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Readings
There is no course book, students can buy the kompendium
with the mandatory readings at the Economy Office. The kompendium
is the basic literature for this course, if you want to extend
your readings, you can start by having a look at the full books
where the kompendium texts come from.
A
more general pensum will grow steadily throughout the course,
as authors and topics are introduced in the lectures. You can
use this pensum list to expand your knowledge on a particular
subject
Kompendium
- Basic course literature
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Baym, Nancy. 1998. “The Emergence of On-Line Community”.
In Jones, Steven G. (ed.) Cybersociety 2.0. Revisiting Computer
Mediated Communication and Community. London: Sage. (p.
35-63) ISBN- 0-7619-1462-5
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Bell, David. 2001. An Introduction to Cybercultures.
London: Routledge. (p. 6-29) ISBN- 0-415-24659-8
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Borsook, Paulina. 2000. Cyberselfish. A Critical Romp Through
the Terribly Libertarian World of High-Tech. London: Little,
Brown and Company. (p. 73-114) ISBN- 0-316-84771-2
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Dibbell, Julian. 1993 “A rape in Cyberspace”. In
Holeton, Richard. 1998. Composing Cyberspace. Identity,
Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age. Boston:
McGraw Hill. 1998 (p. 83-98) ISBN-0-07-029548-8
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Fornäs, Johan.1995. Cultural Theory and Late Modernity.
London: Sage. (p. 134-154) ISBN-0-8039-8901-6
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Gibson, Willian. 1986. “Johnny Mnemonic” in Burning
Chrome. London: Harper Collins. (p. 9-36) ISBN-0-00-648043-8
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Giddens, Anthony. 1991. “’Modernity and Self-Identity’
Tribulations of the Self”. In Jaworkski/Coupland (eds.)
The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge. (p. 415-427)
ISBN- 0-415-129734-1
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Gotved, Stine. 1999. Cybersociologi. (ph.d. thesis).
Sociologisk Institut, Københavns Universitet. (p. 121-168)
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Gray, Ann. 2003. Research Practice for Cultural Studies.
London: Sage. (p. 57-78) ISBN- 0-7619-5175-X
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Hall/duGay/Janes/Mackay/Negus. 1997. Doing Cultural Studies.
The Story of the Sony Walkman. London: Sage. (p. 7-40,
125-128) ISBN-0-7619-5402-3
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Jenkins, Henry. 1992. Textual Poachers. Television Fans
& Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge. (p.185-222)
ISBN-0-415-90572-9
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Lessig, Lawrence. 1999. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.
New York: Basic Books. (p. 3-9, 122-164) ISBN-0-465-03912-X
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Lévy, Pierre. 2001. Cyberculture. Minnesota:
University of Minnesota Press. (p. 211-236) ISBN- 0-8166-3610-9
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Lister/Dovey/Giddings/Grant/Kelly. 2003. New Media: A Critical
Introduction. London: Routledge. (p.220-260) ISBN- 0-415-22378-4
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Mackay, Hugh. 1997. “Consuming Communication Technologies
at Home”. In Mackay, Hugh (ed.) Consumption and Everyday
Life. London: Sage. (P. 260-308) ISBN-0-7619-5438-4
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Mitchell, Lisa/Georges, Eugenia. 1998. “Baby´s First
Picture. The Cyborg Fetus of Ultrasound Imaging”. In Davis-Floyd/Dumit
(eds.). Cyborg Babies. From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots.
New York: Routledge. (p. 105-123) ISBN- 0-415-91604-6
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Nakamura, Lisa. 2000. “Where Do You Want to Go Today?
Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet and Transnationality.”
In Kolko/Nakamura/Rodman (eds.) Race in Cyberspace.
New York: Routledge. (p. 15-26) ISBN-0-415-92163-5
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Pesce, Mark. 2000. The Playful World. How Technology is
Transforming our Imagination. New York: Ballantine Books.
(p. 17-35) ISBN-0-345-43943-0
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Poster, Mark. 2003. “The Good, the Bad and the Virtual.
Ethics in the Age of Information”. In Liestøl/Morrison/Rasmussen.
Digital Media Revisited. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.(P.
521-545) ISBN- 0262-12256-1
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Robins, Kevin. 1996. “Cyberspace and the World We Live
In”. In Bell, David / Kennedy M. Barbara. 2000. The
Cybercultures Reader. London: Routledge. (p. 77-95) ISBN-0-415-18379-0
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Sardar/Van Loon. 1998. Introducing Cultural Studies.
Cambridge: Icon Books. (p. 3-23) ISBN-1-84046-074-1
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Tufte, Thomas. 2002. “Ethnic Minority Danes between Diaspora
and Locality – Social Uses of Mobile Phones and Internet”.
In Stald/Tufte (eds.) Global Encounters: Media and Cultural
Transformation. Luton: University of Luton Press. (p. 235-263)
ISBN- 1-86020-587-9
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Turkle, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen. New York:
Simon & Schuster. (p. 9-26) ISBN- 0-684-80353-4
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Wajcman, Judy. 1991. Feminism Confronts Technology.
Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. (p. 1-26) ISBN-0-271-00802-4
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Wilbur P., Shawn. “An Archaeology of Cyberspaces”.1997.
In Bell, David / Kennedy M. Barbara. 2000. The Cybercultures
Reader. London: Routledge. (p. 45-55) ISBN-0-415-18379-0
General
Pensum
- ADORNO, T.W. 1991. The Culture Industry.
London, Verso.
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ALTHUSSER, Louis. 1971. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.
London: New Left Books.
