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. “A Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys: BioShock and the Dystopian Logic of Convergence.” 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. “The Information Highway in Contemporary Magazine Narrative.” Journal of Communication 48, no. 2 (1998): 109-24. Burns, Kelli S. “Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture.” 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&... Flichy, Patrice. The Internet Imaginaire. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007. Gibson, William. “Modern Boys and Mobile Girls.” The Guardian. 01 Apr 2011. Accessed 12 Sept 2011 from http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/apr/01/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.f.... Harrasser, Karin. “Transforming Discourse into Practice: Computerhystories znd Digital Cultures around 1984,” Cultural Studies 16, no. 6 (2002): 820-32. Kera, Denisa. “From Data Realism to Dada Aggregations: Visualizations in Digital Art, Humanities and Popular Culture.” 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. “Rajnikant’s Laptop: Computers and Development in Popular Indian Cinema,” 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 Internet—and 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
-- Paul Booth, PhD Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies and Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604