READING LIST
INFOMEVI344 – autumn 2007
Mandatory reading list (908 pages)
The following two books (591 pages) must be purchased, at the Studia bookstore or
elsewhere:
Wardrip-Fruin, Noah & Nic Montfort, (eds) 2003, The New Media Reader, Cambridge, Mass.
MIT press.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong & Thomas Keenan, 2006, New Media, Old Media. A History and
Theory Reader, New York, Routledge.
The students are advised to familiarize themselves with these two books in their entirety.
Mandatory reading in the New Media reader is:
Pages 3-25, 35-81, 133-145, 193-209, 259-300, 367-375, 405-439, 463-470, 485-612, 625709, 737-798. Total 458 pages.
Mandatory reading in Old media, New media: 1-25, 177-264, 335-357. Total 133 pages.
The following book chapters and articles are also mandatory (317 pages). A compendium of
selected texts will be made available at the Studia bookstore.
Compendium. Part one. New Media, Old Media
Benjamin, Walter [1936] (1968) “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”,
in Illuminations. Essays and Reflections. New York: Schocken Books. 30 pages.
Bolter, Jay and Richard Grusin (1999): part I Theory, in Remediation. Understanding New
Media. Cambridge: MIT Press. 68 pages.
Davis, Martin (2000) “Chapter seven. Turing Conceives of the All-Purpose Computer”, in
The universal computer. The road from Leibniz to Turing, New York, Norton & Company.
36 pages.
Hayles, N. Katherine 2000, “The Condition of Virtuality”, in Lunefeld, Peter (ed), The Digital
Dialectic. New Essays on New Media, Cambridge Mass, MIT press. 25. pages.
Meyrowitz, Joshua (1995): “Medium Theory”, in Crowley and Mitchell Communication
Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity Press. 27 pages.
Mitchell, William J. 2000, “Replacing Place”, in Lunefeld, Peter (ed), The Digital Dialectic.
New Essays on New Media, Cambridge Mass, MIT press. 25 pages.
Total 211 pages.
Compendium. Part two. Studying technology
Grint, Keith & Woolgar, Steve 1997, “Chapter 1. Theories of technologies”, in The machine
at work. Technology, work and organization, Cambridge, Polity press. 32 pages.
Latour, Bruno (1994) “Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane
Artifacts”, in Bijker, Wiebe and John Law, (eds) “Shaping Technology/building society.
Studies in Sociotechnical change”, Cambridge, Mass, MiT press, 33 pages.
Latour, Bruno (1999) “On recalling ANT”, in Law, John & John Hassard (eds), Actor
Network Theory and after, Oxford, Blackwell. 11 pages.
Law, John & Michael Callon, (1994), “The life and death of an Aircraft: A Network
analysis”, in Bijker, Wiebe and John Law (eds) Shaping Technology/building society. Studies
in Sociotechnical change, Cambridge, Mass, MIT press. 31 pages.
Total 107 pages.
Supplementary reading list:
Briggs, Asa and Peter Burke (2002): A Social History of the Media. From Gutenberg to the
Internet. Cambridge: Polity Press. 333 pages.
Bolter, Jay and Richard Grusin (1999): Part II Media, chapters 4-14, in Remediation.
Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press. 142 pages.
Manovich, Lev 2001, The Language of the New Media, Cambridge, Mass, MIT press (335
pages).
Katz, Elihu et.al. (eds.) (2003) Canonic Texts in Media Research. Are There Any? Should
There be Any? How About These? Cambridge (UK): Polity Press. 260 pages.
Passin, Thomas B. (2004) Explorer’s Guide to the Semantic Web. Greenwich, CT: Manning
Publications. 270 pages.
Woolgar, Steve (ed.) (2002) Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. Chapters 1 -11. (208 pages).