[Air-L] text suggestions?
Nicole B Ellison
nellison at msu.edu
Sun Sep 21 18:41:07 PDT 2008
Hi,
I've used "Computer-Mediated Communication" by Thurlow, Lengel and Tomic for
the last 4 years in my Social Impacts of New Media class. We only use about
half the content and cover it all in the first third of the semester. For
the remaining time, I use topic-specific readings (mostly online) covering
issues I think are interesting and important. This approach works well for
me as I think the students like the reassurance of a textbook and it reviews
the relevant theoretical literature well (and certainly lets us cover more
ground than primary sources would). But the combination approach gives me
more flexibility, allows me to update the readings (useful since the book is
getting a bit dated), and exposes the students to different perspectives.
This has worked well for me.
Good luck!
N.
Denise N. Rall writes:
> Mohammad -
>
> The David Bell book (below) places cyberculture studies into a coherent context from the framework of two major theorists in the field. However it covers other texts as well (see treatment of Bakardjieva, M. (2005). Internet society: The internet in everyday life. London, Sage.)
>
> Also covers Steve Jones' contributions. Overall, it is more a critical treatment and not a sociological text as such. Back references to Goffman, De Certeau, Lyotard, Winner, Gibson helpful for those students who think cyberculture appeared in 1999 ;-)
>
> Bell, D., Ed. (2007). Cyberculture theorists: Castells and Haraway. London, Routledge.
>
> Yes I see your point that material has fragmented and those useful texts are not updated to 2008.
>
> There were two anthologies of digital media produced recently. You might quickly review David Silver's website, the resource center for cyberculture studies.
> http://rccs.usfca.edu/
>
> He will have the latest publications and reviews as well.
>
> Cheers, Denise
>
>
>
>
>
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> --- On Thu, 18/9/08, Mohammad H. Hasani <mh_hasani at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Mohammad H. Hasani <mh_hasani at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] text suggestions?
>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> Received: Thursday, 18 September, 2008, 4:03 AM
>> I suggest online texts; Here is an online course syllabus.
>> You may also wanted to see Wellman's articles and The
>> Internet Galaxy by Castells(still partially useful).
>> Â
>> Regards,
>> Mohammad H. Hasani
>> Internet Research Director
>> Zanjan ICT Incubator, IASBS
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 9/15/08, Karen Farquharson
>> <KFarquharson at groupwise.swin.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> From: Karen Farquharson
>> <KFarquharson at groupwise.swin.edu.au>
>> Subject: [Air-L] text suggestions?
>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 4:32 PM
>>
>> I teach an internet and society subject and I'm looking
>> for a text for next
>> year. The subject covers a variety of topics (e.g., social
>> networking,
>> identity, romance, games, politics, social movements) and
>> I'm interested in
>> a book that covers topics like those from a sociological
>> perspective. I used
>> _The Internet in Everyday Life_ a couple of year ago and
>> it worked well but is
>> now a bit out of date.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Karen
>>
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