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Castells, Manuel. 2012. Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age. Cambridge, England: Polity Press.

Sewell Jr., William H. 2005. Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.


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Castells, Manuel with Paul Mason (interviewer). 2001. Alternative Economic Cultures. London, England: BBC.

Castells, Manuel with Harry Kreisler (interviewer). 2001. Identity and Change in the Network Society: Conversation with Manuel Castells. (Transcript). Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley Globetrotter 'Conversations with History' Interview.


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Anderson, Chris 2006. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. New York: Hyperion

Aunger R. 2002. The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think. New York, NY : The Free Press.

Diamond, J. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Company.

Harvey, D. 2009. Reshaping Economic Geography: The World Development Report 2009 Development and Change. December 15. The Hague: Institute of Social Studies.

Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel. 2005. Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kalberg, Stephen. 1994. Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

Mace, R., Holden C., Shennan, S. 2005. The evolution of cultural diversity: a phylogenetic approach. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Mendes-Franco, Janine. 2014. Remembering the Jamaican Cultural Theorist Stuart Hall. February 10. Cambridge, MA: Global Voices Online.

O’Brien, M.J. and Shennan, S.J., (eds.) 2009. Issues in Anthropological Studies of Innovation. In Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology. MIT Press.

Postill, John. 2012. Towards a diachronic ethnography of media and actual social changes. johnpostill.com.

Postill, John. 2010. Theorising Cultural Change. July 14. johnpostill.wordpress.com.

Sperber, Dan. 1996 Explaining culture : a naturalistic approach. Oxford: Blackwell.

Tuzin, Donald. (2001) Social Complexity in the Making: A case study among the Arapesh of New Guinea. Routledge.


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Hobart, M. 2010, 'What do we mean by “media practices”?', in B. Bräuchler and J. Postill (eds.), Theorising Media and Practice, Berghahn, Oxford and New York.

Postill, J. 2006. Media and Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.

Postill, J. 2013. The multilinearity of protest: understanding new social movements through their events, trends and routines. Melbourne: RMIT University. Available at: http://johnpostill.com/2013/10/19/the-multilinearity-of-protest/

Sewell W.H., Jr (2005) Logics of History: Social theory and social transformation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press

See also the Media and Social Change bibliography: http://mediasocialchange.net/bibliography/


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Dibb, Mike (Producer/Director). 2013. In Conversation with Stuart Hall. Youtube.com.

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