Media History: Bibliography

General Topics:

Media History; History of Information Early Information Theory Later MIT-Related Information Work Classic 20th Century Statements on New Media Technology New Digital Media and the Implications for Culture Hypertext Miscellaneous Topics The Digital Visual Social and Political Dimensions of Information Cyberlibertarianism Critics of Cyberlibertarianism "Neo-Luddism"

Media History; History of Information:

Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Stanford UP, 1994. Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge UP, 1980. Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. University of Chicago Press, 1998. Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. Oxford UP, 2000 (Reprint). Mattelart, Armand. Networking the World, 1794-2000. Translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht, James A. Chen, and James A. Cohen. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 2000. Mayr, Otto. Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe. Johns Hopkins UP, 1989 (Reprint). Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Penguin Press, 1996 (Reprint)

Early Information Theory:

Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." Endless Horizons. Ayer Co. Pub. 1975. Weaver, Warren, "Some Recent Contributions to the Mathematic Theory of Communication." Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver,The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana: U of Illinois, 1998 (Reprint). Wiener, Nobert. Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal. 2nd edition. MIT Press, 1965.

Later MIT-Related Information Work:

Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ulitmate Desitiny of the World Wide Web. Harper Business, 2000. Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Free Press, 1997. Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. Vintage Books, 1996. Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Classic 20th Century Statements on New Media Technology:

Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. See especially, "The Culture Industry." Continuum Pub Group, 1976. Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser. University of Michigan Press, 1995. Bell, Daniel. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting. Basic Books, 1999 (Reprint). Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations, Hannah Arendt, editor. Schocken Books, 1985. Burger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Translated by Michael Shaw. University of Minnesota Press, 1985. Heidegger, Martin, "The Question Concerning Technology." The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger. Translated by William Lovitt. New York: Harper Collins, 1982. Heidegger, Martin, "The Age of the World Picture." The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger. Translated by William Lovitt. New York: Harper Collins, 1982. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. MIT Press, 1994. Thompson, John B. The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media. Stanford UP, 1996.

New Digital Media and the Implications for Culture:

Hypertext:

Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Landow, George P. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1991. Moulthrop, Stuart, "No War Machine," in Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz, eds., Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology. Cornell UP, 1997: 269-92. Nelson, Ted. Literary Machines: The Report On, and Of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing, Electronic Publishing, Hypertext, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow's Intellectual Revolution, and Certain Other Topics Including Knowledge, Education and Freedom, rev. ed. (the cover gives the release number "90.1" by analogy with software releases) Sausalito, Calif.: Mindful Press, 1990.

Miscellaneous Topics:

Bey, Hakim. "The Information War." Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard. Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT Press, 2000. Borgmann, Albert. Holding on to Reality : The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. University of Chicago Press, 2000. Chandler, Daniel, Media and Communications Studies Site Guattari, Felix. "Machinic Heterogenesis." Rethinking Technologies. Edited by Verena Andermatt Conley. University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Hakim Bey, "The Information War" in Druckrey Haraway, Donna. "Cyborg Manifesto." Simians, Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge, 1991. Hayles, Katherine. How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999. Kirschenbaum, Matt. "A White Paper on Information." Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theatre. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993, 1991. Paulson, William R. The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information. Cornell UP, 1988. Poster, Mark. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990. Steur, Jonathan. "Defining Virtual Reality." Journal of Communication 42 (1992): 79-90.

The Digital Visual:

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001. Weibel, Peter. "World as Interface: Toward the Construction of Context-Controlled Event-World." net_condition: art and global media(Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice). MIT Press, 2001.

Social and Political Dimensions of Information:

Beniger, James R. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1986. Castells, Manuel. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. 3 vols. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996-97. Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Basic Books, 2000. Zuboff, Shoshana. In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Cyberlibertarianism:

Barlow, John Perry. "The Economy of Ideas: A Framework for Patents and Copyrights in the Digital Age," Wired 2.03 (March 1994) Dyson, Esther, George Gilder, George Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler. "Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age," Release 1.2, Aug. 22, 1994 (Progress and Freedom Foundation) Katz, Jon. "Birth of a Digital Nation," Wired 5.04 (April 1997) Rheingold, Howard. "The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier."

Critics of Cyberlibertarianism:

Barbrook, Richard and Cameron, Andy. "The California Ideology" (Full Length Mix) (May 1996) Winner, Langdon. "Cyberlibertarian Myths and the Prospects for Community" (1997) Winner, Langdon. "Mythinformation"

"Neo-Luddism":

Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994. Roszak, Theodore. The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press, 1986; rev. ed. 1994. Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil : Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. Anchor Books, 1996

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