New Media and Society
- Course Code:
- 15PANH046
- Status:
- Course Not Running This year
- Unit value:
- 0.5
- Year of study:
- Year 1 or Year 2
This theoretically-engaged course will give students a critical analytical introduction to the main debates surrounding the relationships between new media (principally telecommunications and the Internet), technology and society. It incorporates historical perspectives from the beginning that encourage students to critically explore theories of technological determinism that underpin much work on new technologies and encourage students to consider what is new about new media. It also introduces theoretical perspectives from, among other disciplines, anthropology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology. In addition to theory, however, the course also aims to be firmly grounded in case studies and examples throughout that will help students engage with the theoretical issues. Case studies will be drawn from a range of different contexts around the world, but where possible emphasis will be on Asian and African examples. The course will encourage students to develop a critical understanding of new media in relation to questions of language, culture and communication, so-called ‘virtual’ identity and community, space, time, globalization and transnationalism. In addition it will pursue questions of democracy, the state, power and political activism as well as intellectual property and inequality of access to and experience of new technologies.
Qualification for entry
Objectives and learning outcomes of the course
This theoretically-engaged course will give students a critical analytical introduction to the main debates surrounding the relationships between new media (principally telecommunications and the Internet), technology and society. It incorporates historical perspectives from the beginning that encourage students to critically explore theories of technological determinism that underpin much work on new technologies. It also introduces theoretical perspectives from, among other disciplines, anthropology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology. In addition to theory, however, the course also aims to be firmly grounded in case studies and examples throughout that will help students engage with the theoretical issues. Case studies will be drawn from a range of different contexts around the world, but where possible emphasis will be on Asian and African examples. The course will encourage students to develop a critical understanding of new media in relation to questions of language, culture and communication, so-called ‘virtual’ identity and community, space, time, globalization and transnationalism. In addition it will pursue questions of democracy, the state, power and political activism as well as intellectual property and inequality of access to and experience of new technologies.
Workload
Scope and syllabus
The Internet, telecommunications and other new media are increasingly important aspects of everyday life throughout the world. In 2007, for instance, Nokia is predicting that half of the world’s population will have a mobile phone. New media and communications technologies are changing the way that social scientists do their research and what they research. This course offers students ia chance to explore the issues that new media are bringing to ethnographic contexts around the world. In relation to Anthropology of Media in particular, the course offers a welcome expansion of coverage on new media and ICTs (information and communication technologies) which is always in great demand from students and the understanding of which increasingly needs to inform understandings of other media and social interaction more generally. Currently new media are only specifically addressed in a couple of weeks on the core course.
With new energies being put into the expansion of media and screen studies in SOAS, it is imperative that the area of new media and ICTs be covered more directly than it has been to date. This course will be the first and only general introductory course on new media and ICTs in the School, filling a gap that is increasingly identified by staff and students alike.
This course therefore complements the current media and anthropology offerings available in the School while also offering a useful theoretically-grounded introduction to pressing contemporary social issues that can serve students on Area Studies programmes with interests in new media, globalization, culture and communication or power, politics and media. With increasing numbers of students interested in MA dissertation or PhD research related to new media, this course will offer them the basic social scientific tools to start to deal with such issues. It may also be of interest to students in political science, history and other programmes offered in the School.
Timetable
Method of assessment
One unseen written examination (50%) plus one essay (50%).Required reading
Provisional reading list/course outline for:
NEW MEDIA AND SOCIETY
Dr. Kevin Latham
Week 1: Introduction: Disciplining new media?
Anthropology
• Arturo Escobar, “Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture” in Current Anthropology, 1994, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 1-45. Also in Ziauddin Sardar and Jerome Ravetz eds., Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway. London: Pluto Press, 1996, pp. 111-137. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Miller, Daniel and Don Slater. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Budka, P. and Kremser, M. 2004. 'CyberAnthropology - Anthropology of CyberCulture', in S. Khittel, B. Plankensteiner and M. Six-Hohenbalken (eds.), Contemporary issues in socio-cultural anthropology. Perspectives and research activities from Austria, 213-226. Vienna: Loecker. [AVAILABLE AS PDF AT : http://www.media-anthropology.net/Budka_Kremser_Cyberanthro.pdf ]
• Marcus, G. (ed.). 1996. Connected: engagements with media. University of Chicago Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Kelly Askew and Richard Wilk, eds., The Anthropology of Media: A Reader, Blackwell Publishers, 2002. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Ginsburg, F.D., L. Abu-Lughod and B. Larkin (eds.). 2002. Media worlds. Anthropology on new terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Hine, Christine 2000. Virtual Ethnography. London: Sage Publications. IN SOAS LIBRARY
Internet Studies/Digital Media Studies
• Everett, Anna and Caldwell, John T. (eds.) John T. New Media: theories and practices of digitextuality. New York: Routledge. Introduction plus chapters by Everett, Amato and others to interest. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Sterne, Jonathan 2005. ‘Digital Media and Disciplinarity’ The Information Society, 21 (4): 245-256. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Jones, Steve 2005. ‘Fizz in the Field: Toward a Basis for an emergent Internet Studies.’ The Information Society, 21 (4): 233-237. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Baron, Naomi S. 2005. ‘Who wants to be a discipline?.’ The Information Society, 21 (4): 269-271. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Bayn, Nancy K. 2005. ‘Introduction: Internet Research as It Isn’t, Is, Could Be, and Should Be’ The Information Society, 21 (4): 229-232. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Debray, R. 1996. Media manifestos. London and New York: Verso. SENATE HOUSE (MISSING?) BOOK TO BUY
What is a discipline?
