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AIQ : how people and machines are smarter together by Nicholas Polsen (2018) how intelligent machines are changing the world, told with stories rather than equations, to help readers understand the math used, and provide a better grasp on concepts 620.82 POL
The Art of Screen Time: How your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life/ by Anya Kamenetz (2018)
The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin D Mitnick (2017) A highly useful handbook for how not to be seen—online, anyway. 005.8 MIT
Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (2016) by Tim Wu, who coined term “net neutrality”–a revelatory look at the rise of “attention-harvesting,” we face a barrage of advertising, branding efforts, sponsored social media, & commercials 659.1042 WU
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers (2016) By Nancy Sales
Social media has fostered a culture “ hostile" to girls - sexism, harassment, and cyber-bullying have become the “new normal,” along with the “constant chore” of one’s image 305.2352 SAL
The Death of Expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters by Tom Nichols (2017) Ties the rise of anti-expertise sentiment and anti-intellectualism not only to the pervasiveness of the internet, but to other technologies 303.4833 NIC
Deep Work: Rules for focused work in a Distracted World (2016) by Cal Newport A case for everyone should practice deep work: “professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.” 650.1 NEW
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier. (2015) Thoughtful proposals to preserve individual freedom without compromising national security. 005.8 SCH
The Darkening Web (2017) A program director at The Hague, Alexander Klimberg blends anecdote with argument-the struggle for cyberspace, from a scenario of debilitated civilian infrastructure to a 1984-like erosion of privacy and freedom of expression. 327.102 KLI
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (2017) Fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data.
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Eyes and Spies: How You’re Tracked and Why You Should Know (gr 7 up) Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Big data efforts to track 95 percent of North American kids between the ages of 12 and 17 is a risk, so those who teach or interact with teens can use this as a guide. 323.44 KYI
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (2017) by Scott Galloway provocative & insightful look at four powerful forces that dominate our social, psychological, and economic states today 338.761 GAL
The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones by Benjamin Wittes, (2015) 303.6011 WIT
The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab (2017)A plain-language overview, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, describes transformative tech poised to trigger the next economic and social revolution. 338.064 SCH
The Glass Cage (2014) by Nicholas Carr uses neurological science anecdote and history to gauge the organic impact of computers/internet of things, It’s about automation’s human consequences. 303.483 CAR
Glow kids : how screen addiction is hijacking our kids-- and how to break the trance by Nicholas Kardaras. (2016) J 616.8584 KAR
Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance by Cyrus Farivar Through well-researched case law, -how today’s courts interpret the capabilities enabled by tech will enjoy the precomputer perspective on privacy 323.448 FAR
The hacking of the American mind : the science behind the corporate takeover of our bodies and brains (2017) by Robert H Lustig points at social media, Big Pharma’s and Big Food’s marketing strategies, plus the federal government’s administration of Social Security, 152.42 LUS
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal (2104) rather than marketing; link your service to your customers’ emotions daily, getting them “hooked” thru frequency with which they use it and its perceived utility 658.575 EYA
Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (2017) 909.83 HAR Where do humans go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution
How to be a Durable Human Being (2016)
Humans Need Not Apply : A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Jerry Kaplan (2015) A potential to usher in a new age of affluence and leisure is weighted by two great scourges of the modern developed world: volatile labor markets and income inequality. 006.3 KAP
The industries of the future, by Alec Ross (2016) Former senior advisor to HRC explores emerging fields, robotics, genomics, and big data. The author likens the approaching robotics age to the Internet explosion’s last two decades. 338.064 ROS
iGEN : the 10 trends shaping today’s young people-and the nation, by Jean Twenge (2017) A first look at how today’s members of iGen–the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later
Internet of Things by Michael Miller (2015) How devices help people “do more, do it smarter, do it faster.” Also the potential risks–to your privacy, your freedom, & your life. IoT is coming quickly. Prepares you. 302.231 MIL
Irresistible : the rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked by Adam Alter(2017) Acknowledges that we are all potential addicts. Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, is at the cutting edge of research into what makes these products so compulsive 302.231 ALT
The great convergence : information technology and the new globalization by Richard E Baldwin (2016) How things are made in business today, Information and communication technology has radically changed production, and, lastly, what this now means for jobs.
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark (2017) Call for strong controls on AI systems sits awkwardly beside his acknowledgment that controlling such godlike entities will be almost impossible. Love it or hate it, it’s an engrossing forecast. 006.301 TEG
Lights Out: A Cyberattack : A Nation Unprepared by Ted Koppel (2015) shows the interconnectedness and vulnerability of our data infrastructure and what we must do to protect it. 363.325 KOP
Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News by Clint Watts (2018) Former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at todays vulnerabilities. 303.483 WAT
Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin (2017) examines the “monopoly platforms” built by Facebook, Google, Amazon and others and how they have “cornered culture”303.4833 TAP
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age by David Sanger (2018) Cyberwarfareis able to disrupt and damage key infrastructure and, as we are seeing, influence elections. 363.3259 SAN
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (2015) by Martin Ford. Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a essential restructuring is required?331.1 FOR
Russian roulette : the inside story of Putin’s war on America and the election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff.
