[Air-L] advice on course readings

[Thomas Ball]

The "commodification of attention" seems a key, unspoken theme in this
thread. The link below is to a *New Republic* review of Tim Wu's book, *The
Attention Merchants*, by Tom Vanderbilt, author of a book on digital
aesthetics and choice. Vanderbilt's review covers the antecedents of much
of the digital world we live in...
https://newrepublic.com/article/137107/perils-peak-attention


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Fenwick Mckelvey <mckelveyf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I'd also suggest Stephanie Schulte's book for understanding the
> construction of early teen hacker/BBS culture.
> http://nyupress.org/books/9780814708675/
>
> Another great source is Murphy, B. M. (2002). A Critical History of the
> Internet. In G. Elmer (Ed.) (pp. 27–45). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
> On the piracy side:
> Huizing, A., & Wal, J. A. van der. (2014). Explaining the rise and fall of
> the Warez MP3 scene: An empirical account from the inside. First Monday,
> 19(10). Retrieved from
> http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5546
>
> Tetzlaff, D. (2000). Yo-Ho-Ho and a Server of Warez: Internet Software
> Piracy and the New Global Information Economy. In A. Herman & T. Swiss
> (Eds.), The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic,
> Metaphor, Power (pp. 99–126). New York: Routledge.
>
> Many also about gaming and Lans:
> Simon, B. (2006). Beyond cyberspatial flaneurie on the analytic potential
> of living with digital games. Games and Culture, 1(1), 62–67.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Best,
> Fen
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 08:26 Marcus Antonio Assim Lima <malima at uesb.edu.br>
> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I'd add this books:
> 1) The Cultura of Connecticut. A Critical History of Social Media, by José
> van Dijck;
> 2) Social Media: a critical introduction, by Christian Fuchs.
>
> Em quarta-feira, 19 de outubro de 2016, Adriana de Souza e Silva <
> aasilva at ncsu.edu> escreveu:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I’m teaching a graduate seminar for MS and PhD students called “internet
> > and society” next spring.
> >
> > I’m looking for good readings (book chapters and/or journal articles) on
> > two subjects:
> > - history of asynchronous communication platforms (USENET, BBS, blogs,
> > wikis, etc.)
> > - history of synchronous communication platforms (MUDs, chat
> environments,
> > etc.)
> >
> > I find a lot of stuff on specific uses of blogs, twitter etc, but very
> > little on their historical antecedents. Any suggestions would be welcome!
> >
> > Best,
> > Adriana
> > ______________________________
> > Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D.
> > Associate Professor of Communication
> > Director of the Communication Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) Ph.D.
> > Program
> > NC State University
> > http://www.souzaesilva.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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