Books
From Webnographers
Communication Studies
Meier, Richard. 1962. A Communications Theory of Urban Growth. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Peterson, M.A. 2003. Anthropology and mass communication. Media and myth in the new millennium. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Computer Companies' Histories
Hiltzik, Michael A. 2000. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age. Harper Paperbacks.
Moritz, Michael. 1984. The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer. William Morrow & Co.
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, MA: Perseus Publishing.
Rettberg, J.W., 2008. Blogging. Polity Press.
Cyberactivism
van de Donk, Wim, Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon, Dieter Rucht (eds.). 2004. Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements. London, UK: Routledge.
Loader, Brian D. 2009. Social Movements and New Media. York, UK: University of York.
Meikle, Graham. 2002. Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet. London, UK: Routledge.
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
Fisher, Eran. 2010. Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Spirit of Networks. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.
Fuchs, Christian, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus Breen. Eds. 2010. [Special issue on “Capitalist crisis, communication & culture“]. 8 (2): 193-309. (http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/228/189). tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society.
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
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.
Disability and Virtual Ethnography
Goggin, G. and C. Newell. 2003. Digital disability: The social construction of disability in new media. Lanham, MA, Rowman & Littlefield.
Disorder and the Internet
Weinberg, D. 2008. Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Holt.
Domain Names
Komaitis, Konstantinos. 2010. The Current State of Domain Name Regulation:Domain Names as Second Class Citizens in a Mark-dominated World. London, UK: Routledge.
Eastern Philosophy and Virtual Ethnography
Vedro, S. 2007. Digital Dharma: A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere. Quest Books.
Education Online
Anderson, Terry & Fathi Elloumi. 2010. Theory and Practice of Online Learning. (2nd edition). Canada: Athabasca University.
Bennett, W. Lance (ed.). 2007. Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Blum, Susan. 2009. My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Harasim, Linda, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles & Murray Turoff. 1995. Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning On-Line. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
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.
Kamenetz, Anya. 2010. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. Chelsea Green Publishing.
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)
Turoff, Murray, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Xiang Yao, Zheng Li, Yuanqiong Wang, and Hee-Kyung Cho. 2006. Online Collaborative Learning Enhancement Through the Delphi Method. April. ISSN 1302-6488 Volume: 7 Number: 2 Article: 6. (Anadolu University). Eskisehir, Turkey: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE.
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.
Environment and Virtual Ethnography
Hansen, Anders. 2010. Environment, Media and Communication. London: Routledge
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.
Bell, Genevieve. 2011 (forthcoming). Divining the Digital Future. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Zittrain, Jonathan. 2008. The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Games
Friedl, Markus. 2010. Online Game Interactivity Theory. (With CD ROM). (Advances in Computer Graphics and Game Development Series). Rockland, MA: Charles River Media.
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.
Schrier, Karen, and David Gibson (eds.). 2010. Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values Through Play. Information Science Publishing.
Gender and Internet Ethnography
Buikema, Rosemarie and Iris van der Tuin (eds.). 2009. Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture. Routledge.
Cassell, Justine, Henry Jenkins (eds.). 2000. From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
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.
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.
Jarvis, Jeff. 2009. What Would Google Do?. HarperBusiness
Hacker Culture
Himanen, Pekka, Linus Torvalds (introduction), Manuel Castells (epilogue). 2001. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. 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.
Markoff, John. 2005. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. New York, NY: Viking.
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.
Brügger, Niels (ed.). 2010. Web History. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
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.
Rheingold, H. 1995. Tools For Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. Indiana.
Ryan, Johnny. 2010 (forthcoming). A history of the internet and the digital future. UK: Reaktion Press.
Salus, P. H. 1995. Casting the Net: from ARPANET to Internet and Beyond. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
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.
Human Computer Interface
Reeves, Byron and Clifford Nass. 2003. The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes). Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
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. (Consideration of Wikipedia).
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.
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.
Media Visionaries
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.
Methods
Fuller, Matthew. 2005. Media Ecologies: Material Energies in Art and Technology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Gosling, Samuel D. and John A. Johnson (eds.). 2010. Advanced Methods for Conducting Online Behavioral Research. American Psychological Association.
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.
Hunsinger, Jeremy, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen (eds.). 2010. International Handbook of Internet Research. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
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
Allard, Laurence (ed.). 2010. Mythologie du portable. (in French) Cavalier Bleu.
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
Höflich, Joachim R., Georg Kircher, Christine Linke and Isabel Schlote. 2010. Mobile Media and the Change of Everyday Life. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Horst, H. and D. Miller. 2006. The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication. New York, NY: 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.
Nanotechnology and Virtual Ethnography
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.
Net Neutrality and Virtual Ethnography
Edited by Jeffrey Layne Blevins & Leslie Regan Shade. 2010. International Perspectives on Network Neutrality. 3:1. Global Media Journal - Canadian Edition.
Marsden, Christopher T. 2010. Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution. 2010. Bloomsbury Academic.
Nunziato, Dawn C. 2009. Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Network Society
Castells, Manuel. 2000. End of Millenium. (Vol. 3 - 2nd ed.). Oxford, England: Blackwell.
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.
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
Deibert, Ronald J., John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain (eds.). 2010. Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. (Foreword by Miklos Haraszti). 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.
O’Brien, M.J. and Shennan, S.J., (eds.) 2009. Issues in Anthropological Studies of Innovation. In Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology. Cambridge: MA: MIT 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.
The Personal and Virtual Ethnography
Baym, Nancy. 2010. Personal Connections in the Digital Age. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
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
Publishing and Virtual Ethnography
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. 2009. Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. (Media Commons Press - Open Scholarship in Open Formats). New York, NY: New York University.
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.
Kjaerulff, Jens. 2010. Internet and Change: An Anthropology of Knowledge and Flexible Work. Hojbjerg, Denmark: Intervention 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.
Norris, Pippa and Ronald Inglehart. 2009. Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World. New York: Cambridge University 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
Baym, Nancy. 2010 Personal Connections in the Digital Age. Cambridge: Polity.
Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York, NY: Routledge.
Savat, David, and Mark Poster (eds.) 2009. Deleuze and New Technology (Deleuze Connections). Edinburgh, Scotland: University of Edinburgh Press.
Social Translucence
Erickson, Thomas et al. 2002. Social translucence: An approach to designing systems that support social processes. 45: 4 April. ACM Transactions on Human Computer.
Spirituality and Internet Ethnography
Geraci, Robert. 2010. Apocalyptic AI Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
TCP/IP, Internet Architecture and Virtual Ethnography
van Schewick, Barbara. 2010. Internet Architecture and Innovation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Television Ethnography
Kottak, Conrad. 1989. Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
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
Sundén, J. 2003. Material virtualities : approaching online textual embodiment. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
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
Baym, Nancy K. 2000. Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community. Sage.
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. 2007. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. (And 1st chapter only is here: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8647.html) 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 E. 2007. Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality. Palgrave MacMillan.
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.
Viruses
Parikka, Jussi. 2007. Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses. Peter Lang.
Web Development
Crumlish, Christian and Erin Malone. 2009. Designing Social Interfaces. Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience. O'Reilly Media / Yahoo Press
Farmer, Randy and Bryce Glass. 2010. Building Web Reputation Systems. O'Reilly Media / Yahoo 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.
