A few of you asked for my bibliography of sources for my research on publicness. Here are some key books so far (I don’t mean to show off with the German entries; I’ll be lucky if I can dig into them but I hope to try). Dates (usually) refer to first publication. This does not include many newspaper articles (many great ones from the NYTimes at the turn of the last century), blog posts, and online essays.
Arendt, Hannah; The Human Condition; Chicago; 1958
Benkler, Yochai; The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom; Yale; 2006
Bok, Sissela, Secrets: On the ethics of concealment and revelation; Vintage; 1983
Brin, David; The Transparent Society; Basic Books; 1998
Calhoun, Craig; Habermas and the Public Sphere; MIT; 1992
Cayley, David; The Origins of the Modern Public, a series of CBC Radio’s Ideas; 2010.
Cowan, Brian; The Social Life of Coffee: The emergence of the British coffeehouse; Yale; 2005
Febvre, Lucien and Martin, Henri-Jean Martin; The Coming of the Book: The impact of printing, 1450-1800; Verso; 2010 (third edition)
Franzen, Jonathan; How to be Alone; Picador; 2002
Girouard, Mark; Life in the English Country House; Yale; 1978
Gould, Emily; And the Heart Says Whatever; Free Press; 2010
Habermas, Jürgen; The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society; MIT; 1989 (originally published as Strukturwandel der Öffentllichkeit, 1962)
Habermas, Jürgen; Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research; Communication Theory 16, 2006
Jackaway, Gwenyth L.; Media at War: Radio’s challenge to the newspapers, 1924-1939; Praeger; 1995
Kirkpatrick, David; The Facebook Effect: The inside story of the company that is connecting the world; Simon & Schuster; 2010
Lane, Frederick S., American Privacy: The 400-year history of our most contested right; Beacon; 2009
McKeon, Michael; The Secret History of Domesticity; Johns Hopkins; 2005
Mills, C. Wright; The Sociological Imagination; Oxford
Münker, Stefan; Emergenze Digitaler Öffentlichkeiten: Die sozialen median im web 2.0; Suhrkamp; 2009
Munson, Eve Stryker, ed.; James Carey: A critical reader; University of Minn.; 1997
Nissenbaum, Helen; Privacy in Context: Technology, policy, and the integrity of social life; Stanford Law Books; 2010
Postman, Neil; Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public discourse in the age of show business; Penguin; 2005 (20th anniversary edition)
Potter, Andrew; The Authenticity Hoax: How we get lost finding ourselves; Harper; 2010
Prosser, William L.; Privacy; California Law Review, August 1960
Rosen, Jay; What Are Journalists For?; Yale; 1999
Scharr, Peter; Das Ende der Privatsphäre; Goldmann; 2007
Sennett, Richard; The Fall of Public Man; Norton; 1974
Shirky, Clay; Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and generosity in a connected age; Penguin; 2010
Simons, Martin; Von Zauber des Privaten: Was wir verlieren, wenn wir alles offenbaren; Campus; 2009
Solove, Daniel J.; Understanding Privacy; Harvard; 2008
Spacks, Patricia Meyer; Privacy: Concealing the eighteenth-century self; Chicago; 2003 (A surprising gem)
Starr, Paul; The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications; Basic Books; 2004
Vaidhyanathan, Siva; Naked in the ‘Nonopticon’; The Chronicle of Higher Education; February 15, 2008
Veyne, Paul ed.; A History of Private Life (five volumes); Belknap Harvard; 1987
Warner, Michael; Publics and Counterpublics; Zone Books; 2002
Warren and Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, Harvard Law Review, December 15, 1890
Westin, Alan F.; Privacy and Freedom; Atheneum; 1967
Wilson, Bronwen and Yachnin, Paul; Making Publics in Early Modern Europe: People, things, forms of knowledge; Routledge; 2010 (affiliated with the Making Publics project
