[Air-L] Essential Books

[scott at scottmacleod.com]

I should also have included this book on the list I just sent: 


Benkler, Yochai. 2007. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production 
Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 


Scott 


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scott at scottmacleod.com writes: 

> Dear Nancy and AoIR,  
> 
> 
> This may be the most useful overview on the list:  
> 
> Lister, Martin, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, and Kieran Kelly. 
> 2009. New Media: A Critical Introduction. New York, NY: Routledge.  
> 
>  
> 
> These are important books, theoretically:  
> 
> Castells, Manuel, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, and Araba 
> Sey. 2006. Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. 
> Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press  
> 
> 
> Castells, Manuel. 2009. Communication Power. Oxford, England: Oxford 
> University Press.  
> 
> 
> And the Free and Open books on this http://Webnographers.org list are 
> excellent resourcs: http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books  
> 
> 
> They include, but there are probably others:  
> 
> 
> Kelty, Christopher M. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free 
> Software. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.  
> 
> 
> Zittrain, Jonathan. 2008. The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It. 
> New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.  
> 
> 
> Thomas, Douglas. 2002. Hacker Culture. Minnesota: University of Minnesota 
> Press.  
> 
> 
> Hauben, Michael and Ronda Hauben. 1997. Netizens: On the History and 
> Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society 
> Press.  
> 
> 
> Zurawski, Nils. 2000. Virtuelle Ethnizität: Studien zu Identität, Kultur 
> und Internet. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag.  
> 
> 
> von Hippel, Eric. 2005. Democratizing Innovation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT 
> Press.  
> 
> 
> von Hippel, Eric. 1988. The Sources of Innovation. Oxford, England: Oxford 
> University Press.  
> 
> 
> Lessig. Lawrence. 2008. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the 
> Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press HC.  
> 
> 
> Raymond, Eric. S. 2000. The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and 
> Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. (First presented at the Linux 
> Kongress in 1997). O'Reilly Media.  
> 
> 
> Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky 
> Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka 
> Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa 
> Tripp. 2008. Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning 
> with New Media. E-Book.  
> 
> 
> Ryan Jenny. 2008. The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social 
> Networking. E-Book.  
> 
> 
> Rheingold, Howard. 1993. The Virtual Community.  
> 
> 
> Kluver, Randolph, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Kirsten M. Foot, and Steven M. 
> Schneider (eds.). 2007. The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative 
> Study of Web Campaigning. London: Routledge.  
> 
> 
> China might also be interested in World University & School - 
> http://worlduniversity.wikia.com  - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course 
> Ware. There's a lot of opportunity to create a great, open, free 
> University and School in China with this.  
> 
> 
> Best,
> Scott  
> 
> 
> http://scottmacleod.com
> http://worlduniversity.wikia.com  
> 
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> 
> 
> Nancy Baym writes:  
> 
>> Colleagues --  
>> 
>> A graduate student of ours is returning to China where she will be a 
>> professor. She has been asked to compile a list of essential books in the 
>> area of computer-mediated communication for her university's library to 
>> purchase. I gave her some recommendations, but thought I would put the 
>> question to you for a broader sweep.  
>> 
>> What do you think are the books that no self respecting library with an 
>> internet studies research collection should be without?  
>> 
>> Thanks.  
>> 
>> Nancy
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