how the new personalized web is changing what we read and how we think
Pariser, Eli
2012
An examination of collecting personal data to personalize a Web search, focusing on how it can affect the news people receive, creativity, innovation, and democracy.
Argues that the Internet, which many claim is a democratizing power around the world, is actually making it harder to promote democracy and offering dictators, dissidents, and rebels a chance to become more powerful.
a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries
Foerstel, Herbert N
2002
Presents a survey of eleven major book banning incidents, a look at laws regarding bookbanning, interviews with the authors of banned books, and an annotated listing of the fifty most challenged books from 1996 through 2000.
When thirteen-year-old Georgia joins a crusade to fight the proposed banning of "The Grapes of Wrath" from her school system, she is shocked when other members of her family do not share her passion for the cause.