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Critical Approaches to the Internet

Lister, Martin, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, and Kieran Kelly. 2009. New Media: A Critical Introduction. New York, NY: Routledge.

Lundby, Knut (ed.). 2009. Mediatization: Concepts, Changes, Consequences. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Turow, J. and Tsui, L. (eds.). 2008. The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

Cultural Geography

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 2006. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 1994. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Cultural History

Turner, Fred. 2006. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Culture of Blogs

Banks, M A. 2007. Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers. Wiley.

Blood, R., ed. 2002. We've got blog: How weblogs are changing our culture. Cambridge, Mass: Perseus Publishing.

Rettberg, J.W., 2008. Blogging. Polity Press.

Cyberculture

Bell, David. 2001. An Introduction to Cybercultures. London, England: Routledge.

Bell, David, Brian D. Loader, Nicholas Pleace and Douglas Schuler (eds.). 2004. Cyberculture: The Key Concepts. London, England: Routledge.

Cybercapitalism

Zackariasson, Peter. 2009. Cyberkapitalism : om konsten att tjäna pengar på att döda drakar, stjäla va. Häftad. Kalla kulor förlag. (in Swedish)

Cybersecurity

Brenner, Susan. 2009. Cyberthreats: The Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation State. USA: Oxford University Press.

Denning, Dorothy E. 1998. Information Warfare and Security. Addison-Wesley.

Daily Life and the Internet

Anderson, Ben, Malcolm Brynin, Yoel Raban, and Jonathan Gershuny (eds.). 2007. Information and Communications Technologies in Society: E-living in a Digital Europe. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Kraut, Robert, Malcolm Brynin and Sara Kiesler (eds.). 2006. Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology. (Oxford Series in Human-Technology Interaction). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Wellman, Barry and Caroline Haythornthwaite (eds.). 2002. The Internet in Everyday Life. Oxford: Blackwell.

Digital Divide and Internet Ethnography

Loader, Brian. 1998. Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society. London, England: Routledge.

Norris, Pippa. 2001. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Schön Donald A., Bish Sanyal and William J. Mitchell (eds.). 1998. High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Digital Youth

Bennett, W. Lance (ed.). 2007. Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Ito, Mizuko, and Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, Lisa Tripp. 2009. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Livingstone, Sonia, and Leslie Haddon (eds.). 2009. Kids Online: Opportunities and Risks for Children. Bristol, England: Policy Press. (Up to date account of how children use the internet in Europe, including such topical issues as social networking, risky contacts, parental mediation, media literacy).

Montgomery, K. C. 2007. Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Palfrey, John G., and Urs Gasser. 2008. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Watkins, S. Craig. 2009. The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future. Beacon Press.

Disorder and the Internet

Weinberg, D. 2008. Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Holt.

Eastern Philosophy and Virtual Ethnography

Vedro, S. 2007. Digital Dharma: A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere. Quest Books.

Education Online

Hea, Amy C. Kimme (ed.). 2009. Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers. Cresskil NJ: Hampton Press.

Herrington, Jan and Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (eds.). 2009. New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Mobile learning In Higher Education. University of Wollongong.

Hiltz, Starr Roxanne and Ricki Goldman (eds.). 2004. Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks. New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Hunsinger, Jeremy (ed.). 2009. Learning infrastructures in the Social Sciences. (Special issue of journal: Learning Inquiry, Vol 3, Num 3 - December). New York, NY: Springer.

Ko, S., & Rosen, S. 2001. Teaching online: A practical guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Kolb, Liz. 2008. Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education. International Society for Technology in Education.

Palloff, R. M. and K. Pratt. 1999. Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom (2nd ed. of Building learning communities in cyberspace: Effective strategies for the online classroom). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Purdy, James R., and Joyce P. Walker. 2006. Digital Breadcrumbs: Case Studies of Online Research. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy. (http://www.technorhetoric.net/11.2/topoi/purdy-walker/index.htm)

Email and Virtual Ethnography

Emotions and Virtual Ethnography

Vincent, Jane and Leopoldina Fortunati. 2009. Electronic Emotion: The mediation of emotion via information and communication technologies. (Interdisciplinary Communication Studies edited by Professor Colin B. Grant). Oxford, England: Peter Lang.

End User Internet Production

Bruns, A. 2008. Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (Digital Formations). Peter Lang.

Ethics in Cyberspace

Buchanan, Elizabeth. 2004. Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. London: Idea Group.

McKee, Heidi, and James Porter. 2009. The Ethics of Internet Research. A Rhetorical, Case-based Process. New York: Peter Lang.

Ploug, Thomas. 2009. Ethics in Cyberspace: How Cyberspace May Influence Interpersonal Interaction. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.

Ethnography

Bohannan, Paul and van der Elst, Dirk. 1998. Asking and Listening: Ethnography As Personal Adaptation. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.

Cerwonka, Allaine and Liisa Malkki. 2007. Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Clifford, James and George E. Marcus (eds.). 1986. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Kottak, Conrad. 2005. Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (with PowerWeb) (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages.

Ethnographies Relating to the Internet

Paterson, Chris and David Domingo (eds.). 2008. Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

eTrust and Virtual Ethnography

Cook, K.S., C. Snijders, V. Buskins, and C. Cheshire (eds.). 2009. eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation Publications.

Film as Ethnography

Crawford, Peter Ian, and David Turton (eds.). 1992. Film As Ethnography. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press.

Free Software Culture

Kelty, Christopher M. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. This book is modulatable; it's designed to be interactively edited.

Future of the Internet

Anderson, Janna Quitney. 2005. Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Anderson, Janna Quitney, Lee Rainie and Susannah Fox. 2008. Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet (Vol. 1). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Anderson, Janna Quitney and Lee Rainie. 2008. Hopes and Fears: The Future of the Internet (Vol. 2). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Anderson, Janna Quitney and Lee Rainie. 2009. Ubiquity, Mobility, Security: The Future of the Internet (Vol. 3). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Zittrain, Jonathan. 2008. The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Games

Prensky, Marc. 2001. Digital Game-Based Learning. McGraw-Hill.

Reeves, Byron and J. Leighton Read. 2009. Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Gender and Internet Ethnography

Freeman, Carla. 2000. High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Geopolitics of New Media

Castells, Klinenberg, Lévy, Schiller, et al. 2010. Manière de voir: Internet, révolution culturelle. No. 109 / Février - Mars 2010. Le Monde-diplomatique. (In French. A compendium of articles dealing with Net politics, economics and culture from a progressive perspective).

Downing, John. 1996. Internationalizing Media Theory: Transition, Power, Culture. London: Sage.

Graff, G. M. 2007. The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Losh, Elizabeth. 2009. Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Globalization, Governmentality and Neo-Liberalism and Virtual Ethnography

Arterton, F. Christopher. 1987. Teledemocracy: Can technology protect democracy? Newbury Park, CA and Washington, D.C.: Sage Publications.

Axford, B. and Richard Huggins. 2000. New Media and Politics. London: Sage Publications.

Bimber, Bruce. 2003. Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Chadwick, Andrew. 2006. Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Chadwick, Andrew and Philip N. Howard. 2008. Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics. London: Routledge.

Coleman, Stephen and Jay G. Blumler. 2009. The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice, Policy. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Davis, Richard and Diana Owen. 1998. New Media and American Politics. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Deibert, Ronald J., John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain. 2010. Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. (Foreword by Miklos Haraszti). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Goggin, Gerard, and Mark McLelland (eds.). 2008. Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms. Routledge.

Kluver, Randolph, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Kirsten M. Foot, and Steven M. Schneider (eds.). 2007. The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. The only comparative analysis of the impact of the internet in elections around the world so far, using a common framework of analysis and methodology. Pre-publication proofs of the chapters are available here: http://ipa.tamu.edu/projects/Elections.asp

Uimonen, Paula. 2001.Transnational.Dynamics@Development.Net. Internet, Modernization and Globalization. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, no. 49. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.

Wilhelm, Anthony. 1999. Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.

Hacker Culture

Himanen, Pekka. 2001. The Hacker Ethic and Spirit of the Information Age. (Prologue by Linus Torvalds; Epilogue by Manuel Castells). New York, NY: Random House.

Thomas, Douglas. 2002. Hacker Culture. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

Health Care and Virtual Ethnography

Murero, M. & Rice, R. E. (eds.). 2006. The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research and Practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rice, R. E. & Katz, J. E. (eds.). 2001. The Internet and Health Communication: Expectations and Experiences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

History of Computing

Babbage, Charles. 1864. Passages from the life of a philosopher. London, England: Longman.

Bardini, T. 2000. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Ceruzzi, P. 2003. A History of Modern Computing (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Frieberger, P. and M. Swaine. 1999 (1984). Fire in the valley: The making of the personal computer. Berkeley, CA: Osborne/McGraw-Hill.

History of the Internet

Abbate, Janet. 1999. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

Berners-Lee, Tim. 2000. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Flichy, P. 2007. The Internet Imaginaire. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Hafner, K. & Lyon, M. 1996. Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet. New York, NY: Touchstone.

Hauben, Michael and Ronda Hauben. 1997. Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.

Salus, P. H. 1995. Casting the Net: from ARPANET to Internet and Beyond. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.

Rheingold, H. 1995. Tools For Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. Indiana.

Teuteberg, Hans Jürgen, and Cornelius Neutsch. 1998. Vom Flügeltelegraphen zum Internet: Geschichte der modernen Telekommunikation. Stuttgart, Deutschland: Franz Steiner Verlag. (In German).

History of Software

Ito, Mizuko. 2009. Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Identity and Internet Ethnography

Abbas, Yasmine and Fred Dervin (eds.). 2009. Digital Technologies of the Self. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Cohen, Julie. (forthcoming). The Networked Self: Copyright, Privacy, and the Production of Networked Space." (under contract to) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Hakken, David. 1999. Cyborgs@Cyberspace?: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future. London: Routledge.

Markham, Annette. 1998. Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Turkle, Sherry. 1997. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

Zurawski, Nils. 2000. Virtuelle Ethnizität: Studien zu Identität, Kultur und Internet. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag.

Information Technology and Nonmarket Information Production

Benkler, Yochai. 2007. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Innovations in Forms of Authority on the Internet

O'Neil, Mathieu. 2009. Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes. The Pluto Press.

Internet and Business

Aspray, William and Paul E. Ceruzzi (eds.). 2008. The Internet and American Business. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

McAfee, Andrew. 2009. Enterprise 2.0: The State of An Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Teten, D. & Allen, S. 2006. The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online. NY: Amacon.

Woods, Steven. 2009. Digital Body Language. New York, NY: New Year Publishing LLC

Journalism and Virtual Ethnography

Gilmore, Dan. 2004. We the Media. O'Reilly Media. (Impact on news, citizen journalism, info dissemination)

McChesney, Robert W., and John Nichols. 2010. The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again. Nation Books.

Language, Linguistics and Virtual Ethnography

Baron, Naomi. 2000. Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading. New York, NY: Routledge.

Baron, Naomi. 2008. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Crystal, David. 2002. Language and the Internet (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Danet, Brenda, and Susan C. Herring (eds.). 2007. The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Posteguillo, Santiago. 2003. Netlinguistics: Language, Discourse and Ideology in Internet. Castellón de la Plana, Spain: Universitat Jaume.

Law and Virtual Ethnography

Nunziato, Dawn C. 2009. Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

Literature and Virtual Ethnography

Machinima

Making Digital Cultures

Hand, Martin. 2008. Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Media Anthropology

Askew, K. and R.R. Wilk (eds.). 2002. The anthropology of media. London: Blackwell.

Ginsburg, Faye D., Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin (eds.). 2006. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Mead, Margaret and Rhoda Metraux, (eds.). 1953. The Study of Culture at a Distance. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Media Studies and Virtual Ethnography

Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke. 2005 (2002). A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Polity Press.

Castells, Manuel. 2009. Communication Power. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Gitlin, Todd. 2003 (1980). The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Left (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2006. Code 2.0. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2005. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. New York, NY: Penguin.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2002. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. Vintage.

Lessig. Lawrence. 2008. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press HC. Also freely available here: http://www.archive.org/details/LawrenceLessigRemix

Levinson, Paul. 1999. Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium. New York, NY: Routledge.

Levinson, Paul. 2009. New New Media. New York, NY: Allyn & Bacon.

Levinson, Paul. 1998. The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution. New York, NY: Routledge.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1962. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Thompson, John. 1995. The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Methods

Hargittai, Eszter (ed.). 2009. Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Hey, Tony, Stewart Tansley and Kristin Tolle. 2009. Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Research.

Markham, Annette N. and Nancy K. Baym (eds.). 2009. Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method. London, England: Sage Publications.

Migrants and Online Technologies

Karim, Karim H. 2003. The Media of Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge.

Stephen, Lynn. 2007. Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Mobile Communication Webnography

Castells, Manuel, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, and Araba Sey. 2006. Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

Griffey, Jason. 2010. Mobile Technology and Libraries. Neal-Schuman

Horst, H. and D. Miller. 2006. The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication. Oxford: Berg.

Katz, J. (ed). 2008. Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

Ling, Rich and Jonathan Donner. 2009. Mobile Phones and Mobile Communication. Polity.

Vavoula, Giasemi, Norbert Pachler, and Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (eds.). 2009. Researching Mobile Learning: Frameworks, Tools and Research Designs. Oxford, England: Peter Lang.

Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications

Packer, Randall and Jordan, Ken (eds.). 2001. Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality (exp. ed.). (Foreward by William Gibson; Coda by Laurie Anderson). New York, NY: W.W. Norton.

Music and Virtual Ethnography

Ayers, Michael D. (ed.). 2006. Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture. Digital Formations Vol. 31 series. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing Group.

Nation States and Virtual Ethnography

Postill, John. (forthcoming). Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. The book is an ethnography of residential politics in the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia suburb of Subang Jaya centred on the uses of internet technologies for activism, sociality and local governance.

Sherman So, and J. Christopher Westland. 2009. Red Wired: China's Internet Revolution. Marshall Cavendish Limited.

Network Society

Castells, Manuel. 2003. The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Castells, Manuel. 2000. The Rise of the Network Society (Vol. 1 - 2nd ed.). Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Castells, Manuel. 2004. The Power of Identity (Vol. 2 - 2nd ed.). Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Castells, Manuel. 2000. End of Millenium. (Vol. 3 - 2nd ed.). Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Stalder, Felix. 2006. Manuel Castells: The Theory of the Network Society. Cambridge, England: Polity.

New Media

Boomen, Marianne van den, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, Mirko Tobias Schaefer. 2009. Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology. Amssterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press.

Jenkins, Henry. 2008. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York, NY: NYU Press.

Online Deliberation

Davies Todd and Seeta Peña Gangadharan. 2009. Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice. odbook.stanford.edu Creative Commons. University of Chicago and CSLI Publications.

Open Access

Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights and Rule in Cyberspace. 2010. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Deibert, Ronald J., John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain (eds.). 2008. Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11329&mode=toc)

Goldsmith, Jack and Tim Wu. 2006. Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Iiyoshi, Toru, and M. S. Vijay Kumar. 2008. Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (foreword by John Seely Brown). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Open Source and Innovation vis-à-vis Virtual Ethnography

Kressel, H., & Lento, T. V. 2007. Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

von Hippel, Eric. 2005. Democratizing Innovation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

von Hippel, Eric. 1988. The Sources of Innovation. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Raymond, Eric. S. 2000. The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. (First presented at the Linux Kongress in 1997). O'Reilly Media.

Weber, Steven. 2004. The Success of Open Source. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Participation in the Broadband Society

Gebhardt, J., L. Fortunati and J. Vincent (eds.). (forthcoming). Participation in the Broadband Society. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang.

Place, Space, and 'Field' in Virtual Ethnography

Meyrowitz, Joshua. 1985. No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Primatology and Virtual Ethnography

Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue. 2007. Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man. TED Talks. (Bonobos).

Programming Languages and Ethnography

Race and Virtual Ethnography

Daniels, Jessie. 2009. Cyber Racism: White Supremacy and the New Attack on Civil Rights. Rowman & Littlefield.

Kolko, Beth E., Gilbert B. Rodman, and Nakamura, Lisa (eds.). 2000. Race in Cyberspace. Routledge.

Nakamura, Lisa. 2002. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. Routledge.

Nakamura, Lisa. 2007. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. University of Minnesota Press.

