back into its history. Navigate through three useful resource areas that: illuminate the views of stakeholders and give an historic overview (1990 to 1995 predictions): http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/

Top-Level Domains -- InterNIC FAQs : http://www.internic.net/
Top-level domains: http://www.icann.org/tlds/

Invisible Web overview: http://oedb.org/ilibriarian/invisible-web/

The Ultimate Student’s Guide to Search Engines (Intro, how search engines work, the difference between a database and a search enging, history of search engines, the business of Google vs. SEO, Future of search engines, conclusion): http://alexmiller.com/the-students-guide-to-search-engines/

For comparisons of various search engines and tutorials on searching:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com  (news and comparison tables)

Research Buzz (information and research on search engines and databases): http://www.researchbuzz.com/

Relationships among the major search engines (which supply, and which receive, primary and secondary search results): http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm

Discussion lists, by term or category: http://www.tile.net

Social bookmarking (article): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html

Technorati (searches blogs by text in posts, links to a given blog post, and post tags/categories): http://www.technorati.com/

Webcam sites, including a “random camsite”: www.camcentral.com

[Evaluating Internet/Web Design, Websites and Information]

Bad website design and style: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/badtext.htm
Digital Thread’s web design site: http://digitalthread.com/
Web style guide: http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html
Webby Awards for best designs in 20 categories: http://www.webbyawards.com

Evaluating and citing online materials:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/webcritique.htm
http://www.adultlearn.com/elements-citation.html

Evaluating the quality of health sites:
(from Wilson, P. (2002).  How to find the good and avoid the bad or ugly: A short guide to tools for rating quality of health information on the internet.  British Medical Journal, 324(7337), 598-602):
Code of conduct: http://www.e-europeawards.org/ (awards for best European e-health sites)

Allexperts (online volunteers answer most any question you could think of:): http://allexperts.com

NationMaster (a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease): http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com

     Movie reviews, databases, online films
 

http://www.imdb.com	http://www.film.com
http://www.eonline.com	http://www.reel.com
http://www.hollywood.com	http://www.oscars.org
http://www.spike.com	http://www.mrqe.com

 
National Parks: https://upgradedpoints.com/us-national-parks/

What happened on this date in history (history, birthdays, TV, sports, music): http://www.on-this-day.com

Discovery Channel Online: http://www.discovery.com

Entertainment guide for major cities: http://citysearch.com

MoveOn (transforming politics through online groups): http://www.moveon.org

     National Gardening Association: http://www.garden.org

  Possibly the most amusing, artistic, interactive and technically intriguing multi-media web site (you really need a very fast connection to allow all the cool demonstrations and games to work): http://www.zefrank.com

Dept. of Commerce: http://www.commerce.gov

        Government and business statistics:
http://www.census.gov
https://www.usa.gov/ 

History and Archives: http://www.archives.gov/index.html

Legislative Information: http://www.congress.gov

Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov

Healthopedia.com (a medical and health consumer information resource for over 1,500 health topics, 70 health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications): http://www.healthopedia.com

HON MedHunt (Health on the Net Foundation search engine for certified health information sites): http://www.hon.ch/HONsearch/Webmasters/medhunt.html

Medical Matrix: http://www.medmatrix.org/reg/login.asp

Yahoo! Health List: http://www.yahoo.com/Health

Addiction Recovery Programs: http://www.recovery.org/

American Association for Cancer Research: http://www.aacr.org

American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Home Page: http://www.ahcpr.gov

American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org

American Public Health Association: http://www.apha.org/

Benton Foundation Health Site: http://www.benton.org

Cancer Information and Resources: http://www.cancerguide.org

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Violence Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm

ConsumerSafety.org (presents health & safety information for children, families, patients, and seniors, as well as consumer related news stories): https://www.consumersafety.org/

DrugWatch (prescription drug recall news, recent FDA approvals, drug alerts, drug interactions, side effects, and current developments in the medical field): www.drugwatch.com

Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov

Health on the Network Foundation, Supporting Quality Health Information, with Some Innovative Search Tools:  http://www.hon.ch

Healthfinder -- A Gateway to Consumer Health and Human Services Information: http://www.healthfinder.gov

Healthopedia (a medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications): http://www.healthopedia.com/

Jumo Health (5 Ways to Improve Patient Education) : https://www.jumohealth.com/news/patient-education