Soonish: Emerging Technologies that’ll improve and/or ruin everything by Kelly Weinersmith 2017 Kelly and Zach Weinersmith boil down some particularly juicy advances and present them in a compelling, accessible, and wryly funny way. 601.12 WEI
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Whitney Phillips (2016) Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture - links the abusive and antagonistic rhetoric of trolls to the oppressive and dominant culture 302.231 PHI
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (2015) by Jon Ronson: An exploration of the experience of public shaming, and the way public shaming becomes a form of social control. What does our desire to shame say about our society in the 21st century. 152.44 RON (Also-Is Shame Necessary? / Jennifer Jacquet (2015) and Shame Nation by Sue Scheff (2017)
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection by Jacob Silverman. (2015) Heavy social media users are constantly sharing, updating, branding, and seeking viral fame, relinquishing personal information without seeing the cost it has exacted in loss of privacy 303.4833 SIL
They Know Everything About You by Robert Scheer. (2015) Our most intimate habits; private correspondence, book pages read, and lists of friends and phone conversations have been seamlessly combined in order to create a detailed map of an individual’s social and biological DNA 323.448 SCH
War on Normal People by Andrew Yang (2018) Is Universal Basic Income the solution to disappearing jobs due to tech? 362.582 YAN
We are Data by Cheney-Lippold (2017) From philosophers, digital theorists, historians, legal scholars, anthropologists, queer theorists, and political scientists- our datafied identities in marketing, predictive policing, and in such matters as our identity 303.4833 CHE
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data
Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2016) Welcome to the dark side of Big Data. In this illuminating and disturbing account, the many ways in which widely used mathematic models based on prejudice, misunderstanding, and bias tend to punish the poor and reward the rich. 306.46 ONE
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier. (2013) While digital technologies should be guaranteeing our financial health, the information economy has in fact concentrated wealth in the hands of a few—weakening our middle class, ie, democracy. Lanier makes suggestions—including monetizing data now treated as being cost free. 303.4833 LAN See also Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now 2018
World Without Mind by Franklin Foer (2018) after Foer was fired from New Republic for an article about Amazon’s unusual power in publishing, he deeply researches and reveals the business models and motives of Facebook, Amazon and Google, industries who find themselves pinned to advertising and your data. 303.483 FOE
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Citizenfour (2015) This behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden as he hands over classified documents about illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA. DVD CITIZEN
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World by Werner Herzog (2016)
FICTION
(Short Stories) Chasing shadows : visions of our coming transparent world / As we debate Internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous. Has Big Brother happened? Or thousands of Little Brothers?
The Circle: a novel by Dave Eggers (2013)
Mae Holland goes to work at an internet company in the near future. A vivid, roaring dissent to the companies that have coaxed us to disgorge every thought and action onto the Web. FIC EGGERS
I Hate the Internet : A Useful Novel, by Jarett Kobek (2016) Reminds us who really controls and makes money off of the internet, Kobek clears out years of bullshit, techno-utopian thinking. Activism, Tumblr social justice posts, Facebook, comment cesspools, flame wars, trolling…it’s all for generating ad revenues to enrich billionaires. FIC KOBEK, JARETT
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow (2017) In a world where scarcity is artificial—thanks to the ability to 3-D print food, clothing, and shelter—the hyper-rich zottas are only getting richer, and there’s no advancement in the workforce. So, the disenfranchised and unsatisfied simply . walk away FSF Doctorow
Invasion of Privacy by Christopher Reich, (2015), Somewhere outside of Austin, FBI agent Joe Grant and a confidential informant are killed in a deadly shootout. Left to pick up the pieces is Mary Grant, Joe’s young wife and mother of their two daughters. The official report places blame for the deaths on Joe’s shoulders. FIC REICH
Purity: a novel by Jonathan Franzen (2015) Amid a tangle of characters, Pip is squatting in Oakland. After a chance encounter with a peace activist, Pip accepts an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, which aims to unearth the world’s secrets. FIC FRANZEN
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (2010) Shteyngart’s earnestly struggling characters keep the nightmare tour of tomorrow grounded. A rich
commentary on the obsessions and catastrophes of the information age and a heartbreaker worthy of its title. FIC SHTEYNGART
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris. (2014) A Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God. Suddenly impersonated, Paul watches ias a Facebook, and a Twitter account are created in his name. FIC FERRIS
