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From wikis to web forums, social media and open data, technology is changing the way governments interact with their citizens.
This list focuses on books that explore that topic.
This list focuses on books that explore that topic.
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Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead
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Charlene Li (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 817 ratings
score: 498,
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The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
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James Morcan (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 455 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
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T. Gilling (Goodreads Author)
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 300,
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Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age
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3.69 avg rating — 616 ratings
score: 290,
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
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3.73 avg rating — 10,987 ratings
score: 196,
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
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3.69 avg rating — 8,679 ratings
score: 195,
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
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3.84 avg rating — 2,322 ratings
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Traversing Digital Babel: Information, E-Government, and Exchange
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score: 100,
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Future Crimes
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Marc Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 4,397 ratings
score: 100,
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Good Guide to Campaigning and Influencing
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
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Heidi Boghosian (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 99,
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The Citizen Lobbyist: A How-to Manual for Making Your Voice Heard in Government
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4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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3.78 avg rating — 7,141 ratings
score: 97,
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Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters
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3.90 avg rating — 263 ratings
score: 96,
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Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed
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3.98 avg rating — 229 ratings
score: 95,
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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
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3.61 avg rating — 814 ratings
score: 94,
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The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks
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3.81 avg rating — 387 ratings
score: 94,
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Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement
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Ben Berger (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 93,
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
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4.07 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
score: 93,
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Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
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3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 92,
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How to Be an American: A Field Guide to Citizenship
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Silvia Hidalgo (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 137 ratings
score: 92,
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
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score: 91,
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#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
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3.35 avg rating — 328 ratings
score: 90,
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The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
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4.03 avg rating — 813 ratings
score: 89,
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
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4.25 avg rating — 3,460 ratings
score: 88,
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The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
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4.08 avg rating — 1,876 ratings
score: 87,
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
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3.71 avg rating — 5,563 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
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Fred Kaplan (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 3,187 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare
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3.39 avg rating — 99 ratings
score: 84,
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Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
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2.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 83,
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
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3.80 avg rating — 5,225 ratings
score: 82,
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Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
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Sherry Turkle (Editor)
3.78 avg rating — 370 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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Critical Craft
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Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber (Editor)
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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Living in the State of Stuck: How Assistive Technology Impacts the Lives of People With Disabilities
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Marcia J. Scherer (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Enterprise Social Technology: Helping Organizations Harness the Power of Social Media, Social Networking, Social Relevance
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3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 78,
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Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
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3.74 avg rating — 397 ratings
score: 77,
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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3.62 avg rating — 6,444 ratings
score: 76,
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Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology – A Mind-Expanding Primer from Edge.org's Leading Thinkers (Best of Edge Series)
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3.61 avg rating — 142 ratings
score: 75,
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BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
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3.42 avg rating — 950 ratings
score: 74,
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Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
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3.82 avg rating — 803 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
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Greg Milner (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 634 ratings
score: 72,
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 11,965 ratings
score: 71,
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Science and Technology in Historic Preservation
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Ray A. Williamson (editor)
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score: 70,
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Sources: An Anthology of Contemporary Materials Useful for Preserving Personal Sanity While Braving the Technological Wilderness
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 69,
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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3.63 avg rating — 2,261 ratings
score: 68,
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
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Kelly Weinersmith (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 5,960 ratings
score: 67,
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Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
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3.54 avg rating — 171 ratings
score: 66,
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Stories of Elders: What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't
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Veronica Kirin (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 65,
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list created July 26th, 2013
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