The Mayo Clinic, with Speciality Links: http://www.mayoclinic.org

MedLine Plus (a government resource for many links, dictionaries, organizations, directories, libraries, and clearinghouses for answers to health questions): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

National Institute on Drug Abuse: http://www.drugabuse.gov

National Institutes of Health-Health: http://health.nih.gov

National Institutes of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov

NetWellness: A Health Site Jointly Supported by Three Universities: http://www.netwellness.org

Yellow.brick.me (a vast amount of educational resources by public health experts for parents and their children): www.yellowbrick.me

American Recall Center (lists recalled medical devices and drugs, oh and car parts): http://www.recallcenter.com/

Medscape: http://www.medscape.com

Merck Manual of Medical Information (interactive, multi-media encyclopedia): http://www.merckhomeedition.com

Online Drug Index and Pharmacy: http://www.rxlist.com

Physican's Desk References (family guides): http://www.pdrhealth.com

About Public Relations (a free PR Internet resource complete with more than 1,500 links to PR resources, articles, and websites for the PR consultant, corporate communicator and student. Included are resources for corporate, crisis, employee and marketing communications; ethics; How-to; Internet PR; investor relations; media directories; professional development; publications; research; writing and recent articles on the profession):  http://advertising.about.com

Advertising degree (an unbiased and updated list of every school that offers an advertising degree in the US): http://www.advertisingdegree.net

Books and Publishing: http://www.bookwire.com

CommunicationResearch.Org (Vast set of links to research methodology tutorials, research writing, research funding sources, communication theories, Internet issues, communication journals, archives, communication associations, and teaching resources): http://ww1.communicationresearch.org

Editor and Publisher Interactive: http://www.editorandpublisher.com

Graduate Research/School Tips:

• Reviewing a manuscript: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~aslee/referee.htm
• Resources for Ph.D. students (nearly 500 links to a wide variety of information and resources relevant to doctoral students): http://www.phinished.org

Library and Information Sciences resources and WWW links:
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/index.htm 

Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Links to style, structure, evidence, paper mechanics, historical present, finding a voice, nominalizations, etc.): http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu

Online Ph.D. UK (an Advisory Centre for Ph.D.students and an international voluntary service that provides free educational advice and guidance to students from all over the world about online Ph.D. courses and programs): http://onlinephduk.com/

Oral and nonverbal communication skills (The six sections of this guide provides students with the information and tools to become effective, confident communicators. Using the nursing career as an example of why clear oral and nonverbal communication is so crucial, it walks students through the process of developing their communication skills.): http://www.rntobsn.org/resources/oral-communication-skills/

Public Service Career Guidebook (Working in public service represents an opportunity to serve others. However, public service is a broad term that encompasses a complex and multilayered range of public interests. Find out what public service is and learn more about the kinds of opportunities available to those looking to make a difference): http://www.firescience.org/public-service-careers/

Rutgers Library Internet Resources for Communication, Journalism and Media Studies:

http://libguides.rutgers.edu/cat.php?cid=25866
Excellent introductory tutorial to using Library Resources (specifically, Rutgers University Library, but this is quite general) for Communication Research

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (over 1,220 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks): http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

Jonathan Sterne’s Academe (diverse resources on academic professionalization -- job search timeline; transitioning from graduate student to professor; academic couples; academic blogs; publishing your first book; professional websites; interdisciplinarity; applying for jobs when you have a job; interviewing (including long-distance ones); demystifying tenure; teaching resources; networking; parenting and professing; preparing for conference presentations; negotiating starting salaries; best practices for meeting the needs of new scholars; grantwriting; Eszter’s how-tos; job search resources both in and outside of the U.S.): http:/sterneworks.org/Academe

Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (Oxford Internet Institute) (ways of measuring the impacts that their online scholarly resources are having: content analysis, focus groups, interviews, referrer analysis, user feedback, audience analysis, analytics, bibliometrics/scientometrics, log file analysis, surveys, webometrics): http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr/kb/questionnaires-/-survey

University of California, Santa Barbara Library Internet Resources for Communication: http://guides.library.ucsb.edu/communication

Webmaster Communication Links Depository (over 400 categorized links relevant to communication faculty and students): http://www.cios.org/encyclopedia/comlinks/webindex.htm

