Optional Readings for Impact of New Information Resources: Multimedia and Networks

taught by Howard Besser

The closest thing we will have to a text will be Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, edited by Jim Brook and Iain Boal, City Lights Books, 1995. In addition, readings will be selected from among the following. You will not be expected to read all of the following, but you will be exposed to ideas from most of these in class. In addition, the Working Groups will select readings appropriate to their focus and perspective.

• Poster, Mark. CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere, 1995
• Bad Subjects Production Team. A Manifesto for Bad Subjects in Cyberspace, Bad Subjects, #18, Jan 1995
• Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society (The information age: economy, society and culture, volume 1,) Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996
• Sardar, Zia and Jerry Ravetz. Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Highway, London: Pluto Press, 1996
• Robins, Kevin. Into the Image: Culture and politics in the field of vision, London: Routledge, 1996 Moody, Fred. I sing the body electronic: a year with Microsoft on the multimedia frontier, New York: Viking, 1995.
• Bogard, William. The simulation of surveillance: hypercontrol in telematic societies, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Springer, Claudia. Electronic eros : bodies and desire in the postindustrial age, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
• Robertson, George. FutureNatural: nature, science, culture, New York: Routledge, 1996.
• Virilio, Paul. The art of the motor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
• Cherny, Lynn and Elizabeth Reba Weise. Wired women: gender and new realities in cyberspace, Seattle: Seal Press, 1996.
• Gray, Chris Habels. The cyborg handbook, New York: Routledge, 1995.
• Graham, Stephen. Telecommunications and the city : electronic spaces, urban places, New York: Routledge, 1996.
• Balsamo, Anne Marie. Technologies of the gendered body: reading cyborg women, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
• Adbusters
• American Civil Liberties Union not yet online
• Anderson, Robert H. et. al. Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal Implications (Rand study sponsored by Markle Foundation)
• Arbus, Steve. Free Expression, Copyright, and Democracy, links and talk given at UC Berkeley Ethics and the Internet 11/95 conference
• Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York : Noonday Press, c1972 (1990 printing).
• Benton Foundation. Communication Policy Project, (assorted public policy links)
• Besser, Howard. Assorted Papers
  • The Transformation of the Museum and the Way it's Perceived, draft of chapter to appear in Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), Museums and Emerging Technologies, Washington: American Association of Museums, 1996
  • The Changing Role of Photographic Collections With the Advent of Digitization, draft of chapter to appear in Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), Museums and Emerging Technologies, Washington: American Association of Museums, 1996
  • Implementing and Maintaining a WorldWide Web Site to Support Instruction, Revue Informatique et Statistique dans les sciences humaines, 1996 (in press) (not available outside the UC Berkeley domain)
  • Issues and Challenges for the Distance-Independent Environment, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47:11, Nov 1996 (not available outside the UC Berkeley domain)
  • The Impact of Distance-Independent Education, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47:11, Nov 1996 (not available outside the UC Berkeley domain)
  • The Changing Role of Photographic Collections With the Advent of Digitization Discussion Paper for Working Group for Digital Image in Curatorial Practice, George Eastman House, June 4, 1994
  • The Information SuperHighway: Social and Cultural Impact Chapter from Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, edited by Jim Brook and Iain Boal, City Lights Books, 1995
  • A Clash of Cultures on the Internet Op Ed piece appearing in San Francisco Chronicle August 25, 1994
  • Movies-on-demand May Significantly Change the Internet From the October 1994 ASIS Bulletin theme issue on Entertainment Technology and Information Services
  • The Information Highway must be a Two-Way Street: The Arts and Humanities Communities Cannot be merely Consumers Presentation to the Convergence Conference: Arts and Humanities and the NII
  • Elements of Consciousness, (unpublished excerpt from dissertation), Berkeley, 1988
• Besser, Howard. The Changing Museum, in Ching-chih Chen (ed), Information: The Transformation of Society (Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science), Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc, 1987, pages 14-19
