You might try Graham Meikle's Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet (Routledge, 2002) or Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2003). I suspect, from your description of your students, the former might work better. greg J. Macgregor Wise, Chair Department of Communication Studies College of Human Services Arizona State University West 4701 West Thunderbird Road Glendale, AZ 85306-4908 office: (602) 543 6646 fax: (602) 543 6612 --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:25:56 -0500 From: Ed Lamoureux <ell@bradley.edu> To: Air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] course readings/esp. books Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org I'm starting to work on a 400 level (senior) undergraduate seminar for the spring focused on non-commercial uses for multimedia. I'm pretty sure that I'm going to use Rich Media Poor Democracy as one of the texts (the one that "establishes the nature of the problem") . . . but I'm not having much luck finding the "and here's what we can do about it with new media" text for the other side of the equation. Any suggestions? Our students are very very practical . . . the program itself is a production major at a comprehensive institution . . . the students aren't very well positioned for "critical theory." I'm looking for practical ways to leverage what we do with web/cd/dvd authoring as positive contributions to our culture as opposed to only showing students how to make stuff that works in commercial products and projects. thanks for any suggestions. Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Interim Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center Associate Professor, Speech Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion