Other sections of the thesis

Other students have also put their theses on the web. Among them are:

Truth and Politics - Mass Media in Independent Ukraine 1991 - 2001

Private TV in Palestine

OTHER SECTIONS

HISTORY

This is a very long list - and a lot of these books were read in the British Library, obviously not a resource open to everyone. So my top five (all generally available):

On the Internet today:

On hypertexts:

On technology

On cultural stuff:

General anthology

You'll find in this area with anthologies, after you have read a couple the same authors, and sometimes the same articles!, keep reappearing!

Adams, D. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Pan, London, 1980.

Bailey, L. 'Is your home ready to listen?' The Sunday Times, Culture, October 15, 2000, pp. 51-52.

Balkin, J.M. 'Eyes, robots,' The New Republic, http://www.thenewrepublic.com/online/balkin062000.html

Balsamo, A. 'Forms of technological embodiment: reading the body in contempotary culture,' in M. Featherstone and R. Burrows (ed), Cyberspace, Cyberbodies Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technical Embodiment, Sage, London, 1995, pp. 215-238.

Balsamo, A. 'The virtual body in cyberspace,' in D. Bell and B.M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 489-503.

Batista, E. 'Wireless porn … of course,' Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,37202,00.html

Bennahum, D. Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace, Basic Books, 1998, New York.

Bell, D. 'Cybercultures reader: a user's guide,' in D. Bell and B.M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 1-12..

Benedikt, M. 'Cyberspace: first steps,' in D. Bell and B.M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 29-44.

Biro, Y. 'Creating Mediology: A Review of Regis Debray's Vie et Mort de l'Image: Une histoire du regard en Occident , Wide Angle 18.1 (1996) 69-73 http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/wide_angle/18.1br_debray.html

Black, J. 'Journalism Nethics' in Convergence, Vol 4, No 4, Winter, 1998, pp. 10-17.

Blinn, B, 'Eliminating "spyware" and ads,' (undated) Copyediting-L Indiana University, http://www.blinn.com/ce-l/killads.html

Bolter, J.D. Writing Space ,1991.

Bolter, J.D. and Grusin, R. Remediation: Understanding New Media, MIT Press, Cambridge Masschussets, 1999.

Bourdieu, P. The Logic of Practice, (R. Nice trans.) Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990.

Braunstein, P. 'The case for lateral thinking: discerning new thought patterns on the contemporary info-sphere,' Convergence, Vol 5, No 1, Spring 1999, pp. 10-17.

Brody, F. 'The medium is the memory,' in P. Lunefield (ed.) The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massacussetts, 1999., pp. 130-148.

Brunn, S.D. 'The Internet as 'the new world of' and for geography: speed, structures, volumes, humility and civility,' GeoJournal, Vol 45, No 1-2, pp. 5-15.

Buckingham, D. 'Review essay: children of the electronic age?' European Journal of Communications, Vol 13, No 4, pp. 557-565.

Burkitt, I. Bodies of Thought: Embodiment, Identity and Modernity, Sage, London, 1999.

Bush, V. 'As We May Think' The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945, www.theatlantic.com

Bynum, C. 'Why all the fuss about the body? A medievalist's perspective,' in B. Hunt (ed) Beyond the Cultural Turn,

Caldwell, J.T. 'Introduction: theorizing the digital landrush,' in J.T. Caldwell (ed) Electronic Media and Technoculture, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000, pp. 1-34.

Cashmore, E and Rojek, C. (eds) Dictionary of Cultural Theorists, Arnold, London, 1999.

Chippendale, C. 'From print culture to electronic culture,' Antiquity, Vol 71, 1997, pp. 1070-73.

Churchland, P.M. and Churchland, P.S. 'Could a machine think? Classical AI is unlikely to yield conscious machines; systems that mimic the brain might,', Scientific American, January 1990, pp. 26-31.

Civin, M.A. 'On the vicissitudes of cyberspace as potential-space,' Human Relations, Vol 52, No 4, 1999, pp. 485-506.

Clark, N. "Rear-view shades: the recursive generation of the cyberbody,' in M. Featherstone and R. Burrows (ed), Cyberspace, Cyberbodies Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technical Embodiment, Sage, London, 1995, pp113-134.

Cochrane, C.N. Christianity and Classical Culture: A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine, Galaxy, New York, 1957.

Davis-Floyd, R.B. and Dumit, J. 'Cyborg babies: children of the third millennium,' in R.B. David-Floyd and J. Dumit (eds) Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots, Routledge, New York, 1998, p1-18.

Dean, J. 'Virtual fears,' in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol 24, No 4, 1999, pp.1069-1078.

Debray, R. Media Manifestos, (Translated by E. Rauth) Verso, London, 1996.

Dimmick, J., Kline, S. and Stafford, L. 'The gratification niches of personal e-mail and the telephone: competition, displacement and complementarity,' Communication Research, Vol 27, No 2, April 2000, pp. 227-248.

Doyle, R. On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Science," Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997.

Dreyfus, H.L. What Computer Still can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1992.

Drotner, K. 'Difference and diversity: trends in young Danes' media uses,' Media, Culture and Society, Vol 22, No 2, 2000, pp. 149-166.

Escobar, A. 'Welcome to cyberia: notes on the anthropology of cyberculture,' in in D. Bell and B.M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 56-76.

Enzensberger, H.M. 'Constituents of a theory of the media,' in J.T. Caldwell (ed) Electronic Media and Technoculture, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000, pp. 51-76.

Falk, L. 'The ethics of perception,' Convergence, Vol 6, No 1, Spring 2000, pp. 29-39.

Featherstone, M and Burrows, R. 'Cultures of technical embodiment,' in M. Featherstone and R. Burrows (ed), Cyberspace, Cyberbodies Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technical Embodiment, Sage, London, 1995, pp. 1-19.

Featherstone, M. 'Post-bodies, aging and virtual reality,' in ,' in D. Bell and B.M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 609-618.

Fiske, J. Television Culture, Metheun & Co, New York, 1987.

Fiske, J. Understanding Popular Culture, Unwin Hyman, Boston, 1989.

Fox Keller, E. Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science, Routledge New York, 1992.

Geirland, J. and Sonesh-Kedar, E. Digital Babylon: How the Geeks, the Suits and the Ponytails Tried to Bring Hollywood to the Internet, Arcade Publishing, New York, 1999.

Gibson, W. Neuromancer, Harpercollins, London, 1998, (first 1984).

Gigliotti, C. 'The ethical life of the digital aesthetic,' in P. Lunefield (ed.) The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1999, pp. 46-66.

Glass, L. 'Publicizing the president's privates,' Postmodern Culture, Volume 9, No 3, May 1999, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.599/9.3glass.txt

Gooday, G. 'Taking apart the 'roads ahead,' user power versus the futurology of IT,' Convergence, Vol 4, No 3, Autumn 1998, pp. 8-16.

Griscom, R. What light through yonder inbox breaks? The romance of low bandwidth, Nerve.com, August 2000, http://www.nerve.com/regulars/editors/august00/

Grusin, R. 'Location, location, location: desktop real estate and the cultural economy of the world wide web,' Convergence, Vol 6, No 1, Spring 2000, pp. 48-61.

Gromala, D. 'Pain and subjectivity in virtual reality,' ,' in D. Bell and B.M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 598-608.

Guattari, F. Chaosmosis: an ethico-aethetic paradigm, (Translated by P. Bains and J. Pefanis), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1995.

Gumpert, G. and Drucker, S.J. 'The mediated home in the global village,' Communication Research, Vol 25, No 4, August 1998, pp. 422-438.

Haraway, D.J. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Free Books Assoc, London, 1991.

Haraway, D. Modest_Witness@Second _Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouseTM: Feminism and Technoscience, Routledge, New York, 1997.

