Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Communication (COMM) 630, Spring Semester 2002
[Last Updated on 5 January 2002]
Arquilla, J. and Ronfeldt, D. (2001), Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (Santa Monica, CA: RAND).
Becker, T. and Slaton, C. D. (2000), The Future of Teledemocracy (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers).
Bell, D. (1999, 1973), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting (New York: Basic Books).
CIPR (2000), Committee on Intellectual Property and the Emerging Information Infrastructure, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age (Washington D.C.: National Academy Press).
Douglas, S. J. (1987), Inventing American Broadcasting: 1899-1922 (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press).
Dutton, W. H. (1996) (ed.), Information and Communication Technologies -- Visions and Realities (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press).
Dutton, W. H. (1999), Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press).
Dutton, W. H. and Loader, B. D. (2002, forthcoming)(eds), Digital Academe: New Media and Institutions in Higher Education and Learning (London: Taylor & Francis/Routledge).
Evans, P. and Wurster, T. S. (2000), Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy (Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press).
Fischer, C. (1994), America Calling (Berkeley, CA: UC Press).
Gates, B. (1999), Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System (New York: Warner Books).
Gauntlett, D. (2000) (ed.), Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age (London: Arnold).
Jasanoff, S., Markle, G. E., Petersen, J. C., and Pinch, T. (2001)(eds), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Revised Edition (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).
Jones, S. G. (1995) (ed.), Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications).
Kiesler, S. (1997)(ed.), The Culture of the Internet (London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.).
Lewis, M. (2000), The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (New York: W. W. Norton & Company).
Lievrouw, L. A. and Livingstone, S. (2002)(eds), Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs (London: Sage).
Loader, B. (1997)(ed.), The Governance of Cyberspace (London: Routledge).
Loader, B. D. (1998) (ed.), Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society (London: Routledge).
MacKenzie, D. (1996), Knowing Machines (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press).
Mann, C., and Stewart, F. (2000), Internet Communication and Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online (London: Sage Publications).
Mesthene, E. (1969), 'The Role of Technology in Society', reprinted in Teich, A. H. (2000) (ed.), Technology and the Future, 8th Edition (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's).
Miller, D., and Slater, D. (2000), The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (New York University Press).
Neuman, W. R., McKight, L. and Solomon, R. J. (1997), The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Noll, A. M. (2001), Principles of Modern Communications Technology (Boston: Artech House).
Petroski, H. (1999), The Book on the Bookshelf (New York: Vintage Books).
Petroski, H. (1990), The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (New York: Alfred A. Knopf).
Pool, Ithiel de Sola (1977), The Social Impact of the Telephone (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Rochlin, G. (1997), Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press).
Rice, R. E., and Katz, J. E. (2000) (eds), The Internet and Health Communication (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications).
Rifkin, J. (2000), The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism Where All of Life is a Paid-For Experience (New York: Jeremy P Tarcher/ Putnam).
Schiller, H. (1996), Information Inequality (London: Routledge).
Shapiro, A. L. (2000), The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know (New York: Public Affairs).
Slevin, J. (2000), The Internet and Society (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press).
Smith, M. A., and Kollock, P. (1999) (eds), Communities in Cyberspace (London: Routledge).
Stoll, C. (1995), Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information HIghway (New York: Anchor Books).
Teich, A. H. (1999) (ed.), Technology and the Future, Eighth Edition (New York: St. Martin's Press).
Tsagarousianou, R., Tambini, D., and Bryan, C. (1997)(eds), Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks (London: Routledge).
van Dijk, J. (1999), The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media (London: Sage Publications).
Webster, F. (1995), Theories of the Information Society (London: Routledge).
Winston, B. (1998), Media, Technology and Society (London: Routledge).
See the bibliography to Dutton, W. H. (1999), Society on the Line for a more complete set of relevant readings. Also Phil Agree, a professor of Education Information Studies at UCLA, has compiled a wideranging bibliography of books on the social aspects of information and communication technologies. This is available on the Web at: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/recent-books.html. Survey this list for a useful overview of topics. You might find books that trigger your interest in particular issues.