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Information / Media
/ Culture Bibliography
for Digital Initiatives
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Media
History; History of Information: |
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Mattelart, Armand. Networking
the World, 1794-2000. Translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht,
James A. Chen, and James A. Cohen. Minneapolis: U. of
Minnesota, 2000.
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Sobel, Dava. Longitude:
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest
Scientific Problem of His Time. Penguin Press,
1996 (Reprint)
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Early
Information Theory: |
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Later
MIT-Related Information Work: |
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Classic
20th Century Statements on New Media Technology: |
- Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max.
The
Dialectic of Enlightenment. See especially, "The
Culture Industry." Continuum Pub Group, 1976.
- Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra
and Simulation. Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser.
University of Michigan Press, 1995.
- Bell, Daniel. The
Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social
Forecasting. Basic Books, 1999 (Reprint).
- Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in
the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations,
Hannah Arendt, editor. Schocken Books, 1985.
- Burger, Peter. Theory
of the Avant-Garde. Translated by Michael Shaw.
University of Minnesota Press, 1985.
- Heidegger, Martin, "The Question Concerning
Technology." The
Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays by Martin
Heidegger. Translated by William Lovitt. New York:
Harper Collins, 1982.
- Heidegger, Martin, "The Age of the World
Picture." The
Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays by Martin
Heidegger. Translated by William Lovitt. New York:
Harper Collins, 1982.
- McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding
Media: The Extensions of Man. MIT Press, 1994.
- Thompson, John B. The
Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media.
Stanford UP, 1996.
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New Digital
Media and the Implications for Culture:
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Hypertext:
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- Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext:
Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Johns Hopkins
UP, 1997.
- Landow, George P. Hypertext:
The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1991.
- Moulthrop, Stuart, "No War Machine,"
in Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz, eds., Reading
Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology. Cornell
UP, 1997: 269-92.
- Nelson, Ted. Literary Machines: The
Report On, and Of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing,
Electronic Publishing, Hypertext, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow's
Intellectual Revolution, and Certain Other Topics Including
Knowledge, Education and Freedom, rev. ed. (the cover
gives the release number "90.1" by analogy with software
releases) Sausalito, Calif.: Mindful Press, 1990.
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Miscellaneous
Topics:
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- Bey, Hakim. "The
Information War."
- Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard.
Remediation:
Understanding New Media. MIT Press, 2000.
- Borgmann, Albert. Holding
on to Reality : The Nature of Information at the Turn
of the Millennium. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- Chandler, Daniel, Media
and Communications Studies Site
- Guattari, Felix. "Machinic Heterogenesis."
Rethinking
Technologies. Edited by Verena Andermatt Conley.
University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
- Hakim Bey, "The Information War" in
Druckrey
- Haraway, Donna. "Cyborg Manifesto."
Simians,
Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature.
Routledge, 1991.
- Hayles, Katherine. How
We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature,
and Informatics. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
1999.
- Kirschenbaum, Matt. "A
White Paper on Information."
- Laurel, Brenda. Computers
as Theatre. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993,
1991.
- Paulson, William R. The
Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information.
Cornell UP, 1988.
- Poster, Mark. The
Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context.
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990.
- Steur, Jonathan. "Defining Virtual Reality."
Journal of Communication 42 (1992): 79-90.
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The
Digital Visual: |
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Social
and Political Dimensions of Information: |
- Beniger, James R. The
Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins
of the Information Society. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard Univ. Press, 1986.
- Castells, Manuel. The Information
Age: Economy, Society and Culture. 3 vols. Malden,
Mass.: Blackwell, 1996-97.
- Lessig, Lawrence. Code
and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Basic Books, 2000.
- Zuboff, Shoshana. In
the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power.
New York: Basic Books, 1988.
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Cyberlibertarianism: |
- Barlow, John Perry. "The
Economy of Ideas: A Framework for Patents and Copyrights
in the Digital Age," Wired 2.03 (March 1994)
- Dyson, Esther, George Gilder, George
Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler. "Cyberspace
and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge
Age," Release 1.2, Aug. 22, 1994 (Progress and Freedom
Foundation)
- Katz, Jon. "Birth
of a Digital Nation," Wired 5.04 (April 1997)
- Rheingold, Howard. "The
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier."
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Critics
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"Neo-Luddism": |
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