Category Archives: Book Reviews
Baby Carrots, the Internet, and The Filter Bubble
Why would a web service filter the information that I see? The information created in the entire history of humanity until 2010 is the same amount of information created online … Continue reading
Academically Adrift (Arum & Roksa, 2011)
Academically Adrift: Limited learning on college campuses (by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, 2011) Almost half of students in college may not learn anything in their first two years, say … Continue reading
What’s Mine is Yours (Botsman & Rogers, 2010)
What’s Mine is Yours: The rise of collaborative consumption by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (2010) “I knew I would love the book when I read the first paragraph,” says … Continue reading
Switch (Heath & Heath, 2010)
Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath (2010) Change is often hard in any circumstance. The Heath brothers take on this issue by … Continue reading
Made to Stick (Heath and Heath 2007)
Made to Stick: Why some ideas survive and others die (Heath & Heath, 2007) To make the book stick in our minds, Jim Shoff and Miranda Ervin turn back to … Continue reading
Employees First, Customers Second (Nayar, 2010)
Employees First, Customers Second: Turning conventional management upside down (Nayar, 2010) “Usually business books focus on the what,” says Stacey Randall. “This book is focused on the how – the … Continue reading
Engage! (Solis, 2010)
Engage!: The complete guide for brands and business to build, cultivate, and measure success on the new web (Solis, 2010) I assigned several books for a graduate seminar in Digital … Continue reading
Wikinomics (Tapscott & Williams, 2006)
Wikinomics: How mass collaboration changes everything (Tapscott & Williams, 2006) Premised around four major ideas of a new economy – (1) Openness; (2) Peering; (3) Sharing; and, (4) Acting Globally … Continue reading
What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (Gee, 2007)
What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (Gee, 2007) James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy is less about … Continue reading
