Readings from Syllabus (for easier clicking)

I've noticed that the URLs in the PDF don't always work so have posted the readings list below ~

Required

Michael A. Carrier, SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, TPP: An Alphabet Soup of Innovation-Stifling Copyright Legislation and Agreements, 11 Nw. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 21 (2013).
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njtip/vol11/iss2/1

Castells, Manuel (2004). Informationalism, networks, and the network society: a theoretical blueprint. In Castells, Manuel (ed.), The network society, a cross-cultural perspective (pp. 3-45). Northampton, Edward Elgar. Pre-publication version available at: http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication/~/media/Faculty/Facpdfs/Informationalism%20pdf.ashx

DeNardis, Laura (2012). Hidden levers of internet control. Information, communication & society 15(5): 720-738.

Drahos, Peter et Braithwaite, John (2004). Une hégémonie de la connaissance, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 1/2004 (n° 151-152), p. 68-79.
URL : www.cairn.info/revue-actes-de-la-recherche-en-sciences-sociales-2004-1-page-68.htm.
DOI : 10.3917/arss.151.0068.

Feenberg, Andrew (1992). Subversive rationalization: technology, power and democracy. Inquiry 35: 301-22. http://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/books/Subversive_Rationalization_Technology_Power_Democracy.pdf

First Nation Public Library Strategic Liaison Community (2004). Our way forward. Strategic Plan: First Nations Public Libraries. http://www.ourwayforward.ca/

Gleeson, Deborah, Lopert, Ruth and Reid, Papparangi (2013). How the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement could undermine PHARMAC and threaten access to affordable medicines and health equity in New Zealand. Health Policy 112:3, 227-233.

Hess, C. and Ostrom, E. (2007). Introduction: an overview of the knowledge commons. In: Understanding knowledge as a commons: from theory to practice, p. 4 – 26, eds. Hess & Ostrom. Cambridge: MIT press.

International Federation of Library Associations (2010). IFLA World Report 2010: Analysis and Conclusions. http://www.ifla-world-report.org/files/uploaded/ifla_wr/IFLA-WR-2010-Analysis-and-Conclusions.pdf (53 pages) (to skim)

International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) (nd). About the association http://www.stm-assoc.org/about-the-association/

International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) (2010). Revised statement on the global economic crisis and its impact on consortial licenses. http://icolc.net/statement/revised-statement-global-economic-crisis-and-its-impact-consortial-licenses

Lessig, Lawrence (2006). Code. Version 2. New York: Basic Books. (chapter 7, What things regulate, Pp. 120-137). http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf

Lexchin, Joel (2013). Canada and access to medicines in developing countries: putting intellectual property first. Globalization and health 9:42 http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/42

Mansell, Robin & Tremblay, Gäetan (2013). Renewing the knowledge societies vision for peace and sustainable development. Paris: UNESCO. Pp. vii-44

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002245/224531E.pdf

McClure, Charles R. (1996). Information policy: libraries and federal information policy. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1996, Vol.22(3), pp.214-218

Mueller, Milton, Mathiason, John R., McKnight, Lee (2004). Making sense of internet governance: defining principles and norms in a policy context, v 2.0. Internet Governance Project: Syracuse University, Convergence Centre. 26 April. http://www.institut-gouvernance.org/en/analyse/fiche-analyse-265.html

Rowlands, I. (1996). Understanding information policy: Concepts, frameworks, and research tools. Journal of Information Science 22:1, 13-25.

Stiglitz, J. (2006). Scrooge and intellectual property rights: a medical prize could improve the financing of drug innovations. BMJ British Medical Journal 333:7582 p. 1279

United Nations (1948). The universal declaration of human rights. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

World Economic Forum (2013). Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_GlobalAgendaOutlook_2014.pdf (49 pages - lots of pictures)

World Economic Forum (n.d.). Human capital http://www.weforum.org/issues/human-capital

Zhao, Yuezhi (2004). Between a world summit and a Chinese movie: visions of the ‘information society’.  http://www.sfu.ca/cmns/faculty/zhao_y/assets/documents/gazette%20article.pdf

Recommended

Abbate, Janet (1999). Inventing the internet. MIT Press. Available online via uOttawa library.

BBC News (2012). US and UK refuse to sign UN’s communication treaty. 14 December. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20717774

Canadian Library Association. Feliciter. December 2013 issue: international libraries. http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Feliciter1&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=14618

DeNardis, Laura (2010). The emerging field of internet governance. Yale Information Society Project Working Paper Series. (17 September). Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1678343

Directory of Open Access Journals. Subject: Library and Information Science. 146 journals. http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpId=129&uiLanguage=en

E-LIS. The open archive for library and information studies

http://eprints.rclis.org/

Fitoussi, Jean-Paul, Stiglitz, Joseph (2013). On the measurement of social progress and wellbeing: some further thoughts. Global Policy 4:3 290-203 September 2013.

International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Publications http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/default.aspx

Français http://www.idrc.ca/FR/Resources/Publications/Pages/default.aspx

International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). Publications Series. http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-publications-series

Jackson, Steve, Edwards, Paul, Bowker, Geoffrey and Knobel, Cory (2007). Understanding infrastructure: history, heuristics, and cyberinfrastructure policy. First Monday 12:6: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1904/1786

Kurbalija, Jovan. 2010. Introduction to internet governance. Geneva: DiploFoundation, pp. 1-31. http://archive1.diplomacy.edu/poolbin.asp?IDPool=1060

Mueller, Milton (2007). The politics and issues of internet governance. Institute for Debate and Research on Governance. Paris. http://www.institut-gouvernance.org/en/analyse/fiche-analyse-265.html

Mueller, Milton (2012). ITU phobia: why WCIT was derailed. Internet Governance Project (IGP) Blog. 18 December. http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/12/18/itu-phobia-why-wcit-was-derailed/

Pinch, Trevor J. & Bijker, Wiebe E. (1984). The social construction of facts and artefacts, or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other. Social Studies of Science 14:3 (August 1984): 399-441.

Star, Susan Leigh (1999). The ethnography of infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist 43:3: 377-391.

Winner, Langdon (1980). Do artifacts have politics? Daedalus 109:1: 121-136. http://innovate.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Winner-Do-Artifacts-Have-Politics-1980.pdf