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Books on Technology toc For 7-10-minute presentations near the end of the semester (these presentations count as part of the final exam).

=Presentation Format=

CHOOSING YOUR BOOKS You are welcome to choose to read and present on any of the books below. However, this is not meant as an exclusive list: feel free to read and present on any recent academic-ish book that you think fits our course and could **contribute something to our ongoing discussions** about writing and communicating as a professional in our current and emerging technological age.

Moreover, you should choose something that you think might help you as **a source in writing your Formal Report**.

PRESENTATION EXPECTATIONS The dates for these presentations are Monday, April 2; Wednesday, April 4; and Wednesday, April 11 with 4 or 5 students presenting on each date.
 * **The format is panel/discussion**: meaning that each of you will have 7-10 minutes to present, leaving 15-20 minutes for open discussion of the questions you and your fellow panelists have raised.
 * **Your emphasis should be on provoking and developing** the discussion we've been having this semester about how the writing and communicating we can expect to do as professionals is taking on new shapes in our current and emerging technological age. //You can help that discussion by bringing something new to the table.// Use your presentation to bring out unique or uniquely insightful ideas and examples from the book you have chosen -- cases we probably haven't thought of before, new spins on things we have talked about, quotes that give us something to think about.
 * **Your classmates' take-away should be useful lines of inquiry** for their own formal reports -- questions and/or lines of research that they can use in thinking about the mutual impact of communication and technology in their own profession. So it may help to end your presentation with just such a question.
 * **Visuals are welcome, but not required**. You'll be able to use the classroom computer station/projector if you'd like. So if you'd like, then be sure to come early enough so that you can load everything onto the system that you'll need to show us and can load it before we start.

NOTE: **Hate PowerPoint, but like visuals?** Then consider the possibility of using the Prezi software to which Carly Marwitz has introduced us: [|here's a link to her Tumblr post on it]. You can also find her guide to its basics under the "Supporting Materials" of the "Content" page on our course D2L site)

=Presentation Schedule=

M April 2
Sarah Kikkert Sam Erickson Sarah Gallas Taj Shahrani

W April 4
Sarah Bowen Carly Marwitz Ashley Schaffer Christian Triand

W April 11
Ryan Santos-Leslie Toby Baker Henry Russo Tess Lebed Elise Kokonas

=Possible Book List= You'll note that the call numbers of a lot of these books starts with HM851. One strategy for picking a book -- including newer books not on this list -- is to go to the "Browsing" collection of our library's recently received books (on the West side of the second floor of Raynor) and scan the titles in and around this call number.

asterisk = mentioned in Adam Gopnik's "The Information: How the Internet Gets Inside Us"

Never-Betters
> RAYNOR RESERVES HM851 .S542 2008 > MEMORIAL LVL 4 UPPER HM851 .S5423 2010 > MEMORIAL LEVEL 1 BD418.3 .C532 2008 > BROWSING Coll Raynor Level 2 T174 .B53 2010 > BROWSING Coll Raynor Level 2 GV1201.38 .M34 2011 > MEMORIAL LVL 4 UPPER HF5415.1265 .A25 2010
 * **Clay Shirky,** //Here Comes Everbody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations//*
 * **Clay Shirky,** //Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age//
 * **Andy Clark,** //Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension//*
 * **Nick Bilton,** //I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted//
 * **Jane McGonigal,** //Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World//
 * **Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith** (referenced in Gladwell's "Small Change"), //The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change//

Better-Nevers
> MEMORIAL LEVEL 5 QP360 .C3667 2010 > RAYNOR RESERVES HM851 .P688 2010 > BROWSING Coll Raynor Level 2 HM851 .T86 2011 > MEMORIAL LVL 4 UPPER HM851 .M665 2011 > MEMORIAL LEVEL 2 READING ROOM E185.61 .M475 1999 >
 * **Nicholas Carr,** //The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains//*
 * **William Powers,** //Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age//*
 * **Sherry Turkle,** //Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other//*
 * **Evgeny Morozov** (referenced in Gladwell's "Small Change"), //The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom//
 * **Doug McAdam** (referenced in Gladwell's "Small Change"), //Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970//

Ever-Wasers
> MEMORIAL LEVEL 5 Z291.3 .P48 2010 > MEMORIAL LEVEL 5 Z1035.8.L38 B58 2010 > MEMORIAL LEVEL 3 HE 8700.8 .M35 > MEMORIAL LVL 4 LOWER P94 .P63 1985 > MEMORIAL LEVEL 5 Z116.A2 D37 2009 (also available as e-book) > MEMORIAL LEVEL 2 DC729 .D37 2010 (also available as e-book)
 * **Andrew Pettegree,** //The Book in the Renaissance//*
 * **Ann Blair,** //Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age//*
 * **Jerry Mander,** //Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television// (1978)*
 * **Neil Postman,** //Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business//
 * **Robert Darnton** (referenced in Gladwell's "Small Change"), The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
 * **Darnton**, //Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris//