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Broaden your Horizon - book report: 10% of the grade

Students will read one book from the reading list and write a 300-word book report reflecting your thoughts on the topic. It should not be a mere summary, but rather a critical analysis of the issue or issues addressed in the book. Students may present their own argument, citing this book or other resources. Make sure to relate the argument or analysis to libraries, technology, and social media.

Instead of writing a book report, students are encouraged to explore other forms of book report, such as video, screencast, etc.

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The sign-up is due on 9/7 8:00am.

The book report is due on your blog by 10/26 8:00 am. Please give me a direct tweet and let me know the link of this blog entry.

Please sign in your name after the book title. The maximum number of readers for each title is 2. If you see two names already added after a title, please find another book to read. This is not a group project. You have to write your own critique even if two of you have signed up for the same book. Here is the reading list in Google Doc.

Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

Beck, John C.  Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever

Carr, Nicholas. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

Emma Antobam 

Daniel Irizarry

Christakis, Nicholas A. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

Scott Voth

Collins, Jim. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't  

Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy?

Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink 

Maria Bernhey 

Priscilla Powers

Gladwell, Malcolm. Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Law, A. 

Jessica Handy

Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success

Mark Bruak 

Beth Wolpert

Heath, Chip and Dan Heath. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

Riley MacLeod

Jenkins, Henry. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture

Katie Bram 

Johnson, Steven. Everything Bad is Good for You

John Lachmeyer 

Johnson, Steven. Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate

Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values

Nilda Sanchez 

Kusek, David. The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution

Gregory Klein 

Levine, Rick.  The Cluetrain Manifesto

Natalie Pantoja 

Li, Charlene. Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

Adrienne Miles  

Palfrey, John and Urs Gasser. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives

Penn, Mark J. Microtrends : the small forces behind tomorrow's big changes

Chris Smith 

Doris Yen

Pine, II.  Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want

Pink, Daniel H. Drive : The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Wilfredo Rivera

Reynolds, Glenn H. An Army of Davids: How Markets And Technology Empower Ordinary People To Beat Big Media, Big Government, And Other Goliaths

Richard Tejada

Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

Scoble, Robert. Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing The Way Businesses Talk With Customers

Sunstein, Cass R. Infotopia : How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Tapscott, Don, And Anthony Williams. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

 Robert James

Watkins, S. Craig. The Young And The Digital: What The Migration To Social-Network Sites, Games, And Anytime, Anywhere Media Means For Our Future

Weinberger, David. Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of The New Digital Disorder

Helen Sobolik 

Dove Thomas

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