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Select Book Reviews
Coll, Steve. 2011. The Internet: For Better or for Worse. April 7. New York, NY: The New York Review of Books.

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Cultural Geography

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 2006. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 1994. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Cultural History

Turner, Fred. 2006. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Digital Divide and Internet Ethnography

Norris, Pippa. 2001. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Digital Youth

Bennett, W. Lance (ed.). 2007. Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Palfrey, John, and Urs Gasser. 2008. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. New York, NY: Basic Books.

E-Living

Anderson, Ben, Malcolm Brynin, Yoel Raban, and Jonathan Gershuny (eds.). 2007. Information and Communications Technologies in Society: E-living in a Digital Europe. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Ethics in Cyberspace

Ploug, Thomas. 2009. Ethics in Cyberspace: How Cyberspace May Influence Interpersonal Interaction. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.

Ethnography

Cerwonka, Allaine and Liisa Malkki. 2007. Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Clifford, James and George E. Marcus (eds.). 1986. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Ethnographies Relating to the Internet

Postill, John. (forthcoming). Grounding the Internet. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. The book is an ethnography of residential politics in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Subang Jaya centred on the uses of internet technologies for activism, sociality and local governance.

Film as Ethnography

Crawford, Peter Ian, and David Turton (eds.). 1992. Film As Ethnography. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press.

Free Software Culture

Kelty, Christopher M. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Future of the Internet

Anderson, Janna Quitney. 2005. Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Anderson, Janna Quitney, Lee Rainie and Susannah Fox. 2008. Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet (Vol. 1). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Anderson, Janna Quitney and Lee Rainie. 2008. Hopes and Fears: The Future of the Internet (Vol. 2). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Anderson, Janna Quitney and Lee Rainie. 2009. Ubiquity, Mobility, Security: The Future of the Internet (Vol. 3). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Zittrain, Jonathan. 2008. The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Hacker Culture

Himanen, Pekka. 2001. The Hacker Ethic and Spirit of the Information Age. (Prologue by Linus Torvalds; Epilogue by Manuel Castells). New York, NY: Random House.

Thomas, Douglas. 2002. Hacker Culture. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

History of Computing

Ceruzzi, P. 2003. A History of Modern Computing (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

History of the Internet

Abbate, Janet. 1999. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

Berners-Lee, Tim. 2000. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Hafner, K. & Lyon, M. 1996. Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet. New York, NY: Touchstone.

Hauben, Michael and Ronda Hauben. 1997. Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.

Salus, P. H. 1995. Casting the Net: from ARPANET to Internet and Beyond. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.

Identity and Internet Ethnography

Turkle, Sherry. 1997. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

Information Technology and Nonmarket Information Production

Benkler, Yochai. 2007. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Internet and Business

Aspray, William and Paul E. Ceruzzi (eds.). 2008. The Internet and American Business. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Innovation and Open Source vis-à-vis Virtual Ethnography

von Hippel, Eric. 2005. Democratizing Innovation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

von Hippel, Eric. 1988. The Sources of Innovation. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Language, Linguistics and Virtual Ethnography

Baron, Naomi. 2000. Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading. New York, NY: Routledge.

Baron, Naomi. 2008. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Crystal, David. 2002. Language and the Internet. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Danet, Brenda, and Susan C. Herring (eds.). 2007. The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Posteguillo, Santiago. 2003. Netlinguistics: Language, Discourse and Ideology in Internet. Castellón de la Plana, Spain: Universitat Jaume.

Machinima

Media Studies

Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke. 2005 (2002). A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Polity Press.

Castells, Manuel. 2009. Communication Power. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Gitlin, Todd. 2003 (1980). The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Left, 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2006. Code 2.0. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2005. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. New York, NY: Penguin.

Lessig. Lawrence. 2008. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press HC.

Levinson, Paul. 1999. Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium. New York, NY: Routledge.

Levinson, Paul. 1998. The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution. New York, NY: Routledge.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1962. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Thompson, John. 1995. Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Mobile Device Webnography

Castells, Manuel, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, and Araba Sey. 2006. Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

Vavoula, Giasemi, Norbert Pachler, and Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (eds.). 2009. Researching Mobile Learning: Frameworks, Tools and Research Designs. Oxford, England: Peter Lang.

Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications

Packer, Randall and Jordan, Ken (eds.). 2001. Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.

Network Society

Castells, Manuel. 2003. The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Castells, Manuel. 2000. The Rise of the Network Society. (Vol. 1 - 2nd ed.). Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Castells, Manuel. 2004. The Power of Identity. (Vol. 2 - 2nd ed.). Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Castells, Manuel. 2000. The End of Millenium. (Vol. 3 - 2nd ed.). Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Stalder, Felix. 2006. Manuel Castells: The Theory of the Network Society. Cambridge, England: Polity.

New Media

Jenkins, Henry. 2008. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York, NY: NYU Press.

Lister, Martin. 2003. New Media: A Critical Introduction. New York, NY: Routledge.

Lundby, Knut (ed.). 2009. Mediatization: Concepts, Changes, Consequences. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Open Source Information Technology

Raymond, Eric. S. 2000. The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. (First presented at the Linux Kongress in 1997). O'Reilly Media.

Place, Space, and 'Field' in Virtual Ethnography

Meyrowitz, Joshua. 1985. No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Programming Languages and Ethnography

Social Change and Virtual Ethnography

Dutton, William H. 1999. Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Social Implications of Information Technology

Shirky, Clay. 2008. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. New York, NY: Penguin Press.

Social Networking

Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp. 2008. Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media. E-Book. Researchers at the University of Southern California and UC Berkeley have been conducting ethnographic research on kids' informal learning with digital media since 2005. This is what they found.

Ryan Jenny. 2008. The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social Networking. E-Book. Anthropologist Jenny Ryan explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between human and machine, public and private, voyeurism and exhibitionism, the history of media and our digitized future. Woven throughout are the stories and experiences of those who engage with these sites regularly and ritualistically, the generation of "digital natives" whose tales attest to the often strange and uncomfortable ways online social networking sites have come to be embedded in the everyday lives of American youth.

Social Theory and the Internet

Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York, NY: Routledge.

TCP/IP and Ethnography

Television Ethnography

Mankekar, Purnima. 1999. Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Spigel, Lynn. 1992. Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

The 'Virtual' vis-à-vis Internet Ethnography

Virtual Archives and Ethnography

Fabian, Johannes. 2008. Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Virtual Communities

Rheingold, Howard. 1993. The Virtual Community. Written at the dawn of the cyberculture, The Virtual Community explores the heart of the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (more commonly known as the WELL}. Part ethnography, part history, part journalism and part philosophy, Howard Rheingold's engaging seminal work is a must-read for those interested in online communities.

Virtual Ethnography

Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Hine. Christine. 2000. Virtual Ethnography. London, England: Sage Publications.

Hine, Christine. 2005. Virtual Methods. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers.

Markham, Annette N. and Nancy K. Baym (eds.). 2009. Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method. London, England: Sage Publications.

Marshall. Jonathan Paul. 2007. Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Miller, Daniel and Don Slater. 2000. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford, England: Berg.

Virtual Ethnography and Globalization, Governmentality and Neo-Liberalism

Arterton, F. Christopher. 1987. Teledemocracy: Can technology protect democracy? Newbury Park, CA and Washington, D.C.: Sage Publications.

Axford, B. and Richard Huggins. 2000. New Media and Politics. London: Sage Publications.

Bimber, Bruce. 2003. Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Chadwick, Andrew. 2006. Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Chadwick, Andrew and Philip N. Howard. 2008. Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics. London: Routledge.

Coleman, Stephen and Jay G. Blumler. 2009. The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice, Policy. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Wilhelm, Anthony. 1999. Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.

Virtual Ethnography of the Law

Virtual Worlds

Castronova, Edward. 2006. Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Fine, Gary Alan. 1983. Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games As Social Worlds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Malaby, Thomas M. 2009. Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Pearce, Celia. 2009. Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Webnographies

Hillis, Ken. 2009. Online a Lot of The Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Select Libraries
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Select Machinima
Drax, Bernhard. 2011. Teaching in the Danger Zone. March 19. (A USC Center for Scholarly Technology and Technology Enhanced Learning project uses the virtual world of Second Life to immerse students inside the story they are covering). YouTube.com

draxtordespres. 2011. draxtordespres YouTube Machinaima Channel. YouTube.com

Select References
boyd, danah. 2008. “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence”. February 14: 13-20. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.

Bradner, Scott. 2011. Lighting the dark: Must you make your application wiretap-able?: Law enforcement is worried about 'going dark,' so does that mean you have to change your products?. Network World.

Brett. 2010. Tips for Writing Your First Social Media Policy. February 17. NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

Cornwell, Reid. 2011. The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online: By Howard Rheingold. February 28. The Center for Internet Research.

Cornwell, Reid. 2011. The internet: By The Numbers. February 22. The Center for Internet Research.

MacKinnon, Rebecca. 2011. Q. & A. with Rebecca MacKinnon: Internet in China. (Posted by Evan Osnos). February 22. New York, NY: The New Yorker.

Palfrey, John and Evgeny Morozov. 2011 Internet democracy: This house believes that the internet is not inherently a force for democracy. The Economist.

Thomas, Sue. 2011. Famous internet people *not* from North America. March 7. Leicester, UK: De Montfort University.

Zittrain, Jonathan. 2011. Will the U.S. get an Internet “Kill Switch”?. March 4. Cambridge, MA: The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.

Zittrain, Jonathan. 2011. Freedom and Anonymity: Keeping the Internet Open: Fear of cyberattacks should not lead us to destroy what makes the Internet special. February 24. New York, NY: Scientific American.

Email

Van Vleck, Tom. 2008. The History of Electronic Mail. multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html

Internet Structure

Scholz, Christian. 2010. [http://mrtopf.de/blog/politik-politics Netzneutralität: Wie funktioniert das Internet? Teil 1: Die Struktur]. October 25. mrtopf.de/blog

Scholz, Christian. 2010. Internetstruktur: Peering und Transit. October 25. mrtopf.de/blog - flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/5113307911

Scholz, Christian. 2010. Das Internet: Ein Netz von Netzen. October 25. mrtopf.de/blog - flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/5113307985/

Scholz, Christian. 2010. Internetstruktur: 2 Routen. October 25. mrtopf.de/blog - flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/5113308039

Scholz, Christian. 2010. Internetstruktur: Alternative Route. October 25. mrtopf.de/blog - www.flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/5113308103

Scholz, Christian. 2010. Internetstruktur: Routing. October 25. mrtopf.de/blog - flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/5113907634

Tyson, Jeff. 2010. How Internet Infrastructure Works. computer.howstuffworks.com

Pirate Party

Scholz, Christian. 2010. Parteitag Piraten NRW: Nichts beschlossen, aber alle glücklich?. October 25. mrtopf.de/blog

Select Video and Audio
Reagle, Joseph. 2010. Joseph Reagle on Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. 18 October. Cambridge, MA: Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Vaidhyanathan, Siva. 2011. [http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/2011/03/berkman_center_siva_vaidhyanat.php Berkman Center: Siva Vaidhyanathan on The Googlization of Everything]. Charlottesville, VA: googlizationofeverything.com.

Select Wikis
Webnographers.org. 2010. Webnographer's Books. webnographers.org

Webnographers.org. 2010. Webnographer's Papers. webnographers.org

Webnographers.org. 2010. Webnographer's Syllabi. webnographers.org

Webnographers.org. 2010. Webnographer's Videos. webnographers.org

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