Internet Law and Politics Reading List

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:02:39 GMT

Tomorrow is the first day of class for my spring course on Internet, Law and Politics.

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:03:18 GMT

The core texts are:

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:05:08 GMT

Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks (Yale University Press, 2006).

Jodi Dean, Jon W. Anderson, and Geert Lovink, Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society (Routledge, 2006).

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain, Access Denied, (forthcoming, MIT Press, 2007).

William W. Fisher, III, Promises to Keep (Stanford, 2004).

Dan Gillmor, We the Media (O’Reilly, 2005).

Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford, 2006).

Lawrence Lessig, Code 2.0 (Basic Books, 2006).

Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (2005).

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:11:04 GMT

For the first day:

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:09:47 GMT

The readings for the first day are on the topic of multinational Internet companies doing business in regimes that require them to carry out censorship and surveillance.

Check out: Google.cn and the Search Compare Tool.

Read the Global Online Freedom Act.

Read the news release.