Bell, David and Barbara Kennedy, eds. The Cybercultures Reader.
MIT Press.
A huge compendium
of all things cybercultural.
Bolter, Jay and Richard Grusin. Remediation. MIT Press.
New Media as an appropriation and
re-working of older media, with the
reciprocal effect that older media start
to be reinterpreted through the new interfaces.
Castells, Manual. The Rise of the Network Society.
Blackwell.
Part of a huge, three-volume opus: How
information technologies change
EVERYTHING!
Dixon, Joan and Eric Cassidy, eds. Virtual Futures.
Routledge.
Next step: the
holodeck and the cyborg.
Gage, John. Color and Culture and Color and Meaning.
Two big, fat,
beautiful books about colour: what it is, what it means, and why people
have a hard time talking about it.
Heim, Michael. Electric Language. Yale Press.
A philosophical
study of word processing.
Kittler, Friedrich. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford
Press.
Turns out just
about all culture revolves around the dominant medium of the moment.
Not for the impatient or the
slack-jawed.
Landow, George. Hypertext 2.0. Johns Hopkins Press.
The conjunction of
the literary and the electronic.
Levinson, Paul. Soft Edge. Routledge.
Lots of thought on the history and
theory of media, from the hieroglyphic to Photoshop.
Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck.
How will narrative
change in cyberspace?
Randall, Neil. Soul of the Internet. Thomson Computer
Press.
The story of the
early days of the Internet (i.e., up to about 1996!) by a local author.
Snyder, Ilana, ed. Page to Screen. Routledge.
Essays about
electronic literacies.
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen. Simon and Schuster.
The culture of
Internet communities.
Welch, Kathleen. Electric Rhetoric. MIT Press.
The Sophists can
tell us a lot about how to write in computer environments.