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The Syllabus

What follows is a list of readings in the field of Information Sciences and Communications. The goal? A more complete education in the field. Consider this my DIY, open-access PhD.


  • The Information, A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

  • Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

  • Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan

  • The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us by Nicholas Carr

  • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

  • Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford

  • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Dr. Fei-Fei Li

  • Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman

  • Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

  • The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries by Hope Olson

  • more to come


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