Website associated with Wimmer & Dominick's Mass Media Research book (exercises, advertising, associations, focus groups, internet researhc, journalism, journals, media careers, media industry research, movies, newspapers, public relations, radio, reference, research tips & sources, sampling error, science, statistics courses, statistics sources, television, U.S. data): http://www.wimmerdominick.com

Writing better blog posts: https://blogging.com/blog/how-to-write-good-blog-post/

[Online TextBooks]

Hanneman, Robert A. and Mark Riddle.  2005.  Introduction to social network methods.  Riverside, CA:  University of California, Riverside (published in digital form at http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/ )	Very comprehensive, easy to read and use, coverage of network analysis techniques, based on UCINET and NETDRAW.
National Institutes of Health “e-so	20 interactive chapters on methodological questions on behavioral and social science research, providing the latest information on addressing emerging challenges in public health. Chapters include: Appropriate research methods, “Science” in the social sciences, Design decisions in research, Theory development, Social and behavioral theories, Sample surveys, Social survey data collection, Administrative data systems, Observational studies, Qualitative methods, Conversation analysis, Software and qualitative analysis, Clinical trials, Cluster unit randomized trials, Ethical challenges, Multilevel modeling, Objective measurement of subjective phenomena, Measuring socioeconomic status, Evaluating the quality of health care, Patient-reported outcomes.
SticiGui© Text: Table of Contents	Great introduction to basic statistical concepts
StatNotes	A truly superb and readable explanation of all sorts of statistical methods and concepts -- qualitative and quantitative, statistics, theoretical frameworks, and more.
HyperStat Online	Introductory-level hypertext Statistics book, covering descriptive statistics, Chi-square, ANOVA
Statsoft.com	An online hypertext textbook on elementary statistics, with a search engine for terms and concepts
Davidmlane.com Text Book Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics	An online fundamental statistics textbook, along with links to other online textbooks and projects
Karl Wuensch's Statistics Lessons	Just wow!  This pretty much covers everything.  From descriptive statistics through SEM and multi-level modeling. If you have a spare year,  just devote it to this site.

CMC tools, from interpersonal through group and organizational:
http://www.december.com/net/tools
http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html

CMC Magazine and CMC Studies Center: http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/

CMC books: http://www.december.com/cmc/info/

First Monday (Peer reviewed journal on (and about) the Internet; excellent, brief book reviews): https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/index

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: http://mith.umd.edu/research/project/rccs-resource-center-for-cyberculture-studies/
      The site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including university-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, an extensive annotated bibliography, and two full-length book reviews each month.  Also: (Journals on CMC and Internet Studies, Key books in CMC and Internet Studies, Movies and TV programs about CMC and cyberspace, Other online resources and materials): http://rccs.usfca.edu/

Michael Beisswenger's multi-language CMC/Chat bibliography: http://www.chat-bibliography.de/

Online and library resources for business/finance/management questions: http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/business

A great source for concepts, measures, and citations to information systems research:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~newsted/real.htm

Academy of Management home page: http://aom.org/

American Management Association's home page -- includes online courses, career tips, time management, writing skills: http://www.amanet.org

Center for Information Technology and Society (University of California, Santa Barbara): http://www.cits.ucsb.edu 

Definitions (simple) of Technology (complex): http://www.webopedia.com/

     Dilbert cartoons, satirizing organizations and management: http://www.dilbert.com

SPIDER website (Social Psychology of Information [and cultural] Diffusion – Educational Resources):
http://web.stanford.edu/~kcarmel/CC_BehavChange_Course/readings/Additional%20Resources/social%20contagion/
SPIDER%a0%20Social%20Psychology%20of%20Information%20Diffusion%20--%20Educational%20Resources.htm
This is a very rich website, with sections on bibliographies (knowledge networks, memetics, social networks, cultural studies), network linkage charts (oracle of Bacon, Amazon.com Baconizer), concepts (persuasion, conformity, contagion, cultural evolution diffusion, dynamic social impact, imitation and social learning, memes, scale-free networks, six degrees separation, social norming, tipping points), current events relating to information diffusion, dictionaries of slang and terminology, measuring “what’s hot” (such as public opinions buz index, common baby names by year..), popular examples of cultural diffusion (such as yogi berra-isms, commonly misheard song lyrics), professional associations, research projects, network diffusion in health, networks research, and websites of relevant published books (including one on the diffusion of using statistical information in professional baseball!).

