You Are Not A Gadget – A Manifesto, Jaron Lanier, Knopf, 2010
The technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered Internet software design. This book is difficult reading in places, but its message is important. Hardcover, 200 pages.
Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-charge your Business!, Paul Gillin, Quill Driver, 2009
This book looks useful if you are in marketing. 250 pages.
Digital Nation, Rachel Dretzin Goodman, PBS, (DVD – 2010)
This video documentary examines the effect of the web on education, whether as an important tool in schools, or as a distraction that impedes learning. American schools are the main focus, but Korea is visited. Koreans learn netiquette in primary school!
The Art of Community / Jono Bacon, O’Reilly 2009
Jono is an expert in creating and managing forums. This book is highly recommended for people who run social web sites.
Delete : the virtue of forgetting in the digital age / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Princeton University Press, 2009
The Internet does not forget, and that can be a social problem. This book is highly recommended by Lawrence Lessig. Hardcover, 200 pages.
Library Mashups : exploring new ways to deliver library data / edited by Nicole C. Engard, Information Today, 2009
This collection of articles conveys a new approach to library services and information architecture. 300 pages.
Twitterville : How Businesses can thrive in the new global neighborhoods / Shel Israel, Portfolio, 2009.
Am I over 140 chrs yt? Hardcover, 300 pages.
Managing Online Forums : everything you need to know to create and run successful community discussion boards / Patrick O’Keefe.
A very practical, useful book. 300 pages.
Communities of Play : Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and virtual worlds / Celia Pearce, MIT Press, 2009
An academic discussion of MMOG’s that will be useful to online game designers. It defines ‘emergent’. 300 pages, hardcover.