Take Back the Internet is a joint effort by staff in Butler Library, the Journalism Library, and Open Scholarship Services.
We have been happy to see our book display in Butler 214 picked clean of the texts we delighted in curating for our community members. As we take down this book display to make way for a new exhibit about New York City and immigrant communities, we want to leave you with a few more titles to consider as we enter the fall semester:
- The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity – search for this item in CLIO
- Algorithms of Oppression – search for this item in CLIO
- The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet – search for this item in CLIO
- The Feel of Algorithms – search for this item in CLIO
- Human Rights in the Age of Platforms – search for this item in CLIO
- The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet – search for this item in CLIO
- Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance – search for this item in CLIO
- Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control–and How We Can Take It Back – search for this item in CLIO
- Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart – search for this item in CLIO
- Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism – search for this item in CLIO
- Techno-negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine – search for this item in CLIO
- This is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web – search for this item in CLIO
- The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic – search for this item in CLIO
We’d also like to remind Columbia affiliates that, as of earlier this year, you can sign up for a 404 Media paid account, courtesy of an agreement negotiated by Columbia Libraries staff. 404 Media is a journalist-founded independent media company exploring technology and the internet.
Finally, this past spring and summer we enjoyed not one but two Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons where we edited articles for Stefan Decker, Samanth Subramanian, and Nathaniel Tkacz. We also created a new Wikipedia article for semantic web pioneer Alexandre Passant, who unfortunately passed away in 2021 at the age of 40.
There’s still lots to edit on Wikipedia, so we may convene for a third event this fall. Until then, thank you for making this exhibition such a success. We hope you will continue to do your part to take back the Internet.
Curators
Take Back the Internet is brought to you by:
Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Digital Learning & Emerging Technologies Specialist
Esther Jackson, Head, Open Scholarship
Sydni Meyer, Teaching and Undergraduate Services Librarian
Kathryn Pope, Digital Repository Manager
Emily Schmidt, Journalism & Government Information Librarian