Ingbert Floyd's Reading List

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Books, articles, etc. I have found to be very interesting to read, easy to read (for the most part), and which I highly recommend reading. If you're wondering what the common themes are here, check out my research interests.

Also, you may want to check out Ingbert's Social Informatics Field Exam Reading List Worksheet

Contents 1 Library & Information Science 2 Human Behavioral Predispositions 3 Human Culture, Society, Folklore, Economics 4 Sociotechnical Systems 5 Organizational Studies 6 Doing Research: Methods and Methodology 7 Design 8 Other Academic Topics 9 Literature I Love 9.1 Human Nature 9.2 Government, Society 9.3 Culture 9.4 Personal Approach to Life 10 Children 11 Folklore 12 Interesting/Mind Expanding Stuff 13 Fun 13.1 Science Fiction 13.2 Fantasy 14 Related Links

[edit] Library & Information Science

• Bates, Marcia J. (1999). The Invisible Substrate of Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12), 1043-1050.
  • http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/substrate.html
  • I have never read a clearer exposition of what it is we do in LIS, and why it is important.

[edit] Human Behavioral Predispositions

Includes Human Ethology & Cognitive Science

• Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenaeus (1989). Human Ethology. Aldine de Gruyter: New York, NY.

• Pinker, Steven (1997). How the Mind Works. W. W. Norton & Company: New York, NY.

• Machiavelli, Niccolo (1513/2003). The Prince. Daniel Donno, Trans. Bantam Dell: New York, NY.
  • Any version will do.

• Gladwell, Malcolm (2000). The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Little, Brown and Company: Boston, MA.

[edit] Human Culture, Society, Folklore, Economics

Includes fields such as Folklore, Cultural Studies, Economics, Political Science.

• Payne, Ruby K. (1996). A Framework for Understanding Poverty. Third Revised Edition. aha! Process, Inc.: Highlands, TX.
  • This book completely resonates with my experience when I was earning a low income and living in low-income neighborhoods. It is a must read for anybody from a middle-income (middle class) background who interacts with people from a low-income background, or whose work affects people with low income.

• Toelken, Barre (1996). The Dynamics of Folklore. Utah State University Press: Logan, Utah.

• Diamond, Jared (1997/2003). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W. W. Norton & Company: New York, NY.

• Heilbroner, Robert L. (1953/1995). The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers. 7th Ed. Simon & Schuster: New York, NY.

• Luria, A. R. (1976). Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.

[edit] Sociotechnical Systems

• Trist, E. L.; Bamforth, K. W. (1951). Social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal-getting. Human Relations, 4(1), 3-28.
  • http://hum.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/4/1/3
    • This link may only work from a UIUC computer

• Kaghan, William N.; Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2001). Out of Machine Age?: Complexity, sociotechnical systems and actor network theory. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (JET-M), 18(3-4), 253-269.
  • Read this after reading the above article, and more profitably after reading/scanning some of the more recent Socio-Technical Systems theory literature.

• Latour, Bruno (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

• Kling, Rob (1999). What is Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter? D-Lib Magazine", 5(1), ISSN 1082-9873.
  • http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/kling/01kling.html

• Star, Susan Leigh (1999). The Ethnography of Infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, 43(3), 377-391.

• Blomberg, Jeanette; Suchman, Lucy; Trigg, Randall (1994). Reflections on a Work-Oriented Design Project. Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'94), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 27-28; pp 99-109. Also in G. Bowker, L. Star, W. Turner, L. Gasser (eds.) Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. 189-215.
  • This gives a design perspective on things, and is a good, light, introduction to the concepts of Participatory Design, Prototyping, and Invisible Work, though don't expect to fully understand any of these concepts after reading this article.

• Grudin, J. (1988). Why CSCW Applications Fail: Problems in the Design and Evaluation of Organizational Interfaces. CSCW 88: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Portland, OR: ACM, 85-93.
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• Monteiro, Eric; Hanseth, Ole (1995). Social shaping of information infrastructure: on being specific about the technology. In Orlikowski, Wanda J., Geoff Walsham, Matthew R. Jones and Janice I DeGross. Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work. Chapman & Hall, p.325 - 343.

