Required Readings

• James Brooks and Iain Boal (eds.).  Resisting the Virtual Life:The Culture and Politics of Information, City Lights Books, 1995.
• Bettig, Ronald V.  Copyrighting Culture:  The Political Economyof Intellectual Property  Boulder, Colo.:  Westview Press,1996. (especially Chapter 6, "The Law of Intellectual Property:  TheVideocassette Recorder and the Control of Copyrights").
• various online readings

 Recommended Readings

• Postman, Neil.  Building a Bridge to the 18th Century; How the past can improve our future, New York: Knopf, 1999
• Berners-Lee, Tim.  Weaving the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor, San Francisco: Harper, 1999.
• Gleick, James.  Faster: The acceleration of just about everything, New York: Pantheon, 1999.
• Marvin, Carolyn.  When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century,  Oxford Press, New York, 1988.
• Fischer, Claude.  America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940,  University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992.
• Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations, New York : Schocken Books, 1969.
• Coyle, Katen. Coyle's Information Highway Handbook: A Practical File on the New Information Order, Chicago: American Library Association, 1997.
• Dertouzos, Michael L. What Will Be: How the New World of InformationWill Change Our Lives. SanFrancisco: HarperEdge, 1997.
• Gandy, Oscar H. The panoptic sort: a political economy of personal information,Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993.
• Graubard, Stephen R. and Paul LeClerc (eds.) Books, Bricks, and Bytes:Libraries in the Twenty-First Century. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers,1998.
• Lardner, James.  Fast Forward:  Hollywood, the Japanese, andthe Onslaught of the VCR (New York:  W.W. Norton, 1987).
• Lawrence Dowler (ed.). Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Librariesin Teaching, Learning, and Research. Cambridge: Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, 1997, 151-168
• Litan, Robert E. Going Digital: A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age,Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute, 1998.
• Marlow, Eugene, and Eugene Secunda. Shifting Time and Space:  TheStory of Videotape  (New York:  Praeger, 1991).  SeeChapter 6, "The Home Video Market," especially pp. 121-128.
• McChesney, Robert W., Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster (eds.).Capitalismand the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global CommunicationRevolution, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998.
• MacLean, Margaret and Ben H. Davis (eds.), Time and Bits: Managing DigitalContinuity, Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute and Getty ConservationInstitute, 1998.
• Mosco, Vincent. and Janet Wasko (eds.). The Political economy of information,Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
• Nye, David E. Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Constructionof American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
• Pavlik, John V. New Media Technology: Cultural and Commercial Perspectives,Second Edition. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.
• Peek, Robin P. and Gregory B. Newby (eds.). Scholarly Publishing: TheElectronic Frontier. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996
• Porter, David (ed.). Internet Culture. New York: Routledge, 1996,201-218.
• Sanders, Barry. A is for ox: the collapse of literacy and therise of violence in an electronic age. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
• Schiller, Herbert I. Culture, Inc.: The corporate takeover of Americanexpression, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Shenk, David. Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut. Revisedand Updated. New York: HarperEdge, 1997.
• Slack, Jennifer Daryl and Fred Fejes (eds.). The Ideology of the InformationAge, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1987.
• Wasko, Janet.  Hollywood in the Information Age:  Beyond theSilver Screen (Austin, TX:  University of Texas Press): 1995.
• Webster, Frank. Theories of the Information Society, New York: Routledge,1995.
• Wresch, William. Disconnected: Have and Have-Nots in the InformationAge. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996.