Technology/innovation management: http://www.aomonline.org

Technology Review (MIT's coverage of emerging technologies):http://www.technologyreview.com

Telework/telecommuting: http://www.gilgordon.com

Action Coalition for Media Education: http://www.acmecoalition.org

AT&T Brief History: http://www.att.com/history

Benton Foundation: Public Interest and Communication Policy: http://www.benton.org

BuzzTracker (shows requency of major news stories by location in world): http://www.buzztracker.org/

Center for Democracy & Technology: http://www.cdt.org

Center for Public Integrity (tracking broadcast, cable and telecommunications industries): http://www.publicintegrity.org/

Communications Decency Act of 1997 (Historical record of opposition to): http://www.ciec.org

Consumer Federation of America (see Communications link – Cable, Communications Policy, Internet, Media Concentration, Phones): http://www.consumerfed.org

Consumer Project on Technology (esp., intellectual property rights): http://www.cptech.org/ip/

Copyright and Intellectual Property:

• Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/index.html
• Creative Commons (supports flexible levels of copyright for authors and artists, and sources for finding and publishing limited copyright or noncopyrighted materials): http://creativecommons.org
• Copyright and Fair Use overview and guidelines: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
• Copyright and Fair Use: (See the Fair Use and the TEACH Act links): http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/
• Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
• Internet Attorney (Privacy, Trademark, Copyright, Domain name, Fraud, Adult Websites): http://www.netatty.com
• Online book on information age Intellectual Property: http://books.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/index.html
• United States Copyright Office: All about copyright: http://copyright.gov
• White Paper on Intellectual Property during Clinton administration: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/white.paper_pr.html

Country links - for basic stats about dozens of countries: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html

Cyberspace Atlas: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/historical.html

Digital Divide:

• Digital Divide Network (see Digital Divide Basics): http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
• Digitally Republish Books Project: http://www.gutenberg.net

E-Rate Department of Education Fact Sheet: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/comm-mit.html

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (identifying and critiquing media bias and censorship): http://www.fair.org

Federal Communications Commission: http://www.fcc.gov

Federal Trade Commission Privacy Initiatives: http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html

First Monday (an online reviewed journal of interesting media policy articles, emphasizing the Internet): http://www.firstmonday.org

Free Speech Sites:

• American Civil Liberties Union: http://www.aclu.org
• Center for Democracy and Technology: http://www.cdt.org
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.com
• Free speech online: http://www.eff.org/br

Future of Music Coalition (collaboration among university, intellectual property law, music, policy makers, public policy, technology professionals): http://www.futureofmusic.org

Internet Politics course and links (privacy, policy, intellectual ownership, etc.): http://www.learnworld.com/COURSES/P172/P172.Links.html

• Center for Responsive Politics (a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy): http://www.opensecrets.org/
• FCC -- Media Ownership Policy Reexamination: http://www.fcc.gov/ownership/

• Alliance for Community Media (The Alliance for Community Media (ACM), on behalf of millions of Americans nationwide, supports competition, diversity and localism in media. The ACM supports requirements that companies using public rights-of-way and public spectrum provide the means for local community use of media.): http://www.alliancecm.org
• Center for Creative Voices in Media (Nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving America's media: the original, independent, and diverse creative voices that enrich our nation's culture and safeguard its democracy): http://www.creativevoices.us/
• Center for Media and Democracy (a nonprofit organization serving social change activists, journalists, researchers, policymakers and the public at large by countering propaganda, informing and assisting grassroots citizen activism, promoting media literacy, and sponsoring "open content" media): http://www.prwatch.org/cmd
• FreePress (a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector): http://www.freepress.net
• Independent Media Center (network of independent and alternative media organizations and activists): http://www.indymedia.org
• International Freedom of Expression eXchange (A site on media ownership reforms): http://www.ifex.org/es/content/view/full/49805/
• Media Reform Information: http://www.corporations.org/media/
• Prometheus Radio Project (not-for-profit association dedicated to the democratization of the airwaves through the proliferation of non-commercial, community based, micropower radio stations; see their interesting guide to the FCC!): http://www.prometheusradio.org/
• Reclaim the Media (This site envisions an authentic, just democracy characterized by media systems that inform and empower citizens, reflect diverse cultures, and secure communications rights for all): http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/
• Rocky Mountain Media Watch (Challenge citizens to resist and change the manipulative and toxic formulas of Big Media?s news products): http://www.bigmedia.org/

