Turner, Fred (2006). From Cyberculture to Counterculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Scholz, Trebor (Ed.) (2013). Digital Labor: The Internet as Factory and Playground. New York: Routledge.
Harvey, David. (2005). “Introduction” and “Chapter One: Freedom’s Just Another Word…” from A Brief History of Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1-38.
Castells, Manuel. (2010). “Prologue” and “Chapter One: The Information Technology Revolution” from The Rise of the Network Society (2nd Edition). Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1-76.
Required reading:
Taylor, Astra. 2014. The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.
Recommended:
Cormode, Graham and Balachander Krishnamurthy. June 2008. First Monday, Volume 13 Number 6-2.