About the Author and Book
David Eggers
Wikipedia
Founder of McSweeney’s
Founder of 826 Valencia literary project
TED Talk
The Circle
Book Reviews
Margaret Atwood, “When Privacy is Theft,” review of The Circle, by David Eggers, The New York Review of Books, November 21, 2013.
Graeme McMillan, “Dave Eggers’ The Circle: What the Internet Looks Like if You Don’t Understand It,” review of The Circle, by David Eggers, Wired, October 11, 2013.
Lee Konstantinou, “Dave Eggers Is Worried about America,” review of The Circle, by David Eggers, The American Prospect, October 30, 2013.
Ellen Ullman, “Ting of Power,” review of The Circle, by David Eggers, The New York Times, November 1, 2013, Sunday Book Review.
Jessica Winter, “All That Happens Must Be Known,” review of The Circle, by David Eggers, The Slate Book Review, October 3, 2013.
Discussion Questions
The Circle discussion questions grouped by book.
The Circle discussion questions grouped by theme.
Bibliography
General Resources on the Internet, Privacy, Security, and Internet Surveillance
A Few Easy Steps Everyone Should Take to Protect Their Digital Privacy | ACLU
Dragnet nation : a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance | Julia Angwin
Information Doesn’t Want to be Free : Laws for the Internet Age | Cory Doctorow
Media, surveillance and identity : social perspectives | André Jansson and Miyase Christensen
The Oxford handbook of Internet Psychology | Adam Joinson
Privacy: A Very Short Introduction | Raymond Wacks
Privacy | Jamuna Carroll
Public interest and private rights in social media | Cornelis Reiman
The shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains | Nicholas G. Carr
Social Networks, Identity, and Relationships
A Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites | Zizi Papacharissi
Closer Together or Further Apart? Digital Devices and the New Generation Gap | Robert Weiss
Digital Whoness: Identity, Privacy and Freedom in the Cyberworld | Rafael Capurro
In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age | Yaniv Schulman
Mind Change: How Digital Technologies are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains | Susan Greenfield
Participatory Culture, Community, & Play: Learning from Reddit | Adrienne Lynne Massanari
Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposures in Social Media | David Brake
The app generation : how today’s youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world | Howard Gardner
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection | Michael Harris
The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online | Judith Donath
Worlding: Identity, Media, and Imagination in a Digital Age | David Trend
Personal and Professional Branding & e-Professionalism
Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies | Joshua Waldman
LinkedIn Profile Checklist for Students | LinkedIn
Online Self-Presentation on Facebook and Self Development During the College Transition | Chia-Chen Yang and Bradford B Brown (from the Journal of Youth and Adolescence)
Personal Branding and e-Professionalism | Chris Ward and Dan Yates (from the Journal of Service Science)
Personal Branding Phenomenon | Manel Khedher (from the International Journal of Information, Business and Management)
Personal Digital Branding as a Professional Asset in the Digital Age | Courtney A Kleppinger and Jeff Cain (from the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education)
Social Networking and Impression Management: Self Presentation in the Digital Age |Carolyn Cunningham
Social Networking for Career Success | Miriam Salpeter
Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself | Erik Deckers
I’m Going to Instagram It! An Analysis of Athlete Self-Presentation on Instagram | Lauren Reichart Smith and Jimmy Sanderson (from the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media)
Culturally Relevant Materials
Book of Numbers | Joshua Cohen
Ex Machina (movie) | Universal Pictures
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse | Wayne Gladstone
Ready Player One | Ernest Cline
Silicon Valley, Season 1 (TV series) | HBO
Silicon Valley, Season 2 (TV series) | HBO
Snowden (graphic novel) | Ted Rall
The Beautiful Bureaucrat | Helen Phillips
The Dark Knight (movie) | Warner Bros. Pictures
V for Vendetta (graphic novel) | Alan Moore
V for Vendetta (movie) | Warner Home Video
You Are Not a Gadget | Jaron Lanier
Ethics, Big Data, and Transparency
ACLU Big Data Topic Page | ACLU
As Big Data Comes to College, Officials Wrestle to Set New Ethical Norms | Glodie Blumenstyk
CitizenFour (movie) | Laura Poitras
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World | Bruce Schneier
Internet Marketing and Big Data Exploitation | Ian Chaston
Terms and Conditions May Apply (movie) | Cullen Hoback
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data | Michael P. Lynch
They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies are Destroying Democracy | Robert Scheer
Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency | Micah L. Sifry
Social Media’s Impact on Communications and Business
From Twitter to Tahrir Square: Ethics in Social and New Media Communication | Bala A. Musa
Klout is Evil, But It Can be Saved | Nicholas Thompson
Locative Social Media: A Place in the Digital Age | Leighton Evans
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web | Joseph M. Reagle
Return of Influence: The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing | Mark Schaefer
Social media and public relations: fake friends and powerful publics | Judy Motion
Social networking : redefining communication in the digital age | Anastacia Kurylo
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection | Jacob Silverman
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You | Eli Pariser
Wikileaks : News in the Networked Era | Charlie Beckett