• Center for American Progress: http://www.americanprogress.org/
  
• Sfgate: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/12/MN53063.DTL

• Arsenault, A. H. & Castells, M. (2008). The structure and dynamics of global multi-media business networks. International Journal of Communication, 2, 707-748.  Online at http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/298/189  Data as of February 2008: Chart of cross-relations among major global media and Internet organizations, emphasizing Apple’s role as a central node (Figure 1).  It also includes a listing of the main holdings of the 7 largest global multi-media organizations (Figure 2) across TV/Satellite, Radio/Music, Film, Print Internet, a timeline of the development of CBS and Viacom 1928-2008 (Figure 3), Interlockings (with percentages) between select second tier multi-national media groups and the global core (Figure 5) and their key holdings (Figure 6), Viacom’s international regional and local TV channels (Table 1), Connections between multi-national media conglomerate leadership and other networks (financial, media/ICT, global networks of creativity and innovation, political) (Table 2 – Extensive!), and Institutional investors in the major media and Internet corporations (Table 3).
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Simplified Index of Multiple Ownership Charts (updated) (extensive clickable list of Canadian media/telecommunications organizations and their holdings, useful both for analysis of Canadian media ownership but also as a model of presenting media ownership relations): http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/title_org.htm
• Compaine, B. (January 10, 2009).  Google trends suggests that interest in media ownership on decline, especially compared to the economy.  (Very interesting set of analysis of Google searchers over time, using Google Trends): http://wotmedia.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-trends-suggests-that-interest-in.html
• Columbia Journalism Review’s Who Owns What media ownership site (with pull down menu of many media companies and their respective holdings (as of fall 2008, apparently updated over time): http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php
• Corporate Influence in the Media: http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Media/Corporations/Owners.asp
• Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (Inter-locking boards of directors among 12 major Media corporations): http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2870.  See listing of profiles and holdings of 9 major media corporations as of 1997 at http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1406
• FreePress media ownership (nicely done – lists the top 6 media conglomerates, and their home page URLs, with clickable boxes listing their ownership of TV, film, publishing, online holdings, and other; and similar boxes for the top 5 cable companies; the top 14 Television ownership companies; the top 14 Print corporations; the top 8 telecommunications companies; and the top 9 radio ownership companies): http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main
• GlobalIssues (see long article with many quotes and links – Shah, A. (updated January 2, 2009) Media conglomerates, mergers, concentration of ownership): http://www.globalissues.org/article/159/media-conglomerates-mergers-concentration-of-ownership
• Media Concentration: http://www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin/bulletin7.html
• MediaGiants -- Who Owns What?: http://www.thinkandask.com/news/mediagiants.html
• Mother Jones (cool visual timeline of major media mergers in the past 25 years, from GE-NBC to Google-YouTube): http://www.motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2007/03/and_then_there_were_eight.pdf
• PBS Frontline -- Media Giants (media holdings of 6 major media corporations, with clickable links, as of 2001; part of a PBS Frontline report on Creators & Marketers of Popular Culture for Teenagers – The Merchants of Cool): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/giants/
• Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism’s The State of the News Media (The best single annual overview of changes, ownership, audiences, and trends across the news media: survey, newspapers, online, network TV, cable TV, local TV, magazines, audio, ethnic media): http://www.journalism.org/  [click on the State of the Media tab]
  
• Who Owns What on Television (July 7 2008 blog post with visual and text listings of TV channels ownership by the largest 6 media conglomerates): http://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/who-owns-what-on-television/?%2F

• The Gathering Storm Over Media Ownership: http://www.alternet.org/story/15654
• Census/ information/media economic sectors: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?chart_code=51&search=2007%20NAICS%20Search

• Adbusters Media Foundation (an alternative and oppositional forum for social activist movements through media): http://www.adbusters.org
• Advertising Age Online (access to wide variety of updated media tables and charts): http://adage.com
• National Alliance for Media Arts Culture (Dedicated to the support and advocacy of independent film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts): https://www.thealliance.media/

