Dear Nancy and AoIR, This may be the most useful overview on the list: Lister, Martin, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, and Kieran Kelly. 2009. New Media: A Critical Introduction. New York, NY: Routledge. These are important books, theoretically: Castells, Manuel, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, and Araba Sey. 2006. Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press Castells, Manuel. 2009. Communication Power. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. And the Free and Open books on this http://Webnographers.org list are excellent resourcs: http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books They include, but there are probably others: Kelty, Christopher M. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Zittrain, Jonathan. 2008. The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Thomas, Douglas. 2002. Hacker Culture. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Hauben, Michael and Ronda Hauben. 1997. Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. Zurawski, Nils. 2000. Virtuelle Ethnizität: Studien zu Identität, Kultur und Internet. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag. von Hippel, Eric. 2005. Democratizing Innovation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. von Hippel, Eric. 1988. The Sources of Innovation. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Lessig. Lawrence. 2008. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press HC. 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. 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. Ryan Jenny. 2008. The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social Networking. E-Book. Rheingold, Howard. 1993. The Virtual Community. Kluver, Randolph, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Kirsten M. Foot, and Steven M. Schneider (eds.). 2007. The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. London: Routledge. China might also be interested in World University & School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware. There's a lot of opportunity to create a great, open, free University and School in China with this. Best, Scott http://scottmacleod.com http://worlduniversity.wikia.com Nancy Baym writes:
Colleagues --
A graduate student of ours is returning to China where she will be a professor. She has been asked to compile a list of essential books in the area of computer-mediated communication for her university's library to purchase. I gave her some recommendations, but thought I would put the question to you for a broader sweep.
What do you think are the books that no self respecting library with an internet studies research collection should be without?
Thanks.
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