[Air-L] Essential Books

[scott at scottmacleod.com]

Also, there are number of books on http://webnographers.org on Google Books, 
which I didn't mention. 


Scott 


http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com 

 

 

 

scott at scottmacleod.com writes: 

> 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  
> 
> 
> http://scottmacleod.com
> http://worlduniversity.wikia.com  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 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   
>> 
>>   
>> 
>>   
>> 
>>   
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: 
>>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org   
>>> 
>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
>>> http://www.aoir.org/
>>   
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: 
>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org  
>> 
>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
>> http://www.aoir.org/
>  
>