• ACME-Action Coalition for Media Education (Teaching media education: knowledge, skills and activism): http://www.acmecoalition.org/
• Broadcasting & Cable Online (media industry news): http://www.broadcastingcable.com
• Copyright and the Boy Scouts (Merit badge for copyright!): http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-5693563.html?part=rss&tag=5693563&subj=news
• Cross Media Ownership: http://www.digital-law.net/benderdiss/book.html
• Journalism.org (Research, Resources and Ideas to Improve Journalism; see their "State of the Media" annual report on ownership, issues, etc. across various media, including online journalism): http://www.journalism.org
• Media Education Foundation (study guides, handouts, downloadable materials, videos on media ownership, informed citizens, media content, etc.): http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/mediaresources.html
• Project Censored (tracks major stories not covered by corporate media): http://www.projectcensored.org/
• The Western Media: http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_media.html
• World Newspapers (A site that lists magazines, research, articles and links on media criticism): http://www.world-newspapers.com/media.html

Motion Picture Association of America: http://www.mpaa.org

$100 Million Movies: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/daily/movies/100million/article.htm

National Association of Broadcasters: http://www.nab.org

National Cable & Telecommunications Association (see Legislative & Regulatory Affairs): http://www.ncta.com

National Telecommunications and Information Administration: http://www.ntia.doc.gov

News: Newsbcc.com (news from more than 1600 sources in 70 counries): www.newsbcc.com

News: Technology Industry and Policy: http://news.cnet.com

News: Technology News from Silicon Valley: http://www.siliconvalley.com

NewsMap (shows headlines of major news stories sized according to coverage, and color-coded by type oc content, and selected by country): http://newsmap.jp/

Newspaper Association of America: http://www.naa.org

Privacy: 

• ACM Privacy Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy.htm
• Ad-blocker: http://www.adsubtract.com/im/
• Carnivore: Electronic Privacy Information Center: http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore
• Center for Democracy and Technology: http://www.cdt.org
• Freenet (an interesting use of Internet technology to maintain independence from the Internet!): http://freenetproject.org/
• Federal Trade Commission Report on Privacy: http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/muris/privisp1002.htm
• ID theft (preventing ID theft, warning signs, what to do if your ID is stolen, credit reporting agencies and useful contacts, ID theft resources and links): http://www.criminal-justice-careers.com/crime/id-theft.html. Criminal-justice-careers.com also has sections on Cyberspace Law Resources, and The First Amendment Resources (including freedom of speech and the Internet).
• Online guide to practical privacy tools: http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html
• Online Privacy Allilance (volunteer standards and practices): http://www.privacyalliance.org/
• Online Privacy Protection Act of 2000: http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong106/privacy/hr3560ih.htm
• Peekyou (see what others can easily find out about you online): http://www.peekyou.com/
  
• Platform for Privacy Preferences Initiative: http://www.w3.org/P3P/
• Privacy: Open Source Privacy Tools – Complete Guide to Online Safety (Find what steps you can take to protect yourself and your privacy. This is easily the most comprehensive (though in some cases pretty technically complex) site on this topic): https://privacyaustralia.net/privacy-tools/
• Privacy.net (An excellent tutorial on cookies and usage tracking, with suggestions for features and add-ons to block cookies): https://privacy.net/stop-cookies-tracking/
  
• Privacy Rights (provides consumer information and consumer advocacy;  It offers a variety services, including an online complaint center, fact sheets on privacy issues, this website, interviews for journalists, referrals for cases, and a speakers service): http://www.privacyrights.org
• Spybusters (specialists in electronic eavesdropping detection): http://www.spybusters.com

• Amateur Action case: http://www.spectacle.org/795/amateur.html
• Amateur Action case: http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/us_v_thomas.html
• Search engine from Electronic Freedom Foundation for legal cases: http://www.eff.org/search/
• COPA (Child Online Protection Act) case: http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2001/3mer/2mer/2000-1293.mer.aa.html
• Supermarket Cards: The Pricing Issues: http://www.nocards.org/savings/index.shtml

Voice of America: http://www.voa.gov

World Intellectual Property Organization: http://www.wipo.org

Hate Speech:

• Free speech/hate speech?: http://www.christiangallery.com/atrocity/aborts.html
• Southern Poverty Law site’s Intelligence Report: http://www.hatewatch.org

Napster Case and Rival Services:

• Napster case: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&case=/data2/circs/9th/0016401.html

RESOURCES FOR COMMUNICATION GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Experience:

