PLEASE NOTE this is a 2013 reading list—the precise content may change in future years.
Term 1, Week 1
Week 1: Ideas of the Internet: John Perry Barlow and Lawrence Lessig
Lecturer: Richard Aldrich
Seminar Questions
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Will money shape the Web to serve profit?
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Should the internet be a ‘free public library’? or a place where copyright is enforced to
protect authors, artists and software writers?
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Do the duties to protect free speech and to prevent obscenity rightly fall on Internet Service
Providers, States or someone else?
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Do you agree with the assertion of Thomas Rid that Cyberwar will not happen?
Required Reading - read one of these for the seminar
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Barlow, John Perry, “Selling Wine Without Bottles”, in Ludlow, Peter, (ed) High Noon on the
Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace, MIT 1999, pp.9-24. [Other essays in
here are also exciting.]
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John Perry Barlow, 'The Economy of Ideas: A framework for patents and copyrights in the
Digital Age. (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong.)' Wired Magazine.
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Lessig, L., (2008) Remix: making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy, Penguin.
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Lessig, L. (2004) Free Culture How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down
Culture and Control Creativity.
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Lessig, L. (2006) Code Version 2.0, New York: Basic Books.
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Diffie, Whitfield and Susan Landau. (2007) Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping
and Encryption,Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press 2nd ed.
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Review of Diffie and Landau (1998) by Stewart Baker and Peter Neumann in Notices of the
American Mathematcial Society 45/6 June/July 1998.
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Wu, T. (1996-7) 'Cyberspace Sovereignty -The Internet and the International
System', Harvard Journal of Law and & Technology, 10/3: 647-66.
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Parry, Marc (2011), 'Tim Wu Tries to Save the Internet', Chronicle of Higher Education, 20
March 2011.
Recommended Reading
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Abbate, Janet. (1999) Inventing the Internet Massachusetts: MIT Press.
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Boellstorff, Tom. (2008), Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the
Virtually Human, Princeton UP.
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Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid. (2001) The Social Life of Information Harvard University
Press.
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Deibert, R.J. et al., (2010). Access controlled: the shaping of power, rights, and rule in
cyberspace 1st ed., MIT Press.
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Drahos, P., (2002). Information feudalism: who owns the knowledge economy?, Earthscan.
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Everard, Jerry. (1999)Virtual States: The Internet and the Boundaries of the NationState London: Routledge.
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Franda, M. (2001) Governing the Internet: The Emergence of an International Regime Lynne
Rienner.
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Goldsmith, J. & Wu, T., (2008) Who controls the Internet? : illusions of a borderless world : ,
NY: OUP.
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Grossman, Lawrence K. (1996) The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the
Information Age, Penguin.
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Jørgensen, R.F., Human rights in the global information society, The MIT Press.
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Karmack, E.C. & Joseph S. Nye, Jr. [eds]. (2002) governance.com: Democracy in the
Information Age Brookings.
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Klang, M. & Murray, A. (2005) Human rights in the digital age, London: GlassHouse Press.
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Küng-Shankleman, L., Picard, R.G. & Towse, R. (eds.), (2008) The internet and the mass
media, London: SAGE.
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Lessig, L., (2001) The future of ideas, NY: Random House.
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Lessig, L., (2005) Free Culture: the nature and future of creativity, NY: Penguin.
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Lessig, Lawrence. (2002) The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected
World (New York: Random House [2001], Vintage Books, 2002
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Levmore, S. & Nussbaum, M.C., (2010) The offensive Internet : speech, privacy, and
reputation, Harvard University Press.
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Levy, S. (2001) Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the
Digital Age Penguin.
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Lyon, M. & Hafner, K. (1996) Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet Simon
& Schuster.
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Margolis, Michael and David Resnick. (2000) Politics as Usual: The Cyberspace
“Revolution” Sage.
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Marsden, C.T., (2010) Net neutrality : towards a co-regulatory solution, London: Bloomsbury
Academic.
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Mayer-Schonberger, V., (2011) Delete : the virtue of forgetting in the digital age, Princeton
University Press.
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Morrison, A.H. (2009) 'An impossible future: John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of the
Independence of Cyberspace",New Media & Society, 11/1-2, 53-71.
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Mueller, M.L., 2010. Networks and states : the global politics of internet governances, MIT
Press.
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Naughton, J., 1999. A brief history of the future: the origins of the Internet, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson.
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Netanel, N., 2008. Copyright's paradox, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Norris, P., 2001. Digital divide? Civic engagement, information poverty, and the Internet
worldwide, Cambridge Univ Pr.
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Patry, W., 2009. Moral panics and the copyright wars 1st ed., OUP USA.
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Rid, T (2012) Cyber War Will Not Take Place, London Hurst.
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Rid, T (2012) Cyber War Will Not Take Place Journal of Strategic Studies, 35/1, 5–32.
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Solove, D.J., 2007. The future of reputation : gossip, rumor, and privacy on the Internet, Yale
Univ Pr.
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Vaidhyanathan, Sivi (2004) The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom
and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, New York: Basic Books.
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Wu, T., 2010. The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires, Knopf.
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Zittrain, J., 2009. The future of the Internet : and how to stop it New ed., London: Penguin.
Links
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Electronic Privacy Information Center
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GCHQ
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Pentagon Cyberdomain
Youtube
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John Perry Barlow
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Whit Diffie
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Lawrence Lessig
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Tim Wu