http://twitter.com/JohnTierneyNYT
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/columns/johntierney/index.html
Jeff Jarvis is an associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program and the new business models for news project at the City University of New York’s Gradute School of Journalism. While he’s not directly quoted in this book, his thought leadership around the field of journalism is worth paying attention to.
http://twitter.com/JeffJarvis
http://buzzmachine.com
Dan Gillmor teaches digital media entrepreneurship and is founding director of the Knight Center on Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His work is trying to make sense of the new fields of journalism and how the digital industrialization of it can yield new business models.
http://twitter.com/dangillmor
http://dangillmor.com
Jim Gilliam is the consummate civic hacker, using his skills to try and connect people to each other and to the levers of power in their local communities. He’s the founder of 3dna, a startup in California that builds tools to shake up a political system, most recently NationBuilder, an affordable tool that allows people to organize effectively.
http://twitter.com/jgilliam
http://3dna.us/blog
My hope is that this book isn’t the end of something, but the start of something: an exploration into how our information affects our health. I certainly have not provided all the answers in this book, and there’s still so much more work to be done. Please, be in touch.
You can find me on Google+ at: http://gplus.to/cjoh
I use Google+ to have discussions with people about the topics of this book, and to do the occasional video chat with people interested in the field. Please stop by and interact with me.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjoh
I tend to use Twitter to broadcast my latest writing, and to share simple links about the field of information dieting, government data, and activism.
Books
Behind this book lies scores of others, and I’ve drawn from the research of many others to write this one. If you’d like to pursue studying in this field, I recommend the following:
Ariely, Dan. Predictably Irrationaclass="underline" The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Harper Perennial, 2010.
Baumeister, Roy F., and John Tierney. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. Penguin Press, 2011.
Brown, Stuart, M.D., and Christopher Vaughan. Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. Avery, 2009.
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.
Hurley, Matthew M., Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams Jr. Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind. MIT Press, 2011.
Manjoo, Farhad. True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. Wiley, 2008.
Medina, John. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. Pear Press, 2009.
Pariser, Eli. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You. Penguin Press, 2011.
Putnam, Robert. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Touchstone Books, 2001.
Scully, Matthew. Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003.
Shirky, Clay. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators. Penguin Press, 2011.
Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oiclass="underline" Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. Anchor, 1996.
Tavris, Caroll, and Elliot Aronson. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts. Mariner Books, 2008.
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). University of California Press, 2009.
Blogs
Three blogs kept me informed on the latest developments of science around this field, and their work is really remarkable. I encourage you to be a regular reader of each, if you want to constantly fine-tune your information diet. The debate in the science community over what I’ve discussed in my book is lively, and worth paying attention to.
Deric Bownds’ Mindblog: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/
Jonah Lehrer’s Frontal Cortex: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/frontal-cortex/
Re:Cognition: http://thebeautifulbrain.com/category/recognition/
About the Author
Clay Johnson is best known as the founder of Blue State Digital, the firm that built and managed Barack Obama's online campaign for the presidency in 2008. After leaving Blue State, Johnson was the director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, where he built an army of 2000 developers and designers to build open source tools to give people greater access to government data. He was awarded the Google/O'Reilly Open Source Organizer of the year in 2009, was one of Federal Computing Week's Fed 100 in 2010.
The range of Johnson's experience with software development, politics, entrepreneurism, and working with non-profits gives him a unique perspective on media and culture. His life is dedicated to giving people greater access to the truth about what's going on in their communities, their cities, and their governments.