• The National Association of Graduate and Professional Students (NAGPS) has an extremely comprehensive site. How to feel more comfortable, less stressed, and more productive as conferences is discussed on one of the NAGPS e-mail lists.
• Graduate Study: A Survival Manual: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~oleary/gradstudy/gradstudy.html (intended for computer science and mathematics students, but much good general advice here)
• Sterneworks: http://sterneworks.org/Academe/ (an extremely wide-ranging collection of online resources relating to graduate school and academic jobs: applications, bad behavior (applicants, colleagues, search committees, universities), conferences, family life, grantwriting, interviewing, job search listings, postdocs, publishing, resumes, teaching, tenure, time management, well-being, writing))
• Tomorrow’s Professor: https://tomprof.stanford.edu/ (extremely comprehensive site for advice, opinions, and resources on most aspects of graduate student and faculty practice)
• So Long, and thanks for the Ph.D. should be required reading for every new graduate student (again for Computer Science, but much that’s generally relevant).
• How to Be a Good Graduate Student

Graduate Schools and Application:

• Gradschools.com is a directory of thousands of graduate programs.
• How to apply to graduate school
• With reviews, message boards and tons of links, Getting Into Grad School is a great on-line resource.
• Phds.org maintains a comprehensive site. You can choose which criteria you want to have programs (including communication, journalism, etc.) ranked on.

 Finishing:

• Graduate School Survival Guide: http://www.math.waikato.ac.nz/~seano/grad-school-advice.html (this is especially useful, as it directly provides tips and advice, under these categories: Getting the most out of the relationship with your research advisor or boss, Getting the most out of what you read, Making continual progress on your research, Finding a thesis topic or formulating a research plan, Characteristics to look for in a good advisor, mentor, boss, or committee member, and Avoiding the research blues. For example: Prepare for your meetings - Come to each meeting with: List of topics to discuss, Plan for what you hope to get out of the meeting, Summary of you have done since your last meeting, List of any upcoming deadlines, Notes from your previous meeting. And Set some reasonable goals with deadlines - Identify key tasks that need to be completed, Set a reasonable date for completing them, Share this with your advisor or enlist your advisors help in creating the goals and deadlines, and Set some deadlines that you must keep.)
• Suggestions for generating dissertation topics: http://ask.metafilter.com/158878/How-to-get-excited-about-picking-a-dissertation-topic http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ 
• Graduate Student Survival Guide: http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/grad.html (the Ph.D. Decathlon, The Ten Commandments for a Dissertation, The Four Deadly Sins, On Selecting a Committee).
• Tired of having people ask you how that dissertation is going? Check out PhinisheD, an on-line discussion and support group for people who can't seem to finish their dissertations and theses.
• Thomas, G. (2009). How to do your research project: A guide for students in education and applied social sciences.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. http://www.amazon.com/How-Your-Research-Project-Education/dp/1847874436/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278374728&sr=1-1#reader_1847874436
• Resources for academic writing: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/category/writing-your-paper/
• Asking for letters of recommendation
• The “Versatile PhD” web-based resource: https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/versatile-phd/: Thinking about next steps in your career? Interested in exploring non-academic career options? Look here for information, resources and support. The Versatile PhD is a new resource that is especially for graduate students who want to know more about non-academic career options and how to pursue them.

Career Development (http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/profdev):

• Developing Writing Skills
• Writing a Grant for Funding
• Preparing Manuscripts for Publication
• Developing Oral Presentation Skills
• Designing Charts and Graphs for Presentation
• Ethics and Integrity in Science and Scholarship
• Exploring Career Options/Searching for a Job
• Writing a Cover Letter and Preparing a CV/Resume
• Preparing for Job Interview
• Negotiating Terms for Your First Job
• How to be an Effective Teacher
• Finding a Mentor, Working a Mentor, Being a Mentor
• Developing Leadership Skills
• Establishing a Professional Network
• Working and Collaborating in Teams
• Working with People from Diverse Backgrounds
• Maintaining a Work-Life Balance

Humor:

• Graduate Student Life Philosophy courtesy of Ph.D. Humor cartoons: www.phdcomics.com
• Hitler receives a bad journal review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRBWLpYCPY

Other Resources:

There are, of course, many resources, books, articles and chapters on various aspects of graduate school specific to communication. There are countless books, articles, programs, and guidelines for effective and inspiring teaching, and the need for cross-cultural awareness is particularly salient in universities. So a good graduate program involving graduate students as teaching assistants, or who will seek academic positions, should have good teaching and course development training.