- ARNOLD, M. 1932. Culture and Anarchy. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
- BARTHES, R. 1967. The Elements of Semiology. London:
Cape.
- BARTHES, R. 1972. Mythologies. London: Cape.
- BAUDRILLARD, J. 1998. Selected Writings, Cambridge,
Polity Press.
- BAUDRILLARD, Jean. 1997. Simulacra and Simulation.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
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BAYM, Nancy. 1999. Tune In, Log On. Soaps, Fandom, and Online
Community. London: Sage.
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BECKER, Barbara (2000), "Cyborg, Agents and Transhumanists",
Leonardo 33 (5): 361-365
- BOURDIEU, P. 1989. “Social Space and symbolic power”.
Sociological Theory. Vol. 7, n.1.
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BUTLER, J. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion
of Identity. New York: Routledge.
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CASTELLS. 1996, 1997, 1998. The Information Age: Economy,
Society, and Culture (three volumes). Oxford: Blackwell
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CIXOUS, Hélène. 1975. “Sorties” In
MARKS, 1980. French Feminisms: an anthology. Amherst: The University
of Massachussetts Press.
- DE CERTEAU, M. 1984. The Practice of Everyday Life.
Berkeley: UCLA Press.
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ELGESEM, Dan (1996), "Privacy, respect for Persons, and
Risk", in Charles Ess (ed), Philosophical perspectives
on computer-Mediated Communication, Albany, SUNY, p 67-93
- FOUCAULT, M. 1972. The Archaeology of Knowledge.
London, Tavistock.
- FOUCAULT, M. 1980. Power/Knowledge. Brighton: Harvester.
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GOFFMAN, Erving. 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday
Life. New York: Doubleday.
- HALL, S. and JEFFERSON, T. 1976. Resistance Through Rituals:
youth subcultures in post-war Britain. London: Hutchinson.
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HALL, Stuart. 1990. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”,
in Rutherford, J. (ed). Identity: community, culture, difference.
London: Lawrence and Wishart.
- HALL, S. (ed). 1997. Representation. Cultural Representation
and Signifying Practices. London: Sage.
- HARAWAY, Donna. 1991. “A Manifesto for cyborgs: science,
technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980’s, in Simians,
Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York;
Routledge.
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HøJRUP, Thomas. 1983. “On the Concept of Life-Mode.
A Formspecifying Mode of Analysis Applied to Contemporary Western
Europe”. Ethnologia Scandinavica.
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JOHNSON, Deborah (2001), Computer Ethics, 3rd ed.), Upper Saffle
River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall
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LACAN, Jacques. 1977. Écrits: a selection. London: Tavistock.
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MACKENZIE, D and WAJCMAN, J. (eds.). 1985. The Social Shaping
of Technology. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
- MICHAEL, M. 2000. Reconnecting Culture, Technology and
Nature: fron society to heterogeneity. London: Routledge.
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MICHELFELDER, Diane (2001), The Moral Value of Informational
Privacy in Cyberspace. Ethics and Information Technology
3(2): 129-135
- MILLER, DANIEL & SLATER, DON. 2000. The Internet:
an ethnographic approach. Oxford: Berg.
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PLANT, Sadie. 2000. “On the matrix: cyberfeminist simulations”.
In Bell, David / Kennedy M. Barbara. The Cybercultures Reader.
London: Routledge.
- REEVES, BYRON & NASS, CLIFFORD. 1996. The Media Equation:
How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real
People and Places. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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ROBINS, Kevin. 1997. “What in the World’s going
on?”. In du Gay et.al. Production of Culture / Cultures
of Production. London: Sage.
- SAUSSURE, F. 1960. Course in General Linguistics.
London: Peter Owen.
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SCHARF, Barbara (1999), Beyond Netiquette: The Ethics of doing
Naturalistic Discourse Research on the Internet, in Steve Jones
(ed), Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for
examining the Net, pp. 243 - 256, London: SAGE
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SPRINGER, C. 1996. Electronic Eros: bodies and desire in the
postindustrial age. London: Athlone.
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SPRINGER, C. 2000. “Digital Rage”. In Bell, David
/ Kennedy M. Barbara. The Cybercultures Reader. London: Routledge.
- STERNE, J. 1999. “Thinking the Internet: cultural studies
versus the millenium” in JONES (ed). Doing Internet
Research: critical issues and methods for examining the Net.
London: Sage.
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STONE, A.R. 1995. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close
of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
- VEBLEN, T. 1899 (1989). The Theory of the Leisure Class.
New York: MacMillan
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WAKEFORD, N. 2000. “Networking women and grrrls with information
/ communication technology: surfing tales of the www”.
In Bell, David / Kennedy M. Barbara. The Cybercultures Reader.
London: Routledge.
- WILLIAMS, R. 1961. The Long Revolution. Harmondsworth,
Penguin.
- WILLIAMS, R. 1976. Keywords. London, Fontana.
- WILLIAMS, R. 1983. Towards 2000. London, The Hogarth
Press.
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WOODWARD, Kathryn. 1997. “Concepts of Identity and Difference”.
In Identity and Difference. London: Sage.
Methodology
- DEACON / PICKERING / GOLDNING / MURDOCK. Researching
Communications. A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural
Analysis. 1999. Oxford: OUP.
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GRAY, Ann. 2003. Research Practice for Cultural Studies.
London: Sage.
- MASON, Jennifer. 2002. Qualitative Researching.
London: SAGE
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NARDI, Peter M. 2003. Doing Survey Research. A Guide to
Quantitative Methods. Boston: Pearson.