• Besser, Howard. Poland: the making and unmaking of the news, Berkeley: Anti-Authoritarian Studies, 1983.
• Besser, Howard. Fast Forward: The Future of Moving Image Collections, in Gary Handman (ed), Video Collection Management and Development: A Multi-type Library Perspective, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994, pages 411-426
• Besser, Howard. Adding an Image Database to an Existing Library and Computer Environment: Design and Technical Considerations, in Susan Stone and Michael Buckland (eds.), Studies in Multimedia (Proceedings of the 1991 Mid-Year Meeting of the American Society for Information Science), Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc, 1992, pages 31-45
• Besser, Howard. Education as Marketplace, in Robert Muffoletto and Nancy Knupfer (eds), Computers in Education: Social, Political, and Historical Perspectives Cresskill, NY: Hampton Press, 1993, pages 37-69
• Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. New York: Faber and Faber, 1994.
• Brook, Jim and Iain Boal. Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1995.
• Brand, Stewart. The Media Lab: inventing the future at MIT. New York: Penguin, 1988.
• Burnett, Ron. Critical Approaches to Cultural Studies
• Carlsson, Chris. Bad attitude: the Processed World anthology. New York : Verso, 1990.
• Copyright writings, assorted papers and pointers
• Coyle, Karen. assorted papers
• Debord, Guy. Society of the spectacle, Detroit : Black & Red, 1983.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, various publications
• FC [Freedom Club?], Unabomber Manifesto (Time-Warner version) and other Unabomber information/writings
• Ethics and the Internet, readings from 11/95 conference
• Free Radio Berkeley
• Gibson, William. Neuromancer, New York: Ace Books, 1984.
• Intellectual Property
• Janson, Sverker. [Pointers to] Intelligent Software Agents [web sites]
• Kling, Rob (ed.). Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, San Diego: Academic Press, 1996.
• Kling, Rob and Tom Jewett Teaching Social Issues of Computing (guide)
• McKiernan, Gary. Project Aristotle, a clearinghouse of projects, research, products and services devoted to 'automated categorization' of Web resources
• Mitchell, William J. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the InfoBahn, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1995
• New York Times online discussion of the future of newspapers.
• Poster, Mark. CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere, 1995
• Postman, Neil. Technopoly: the surrender of Culture to Technology, New York: Knopf, 1992.
• Kroker, Arthur and Michael A. Weinstein. Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.
• Prichard, Peter. The making of McPaper: the inside story of USA today. Kansas City : Andrews, McMeel & Parker, 1987.
• Rezmierski, Virginia E. Ethics and Values Dilemmas in Use of Information Technology: Policy Implications for Institutions of Higher Learning, (class taught at University of Michigan)
• Ronell, Avital. The telephone book: technology--schizophrenia--electric speech, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
• Sclove, Richard E. Democracy and Technology, New York: Guilford Press, 1995.
• Sheff, David. Game Over: How Nintendo has enslaved your children, captured your dollars & zapped the competition & why it has Apple, Sony, & IBM running scared, New York: Random House,1993.
• Smith, Anthony. Goodbye, Gutenberg: the newspaper revolution of the 1980s, New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
• Sterling, Bruce. Hacker Crackdown: Law and disorder on the electronic frontier, New York: Bantam, 1992.
• Twitchell, James B. Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture, New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1995. (publicity)
• Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
• Zerzan, John and Alice Carnes (eds). Questioning technology : tool, toy or tyrant?, Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1991.
• Economics of the New Information Infrastructure
  • Goldhaber, Michael. Principles of the New Economy (the Attention Economy)
  • Santos, Michael. The Internet and Privatization: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
  • Workshop on Internet Economics March 9-10, 1995 Research Program on Communications Policy; MIT Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development
  • Schickele, Sandra. The Economic Case for Public Subsidy of the Internet
• Additional readings from:
  • D-Lib Magazine (important articles on Digital Libraries)
  • Important news articles to read for class
  • Howard's multimedia sites.
  • Index to multimedia resources.
  • Wired Magazine (you must submit personal demographic data in order to use the online version of this)
  • Mondo 2000 (magazine)
  • FringeWare Review Magazine

newspaper articles from last term

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