• Foucault, M. 1981. 'The Order of Discourse' (R. Young trans). In Untying the Text: A Poststructuralist Reader. R. Young (ed.) London: Routledge. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Hacking, Ian 1990. The Taming of Chance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
Week 2: Technology, society, new media
• Briggs, Asa and Burke, Peter 2002. A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. Cambridge: Polity Press. CHECK
• Fischer, C. S. 1992. America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press. [NOT IN SOAS; UCL: AMERICAN HISTORY A 400 FIS] BOOK TO BUY
• Carey, James 2006 (1989). ‘Technology and ideology: the case of the telegraph.’ In Communication as Culture. London: Routledge, 1989. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Excerpt also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 225-243. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Manovich, Lev 2006 (2002). ‘What is new media?’ in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 5-10. [Also in The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. UCL + SENATE HOUSE (MISSING?)] BOOK TO BUY
• McLuhan, M. 1994 (1964). “The medium is the message”, in Understanding media: the extensions of man. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• McLuhan, M. & Fiore, Q. 1996 (1967) The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects. New York: Random House. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Cook, S.D. Noam 2006 (1997). ‘Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth.’ in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 11-18. [Originally in Stefik, Mark Internet Dreams. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. UCL + LSE]
• Berker, T., Hartmann, M. Punie, Y and Ward, K.J. 2006. Domestication of Media and Technology. Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill. BOOK TO BUY
• Cummings, J.N. and Kraut, R. 2002. ‘Domesticating Computers and the Internet.’ The Information Society, 18: 221-231. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Debray, R. 1996. Media manifestos. London and New York: Verso. SENATE HOUSE (MISSING?) BOOK TO BUY
• Marien, Michael 2006 (1996). ‘New communications technology: a survey of impacts and issues’ in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 41-62. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Jensen, C.B. 2003. 'Communicating models: The relevance of models for research on the worlds of the Internet', in S. Hjarvard (ed.), Media in a globalized society. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY A302.23 /998209
• Bijker, W. 1995. Of bicycles, Bakelites and bulbs: Towards a theory of sociotechnical change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. CHECK
• Fischer, C. S. 1992. America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press. ONLY IN UCL BOOK TO BUY
• Hoybye,M.T., Johansen, C. and T. Tjornhoj-Thomsen. 2005. 'Online interaction. Effects of storytelling in an internet breast cancer support group.' Psychooncology 14(3): 211-220. (PDF, 124 KB) AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD IN PDF AT http://www.media-anthropology.net/Hoybye_OnlineInteraction.pdf
• Friedman, Matthew 1997. Fuzzy Logic: dispatches from the Information Revolution. Montreal: Vehicule Press. BOOK TO BUY
• Mukerji, Chandra 2006. ‘Printing, cartography and conceptions of place in Renaissance Europe.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 28, No. 5, 651-669 (2006) AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• MacDonald, Michael 2006. ‘Empire and communication: the media wars of Marshall McLuhan.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 28, No. 4, 505-520 (2006) AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• D. MacKenzie, D. and Wajcman, J. (eds) 1999? The Social Shaping of Technology 2nd Edition. London: Open University Press. CHECK
• Angell, Ian O. and Ezer, Jonathan 2006. ‘New Barbarians at the Gate: The New Spirit Emerging in India.’ Information Society Jul-Aug2006, Vol. 22 Issue 3, pp165-176. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Deuze, Mark 2006. ‘Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture.’ Information Society Apr-Jun2006, Vol. 22 Issue 2, pp63-75. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Cohen, Kris R. 2005. ‘What does the photoblog want?’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 27, No. 6, 883-901 (2005) AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Lee, Seungwhan & Sawhney, Harmeet 2005. ‘Arenas of innovation: understanding new configurational potentialities of communication technologies.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, 391-414 (2005) AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Chakravartty, Paula 2004. ‘Telecom, National Development and the Indian State: a Postcolonial Critique.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 26, No. 2, 227-249 (2004) AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Born, G. 1997. 'Computer software as a medium: textuality, orality and sociality in an artificial intelligence research culture' in M. Banks and H. Morphy (eds.), Rethinking Visual Anthropology. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. - IN SOAS LIBRARY
Week 3: Communication, Culture, Language and New Media
Language and New Media
• Manovich, Lev 2002. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. UCL + SENATE HOUSE (MISSING?) BOOK TO BUY
• Stefik, Mark.: Internet dreams : archetypes, myths, and metaphors / Mark Stefik. Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press , 1997. [UCL + LSE] BOOK TO BUY
• Kelly, Kevin 2006 (1998). ‘The computational metaphor.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 39-40. [Originally in Whole Earth, Winter 1998.] IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Jensen, C.B. 2003. 'Communicating models: The relevance of models for research on the worlds of the Internet', in S. Hjarvard (ed.), Media in a globalized society. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY A302.23 /998209
• Thurlow, C. 2006. ‘From statistical panic to moral panic: The metadiscursive construction and popular exaggeration of new media language in the print media.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 1. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/thurlow.html
• Thurlow, C. (2007 in press). ‘Fabricating youth: New-media discourse and the technologization of young people.’ In Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin (eds), Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies. London: Continuum. [DRAFT COPY AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://faculty.washington.edu/thurlow/papers/thurlow(2007)-draft-chapter.pdf ]
• Litman, Jessica 2006 (2001) ‘Choosing metaphors.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 154-158. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally in Litman, Jessica Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Amherst, NY: Prometheus UCL: MANAGEMENT KF 3030.1 LIT]
• Poster, Mark 1990. ‘Introduction: Words without Things.’ In The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Poster, Mark 1990. ‘Derrida and Electronic Writing: the Subject of the Computer.’ In The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Poster, Mark 1995. ‘The Mode of Information and Postmodernity’ In The Second Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
Culture and New Media
• Jones, Stephen and Kucker, Stephanie 2001. ‘Computers, the Internet, and virtual cultures.’ In J. Lull (ed.) Culture in the Communication Age. London: Routledge. NOT IN SOAS LIBRARY BOOK TO BUY
• Lull, James 2001. ‘Superculture for the Communication Age.’ In J. Lull (ed.) Culture in the Communication Age. London: Routledge. NOT IN SOAS LIBRARY BOOK TO BUY
• Lunenfeld, Peter 2003. ‘Space invaders: thoughts on technology and the production of culture.’ In A. Everett and J.T. Caldwell (eds.) New Media: theories and practices of digitextuality. New York: Routledge. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Grossberg, Lawrence 1997. ‘Interpreting the “Crisis” of Culture in Communication Theory (1979).’ In Bringing it all Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. pp 35-48. NOT IN SOAS LIBRARY BOOK TO BUY
• Poster, Mark 1995. ‘Critical Theory and TechnoCulture: Habermas and Baudrillard.’ In The Second Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Castells, Manuel 1996. ‘The Culture of the Real Virtuality: the integraiont of Electronic Communication, the end of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks.’ In Castells, Manuel 1996. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Bell, David and Kennedy, Barbara (eds.) 2000. The Cybercultures Reader. London: Routledge. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Faiola, A., and Matei, S. A. 2005. ‘Cultural cognitive style and web design: Beyond a behavioral inquiry into computer-mediated communication.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 18. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/faiola.html
• Pfeil, U., Zaphiris, P., and Ang, C. S. 2006. ‘Cultural differences in collaborative authoring of Wikipedia.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(1), article 5. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue1/pfeil.html
• Barnett, G. A., and Sung, E. 2005. ‘Culture and the structure of the international hyperlink network.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 11. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/barnett.html
• Hermeking, M. 2005. ‘Culture and Internet consumption: Contributions from cross-cultural marketing and advertising research.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 10. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/hermeking.html
• Barnett, G. A., and Sung, E. 2005. ‘Culture and the structure of the international hyperlink network.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), art.11 AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/barnett.html
Theorizing Language and Communication
• Grossberg, Lawrence 1997. ‘The Ideology of Communication: Poststructuralism and the Limits of Communication.’ In Bringing it all Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. pp 49-69. NOT IN SOAS LIBRARY BOOK TO BUY – also for culture section below
• Reddy, Michael 1979. ‘The Conduit Metaphor: a Case of Frame Conflict in our Language about Language.’ In A. Ortony (ed.) Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Jakobson, R. 1960. ‘Concluding statement: linguistics and poetics.’ In T. Sebeok (ed.) Style in language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. 1980. Metaphors we Live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Whorf, B.L. 1956. ‘The relation of habitual thought and behaviour to language’ and ‘An American Indian model of the universe.’ In D. Carroll (ed.) Language, thought and reality: selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Derrida, Jacques 1987. The Post Card: from Socrates to Freud and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Week 4: Information, property and power
Objectives/coverage: new media as information vehicle, copyright, intellectual property rights, power
• Boyle, James 1996. Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press UCL: ANTHROPOLOGY E 50 BOY/ LAW J 130 BOY + LSE: K1401 B79] BOOK TO BUY [Excerpt available - Boyle, James 2006 (1996). ‘Intellectual property and the liberal state.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 119-122. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Lessig, Lawrence 1999. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books. NOT IN SOAS – UCL: LAW J 7 LES] BOOK TO BUY [Excerpt available - Lessig, Lawrence 2006 (1999). ‘The promise for intellectual property in cyberspace.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 133-153. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Wark, McKenzie 2004. A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Excerpt – ‘Abstraction/class’ - also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 212-220. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Stallman, Richard 2006 (2002). ‘The promise for intellectual property in cyberspace.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 154-158. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally in Free Software, Free Society. Boston, MA: Free Software Foundation]
• Marshall, J. 2006a. 'Negri, Hardt, Distributed Governance and Open Source Software', Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 3(1). AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/article/view/122
• Litman, Jessica 2006 (2001) ‘Choosing metaphors.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 154-158. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally in Litman, Jessica Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Amherst, NY: Prometheus UCL: MANAGEMENT KF 3030.1 LIT]
• Patterson, Lyman, R. 2006 (1968). ‘Copyright in historical perspective.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 154-158. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally in Patterson, L.R. 1968. Copyright in historical perspective. Nashville, TN: Venderbilt University Press]
• Foucault, Michel 1984. ‘What is an author?’ In P. Rabinow (ed.) The Foucault Reader. London: Peregrine. pp 101-120.
• Castells, Manuel 1996. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society. Sections 1, 2 and 3. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Lash, Scott & Urry, John 1994. ‘Part 2, Chapter 4: Reflexive Accumulation: Information Structures and Productive Systems.’ In Economies of Signs & Space. London: Sage Publications. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Lewis, Tania 2006. ‘Seeking health information on the internet: lifestyle choice or bad attack of cyberchondria?’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 28, No. 4, 521-539 (2006). AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Bustamante, Enrique 2004. ‘Cultural industries in the Digital Age: some provisional conclusions.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 26, No. 6, 803-820 (2004). AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Hartford, Kathleen 2003. ‘West Lake wired: shaping Hangzhou’s information age.’ In C.C. Lee (ed.) Chinese Media, Global Contexts. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
• Webster, Frank (ed.) 2004. The Information Society Reader. London: Routledge. [Especially chapters by: Roszak; Robins & Webster; Garnham] IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Poster, Mark 1990. ‘Introduction: Words without Things.’ In The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Poster, Mark 1990. ‘Foucault and Databases: participatory surveillance.’ In The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Poster, Mark 1995. ‘Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations.’ In The Second Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Poster, Mark 1995. ‘The Mode of Information and Postmodernity’ In The Second Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Blanchette, Jean-Francois and Johnson, Deborah G. 2002. ‘Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness.’ The Information Society, 18:33–45, 2002. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
Week 5: Media on the move: Mobile Communications and Social Transformations
• Bowers, Raymond, Hershey, Cary and Lee, Alfred M. 1978. Communications for a Mobile Society: an assessment of new technology. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. [NOT IN SOAS; LSE: TK6570.M6 C73]
• Horst, Heather and Miller, Daniel 2006. The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication. London: Berg. [NOT IN SOAS; UCL: ANTHROPOLOGY D 89 HOR; LSE: HE9715.J25 H81] BOOK TO BUY
• Goggin, Gerald (2006). Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life. Routledge. NOT IN SOAS; UCL: ANTHROPOLOGY D 89 GOG BOOK TO BUY
• Kavoori, Anandam and Arceneaux, Noah (eds.). The Cell Phone Reader: Essays in Social Transformation (Digital Formations). New York/Oxford: Peter Lang. IN SOAS LIBRARY A303.4833 /965586
• Campbell, S.W. (forthcoming). A cross-cultural comparison of perceptions and uses of mobile telephony. New Media & Society. Draft available online at: http://www.umich.edu/~swcamp/cultureandmobiletelephony_draftforWeb.doc
• Thurlow, C. (2006). ‘From statistical panic to moral panic: The metadiscursive construction and popular exaggeration of new media language in the print media.’ Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 11(3). AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/thurlow.htm
• Yung, V. (2006). ‘Brand names, nicknames and numbers: Reconstructing layers of identity for mobile phones in Hong Kong.’ In Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause (eds.), Cyberlines 2.0: Languages and Cultures of the Internet. James Nicholas. – NOT FOUND – BOOK TO BUY
• Yung, V. (2005). ‘The construction of symbolic values of the mobile phone in the Hong Kong Chinese print media.’ In Rich Ling and Per E. Pedersen (eds.), Mobile Communications: Re-negotation of the Social Sphere. Springer. [NOT IN SOAS; LSE: HM851 M68] - BOOK TO BUY
• Thurlow, C. (2007 in press). ‘Fabricating youth: New-media discourse and the technologization of young people.’ In Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin (eds), Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies. London: Continuum. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://faculty.washington.edu/thurlow/papers/thurlow(2007)-draft-chapter.pdf
• Australian Government report: Communications Research Unit, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 2005. The Social Impact of Mobile Phone Use in Australia. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.dcita.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/25202/Social_Impact_MPs-info_sourcesMay1705.doc or http://www.dcita.gov.au/communications_and_technology/publications_and_reports/2005/april/the_social_impact_of_mobile_phone_use_in_australia_a_review_of_data_sources
• Green, Nicola 2006 (2002). ‘On the move: technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space,’ The Information Society, 18(4), pp. 281-292. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY. Also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 249-265. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Pertierra, Raul 2006. Transforming technologies, altered selves : mobile phone and internet use in the Philippines. Malate, Manila, Philippines : De La Salle University Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Lan, Pei-Chia 2006. Global Cinderellas : migrant domestics and newly rich employers in Taiwan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Bryant, J. A., Sanders-Jackson, A., & Smallwood, A. M. K. 2006. ‘IMing, text messaging, and adolescent social networks.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(2), article 10. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue2/bryant.html
• García-Montes, J.M., Caballero-Muñoz, D. And Caballero-Muñoz, M. 2006. ‘Changes in the self resulting from the use of mobile phones.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 28, No. 1, 67-82 (2006). AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Gow, G. A. and Smith, R.K. 2006. Mobile and Wireless Communications: an introduction. Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill. BOOK TO BUY?
