Our Books! learn about them by clicking their titles....

Boler. 2008. Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. MIT. Available on the Kindle. Also available online, here.

Hands. 2011. @ Is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance And Rebellion In A Digital Culture. Pluto.

Ito. 2009. Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out: kids living and learning with new media. MIT. You can download this book as a free pdf file here. Condensed version for free on the Kindle.

Zandt. 2010. Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. Berrett-Koehler. Available on the Kindle and as a Google eBook and as an audiobook at Audible.com. 

 

 

 

and Recommended:

Mitchell. 2004. Data made flesh: embodying information. Psychology. Available as a Google eBook.

 

Rodgers. 2010. Pink Noises: Women on electronic music and sound. 978-0822346739 Available as a Google eBook. 

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all readings are also on reserve at McKeldin Library. several are new though and await purchase. all will be on 24 hr. reserve. library instructions here.

Notice how many of the books are available on the Kindle, an ebook reader. You do not need the Kindle device to read these, but can download an ap for your computer/laptop or smart phone or iPad to read them without one. Some are available as Google eBooks. To learn how to read these on your computer, look here. Usually the price is a bit lower for each of these, many available for less than $10, although you cannot resell such books. One is even available as an audiobook, look here. Please ensure access to as many of our course books as you can, bring those you have obtained or notes about them to the first class. Absolutely get or have read as much as possible of Zandt's Share This! and bring it or your notes to the first class -- you will need them the first day for our starting-things-out exercises! 

You are required to read these books, not to buy them, or even to own them. All are on reserve at McKeldin and many are available at other libraries. Share them, rent them, borrow them, xerox them, scan them. Fair use means producing copies for your own private research use. Of course you can help others in obtaining originals for such fair use copying. Always be sure to locate your books long before you need to read them, even if one or more turn out to be just coming out or even out of print. Find what you can and read them anyway! 

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And Saturday 9 April we have the unusual opportunity to participate in an exciting conference on campus. "Theorizing the Web" will be examining many issues we will be addressing in the class, including online activisms amid intersectional issues, methods, and visions. Coming to this one day conference is a requirement for the class, so build it into your calendars right away! The Conference link is here.   




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Check out this website as a point for conversation and envisioning what is at stake, what might matter most, and how people are thinking about these issues today: