The Essential Media Bibliography

Basic readings:
Multimedia, from Wagner to Virtual Reality
ed. Randall Packer & Ken Jordan, Norton & Co. NY, 2001
ISBN 0-393-04979-5

The Language of New Media
by Lev Manovich, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2002
ISBN 0-262-13374-1


Concepts: core readings
ed by Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1999
ISBN 0-262-63193-8

Understanding Comics, The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud, Kitchen Sink Press, Northampton, MA 1993
ISBN 0-87816-243-7

Experiences in Visual Thinking (2nd edn),
by , Robert McKim, Boston: PWS Publishing Company, 1972.
ISBN 0-8185-04110-0

The Digital Dialectic (Leonardo Books)
by Peter Lunenfeld (Editor) (Paperback)

Information Architecture and Usability:
The Trouble with Computers
by Thomas K. Landauer, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1995
ISBN 0-262-62108-8

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
by Alan Cooper, Sams, Indianapolis, IN 1999
ISBN 0-672-31649-8

Information Architects
by Richard Saul Wurman, Graphis press, Zurich, 1996
ISBN 3-85709-458-3

Information Graphics
by Peter Wildbur & Michael Burke, Thames & Hudson, London 1998
ISBN 0-500-28077-0
Cinematic Thinking:
How to read a film: the World of Movies, Media & Multimedia: Language, History, Theory
James Monaco

Film Directing Shot by Shot
by Steven D. Katz, Michael Weise Productions, LA 1991
ISBN 0-941188-10-8

Film Directing Cinematic Motion
by Steven D. Katz, Michael Weise Productions, LA 1992
ISBN 0-941188-14-0

Additional Reading:
Information Visualization, Perception for Design.
by Colin Ware, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Academic Press. London. 1999.

net_condition (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)
by Peter Weibel (Editor), Timothy Druckrey (Editor)

Electronic Culture : Technology & Visual Representation.
by Timothy Druckrey (Editor), et al(Paperback - January 1997)

How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
by N. Katherine Hayles, Katherine Hayles

Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
by Janet Horowitz Murray (Hardcover - May 1997)

Being Digital
by Nicholas Negroponte, Vintage Books, NY 1996
ISBN 0-679-43919-6

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