• A useful resource: Wi: Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://wi-not.ca/
Week 6: New Media and the Transformation of Time and Space
• Green, Nicola 2006 (2002). ‘On the move: technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space,’ The Information Society, 18(4), pp. 281-292. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY. Also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 249-265. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Marshall, J. 2001. 'Cyberspace or Cybertopos: The creation of online space', Social Analysis 45(1): 81-102. CHECK
• Hylland Eriksen, Thomas 2006 (2001). Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Age of Information.. London: Pluto Press, 2001. CHECK BOOK TO BUY? [Excerpt also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 272-278. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Auge, Marc 1995. Non-Places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity. (trans. John Howe). London: Verso.
• Castells, Manuel 1996. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society. Sections 6 and 7. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Hongladarom, Soraj 2002. ‘The Web of Time and the Dilemma of Globalization.’ The Information Society, 18: 241-249. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Lee, H. and Whitley, E.A. 2002. ‘Time and Information Technology: Temporal Impacts on Individuals, Organizations, and Society.’ The Information Society, 18: 235-240. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Mihalache, Adrian 2002. ‘The Cyber Space-Time Continuum: Meaning and Metpahor.’ The Information Society, 18: 293-301. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Carey, James 2006 (1989). ‘Technology and ideology: the case of the telegraph.’ In Communication as Culture. London: Routledge, 1989. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Excerpt also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 225-243. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Postill, John 2002. 'Clock and calendar time: a missing anthropological problem', Time & Society 11 (2/3): 251-270. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.media-anthropology.net/Postill_ClockCalendar.pdf
• Zeitlyn, D. 1996. Regarding machines for the suppression of time.
AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/it-va/it.html
• Nye, David E. 2006 (1996). ‘The Consumer’s Sublime’ In American Technological Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. CHECK [Also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 27-38. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Stein, Jeremy 2006 (1999). ‘Reflections on time, time-space compression and technology in the nineteenth century.’ In M. Crang, P. Crang and J.May (eds.) Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations. New York: Routledge. CHECK BOOK TO BUY? [Excerpt also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 244-248. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Lee, Heejin and Liebenau, Jonathan 2006 (2001). ‘Time and the Internet.’ Time and Society, 9(1), pp. 48-55, 2001. [Also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 266-271. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Wood, R.T.A., Griffiths, M.D. and Parke, Adrian 2007. ‘Experiences of Time Loss among Videogame Players: and Empirical Study.’ CyberPsychology & Behaviour, Feb. 2007, Vol.10, Issue 1, pp.38-44. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY/EBSCO??
• Zeffiro, Andrea 2006. ‘The Persistence of Surveillance: the Panoptic Potential of Locative Media.’ Wi: Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network, Volume 1 Issue 1. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://wi-not.ca/.
Week 7: Virtuality, Identity, Community
• Poster, Mark 1995. ‘Postmodern Virtualities’ and ‘Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalism.’ In The Second Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Morley, David and Robins, Kevin 1995. ‘Reimagined Communitities? New media, new possibilities’ in Spaces of Identity: Global media, electronic landscapes and cultural boundaries, London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 10-42. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Castells, Manuel 1996. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society. Section 5. Oxford: Blackwell. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Castells, Manuel 1997. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume II: The Power of Identity. Particularly Sections 1 and 4, but also others to interest. Oxford: Blackwell. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Ziauddin Sardar, “alt.civilizations.faq: Cyberspace as the Darker Side of the West” in Ziauddin Sardar and Jerome Ravetz eds., Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway. London: Pluto Press, 1996, pp. 14-41. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Marshall, J. 2002. 'The Sexual Life of Cyber-Savants', The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14(2): 229-248. CHECK
• Mitra, Ananda 2005. ‘Creating immigrant identities in cybernetic space: examples from a non-resident Indian website.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 27 No. 3, pp371-390 (2005) AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Hadj-Moussa, Ratiba 2003. ‘New Media, Community and Politics in Algeria.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 25 No. 4, pp451-468 (2003) AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Bräuchler, B. 2005. Cyberidentities at War: Der Molukkenkonflikt im Internet. Bielefeld: transcript. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts287/ts287.htm
• Huffaker, D. A., and Calvert, S. L. 2005. ‘Gender, identity, and language use in teenage blogs.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2), article 1. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html
• J. Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities or, the End of the Social and other essays. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• J. Baudrillard, “The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media” in M. Poster ed., Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings. Oxford: Polity, 1988, pp. 207-219. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Zhao, S. 2006. ‘Do Internet users have more social ties? A call for differentiated analyses of Internet use.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 8. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/zhao.html
• Steinkuehler, C., and Williams, D. 2006. ‘Where everybody knows your (screen) name: Online games as "third places."’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(4), article 1. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/steinkuehler.html
• Nowak, K. L., and Rauh, C. 2005. ‘The influence of the avatar on online perceptions of anthropomorphism, androgyny, credibility, homophily, and attraction.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 8. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/nowak.html
• Herring, S., Job-Sluder, K. Scheckler, R. and Barab, S. 2002. ‘Searching for Safety Online: Managing ‘Trolling’ in a Feminist Forum.’ The Information Society, 18 (5): 371-384. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Mesch, G. and Talmud, I. 2006. ‘The Quality of Online and Offline Relationships: the Role of Multiplexity and Duration of Social Relationships’ The Information Society, Jul-Aug 2006, 22 (3): 137-148. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Marshall, J. 2006. 'Categories, Gender and Online Community', E-Learning 3(2).
AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_2.asp
New Media and Religion
• Bräuchler, B. 2005. Cyberidentities at War: Der Molukkenkonflikt im Internet. Bielefeld: transcript. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts287/ts287.htm
• Meyer B., Moors A. (eds.) 2006. Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Hafez, Kai (ed.) 2001. Mass Media, Politics and Society in the Middle East. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press. [ Chapters by Werner and Glass, but others also relevant] IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Zeitlyn, D. and M.D. Fischer. 2002. 'Ritual, ideation and performance: A case study of multimedia in anthropological research - the Mambila Nggwun ritual', in R. Trappl (ed.), Cybernetics and systems. Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. BOOK TO BUY?
• Rotherbuhler, E.W. 1998. Ritual communication: from everyday conversation to mediated ceremony. London: Sage. BOOK TO BUY?
• Eickelman, Dale F. and Jon W Anderson (eds)(1999): New Media in the Muslim World. The Emerging Public Sphere, Indiana UP, Bloomington. IN SOAS LIBRARY [SOAS: N302.23 /810047 and N302.23 /809938]
• Mandaville, Peter (2001): Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma, Routledge, London. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Bunt, Gary (2000): Virtually Islamic, University of Wales Press, Aberystwyth. IN SOAS LIBRARY
Week 8: Governance and citizenship: Democracy, the State and (Cyber)activism
• Ferdinand, Peter (ed.) 2000. The Internet, Democracy and Democratization. London: Frank Cass. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Castells, Manuel 1997. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume II: The Power of Identity. Particularly Sections 5 and 6 (State/democracy) and 2 and 3 (activisim). Oxford: Blackwell. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Hoff, Jens and Bjerke, Flemming. 2005. ‘Fences and gates in cyberspace: Is the Internet becoming a threat to democracy?’ Information Polity: The International Journal of Government and Democracy in the Information Age, 2005, Vol 10 Issue 1/2: 141-151. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Waldstein, Maxim 2005. ‘The politics of the web: the case of one newsgroup.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol.27, No.5, 739-763. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Marshall, J. 2004. 'Governance, Structure and Existence: Authenticity, Rhetoric, Race and Gender on an Internet Mailing List', Proceedings of The Australian Electronic Governance Conference 2004, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/egovernance/papers/21_Marshall.pdf
• Marshall, J. 2006. 'Negri, Hardt, Distributed Governance and Open Source Software', Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 3(1). AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/article/view/122
• Hafez, Kai (ed.) 2001. Mass Media, Politics and Society in the Middle East. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press. [ Chapters by Amin, Ayish, Kirchner, Rawan and Glass] IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Spitulnik, D. 2002. 'Alternative small media and communicative spaces', in G. Hyden, M. Leslie and F. F. Ogundimu (eds.), Media and democracy in Africa. New Brunswick,NJ, and London: Transaction. [Published simultaneously with Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute]. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.media-anthropology.net/Spitulnik_SmallMedia.pdf
• Postill, J. (forthcoming 2007) 'Running cyburbia: Internet and local governance in Subang Jaya', in Yeoh Seng Guan (ed.), Media, Culture & Power in Malaysia. London and New York: Routledge. DRAFT AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.media-anthropology.net/Postill_Cyburbia.pdf
• De Sola Pool, Ithiel 2003. Technologies of Freedom. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. NOT IN SOAS 1983 ED. IN UCL: LAW E 90 POO; LSE: KF2750 P80 - BOOK TO BUY [Excerpt – ‘A Shadow Darkens’ - also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 19-26. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Saunders, D. Hunter, I.M and Williamson, D. 2006 (1992). ‘Historicising Obscenity Law.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 67-71. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally in On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law. London: Macmillan.] CHECK
• Robins, K. and Webster, F. 2006 (1999). ‘From public sphere to cybernetic state.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 92-100. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally in Times of the Technoculture. New York: Routledge]
• McChesney, R. 2006 (2001). ‘Policing the unthinkable.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 92-100. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally at opendemocracy.net]
• Litman, Jessica 2006 (2001) ‘Choosing metaphors.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 154-158. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally in Litman, Jessica Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Amherst, NY: Prometheus UCL: MANAGEMENT KF 3030.1 LIT]
• Barry, Andrew 2001. Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London: Athlone Press. NOT IN SOAS UCL: HISTORY OF SCIENCE Y 200 BAR; LSE: T26.A1 B27- BOOK TO BUY [Excerpt – ‘On interactivity’ - also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 163-187. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
• Barber, B.R. 2006 (2000). ‘Pangloss, Pandora or Jefferson? Three scenarios for the future of technology and strong democracy.’ In The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 188-202. IN SOAS LIBRARY [Originally in A Passion for Democracy: American Essays. Princeton University Press.]
