General Materials on the Digital Revolution

• Herzog, W. (2016). Lo and behold: Rerveries of the connected world. Feature documentary about the history of the internet.
• Statell, G. (2014). Why The Digital Revolution Is Really Just Getting Started. Forbes Magazine.
• Hilbert, M., & López, P. (2011). The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information. Science, 332(6025), 60 LP-65.
• Schwab, K. (2015). The Fourth Industrial Revolution: What It Means and How to Respond. Foreign Affairs.
• Baker, K. (2016). The Digial Revloution: The impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on employment and education. A report for the EDGE Foundation.

Technological Revolutions & Techno-Economic Paradigms

• Dosi, G. (1982). Technological paradigms and technological trajectories: A suggested interpretation of the determinants and directions of technical change. Research Policy, 11(3), 147–162.
• Kondratieff, N. D., & Stolper, W. F. (1935/1926). The Long Waves in Economic Life. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 17(6), 105–115.
• Schumpeter, J. A. (1939). Business cycles: a theoretical, historical, and statistical analysis of the capitalist process. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kuhn’s Theory of Scientific Revolutions

• Hoyningen-Huene, P. (1993). Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
• Bird, A. (2013). Thomas Kuhn. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

The History of Information Theory & Computer Technology

• Shannon, C. E. (1948). A mathematical theory of communication. The Bell System Technical Journal.
• Short documentary about Claude Shannon. University of California Television. 2008.
• Halacy, D. S. (1970). Charles Babbage, father of the computer. New York: Crowell-Collier.
• Nyce, J. M., & Kahn, P. (1991). From Memex to hypertext : Vannevar Bush and the minds machine. Boston: Academic Press.
• Turing, A. M. (1937). On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, s2–42(1), 230–265.
• Randell, B. (1973). The origins of digital computers : Selected papers. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

• Turing, A. M. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, 59(236), 433–460.

• Copeland, B. J. (2017). The Modern History of Computing. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).

• Neumann, J. von. (1945). First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.

• Berners-Lee, T., & Fischetti, M. (1999). Weaving the Web : the original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. San Francisco: Harper.
• Gleick, J. (2011). The information a history, a theory, a flood. London: Fourth Estate.
• A comprehensive online history of the computer by Georgi Dalakov.

Societal Challenges of Artificial Intelligence

• Pearl, J., & Mackenzie, D. (2018). The book of why : the new science of cause and effect
• Helbing, D. (2018). Towards digital enlightenment : essays on the dark and light sides of the digital revolution.

Big Data Technologies & Applications in Social Science

• Press, G. (2013). A Very Short History of Big Data. Forbes Magazine, May 9 2013.
• Manyika, J., Chui, M. et al. (2011). Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. Executive Summary. The McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011.
• Mittelstadt, B. D., & Floridi, L. (2016). The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts. Science and Engineering Ethics, 22(2).
• Floridi, L. (2011). The Philosophy of Information (Vol. 50). Oxford University Press.
• Siegel, E. (2013). Predictive analytics: The power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.
• Boyd, D., & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical Questions for Big Data. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), 662–679.
• Badertscher, C. (2018). Algorithmus verteilt neu Asylbewerber auf Kantone. News report for Swiss television.
  

Digital Warfare & the Role of Social Media in Political Revolutions

• Floridi, L., & Taddeo, M. (2014). The ethics of information warfare. Cham; Heidelberg; New York: Springer.
• Berman, E., Felter, J. H., Shapiro, J. N., & McIntyre, V. (2018). Small wars, big data : the information revolution in modern conflict. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Wolman, D. (2012). The Digital Road to Egypt’s Revolution. The New York Times Sunday Review, February 10 2012. A timeline highlighting the importance of social media in Egyptian revolution of 2011.
• Ghonim, W. (2012). Revolution 2.0 : the power of the people is greater than the people in power : a memoir. London: Harper Collins.