New Media, Information and Knowledge Systems > Readings / Resources

M. Castells; The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society; Oxford University Press; 2001 - pp. 1-8, 36-63 (required)

R. Mansell, W. E. Steinmueller; Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity; Oxford University Press; 2000 - 'Competing Interests and Strategies in the Information Society' -- Chapter 1, pp. 8-36 (required)

R. Mansell; Communication by Design: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies; ed. R. Mansell, R. Silverstone; Oxford University Press; 1996 - 'Communication by Design?' -- pp. 15-43 (required)

M. Castells, P. Himanen; The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model; Oxford University Press; 2002 - (optional)

M. Castells; Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society; British Journal of Sociology; 2000 - Vol. 51 (1): 5-24 (optional)

N. Garnham; Emancipation, the Media and Modernity: Arguments about the Media and Social Theory; 2000 - 'The Media as Technologies' -- Chapter 4 (pp. 63-81) (optional)

R. Mansell; Inside the Communication Revolution: Evolving Patterns of Social and Technical Interaction; Oxford University Press; 2002 - 'Conclusion: Social Relations, Mediating Power, and Technologies' -- pp. 251-270 (optional)

W. H. Melody; Institutional Analysis and Economic Policy; ed. M. Tool, P. Bush; 2003 - 'Policy Implications of the New Information Economy' -- pp. 411-432 (required)

W. H. Melody; Can the Internet by Governed, and if so, how?; 2003 - (required)

R. Mansell, W. E. Steinmueller; Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity; Oxford University Press; 2000 - 'Competing Interests and Strategies in the Information Society' -- Chap. 3, pp. 98-149, especially pp. 98-110 (required)

R. Mansell, R. Samarajiva, A. Mahan; Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions & Intervention, Section VI; Delft University Press; 2002 - See especially -- R. Silverstone, 'Regulation and the Ethics of Distance: Distance and the Ethics of Regulation' (pp. 303-310); W. A. Meier, 'Media Ownership -- Does it Matter?' (pp. 298-302); E. Fox and S. Waisbord, 'Latin American Media: A Long View of Politics and Markets, (required)

Y. Benkler; From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Towards Sustainable Commons and User Access; 52 Federal Communications Law Journal; 2000 - (optional)

D. Goldberg, T. Prosser, S. Verhulst; Regulating the Changing Media: A Comparative Study; Clarendon Press; 1998 - (optional)

R. Mansell, R. Samarajiva, A. Mahan; Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions & Intervention, Section VI; Delft University Press; 2002 - See especially -- R. Silverstone, 'Regulation and the Ethics of Distance: Distance and the Ethics of Regulation' (pp. 303-310); W. A. Meier, 'Media Ownership -- Does it Matter?' (pp. 298-302); E. Fox and S. Waisbord, 'Latin American Media: A Long View of Politics and Markets' (pp. 303-310); M. Raboy, 'Media Policy and the Public Interest' (pp. 315-319); J. D. H. Downing 'Radical Medial Projects and the Crisis of Public Media' (pp. 320-327) (optional)

W. H. Melody; Human Capital in Information Economies; New Media & Society, 1 (1); 1999 - pp. 39-46 (optional)

W. H. Melody; Public Communication: The New Imperatives; ed. M. Ferguson; Sage; 1990 - 'Communication Policy in the Global Information Economy. Whither the Public Interest?' (pp. 16-30) (optional)

W. E. Steinmueller; Will New Information and Communication Technologies Improve the "Codification" of Knowledge?; Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 9(2); 2000 - pp. 361-376 (required)

R. Cowan, D. Foray; The Economics of Codification and the Diffusion of Knowledge; Industrial and Corporate Change, 6(3); 1997 - pp. 595-622 (required)

G. Dosi; Technological Paradigms and Technological; Research Policy, 11(3); 1982 - pp. 147-162 (optional)

R. Barras; Towards a Theory of Innovation in Services; Research Policy; 1986 - pp. 161-173 (optional)

C. Freeman; The "National System of Innovation" in Historical Perscpective; Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 19; 1995 - pp. 5-24 (optional)

B.-A Lundvall; National Systems of Innovation: Towards a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning; ed. B- A Lundvall; Pinter; 1992 - 'Introduction' -- pp. 1-19 (optional)

B. Johnson, E. Lorenz, B.-A Lundvall; Why All This Fuss about Codified and Tacit Knowledge?; Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 11(2); 2002 - pp. 245-262 (optional)

J. Senker; Tacit Knowledge and Models of Innovation; Industrial and Corporate Change, 4(2); 1995 - pp. 425-427 (optional)

R. Mansell, L. Nikolychuk; The Economic Importance of Electronic Networks: Assessing the Micro-level Evidence Base; 2002 - (required)