Representation

Baudrillard, Jean. 1983. Simulations. Trans. Nicola Dufresne. New York: Semiotext(e).

Uricchio, William. 2009. We Europeans?: Media, Representations, Identities (IB-Changing Media, Changing Europe). Fishponds, Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect Ltd Press.

Researchers' Culture in Academia

Becher, T. and P. R. Trowler. 2001. Academic tribes and territories: Intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines. Buckingham, UK: SRHE and Open University Press.

Science Fiction and Virtual Ethnography

Le Guin, Ursula. 1985. Always Coming Home. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Ethnographic science fiction).

Search and Virtual Ethnogrpahy

Battelle, J. 2006. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. Portfolio Press.

Morville, Peter. 2005. Ambient Findability (illustrated). O'Reilly Media. (Searching and finding).

Second Life

Au, Wagner James. 2008. The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World. HarperBusiness.

Carr, Paul and Graham Pond. 2007. The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life. St. Martin's Griffin.

Sexuality and Virtual Ethnography

Attwood, Feona (ed.). 2009. Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography. (Digital Formations). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Social Change and Virtual Ethnography

Dutton, William H. 1999. Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Social Implications of Information Technology

Carr, N. 2008. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. Norton.

Gomez, J. 2007. Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age. Palgrave Macmillan.

Jarvis, Jeff. 2009. What Would Google Do?. HarperBusiness.

Katz, J. E. & Rice, R. E. 2002. Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement and Interaction. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Lévy, Pierre. 1997. Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace. Basic Books.

Rheingold, Howard. 2002. Smart Mobs: Transforming Cultures and Communities in the Age of Instant Access. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books.

Shirky, Clay. 2008. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. New York, NY: Penguin Press.

Sunstein, Cass R. 2006. Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (Annotated edition). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Social Networking

Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp. 2008. Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media. E-Book. Researchers at the University of Southern California and UC Berkeley have been conducting ethnographic research on kids' informal learning with digital media since 2005. This is what they found.

Ryan Jenny. 2008. The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social Networking. E-Book. Anthropologist Jenny Ryan explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between human and machine, public and private, voyeurism and exhibitionism, the history of media and our digitized future. Woven throughout are the stories and experiences of those who engage with these sites regularly and ritualistically, the generation of "digital natives" whose tales attest to the often strange and uncomfortable ways online social networking sites have come to be embedded in the everyday lives of American youth.

Social Theory and the Internet

Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York, NY: Routledge.

TCP/IP and Ethnography

Television Ethnography

Mankekar, Purnima. 1999. Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Spigel, Lynn. 1992. Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Transparency, Reputation and the Internet

Beal, A. & Strauss, J. 2008. Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online. Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing (under the Sybex imprint).

Solove, D. 2007. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press.

The 'Virtual' vis-à-vis Internet Ethnography

Virtual Archives and Ethnography

Engard, Nicole C. (ed.). 2009. Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Fabian, Johannes. 2008. Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Virtual Communities

Rheingold, Howard. 1993. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Addison-Wesley. (Written at the dawn of the cyberculture, The Virtual Community explores the heart of the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link {more commonly known as the WELL}. Part ethnography, part history, part journalism and part philosophy, Howard Rheingold's engaging seminal work is a must-read for those interested in online communities).

Smith, Marc A. and Peter Kollock (eds.). 1998. Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.

Virtual Ethnography

Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Hine. Christine. 2000. Virtual Ethnography. London, England: Sage Publications.

Hine, Christine (ed.). 2005. Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Methods on the Internet. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers.

Marshall. Jonathan Paul. 2007. Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Miller, Daniel and Don Slater. 2000. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford, England: Berg.

Schaap, Frank. 2002. The words that took us there: Ethnography in a virtual reality. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publisher.

Sundén, Jenny 2003. Material virtualities: Approaching online textual embodiment. New York: Peter Lang.

Virtual Worlds

Castronova, Edward. 2006. Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Fine, Gary Alan. 1983. Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games As Social Worlds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Malaby, Thomas M. 2009. Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Pearce, Celia. 2009. Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Webnographies

Hillis, Ken. 2009. Online a Lot of The Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Wikipedia

Wikis

Tapscott, Don and Anthony D. Williams. 2006. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. New York: Penguin.

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