[edit] Organizational Studies

• Weick, Karl; Roberts, Karlene H. (1993). Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks. Administrative Science Quarterly, Sep93, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p357, 25p. ISSN: 0001-8392
  • This describes an interesting, highly-functional system, and provides an interesting manner of conceptualizing it.

• Locke, Edwin A.; Latham, Gary P. (2002). Building a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Setting and Task Motivation: A 35-Year Odyssey. American Psychologist. 57(9), 705-717.

[edit] Doing Research: Methods and Methodology

• Becker, Howard S. (1998). Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL.

• Dourish, Paul (2006). Implications for Design. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, 541 - 550.
  • http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124855

[edit] Design

Includes fields such as HCI, Design.

• Norman, Donald A. (2004). Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. Basic Books: New York, NY.

• Norman, Donald A. (1988/2002). The Design of Everyday Things. Originally Published as The Psychology of Everyday Things. Basic Books: New York, NY.

• Cooper, Alan (2004). The Inmates Are Running the Asylum. SAMS: Indianapolis, IN.

[edit] Other Academic Topics

• Kristof, Nicholas (2001). Spies, Wars And Massacres: The Ethical Dilemmas of a Foreign Correspondent. Ruhl Lecture, 2001. University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/awards/ruhl/ruhl2001.html

• Herold, J. Christopher (1963/1991). The Age of Napoleon. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, MA.

• Strunk, Jr., William; White, E. B. (1935/2000). The Elements of Style. 4th Ed. Allyn & Bacon: Needham Heights, MA.

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[edit] Literature I Love Literature in my estimation (others may disagree) [edit] Human Nature Beware the demons within each of us Joseph Conrad, especially: Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Ray Bradbury, especially: Something Wicked This Way Comes Fahrenheit 451 William Shakespeare, especially: Hamlet Macbeth Othello The Merchant of Venice Fyodor Dostoyevsky, especially: The Brothers Karamazov Crime and Punishment William Golding: Lord of the Flies Consequences of our actions Friedrich Duerrenmatt, especially: Die Physiker (German--English translations exist) Trans: The Physicist?? Der Richter und sein Henker (German--English translations exist) Trans: The Judge and his Executioner?? Other aspects of human nature F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby J. D. Salinger, especially: The Catcher in the Rye Jack London, especially: The Sea-Wolf To Build a Fire (short story) [edit] Government, Society Arthur Miller, especially: Death of a Salesman The Crucible Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front Ken Kesey, especially: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Aldous Huxley, especially: Brave New World Some of his essays are quite good but come to questionable conclusions: The Doors of Perception Heaven and Hell George Orwell, especially: Animal Farm 1984 Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird [edit] Culture Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Jack Kerouac: On the Road [edit] Personal Approach to Life James Baldwin The Fire Next Time

[edit] Children Eisenberg, Arlene; Murkoff, Heidi E.; Hathaway, Sandee E. (1991). What to Expect When You're Expecting. Workman Publishing: New York, NY. This one works better if you skip around and read the interesting parts, rather than a cover-to-cover read. [edit] Folklore Brer Rabbit/Uncle Remus Aesop's Fables [edit] Interesting/Mind Expanding Stuff Phillip K. Dick, especially: ANY collections of his short stories (they are awesome) Eye in the Sky Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Kurt Vonnegut, especially: Welcome to the Monkey House a short story collection Jailbird Slaughterhouse-Five [edit] Fun [edit] Science Fiction Jules Verne, especially: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Michael Crichton, especially: Jurassic Park Eaters of the Dead Sphere Congo Isaac Asimov, especially: The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov The Foundation series [edit] Fantasy Bram Stoker: Dracula J.R.R. Tolkien, especially: The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings David Eddings, Leigh Eddings, especially: The Elenium and The Tamuli serieses The Belgariad and The Mallorean serieses The Redemption of Althalus Most of the plots in David Eddings's fantasy works are very similar (some might argue identical), but I find myself captivated by nearly anything he writes. The Losers High Hunt Regina's Song I find all of David Eddings's works set on modern-day earth interesting. Regina's Song is very interesting to read because of hints it gives about his belief systems, and why he believes the things he does. Especially interesting to compare with his earlier works set on earth (modern-day), The Losers and High Hunt.

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