W. E. Steinmueller; Inside the Communication Revolution: Evolving Patterns of Social and Technical InteractionInside the Communication Revolution: Evolving Patterns of Social and Technical Interaction; ed. R. Mansell; Oxford University Press; 2002 - 'Virtual Communities and the New Economy' -- pp. 21-54 (required)

W. L. Bennett; Contesting Media Power; ed. N. Couldry, J. Curran; Rowman & Littlefield; 2003 - 'New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism' (optional)

G. Cooper, N. Green, G. M. Murtagh, R. Harper; Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality; ed. S. Woolgar; Oxford University Press; 2002 - 'Mobile Society? Technology, Distance and Presence' -- pp. 286-301 (optional)

W. H. Dutton; Society of the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age; ed. W. H. Dutton; Oxford University Press; 1999 - 'Digital Democracy: Electronic Access to Politics and Sevices' -- Chapter 7, pp. 173-201 (optional)

K. C. Ho, Z. Baber, H. Knondker; "Sites" of Resistance: Alternative Websites and State-Society Relations; British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 53 (No. 1); 2002 - pp. 127-148 (optional)

J. E. Katz, M. Katz, M. Aakhus; Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance; Cambridge University Press; 2002 - (optional)

D. Tambini; New Media and Democracy: The Civic Networking Movement; New Media & Society, Vol 1(3); 1999 - pp. 305-329 (optional)

L. Haddon, C. de Gournay, M. Lohan, B. Ostlund, I. Palombini, B. Sapio, M. Kilegran; From Mobile to Mobility: The Consumption of ICTs and Mobility in Everyday Life; 2001 - (optional)

L. Haddon, C. de Gournay, M. Lohan, B. Ostlund, I. Palombini, B. Sapio, M. Kilegran; From Mobile to Mobility: The Consumption of ICTs and Mobility in Everyday Life; 2001 - (optional)

R. Hawkins, R. Mansell, W. E. Steinmueller; Towards Digital Intermediation in the Information Society; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XXXIII (2); 1999 - pp. 383-391 (required)

A. M. Chircu, R. J. Kauffman; Reintermediation Strategies in Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce; International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 4, No. 4; 2000 - pp. 7-42 (required)

A. C. Brock; E-Business: the Practical Guide to the Laws; Spiro Press; 2003 - (Read selectively depending on interest) (optional)

J. Hagel III, J. F. Rayport; The New Infomediaries; The McKinsey Quarterly, No. 4; 1997 - pp. 54-70 (optional)

R. Hawkins; Electronic Commerce and Business Model Evolution: An Exploratory Study of Experience and Practice in European Firms; STAR Issue Report No. 5, July; 2001 - (optional)

R. Kraut, C. Steinfield, A. Chan, B. Butler, A. Hoag; Coordination and Virtualization: The Role of Electronic Networks and Personal Relationships; Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol. 3 (4); 1998 - (optional)

T. W. Malone, R. I. Benjamin, J. Yates; Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies; Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) 30 (6); 1987 - (optional)

R. Mansell, I. Schenk, W. E. Steinmueller; Net Compatible: The Economic and Social Dynamics of E-commerce; Communications & Strategies, Vol. 38 (2); 2000 - pp. 241-276 (optional)

L. Lessig; Architecture for Control; Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 11 May; 2000 - (required)

P. A. David; The Evolving Accidental Information Super-Highway; Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 17, No. 2; 2001 - pp. 159-187 (required)

J. Berleur, M. d'Udekem-Gevers, L. Rolin; Ethics and Modes of Governance of the Internet; UNESCO, InfoEthics '98; 1998 - (optional)

A. M. Froomkin; Borders in Cyberspace: information policy and the global information infrastructure; ed. B. Kahin, C. Nesson; MIT Press; 1998 - 'The Internet as a Source of Regulatory Arbitrage' -- pp. 129-163 (optional)

W. Kleinwachter; ICANN between Technical Mandate and Political Challenges; Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 24 (6/7); 2000 - pp. 553-564 (optional)

Lawrence Lessig; Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace; (Basic Books, 1999). - (optional)

D. G. Post, D. R. Johnson; The New Civic Virtue of the Net: A Complex Systems Model for the Governance of Cyberspace; The Aspen Institute; 1997 - (optional)

S. Sassen; On the Internet and Sovereignty; Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2; 2001 - (optional)

R. Mansell; The Nature of the Information Society: An Industrialized World Perspective; World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, 18-25 February; 2003 - (required)

R. Mansell; New Media Competition and Access: The Scarcity-Abundance Dialectic; New Media & Society, Vol. 1(2); 1999 - pp. 155-182 (required)

J-C Burgelman; Regulating Access in the Information Society: The Need for Rethinking Public and Universal Service; New Media & Society, Vol. 2(1); 2000 - pp. 51-66 (optional)

F. Bar, S. Cohen, P. Cowhey, B. DeLong, M. Kleeman, J. Zysman; Access and Innovation Policy for the Third-Generation Internet; Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 24 (6/7); 2000 - pp. 489-518 (optional)

M. Cave; Managing Spectrum Efficiently: A Review for the UK Government; info, Vol. 3, No. 5; 2001 - pp. 369-374 (optional)

M. Cave, C. Cowie; Not Only Conditional Access: Towards a Better Regulatory Approach to Digital TV; Communications & Strategies, 30 (3rd Quarter); 1998 - pp. 77-101 (optional)

P. McMahon; Global Control: Information Technology and Globalisation since 1845; Edward Elgar; 2002 - (optional)

W. H. Melody; Spectrum Auctions and Efficient Resource Allocation: Learning from the 3G Experience in Europe; info, Vol. 3, No. 1; 2001 - pp. 5-13 (optional)

C. Reed; Internet Law: Text and Materials; Butterworths; 2000 - (optional)

W. H. Melody; Telecom Reform: Principles, Policies and Regulatory Practices; ed. W. H. Melody; Technical University of Denmark; 1997 - 'Policy Objectives and Models of Regulation' -- pp. 13-28 (optional)

M. Bergquist, J. Ljungberg; The Power of Gifts: Organizing Social Relationships in Open Source Communities; Information Systems Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4; 2001 - pp. 305-320 (required)

S. Weber; The Political Economy of Open Source Software; E-conomy Project, Berkeley Roundtable of the International Economy; 2000 - (required)

P. Kollock; Communities in Cyberspace; ed. M. A. Smith, P. Kollock; Routledge; 1999 - 'The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace' -- pp. 220-242 (optional)

D. Quah; The Weightless Economy in Economic Development; Centre for Economic Performance; 1999 - (optional)

C. Shapiro, H. R. Varian; Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy; Harvard University Press; 1999 - (optional)

K. Lakhani, E. Hippel; How Open Source Software Works: 'Free' User-to-User Assistance; MIT Sloan School of Management; 2000 - (optional)

R. Mansell, W. E. Steinmueller; Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity; Oxford University Press; 2000 - 'Electronic Intellectual Property and Creative Knowledge Production' -- (Chapter 7) pp. 289-337 (required)

W. E. Steinmueller; Information Society Consequences of Expanding the Intellectual Property Domain; STAR Issues Report, No. 38; 2003 - (required)

R. V. Bettig, H. I. Schiller; Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property; Westview Press; 1997 - (required)

Commission on Intellectual Property Rights; Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy; Department for International Development; 2002 - (especially Chapters 4 & 5) (optional)

C. M. Correa; Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO and Developing Countries; Zed Books; 2000 - (optional)

L. Lessig; The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World; Random House; 2001 - (optional)

M. F. Makeen; Copyright in a Global Information Society: The Scope of Copyright Protection under International, US, UK and French Law; Kluwer Law International; 2000 - (optional)

S. Siochru, B. Girard; Information wants to be Free; ITU; 2003 - (optional)

R. Mansell; Digital Opportunities and the Missing Link for Developing Countries; Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 17, No. 2; 2001 - pp. 282-295 (required)

J. Humphrey, R. Mansell, D. Pare, H. Schmitz; The Reality of E-commerce with Developing Countries; Department for International Development (DFID); 2003 - (required)

S. J. Ball-Rokeach, Y-C Kim, S. Matei; Storytelling Neighborhood: Paths to belonging in Diverse Urban Environments; Communication Research, Vol. 28, No. 4; 2001 - pp. 392-428 (optional)

M. Bell, K. Pavitt; Technological Accumulation and Industrial Growth: Contrasts between developed and developing countries; Industrial and Corporate Change, 2 (2); 1993 - pp. 157-210 (optional)

J. Deane, N. Mue, F. Banda; The Other Information Revolution: Media and Empowerment in Developing Countries; London School of Economics, Global Civil Society Programme; 2002 - (optional)

R. Heeks; Information Technology, Development and Policy; ed. E. M. Roche, M. J. Baine; Avebury; 1996 - 'Promoting Software Production and Export in Developing Countries' -- pp. 77-94 (optional)

R. Mansell, U. Wehn; Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development; Oxford University Press; 1998 - (optional)

G. M. Marcelle; Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa; ed. E. M. Rathgeber, E. O. Adera; IDRC; 2000 - 'Getting Gender into African ICT Policy: A Strategic View' (optional)

P. Norris; Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide; Cambridge University Press; 2001 - pp. 3-25 (optional)