Technology, Culture & Social Change
PhD Comprehensive Exam Reading List
The following readings are in addition to those required by the core concentration courses.
1. Information and Communication Technology
Mueller, Milton. (2013). Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance
(Information Revolution and Global Politics). MIT Press.
Castells, Manuel. (2009). The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy,
Society, and Culture, Volume I, 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
DeNardis, Laura. (2014). The Global War for Internet Governance. Yale University Press.
Rogers, Everett M. (2003). Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition. Free Press.
Braman, Sandra. (2004). The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime (International
Political Economy). Palgrave: Macmillan.
Chadwick, Andrew & Howard, Phillip N. (2008). Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics.
Routledge.
2. Communication and Socioeconomic Development
Brousseau, Eric. et al. (Eds.). (2010). Governance, Regulation and Powers on the Internet.
Cambridge University Press.
Castells, Manuel. (2013). Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mansuri, Ghazali & Rao, V. (2013). Localizing Development: Does Participation Work? (Policy
Research Reports). The World Bank.
Howard, Phillip N. (2010). The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information
Technology and Political Islam. Oxford University Press.
Manyozo, Linje. (2012). Media, Communication and Development: Three Approaches. Sage.
McPhail, Thomas L. ed. (2009). Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media.
West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Unwin, Tim., ed. (2009). ICT4D: Information & Communication Technologies for Development.
Routledge.
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3. Communication and Culture
Goggin, Gerard. (2010). Global Mobile Media. Routledge.
Milan, Stefania. (2013). Social Movements and Their Technologies. Wiring Social Change.
Palgrave.
Thomas, Pradip. (2012). Digital India: Understanding, Information, Communication & Social
Change. Sage.
Venturelli, Shalini. (1998). Liberalizing the European Media: Politics, Regulation, and the
Public Sphere. NY: Clarendon Press.
Warschauer, Mark. (2003). Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide.
MIT Press.
West, Darrell. (2011). The Next Wave: Using Digital Technology To Further Social and Political
Innovation. Brookings.
Wilson, Ernest. (2006). The Information Revolution in Developing Countries. MIT Press.
Brockington, Daniel. (2014) Celebrity Advocacy and International Development (Rethinking
Development). Routledge.
Wilkins, Karin. et al. (2014). The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
(Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research). Wiley-Blackwell.
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