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Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
by Don Peck
New York: Crown Publishers, 2011
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While …

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Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
by Ross Perlin
Brooklyn, New York: Verso, 2011
Every year, between one and two million Americans work as interns. They …

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The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You
by Eli Pariser
New York: Penguin Press, 20011
In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for all users, and we entered a …

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The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2011
The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century’s …

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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by Jane McGonigal
New York: Penguin Press, 2011
More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young …

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Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less from Each Other
by Sherry Turkle
New York: Basic Books, 2011
Facebook. Twitter. Second Life. “Smart” phones. Robot pets. Robot lovers. Thirty years ago …

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Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet
by William H. Davidow
Harrison, New York: Delphinium Books, 2011
In Overconnected, Bill Davidow explains how the almost miraculous success of the Internet Web has …

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Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008
Given the abundance of open …

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America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society
by Lisa S. Nelson
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2011
The use of biometric technology for identification has gone from Orwellian fantasy to everyday reality. This technology, which …

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What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers
New York: Harper Business, 2010
The recent changes in our economic landscape have notably exposed and intensified a phenomenon: …