Hi all, I've been asked to share the list I compiled from the recommendations I got for readings on philosophic aspect of digital culture. Two disclaimers: it includes some of the more popular lit too and it's quite cut & pasted, not fully "digested" yet, so I apologize. Here it is: Alexander Galloway / Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture, Protocol Andrew Feenberg's critical theory of technology, especially as developed extensively in conjunction with empirical work on CMC by Maria Bakardjieva - e.g., her forthcoming "Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self," co-authored with Georgia Gaden. ("Online first" - DOI: 10.1007/s13347-011-0032-9) Angela Daly, a paper under review on Anarchism and the Internet, which critiques Yochai Benkler's assertions/predictions in 'Wealth of Networks'. Operations Object-oriented Ontology lit (Ian Bogost / Unit, as starting point) Fuchs Christian "Internet and society" and "Foundations of critical media and inforamtion studies" are based on social theory and philosohy, namely critical theory and Hegel's philosophy. Ray Kurzweil on transhumanism. Start with The Singularity is Near / The Age of Spiritual Machines (*p.s: I am actually looking for an interesting humanistic critic on singularity if anyone can help that'll be great) * Glyn Moody - Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution and also Mark Pesce - http://thenextbillionseconds.com/2012/01/10/initiation/ Cory Doctorow, both his fiction and non fiction writings, perhaps especially for your purposes his book Little Brother. Charles Stross especially his book Halting State. His story Lobsters is just crazy out there, but amazing. Elizabeth Buchanan and Annette Markham on the "Ethical Guidelines 2.0" document for AoIR. Ess, C. and Thorseth, M. 2011. Introduction, in C. Ess and M. Thorseth (eds.), _Trust and Virtual Worlds: Contemporary Perspectives_, pp. vii-xxiv. New York: Peter Lang. Ess, C. And Cheong, P. 2012. Introduction: Religion 2.0? Relational and Hybridizing Pathways in Religion, Social Media, and Culture. In P. Cheong, P. Fischer-Nielsen, S. Gelfgren, and C. Ess (eds.), _Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures_, pp. 1-21. New York: Peter Lang. Ess, C. - Introduction to a forthcoming issue of Philosophy and Technology on "Personal Identity Online" Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology_ a review of Charles ESS on the book (Charles, do share it…) Turoff, Murray, Virtuality, CACM, Volume 40, Number 9, September 1997, pp. 38-43. * * <http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393072223> *The Shallows*<http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393072223>by Nick Carr, *The Information<http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/0375423729/> * by James Gleick, and *You Are Not a Gadget<http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/0307389979/> * by Jaron Lanier Jenkins's syllabus for "science fiction as media theory": http://henryjenkins.org/2011/08/back_to_school_special_syllabu.html Diane Dubrule's syllabus on computer ethics: http://www4.carleton.ca/calendars/ugrad/current/courses/PHIL/2104.html <http://www4.carleton.ca/calendars/ugrad/current/courses/PHIL/2104.html> Deborah G. Johnson, Computer Ethics. Prentice Hall. Peter Ludlow (ed.). High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace. MIT Press. Vallor, S. (2009). Social Networking Technology and the Virtues. Ethics and Information Technology. Volume 12, Number 2 <http://www.springerlink.com/content/1388-1957/12/2/>, 157-170, DOI: 10.1007/s10676-009-9202-1 Vallor, S. 2011. Flourishing on facebook: virtue friendship & new social media. Ethics and Information Technology. Doi: 10.1007/s10676-010-9262-2. Zizek: "Cyberspace, Or, The Unbearable Closure of Being" from chapter 4 of _The Plague of Fantasies_and his analysis of MIT's SixthSense in _Living in the End Times_ Facebook and Philosophy: What¹s On Your Mind?, ? D.E. Wittkower (ed.). Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Press, 2010. Thanks, Carmel