Very nice list, of course - thanks for putting it together for us. Still, I'm surprised by the omission of Sherry Turkle's recent book, _Alone Together: Why We Expect More of Technology and Less of Each Other_. As it documents especially her more recent series of concerns re. our engagements with computers as instantiated in robots, in contrast with her earlier enthusiasms for our engagements with computers and CMC, it strikes me as a watershed volume along these lines. In different directions: depending on what we emphasize re. "computation" and understand by "popular culture" - you might get some interesting overlaps and certainly important differences by interrogating two other lists: the list for the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (ia-cap.org - mailing list free) and HUMANIST, the venerable list of Digital Humanities (easy to find and join). Let us know if you do! cheers, Charles Ess Professor MSO Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 On 9/12/11 2:30 PM, "Paul Booth" <pbooth81@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Last week I asked for suggestions for references that dealt with the relationship between computers and popular culture. I thought I'd share the list that was generated. My sincerest thanks for those that helped by offering citations!
Aldred, Jessica, and Brian Greenspan. 2011. ³A Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys: BioShock and the Dystopian Logic of Convergence.² Games and Culture (March 27). doi:10.1177/1555412011402674.
Barbrook, Richard. Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
Berdayes, Linda Cooper. ³The Information Highway in Contemporary Magazine Narrative.² Journal of Communication 48, no. 2 (1998): 109-24.
Burns, Kelli S. ³Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture.² ABC-CLIO. (30 September 2008).
Eng, Lawrence. Otaku Engagements: Subcultural Appropriation of Science and Technology. Ph.D. Diss. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007. Accessed 12 Sept 2011 from http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1221726101&Fmt=7&clientId=79356&RQT=309&... ame=PQD&cfc=1
Flichy, Patrice. The Internet Imaginaire. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007.
Gibson, William. ³Modern Boys and Mobile Girls.² The Guardian. 01 Apr 2011. Accessed 12 Sept 2011 from http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/apr/01/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.f... tures.
Harrasser, Karin. ³Transforming Discourse into Practice: Computerhystories znd Digital Cultures around 1984,² Cultural Studies 16, no. 6 (2002): 820-32.
Kera, Denisa. ³From Data Realism to Dada Aggregations: Visualizations in Digital Art, Humanities and Popular Culture.² IEEE (July, 2010): 297-300. doi:10.1109/IV.2010.99.
Kevorkian, Martin. Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America. Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press, 2006.
Pal, Joyojeet. ³Rajnikant¹s Laptop: Computers and Development in Popular Indian Cinema,² Information Technologies & International Development (2009): 417-426. Doi: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426687
Palfrey, John, and Urs Gasser. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. New York: Basic Books, 2010. Pärna, Karen. Believing in the Net. Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University Press, 2010.
Stryker, Cole. Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chanÆs Army Conquered the Web. New York: Penguin, 2011.
Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internetand How to Stop It. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII ? and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." -- Douglas Adams
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Paul Booth <pbooth81@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I thought I'd mine the valuable expertise of the list. I'm writing a piece on the relationship between computers and popular culture and I want to make sure I'm covering all my bases, literature-wise. If you know of any critical or germinal works in this field, can you send titles to me, off-list? I'd be happy to compile and post a summary for others.
Thanks! Paul
-- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies and Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604