[Air-l] Text book recommendations
Adam Muir
A.Muir at griffith.edu.au
Thu May 25 06:10:40 PDT 2006
hi Heidi,
I have used a few of those kinds of books before, but the one that I
return to is:
*** New Media: a Critical Introduction. - 2003 - by Martin Lister,
Kieran Kelly, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings and Iain Grant. Routledge.
I like this one because it is an introduction, but it is still challenging
for students to read and understand. It doesn't assume that you know
nothing about media or the internet.
I think some "intro to new media" textbooks forget that the students are
most likely familiar with the kinds of issues you would want to discuss,
they just don't necessarily know how people speak academically about them
(key buzzwords, different elements of [insert your own discipline], etc).
There are plenty of other texts that are good reads, but I find that the
one I mentioned there covers the issues and leaves room for you to add
your own ideas to. It's a couple of years old now but anything
contemporary that you can think of can probably be slotted into the
existing material.
I hope that might be of some use.
Good luck! :)
- adam muir
PhD Candidate in Internetwork Ecology
School of Arts,
Griffith University
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> From: Heidi Campbell <hcampbe1 at yahoo.co.uk>
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> Hi.
>
> I am preparing a grad course in the fall entitled New Media, Culture &
Networked Society. It will focus on social & cultural issues > raised by
communication and life in an information-based society. The dominant
themes to be dealt with include: community, identity, > authority/power
relations and religion/ideology. I have been trying to find a core text
book for such a course but have been having > difficulty.
>
> I have considered--David Bell (2001) Introduction to Cybercultures, New
York: Routledge?as an introductory text but it seems a bit > dated now. I
would welcome any recommendations from the list, or ?must-read? journal
articles for the topics I have listed above.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Heidi Campbell
> Dept. of Communication
> Texas A&M University
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