Old New Media -- Sources
Bellamy, E. (1888). Looking backward: 2000-1887. New York: Signet Classics.
A novel written from the perspective of a man who falls asleep and wakes up 113 years
later. A lot has changed: the world has become a utopia. And Bellamy tells us all about it.
Bourdieu, P. (1998). On television (Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Trans.). New York: The New
Press.
Critical theorist Pierre Bourdieu examines television, focusing on journalism, and claims
that it imposes “ever-lower levels of political and social discourse on us all.”
Briggs, A. & Burke, P. (2002). A social history of the media. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Gibson, W. & Sterling, B. (1991). The difference engine. New York: Bantam Books.
William Gibson (famous for Neuromancer) and Bruce Sterling (Islands in the Net) team
up to write a novel about what late nineteenth century London may have been like if Babbage’s
Analytical Engine had succeeded and caught on.
Golan, G.J. & Zaidner, L. (2008). Creative strategies in viral advertising: An application of
Taylor’s six-segment message strategy wheel. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication,
13(4). pp. 959-972.
This article presents a content analysis of 360 viral ads that revealed that advertisers
predominantly based their message strategies on an individual ego oriented appeals that were
based on such themes as humor and sexuality.
Hedley, S. (2006). A brief history of spam. Information & Communications Technology Law,
15(3). pp. 223-238.
This article describes the history of SPAM email and suggests that the ability to establish
between legitimate and illegitimate businesses is essential. He also contends that control of
criminal spammers extremely difficult and requires radical changes to the architecture of the
Internet.
Marvin, C. (1988). When old technologies were new. New York: Oxford University Press.
Nakamura, L. (2002). Cybertypes: Race, ethnicity, and identity on the internet. New York:
Routledge.
This book discusses the author’s belief that the Internet does not overcome racial and
ethnic issues, but rather that such issues are hardwired into our online interactions.
Rojek, C. (2004). Cybertourism and the phantasmagoria of place. In S. Williams (Ed.) Tourism:
Critical concepts in the social sciences (pp. 153-168). London: Taylor and Francis.
In this article, the author contends that cyber-travel has left the distinction between home
and abroad “in tatters, forcing us to rethink tourism’s meaning within the context of
contemporary society.”
Schivelbusch, W. (1986). The railway journey: The industrialization of time and space in the
19th century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Stubbs, K. (2003). Telegraphy’s corporeal fictions. In L. Gitelman & G. B. Pingree (Eds.), New
media: 1740-1915 (pp. 91-112). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.