[Air-L] text suggestions?

[Karen Farquharson]

Thanks to all who responded to my request for sociology of the
internet-type books.  I know I can't be the only one whose students
complain when their readings are older than a couple of years!  

In the past I've used _The Internet in Everyday Life_ (ed by Wellman
and Haythornthwaite) and _Computer-Mediated Communication_ (by Barnes). 
Both of them are good, but now won't work for me as I've completely
revamped my course.  I currently use a reading pack.

Here are the books that were recommended:

Cardoso, Gustavo, The Media in the Network Society: Browsing,
News,Filters and Citizenship, Lisboa, Portugal. CIES – Centre for
Research andStudies in Sociology, 2006.
Fuchs, Christian (2008). Internet and Society. Social Theory in the
Information Age. New York: Routledge. Routledge Research in Information
Technology and Society Series Number 8. ISBN 0415961327
Laura Lengel, Crispin Thurlow, Alice Tomic (2004). Computer Mediated
Communication. Sage.
The Polity Digital Media series of books here:
http://www.polity.co.uk/searchres.asp?subj=SI06&Main_Subject=SI06&site=1
Bell, D., Ed. (2007). Cyberculture theorists: Castells and Haraway.
London, Routledge.

If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know.

Cheers,

Karen

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Dr Karen Farquharson
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Academic Leader, Social and Policy Studies
Co-Editor, International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society
http://www.swin.edu.au/ijets
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
1 John St.
Hawthorn, VIC 3122
Australia
ph: +61-(0)3-9214-5889
email: kfarquharson at swin.edu.au


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