Alexander, A. & Potter, W. J. (2001).  How to publish your communication research.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Chapters: The manuscript submission process.  Avoiding writing traps.  The challenge of writing the literature review.  The challenge of writing the theoretical essay.  The challenge of writing the quantitative study.  The challenge of writing the qualitative study.  The challenge of writing the interpretive inquiry.  The challenge of writing the critical/cultural essay.  The challenge of writing the historical essay.

Knapp, M. & Daly. J. (2004).  A guide to publishing in scholarly communication journals. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Chapters: The publication process in brief. The submission process.  The review process.  The revision and resubmission process.  Appendices.

Kramer, M. W., Hess, J. A. & Reid, L. D. (2007). Trends in communication scholarship: An analysis of four representative NCA and ICA journals over the last 70 years.  The Review of Communication, 7(3), 229-240.
Main points:

• Reviews a few prior studies of publication in communication, but there are many others, including bibliometric (citation) analyses.
• Note: majority of Ph.D. in communication never publish; those with 6 or more in top 10%; those with 20 or more in top 1%!
• Analyzes Communication Monographs (beginning in 1934), Journal of Applied Communication Research (1975), Human Communication Research (1975), and Journal of Communication (1951), every third year.
• Coded for: length of literature review, methods, results, overall article; number of references; number of authors; author gender; type of scholarship (quantitative, qualitative, rhetorical/historical, critical/essay, pedagogical, theoretical, review).
• Increase in article length, number of references, multiple-authored publications, female authorship, quantitative studies. 
• Notes the tension of increasing multiple-authored articles; harder to appear as productive if so many single-authored, but multiple-authored may not “count” as much in tenure decisions.  Departments need to make these criteria explicit.  Some other suggestions.

Luey, B. (2010).  Handbook for academic authors (5^th ed.). NY: Cambridge University Press.
Chapters: The publishing partnership. Journal articles. Revising a dissertation. Finding a publisher for the scholarly book. Working with your publisher. Multiauthor books and anthologies.  Finding a publisher for the college textbook.  Working with your textbook publisher.  Books for general readers.  The mechanics of authorship. Costs and prices.  Born digital.

Pfau, M. (2008).  Tension between breadth and depth in mass communication education.  Communication Monographs, 75(2), 119-126.
Main points:

• Mass communication scholars should know how to develop a balance between breadth and depth, with growing divisions and interest groups in ICA and NCA.
• Need greater awareness of diverse epistemological foundations
• Increasing specialization reduces ability to know history of mass communication, classic works (this article provides a tentative basic reading list), different influential schools, primary sources, advanced theory, the broader discipline of communication as well as other specific but related areas (such as interpersonal or organizational).

Putnam, L. (2008).  Developing breadth in organizational communication doctoral training.  Communication Monographs, 75(2), 127-135.
Main points:

• Several good overview articles, chapters, handbooks
• No longer many “introduction to the discipline” graduate courses providing history and development and classic studies
• History and evolution of the field
• Theoretical foundations (postpositivist, interpretive, critical, postmodern), understanding of the nature of organizations and systems, theoretical areas of research, core constructs
• Content areas and new frontiers (see the various Handbooks, make connections between foundations and new topics)
• Linkages within Communication and across the Discipline (leadership, work-family, health care organizations, rhetoric and issues management, new media, communities of practice, feminism)
• Research methods (qualitative and quantitative, multiple methods, epistemological assumptions of approaches)

Roloff, M. (2008). What an interpersonal communication scholar should know.  Communication Monographs, 75(2), 112-119.
Main points: interpersonal scholars should know:

• Areas (foundations – for example, symbolic interaction and cognitive processes; content areas – see Handbooks; and specialization – such as nonverbal, conflict, relational)
• Connections (within communication – such as health communication or group interaction; and across fields – such as psychology or sociology)
• Epistemology (philosophy of social science, assumptions)
• Entrepreneurship (external funding)
• Pedagogy (need experience, training, resources)
• Profession (need socialization into the academic profession and educational institutions, and job expectations and norms)
• Politics (organizational and academic politics; some books suggested)
• Understand challenges (limited time, faculty role obligations, small faculty size in your own area, institutional practices – such as specialization but aware of broader issues)

The National Communication Association also supports what’s called the Preparing Future Faculty program, adopted by many US communication departments.  This introduces students to faculty roles and activities at different types of institutions, and experiences in the discovery, engagement, and learning activities at those institutions.
 

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