Harper, C. And That's The Way It Will Be: News and Information in a Digital World, New York University Press, New York, 1998.

Havelock, E.A. Prometheus, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1950.

Hayles, N.K. 'Narratives of evolution and the evolution of narratives,' in J.L. Casti and Karlqvist (eds), Cooperation and Conflict in General Evolutionary Process, pp. 113-132.

Hayles, N.K. 'The condition of virtuality, in P. Lunefield (ed.) The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1999(a)., pp. 68-94.

Hayles, N.K. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Information, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999(b).

Hayles, N.K. 'Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The important of media-specific analysis,' Postmodern Culture, Vol 10, No 2, January 2000, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.100/10.2hayles.txt

Heim, M. 'The design of virtual reality,' in M. Featherstone and R. Burrows (ed), Cyberspace, Cyberbodies Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technical Embodiment, Sage, London, 1995, pp. 65-77.

Heim, M, 'The cyberspace dialectic,' in P. Lunefield (ed.) The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massacussetts, 1999, pp. 24-44.

Hershman Leeson, L. 'Jaron Lanier interview' in L Hershmann Leeson (ed) Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digitial Culture, Bay Press, Seattle, 1996, pp. 43-53

Houston, F. 'Enjoy the ride while it lasts,' Colombia Journalism Review, July/August 2000, http://www.cjr.org/year/00/2/houston.asp

Jones, S. 'The book of Myst in the late age of print,' Postmodern Culture, Vol 7, No 2, 1997, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.197/contents.197.html

Hutchins, E. Cognition in the Wild, The MIT Press, Cambdrige Massachusetts, 1995.

Jeganathan, P. 'eelam.com: place, nation and imagi-nation in cyberspace,' in Public Culture, Vol 10, No 3, pp. 515-528.

Johnson, M. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination and Reason, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987.

Johnson, S. Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate, Harperedge, San Francisco, 1997.

Kang, J. 'Cyber-race,' in Harvard Law Review, Vol 113, 2000, http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/113/5_1130.htm

Kelllogg, W.A., Carroll, J.M. and Richards, J.T. 'Making reality a cyberspace,' in M. Benedikt (ed) Cyberspace: First Steps, MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1994.

Kember, S. 'Regarding the biology of machines: genered cultural studies of the Internet,' European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 3, No 1, pp. 103-115.

Kennedy, B. 'The virtual machine and new becomings in pre-millennial culture,' in D. Bell and B.M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 13-24.

King, E. 'Redefining relationships: interactivity between news producers and consumers,' Convergence, Vol 4, No 4, Winter, 1998, pp. 26-32.

Kirkpatrick, D.D. 'The French Revolution will be webcast,' in Lingua Franca, Vol 10, No 5, July/August 2000, http://www.linguafranca.com/0007/inside-webcast.html

Kitzmann, A. 'Parables of the network: the lures and spoils of global economics,' Convergence, Vol 4, No 3, Autumn, 1998, pp. 24-29.

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Kroker, A. and Cook, D., The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics, New World Perspectives, Montreal, 1986.

Kroker, A. and Kroker, M. 'Code warriors: bunkering in and dumbing down,' in D. Bell and B.M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 96-103.

Kroker, A. and Weinstein, M.A. 'The theory of the virtual class,' in J.T. Caldwell (ed) Electronic Media and Technoculture, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000, pp.117-136.

Landow, G.P. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997.

Latour, B. Aramis or the Love of Technology, Translated by C. Porter, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1996.

Land, N. 'Meat (or how to kill Oedipus in cyberspace,)' in M. Featherstone and R. Burrows (ed), Cyberspace, Cyberbodies Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technical Embodiment, Sage, London, 1995, pp191-204.

Landsberg, A. 'Prosthetic memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner,' in M. Featherstone and R. Burrows (ed), Cyberspace, Cyberbodies Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technical Embodiment, Sage, London, 1995, pp. 175-189.

Lanham, R.A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts, University of Chicago Press, 1993.

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