[Air-L] Essential Books

[scott at scottmacleod.com]

All of the links on http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books lead 
to free and open books, or parts of books, now. These are great resources! 
There are probably a lot more, so please link, if inclined. 


The rest of http://webnographers.org has a lot! of great, free resources, as 
well. 


Best,
Scott 


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

 

 


Dominik M. Rosenauer writes: 

> thank you for those great recommendations. although I do not living in  
> china it is most welcome to see what other people read :-) 
> 
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> Am 09.09.2009 um 23:24 schrieb 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
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