Hi there, I'm putting together texts for a similar course myself. I've decided to use Lister et al. with a coursepack. The problem from my point of view is that there is no introduction in Lister to methods in media studies. For that I shall probably use: Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, ed. 2002. A Handbook of Media and Communication Research. London: Routledge. My coursepack will probably contain most of the following combined with excerpts from Bruhn Jensen (above): Arvidsson, Adam. 2004. On the 'Pre-History of the Panoptic Sort': Mobility in Market Research. Surveillance & Society 1 (4). Frasca, Gonzalo. 2003. Simulation versus Narrative. Introduction to Ludology. In The video game theory reader, edited by M. J. P. Wolf and B. Perron. New York; London: Routledge. Hjarvard, Stig. 2001. Simulated Conversations. The Simulation of Interpersonal Communication in Electronic Media. In Realism and 'reality' in film and media, edited by A. Jerslev. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. Jørgensen, Anker Helms, and Lars Erik Udsen. 2005. From calculation to culture. A brief history of the computer as interface. In Interface://Culture - The World Wide Web as Political Resource and Aesthetic Form, edited by K. B. Jensen. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur. Manovich, Lev. 2001. What Is Digital Cinema? In The digital dialectic: new essays on new media, edited by P. Lunenfeld. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Original edition, 1999. Preece, Jenny, and Diane Maloney-Krichmar. 2003. Online Communities: Focusing on sociability and usability. In Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, edited by J. Jacko and A. Sears. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. Publishers. Tagg, Philip. 1994. From Refrain to Rave: The Decline of Figure and the Rise of Ground. Popular Music 13 (2):209-222. Hope this helps. Comments always welcome. Best and thanks, Charlie On 5/25/06, Adam Muir <A.Muir@griffith.edu.au> wrote:
hi Heidi,
I have used a few of those kinds of books before, but the one that I return to is:
*** New Media: a Critical Introduction. - 2003 - by Martin Lister, Kieran Kelly, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings and Iain Grant. Routledge.