• Keck, Margaret E. & Kathryn Sikkink 1998. Activists beyond Borders. Advocacy Networks in International Politics, Cornell UP, Ithaca. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Sreberny-Mohammadi, A. & A. Mohammadi (1994): Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture and the Iranian Revolution, Minnesota. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Thussu, D.K 1998. Electronic empires: global media and local resistance. Arnold Publishers, London. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• K.C.Ho, Randolph Kluver & Kenneth C.C. Yang (eds.)(2003): Asia.com. Asia encounters the Internet Routledge Curzon, London. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Uy-Tioco, Cecilia Alessandra (2003): “The Cell Phone and Edsa 2: The Role of a Communication Technology in Ousting a President”, paper given at the 4th Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://beard.dialnsa.edu/%7Etreis/pdf/The%20Cell%20Phone%20and%20Edsa%202.pdf
• Chakravartty, Paula 2004. ‘Telecom, National Development and the Indian State: a Postcolonial Critique.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 26, No. 2, 227-249 (2004) AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Damm, Jens and Thomas, Simona (eds.) 2006. Chinese Cyberspaces: technological changes and political effects. London: Routledge. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Jensen, M., Danziger, J.N. and Venkatesh, A. 2007. ‘Civil Society and Cyber Society: The Role of the Internet in Community Associations and Democratic Politics’ The Information Society, Jan-Feb 2007, 23 (1): 39-50. WILL EVENTUALLY BE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Agre, Philip E. 2002. ‘Real-Time Politics: The Internet and the Political Process’ The Information Society, Oct 2002, 18 (5): 311-331. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• George, Cherian 2005. ‘The internet's political impact and the penetration/participation paradox in Malaysia and Singapore.’ Media, Culture & Society, Vol.27, No.6, 903-920. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Hughes, C. & Wacker, G. 2003. China and the Internet: politics of the digital leap forward. London: RoutledgeCurzon. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Harwit, E. & Clark, D. 2001. ‘Shaping the Internet in China: evolution of political control over network infrastructure and content.’ Asian Survey 41:3. pp. 377-408. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY.
Week 9: New Media, Transnationalism and Globalization
• Morley, David and Robins, Kevin 1995 ‘Globalization as Identity Crisis: The new global media landscape’ in Spaces of Identity: Global media, electronic landscapes and cultural boundaries, London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 10-42. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Appadurai, Arjun 1990. ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy,’ Public Culture, vol. 2, no. 2, spring 1990, pp. 1-24. IN DEPARTMENT LIBRARY
• Sreberny, A. ‘The Global and the Local in International Communication’ in J. Curran and M. Gurevitch, (eds) Mass Media and Society, 3rd edition, Arnold, 2000, p. 93-120. [Also reprinted in K. Kelly Askew and Richard Wilk, eds., The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. Blackwell Publishers, 2002, pp. 337-56.] IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Hafez, Kai 2007. The Myth of Media Globalization. Trans. Alex Skinner. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Chapter 5 on Internet, but other chapters also relevant] BOOK TO BUY – key text
• Yang , Mayfair Mei-hui 2002. ‘Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re) Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis’ in F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod and B. Larkin (eds.), Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 189-210. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Stratton, Jon 1997. ‘Cyberspace and the globalization of culture’ in David Porter (ed.) Internet Culture, London: Routledge, 1997, pp.253-275. [Also reprinted in David Bell and Barbara Kennedy, ed., The Cybercultures Reader, London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 721-731.] IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Dayan, Daniel 1998. ‘Particularistic Media and diasporic communications’ in T. Liebes and J. Curran (eds.) Media, Ritual and Identity, Routledge,. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Jeganathan, P. 1998. ‘Eeelam.com: place, nation and imagi-nation in cyberspace,’ Public Culture, 10, 3, 1998, pp. 515-528. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• J. McLagan, ‘Computing for Tibet: Virtual Politics in the Cold-War Era.’ In G. Marcus (ed.) Connected: Engagements with Media. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Sundaram, Ravi. ‘Beyond the Nationalist Panopticon: The experience of Cyberpublics in India’ in John Thorton Caldwell, (ed.), Theories of the New Media: A historical perspective, London: Athlone Press, 2000, pp. 270-294. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.sarai.net/research/media-city/resouces/film-city-essays/beyod_the_nationalist_panopoticon.pdf
• Yang, Guobin 2003. ‘The Internet and the Rise of a Transnational Chinese Cultural Sphere.’ Media, Culture & Society Vol.25, No.4, 469-490. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Grixti, Joe 2006. ‘Symbiotic transformations: youth, global media and indigenous culture in Malta.’ Media, Culture & Society Vol.28, No.1, 105-122. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Stringer, J. 2003. Talking about Jet Li: transnational Chinese movie stardom and Asian American Internet reception. In Rawnsley, GD & Rawnsley M-YT (eds.) 2003. Political Communications in Greater China: the construction and reflection of identity. London: RoutledgeCurzon. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• McCormick, B.L. & Liu, Q. 2003. Globalization and the Chinese Media: technologies, content, commerce and the prospects for the public sphere. In Lee, Chin-Chuan (ed.) 2003. Chinese Media, Global Contexts. London: RoutledgeCurzon. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Sun, Wanning 2002. Leaving China : media, migration, and transnational imagination. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.[Sections on Internet] IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Ye, J. 2006. ‘Traditional and online support networks in the cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in the United States.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 9. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/ye.html
• Barnett, G. A., and Sung, E. 2005. ‘Culture and the structure of the international hyperlink network.’ Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), art.11 AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/barnett.html
• Appadurai, Arjun 1996. Modernity at Large: The Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minesota Press.
• Anna Tsing, “The Global Situation,” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 327-60. Reprinted in Inda and Rosaldo, editors, The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Blackwell Publishing, 2002, pp.453-485.
Week 10: Exploring digital divides
• Compaine, B.J. (ed.) 2001. The digital divide : facing a crisis or creating a myth? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. NOT IN SOAS - BOOK TO BUY? ; IN LSE.
• Barzilai-Nahon, Karine 2006. ‘Gaps and Bits: Conceptualizing Measurements for Digital Divide/s’ The Information Society, 22 (5): 269-278. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Mack, R. L. 2001. The digital divide : standing at the intersection of race & technology. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press. NOT IN SOAS - BOOK TO BUY?; IN LSE.
• Livingstone, Sonia 2006. ‘Drawing Conclusions from New Media Research: Reflections and Puzzles Regarding Children's Experience of the Internet’ The Information Society, 22 (4): 219-230. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Van Dijk, J. and Hacker, K. 2003. ‘The Digital Divide as a Complex and Dynamic Phenomenon.’ The Information Society, 19 (4): 315-327. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Stein, Jeremy 2006 (1999). ‘Reflections on time, time-space compression and technology in the nineteenth century.’ In M. Crang, P. Crang and J.May (eds.) Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations. New York: Routledge. NOT IN SOAS - BOOK TO BUY? [Excerpt also in The New Media Theory Reader R. Hassan & J. Thomas (eds.) Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp 244-248. IN SOAS LIBRARY]
Global Divides and Development Contexts
• James, Jeffrey 2003. Bridging the Global Digital Divide. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Norris, P. 2001. Digital divide: civic engagement, information poverty, and the Internet worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. NOT IN SOAS - BOOK TO BUY?; IN LSE.
• Kagami , Mitsuhiro and Tsuji, Masatsugu (eds.) 2002. Digital divide or digital jump : beyond 'IT' revolution. Tokyo : Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Murelli, Elena 2002. Breaking the digital divide : implications for developing countries. Commonwealth Secretariat : SFI Pub. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Davis, Allison 2001. ‘Bridging the digital divide : leading the disenfranchised into the information age.’ In Tony Silvia (ed.) Global News: perspectives on the information age. Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
Gender Divides
• Cooper, Joel and Weaver, Kimberlee 2003. Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide. London: Lawrence Erlbaum. NOT IN SOAS - BOOK TO BUY?; IN LSE.
• Dholakia, R.R. 2006. ‘Gender and IT in the Household: Evolving Patterns of Internet Use in the United States’ The Information Society, 22 (4): 231-240. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Marshall, J. 2006. 'Categories, Gender and Online Community', E-Learning 3(2).
AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_2.asp
• Huffaker, D. A., and Calvert, S. L. 2005. Gender, identity, and language use in teenage blogs. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2), article 1. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html
• Werner, Karin 2001. ‘“Coming close to God” through the media : a phenomenology of the media practices of Islamist women in Egypt .’In Hafez, Kai (ed.) Mass Media, Politics and Society in the Middle East. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press. IN SOAS LIBRARY
Age/Generational Divides
• Sefton-Green, Julian (ed.) 1998. Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia. London: UCL Press. [Introduction plus chapters to interest] NOT IN SOAS - BOOK TO BUY?; IN LSE + Institute of Education.
• Huffaker, D. A., and Calvert, S. L. 2005. Gender, identity, and language use in teenage blogs. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2), article 1. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html
• Livingstone, Sonia 2006. ‘Drawing Conclusions from New Media Research: Reflections and Puzzles Regarding Children's Experience of the Internet’ The Information Society, 22 (4): 219-230. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Mossberger, Karen, Tolbert, Caroline J.and Stansbury, Mary 2003. Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. NOT IN SOAS - BOOK TO BUY?; IN LSE.
• Sandvig, C. 2006. The Internet at play: Child users of public Internet connections. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(4), article 3. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/sandvig.html
• Grixti, Joe 2006. ‘Symbiotic transformations: youth, global media and indigenous culture in Malta.’ Media, Culture & Society Vol.28, No.1, 105-122. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
Regional Examples
• Warschauer, Mark 2003. ‘Dissecting the "Digital Divide": A Case Study in Egypt.’ The Information Society, 19 (4): 297-305. AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Keniston, Kenneth and Kumar, Deepak (eds.) 2004. IT experience in India: bridging the digital divide. London: Sage. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Abbot, Jason P. 2004. The political economy of the Internet in Asia and the Pacific : digital divides, economic competitiveness, and security challenges. Wesport, Conn: Praeger Publishers. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Evers, Hans Dieter and Gerke, Solvay 2004. Closing the digital divide [electronic resource] : Southeast Asia's path towards a knowledge society : papers delivered at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies public lecture series "Focus Asia" IN SOAS LIBRARY AND ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.ace.lu.se/publications/workingpapers/evers_gelke.pdf
• Emerick, Neil 2003. The Real Digital Divide: convergence and South Africa’s telecommunications and broadcasting policy. Johannesburg : Free Market Foundation. IN SOAS LIBRARY
• Kagami , Mitsuhiro and Tsuji, Masatsugu (eds.) 2002. Digital divide or digital jump : beyond 'IT' revolution. Tokyo : Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization. IN SOAS LIBRARY
