C4FCM Reading Group

This page is the future home of a reading group on social movement and civic media currently being organized by Sara Wylie, Karen Brennan and Benjamin Mako Hill. This page might ultimately be modeled after the page for the Free Software Reading Group held in the fall.

Books Suggested by Sara
Alinsky, Saul. 1971. Rules for radicals a practical primer for realistic radicals. 1st ed. New York: Random House. 

Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1968. Rabelais and his world, Cambridge Mass.: M.I.T. Press. 

Brandt, Allan. 2007. The cigarette century : the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America. New York: Basic Books. 

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. 1987. A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

Gerlach, Luther P, and Virginia H Hine. 1970. People, power, change movements of social transformation. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 

Grefe, Edward, and Martin Linsky. 1995. The new corporate activism : harnessing the power of grassroots tactics for your organization. New York NY: McGraw-Hill. <span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A9780070244313&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The%20new%20corporate%20activism%20%3A%20harnessing%20the%20power%20of%20grassroots%20tactics%20for%20your%20organization&amp;rft.place=New%20York%20%20NY&amp;rft.publisher=McGraw-Hill&amp;rft.aufirst=Edward&amp;rft.aulast=Grefe&amp;rft.au=Edward%20Grefe&amp;rft.au=Martin%20Linsky&amp;rft.date=1995&amp;rft.isbn=9780070244313">

Harding, Susan Friend. 2001. The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Princeton University Press. 

Melucci, Alberto. 1996. Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age. Cambridge University Press. 

Mako's Suggestions
Selznick, Philip. 1949. TVA and the grass roots : a study in the sociology of formal organisation. New York: Harper and Row. 

Karen's Suggestion
Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.