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Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams

“It basically says wikis work and wikis are important and wikis are the way of the future.”

Tyler Cowen, Economist

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Here comes everyone by Clay Shirky

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky

“It’s a really great book for anyone who wants to understand the social media revolution and how it completely changed the economics of organisation.”

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    The best books on The Philosophy of Information, recommended by Luciano Floridi

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    The best books on The Philosophy of Information - Republic by Plato

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The best books on The Philosophy of Information, recommended by Luciano Floridi

The Oxford professor of philosophy and ‘the ethics of information’ says methods for discussing the ethics of information technology have been latent in philosophy from its origins. He picks the best books on the philosophy of information.

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    The best books on Information - Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky

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The best books on Information, recommended by Tyler Cowen

A conversation with the economist, educator, omnivore, polymath and co-founder of Marginal Revolution, highlighting books about decentralised information, mass collaboration and spontaneous order

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    The best books on The Future of Journalism - We the Media by Dan Gillmor

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Former editor-in-chief of The Guardian talked to us in 2012 about brave new frontiers for journalism, the hunt for a business model to pay for it all, and what he hoped (and feared) the Leveson Inquiry would decide about press regulation.

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The challenges – and opportunities – of our times have never been greater. Everything from our models of political participation to the very architecture of our brains is at stake, says the novelist and technology blogger Nick Harkaway.

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    The best books on The History of Information - A Social History of Knowledge by Peter Burke

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    The best books on The History of Information - The Information Master by Jacob Soll

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    The best books on The History of Information - The History of Reading in the West by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier (editors)

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    The best books on The History of Information - Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton

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    Cartographies of Time
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    The best books on The History of Information - Paper Machines by Markus Krajewski

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    Paper Machines
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The best books on The History of Information, recommended by Ann Blair

The history professor and author of Too Much to Know tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organised and used information

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    The best books on The Future of the Media, recommended by Todd Gitlin

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    The best books on The Future of the Media - Preface to Plato by Eric A Havelock

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    The best books on The Future of the Media - The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L Eisenstein

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    The best books on The Future of the Media - The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications by Paul Starr

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    The best books on The Future of the Media - Media Unlimited by Todd Gitlin

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    Media Unlimited
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The best books on The Future of the Media, recommended by Todd Gitlin

The Journalism Professor at Columbia University discusses the future of the media. Argues that the availability of intelligently compiled, serious information is a prerequisite for democratic life

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