Week of July 1, 2013

In the News: Same-Sex Marriage (part 2) / Edward Snowden

From the Associated Press: The Supreme Court struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California.
See In the News posts on same-sex marriage from 2008 and 2012.

Also In the News: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden recently leaked secret documents on surveillance programs to the press. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, is believed to know the whereabouts of the missing Snowden. See an In the News post on WikiLeaks & the Pentagon Papers from 2010.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (published 2010-present)

From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
By Martha C. Nussbaum. Oxford University Press, 2010
Call Number: KF4754.5 .N87 2010

Gay Rights at the Ballot Box
By Amy L. Stone. University of Minnesota Press, 2012
Call Number: HQ76.8 .U5 S76 2012\

Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage
By Nicola Barker. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Call Number: HQ1033 .B37 2012

The Nuptial Deal: Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance
By Jaye Cee Whihehead. University of Chicago Press, 2012
Call Number: HQ1034 .U5 W46 2011

WIKI LEAKS, WHISTLEBLOWERS & SURVEILLANCE (published 2011-present)

America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare
By Joel Brenner. Penguin Press, 2011
Call Number: HV6773.2 .B74 2011 (At Jupiter)

Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
By Kathleen Sharp. Dutton, 2011
Call Number: HD9666.5 .S53 2011

Consent of the Networked: The World-Wide Struggle for Internet Freedom
By Rebecca MacKinnon. Basic Books, 2012
Call Number: HM851 .M3327 2012
Includes the following chapter: “Eroding Accountability: Surveillance, WikiLeaks and the Fate of Controversial Speech”

The Corporate Whistleblower’s Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth
By Tom Devine and Tarek F. Maassarani. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost

Eyes Everywhere: The Global Growth of Camera Surveillance
Edited by Aaron Doyle, Randy Lippert and David Lyon. Routledge, 2012
Call Number: Available online via ebrary

The Forgotten Man: Private Bradley Manning and the WikiLeaks Controversy (streaming video)
Filmakers Library, 2011
Call Number: Available online via Filmakers Library Online

Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website
By Daniel Domscheit-Berg with Tina Klopp. Crown Publishers, 2011
Call Number: JF1525 .W45 D66 2011

Networks without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media
By Geert Lovink. Polity, 2011
Call Number: HM742 .L69 2011
Includes the following chapter: “Techno-Politics at WikiLeaks”

The New Media Invasion: Digital Technologies and the World They Unmake
By John David Ebert. McFarland & Co., Inc., 2011
Call Number: HM851 .E25 2011
Includes the following chapter: “WikiLeaks and the Death of Culture”

Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy
Edited by Alexander Star. Grove Press, 2011
Call Number: JC598 .O645 2011

Safeguarding Critical e-Documents: Implementing a Program for Securing Confidential Information Assets
By Robert F. Smallwood. Wiley, 2012
Call Number: QA76.9 .A25 S627 2012
From summary: “Offers a concise format for securing your organizations from information leakage in light of the recent WikiLeaks revelations, governments and businesses have heightened awareness of the vulnerability of confidential internal documents and communications.”

The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan. Haymarket Books, 2012
Call Number: HN18.3 .G66 2012
Includes the following chapter: “WikiLeaks and the Crackdown on Dissent”

This Machine Kills Secrets: How WilikLeakers, Cypherpunks and Hactivists Aim to Free the World’s Information
By Andy Greenberg. Dutton, 2012
Call Number: HV6773 .G74 2012

Traitor: The Whistleblower and the “American Taliban”
By Jesselyn Radack. 2012
Call Number: HV6430 .L55 R33 2012

The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State
By Shane Harris. Penguin Press, 2010
Call Number: HV6432 .H378 2010

WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
By Micah L. Sifry. Counterpoint, 2011
Call Number: JK1764 .S5479 2011 (At Jupiter)

WikiSecrets (DVD)
Produced by Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith. PBS Home Video, 2011
Call Number: JF1525 .W45 W55 2011 (Boca Raton Media Center)

WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy
By David Leigh and Luke Harding. Public Affairs, 2011
Call Number: JF1525 .S4 L45 2011 (At Jupiter)

WikiLeaks: News in the Networked Era
By Charlie Beckett with James Ball. Polity, 2012
Call Number: JF1525 .W45 B43 2012