[Air-l] Canonical Readers

[david silver]

i would suggest any books edited by steve jones, especially

CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication & Community (1995).
Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety (1997).
CyberSociety 2.0: Revisiting CMC and Community (Ed.) (1998).

i would second fred's suggestion of The Cybercultures Reader (edited by
David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy).

i would also second Race in Cyberspace (edited by Beth Kolko, Lisa
Nakamura and Gil Rodman) and add Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in
Cyberspace (edited by Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise, 1996) which
although it's a bit inconsistent still had a monumental role in getting
issues of gender and feminism into the mix.

and i would add Reading Digital Culture (edited by David Trend, 2001).

and finally, although i haven't read it yet, The New Media Reader (edited
by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, 2003) is getting a lot of
attention recently, especially within English/literature circles.

david