Computer Technology & Society
Related Research Topics
- Offshore outsourcing
- Peer-to-Peer file sharing
- History of the internet or computing
- Mobile technology
- Computer technology’s affect on personal/corporate communication
- History and computer technology
- History of a computer technology or technology-based company
- History/development of open source
- Legal issues and the internet
- Legal controls
- Use of computer technology in the criminal justice system
- Privacy
- Censorship
- Intellectual property and the internet
- Human computer interaction
- Internet filtering
Books in the Westwood Library
Gantz, John and Jack B. Rochester. Pirates of the Digital Millennium: How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2005. K1485.G36 2005
Digital piracy. It's a global war -- and it's just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. organized crime. John Gantz and Jack Rochester cover every side and all the implications. Economics. Law. Ethics. Culture. The players. And above all, the realities -- including the exclusive new findings of a 57-country digital piracy research project. The media universe is shaking to its very foundations. This book helps you make sense of what's happening -- and what's next.
Goldsmith, Jack and Tim Wu. Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. HM851.G65 2006
Will cyberanarchy rule the net? And if we do find a way to regulate our cyberlife will national borders dissolve as the Internet becomes the first global state? In this provocative new work, Jack L. Goldsmith and Tim Wu dismiss the fashionable talk of both a 'borderless' net and of a single governing 'code'. Territorial governments can and will, they contend, exercise significant control over all aspects of Internet communications. Examining policy puzzles from e-commerce to privacy, speech and pornography, intellectual property, and cybercrime, Who Controls the Internet demonstrates that individual governments rather than private or global bodies will play that dominant role in regulation. Accessible and controversial, this work is bound to stir comment.
Lecuyer, Christophe. Making Silcon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930 – 1970. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. HC107.C22 S395 2006
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lécuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few radio enterprises that operated in the shadow of RCA and other East Coast firms through its establishment as a center of the electronics industry and a leading producer of power grid tubes, microwave tubes, and semiconductors. He traces the emergence of the innovative practices that made this growth possible by following key groups of engineers and entrepreneurs. He examines the forces outside Silicon Valley that shaped the industry -- in particular the effect of military patronage and procurement on the growth of the industry and on the development of technologies -- and considers the influence of Stanford University and other local institutions of higher learning.
Vise, David A. and Mark Malseed. The Google Story. New York: Delacourte Press, 2005. TK5105.885.G66 V57 2005.
In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, "change the world" through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. While the company has done exactly that, Google's quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Readers will learn about the business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search
Web Resources
Overview of DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
Provided by The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy. Links to the full text of the law and offers basic overview.
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/dmca.html
Links and information about the DMCA from the Association of Research Libraries.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/
The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.
http://www.privacyrights.org/index.htm
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) is a nonprofit consumer organization with a two-part mission -- consumer information and consumer advocacy. It was established in 1992 and is based in San Diego, California. It is primarily grant-supported and serves individuals nationwide. |
