The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It - Jonathan Zittrain
This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity-and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation-and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations - Clay Shirky
Blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 accoutrements are revolutionizing the social order, a development that's cause for more excitement than alarm, argues interactive telecommunications professor Shirky. He contextualizes the digital networking age with philosophical, sociological, economic and statistical theories and points to its major successes and failures. Grassroots activism stands among the winners—Belarus's flash mobs, for example, blog their way to unprecedented antiauthoritarian demonstrations. Likewise, user/contributor-managed Wikipedia raises the bar for production efficiency by throwing traditional corporate hierarchy out the window. Print journalism falters as publishing methods are transformed through the Web. Shirky is at his best deconstructing Web failures like Wikitorial, the Los Angeles Times's attempt to facilitate group op-ed writing. Readers will appreciate the Gladwellesque lucidity of his assessments on what makes or breaks group efforts online: Every story in this book relies on the successful fusion of a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain with the users. The sum of Shirky's incisive exploration, like the Web itself, is greater than its parts.
I'll Be Sober in the Morning - Chris Lamb
A collection political, comebacks, putdowns, and ripostes over the last 2500 years, with 12 humorous illustrations by Steve Steglin. Chris Lamb is a professor of Communication at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, where he primarily teaches journalism. I’ll Be Sober in the Morning: Great Political Putdowns, Comebacks and Ripostes is his fourth book.
The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics - Theodore Hamm
The penetrating—and entertaining—story of the rise of a new generation of liberal media figures, from Jon Stewart and Michael Moore to MoveOn and the blue blogosphere. With a combination of technological savvy, irreverent humor, and acerbic critique, a handful of media personalities, blogs, outlets, and politically based organizations—from The Onion to Jon Stewart to the Daily Kos—are transforming American politics and culture, and the stories of where these outlets came from and how they got so powerful are just as entertaining as watching them in action. In this crisp, engaging account, journalist and historian Theodore Hamm chronicles the humble and often surprising origins of the people, the publications, and the netroots pioneers that are now household names. He also brilliantly illuminates how this "New Blue Media" both drew upon the traditional strategies of the left and also developed new ones in order to create a wholly innovative media movement.
Blogwars: The New Political Battleground - David D. Perlmutter
In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or fail to influence--American political life. Challenging the hype, Perlmutter points out that blogs are not that powerful by traditional political measures: while bloggers can offer cogent and convincing arguments and bring before their readers information not readily available elsewhere, they have no financial, moral, social, or cultural leverage to compel readers to engage in any particular political behavior. For many Internet users, blogs are the news and editorial sites of record, replacing traditional newspapers, magazines, and television news programs. Blogwars offers the first full examination of this new and controversial force on America's political landscape.
Web Campaigning (Acting with Technology) - Kirsten Foot
The use of the Internet in US political campaigns has developed extensively over the course of the last few election cycles. In Web Campaigning, Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider show the evolution of political campaigns' Web presence using hundreds of Web sites produced between 2000 and 2004. Their approach and specific focus have made this book a one-of-a-kind contribution to the study of political Web communication. A digital installation available on the Web highlights core concepts discussed in the text with examples drawn from archived campaign Web sites.
Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age - Allison Fine
This volume, by social entrepreneur Alison Fine, gives activists a guide for engaging the social media to spark social change. Harnessing the Social Media, Moving Power to the Edges, and Replacing Top-Downers with a Democratic Side-to-Side Style are all basic concepts Fine explains in terms of successful examples. Upbeat and humorous, the volume presents a wealth of content that creates a user-friendly web route to success. Now is the moment for social change-makers the author explains and "We don't need to be bigger, we just need to work smarter." This volume is sure to help entrepreneurs and activists everywhere do exactly that.
Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges - Gabriel Weimann
In this timely and eye-opening volume, Gabriel Weimann reveals that terrorist organizations and their supporters maintain hundreds of websites, taking advantage of the unregulated, anonymous, and accessible nature of the Internet to target an array of messages to diverse audiences. Drawing on a seven-year study of the World Wide Web, the author examines how modern terrorist organizations exploit the Internet to raise funds, recruit members, plan and launch attacks, and publicize their chilling results. Weimann also investigates the effectiveness of counterterrorism measures and warns that this cyberwar may cost us dearly in terms of civil rights.
Crossing the River: The Coming of Age of the Internet in Politics And Advocacy - Karen A. B. Jagoda
Crossing the River: The Coming of Age of the Internet in Politics and Advocacy, Karen A.B. Jagoda, Editor, documents how attitudes changed about the convergence of the Internet and politics from 1998 through the 2004 election.
"This is the single most informative, comprehensive collection on Internet politics since the beginning of the revolution."
--Phil Noble, Founder of PoliticsOnline.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything - Joe Trippi
When Joe Trippi signed on to manage Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, the long-shot candidate had 432 known supporters and $100,000 in the bank. Within a year, Trippi and his energetic but inexperienced team had transformed the most obscure horse in the field into a front-runner, creating a groundswell of 640,000 people and raising more money than any Democrat in history -- more than fifty million dollars -- mostly through donations of one hundred dollars or less.
This is the story of how Trippi's revolutionary use of the Internet and an impassioned, contagious desire to overthrow politics as usual grew into a national grassroots movement and changed the face of politics forever. But it's also more than that.
Taking Back Politics: An Insider's Guide to Winning - Cathy Allen
Taking Back Politics is the first comprehensive, up-to-date guide on running for office. More than a how-to text, this book is a rare glimpse into the inner sanctum of today's rough-tough politics. It offers hundreds of tips on how to run and how to win, without having to break your budget. Cathy Allen has run more than 150 campaigns in 30 states and three continents. Her Seattle-based company, Campaign Connection, has amassed an impressive list of successful statewide, congressional, issue and legislative election victories. Campaigns & Elections magazine named Allen one of the most powerful women in American politics - and this book explains why.
25 Fundraising Secrets - Joe Garecht
A must have book for any political campaign, non-profit organization or charity.
No campaign, charity, or non-profit organization can survive without fundraising. Fundraising is the lifeblood of your effort. Without money, you can't get your message out, do charitable work or win elections.
You must raise funds - this book will show you how.
"25 Fundraising Secrets - Raise More Money, Guaranteed!" contains strategies and techniques guaranteed to help your organization or campaign raise the money you need.
The Underdog Advantage: Using the Power of Insurgent Strategy to Put Your Business on Top - David Morey
After over 25 years of working with top companies, David Morey and Scott Miller have found that the largest corporations are at their best when they act small--not as an arrogant incumbent, but a hungry insurgent. The Underdog Advantage analyzes the success of this model and shows how even great companies often stray from the insurgent path--and end up paying the consequences.
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