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Written by Damien Lanfrey   
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
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Comprehensive list of readings done or started From June 2005 to February 2007.

 

Media Studies

 

Any Dearden - Technology and Social Action

 

Brighton - CNA & Human Centredness

 

London School of Economics

 

Actor-Network Theory

 

ICS Leeds

  • 'The Internet and Democracy' (revised version) in Gauntlett, D & Horsley, R. (eds.), Web Studies 2nd edition.  Arnold, 2004 (Stephen Lax)
  • 'Democracy and New Communications Technologies: Superhighway or Blind Alley?' Convergence 4(3), 1998, 30-37  1998 (Stephen Lax)
  • http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/details.cfm?id=20 - Stephen Lax ICS Leeds

 

City University London

  • Times of the Technoculture: from the Information Society to the Virtual Life, with Kevin Robins (Routledge, 1999)
  • Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present, edited with Gary Browning and Abigail Halcli (Sage, 2000)
  • Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics? (Routledge, 2001)
  • http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~frankw/index.htm - Frank Webster Website
  • Webster, Frank and Robins, Kevin, Information Technology: A LudditeAnalysis

 

General Resources

 

Complexity and System Science/thinking (and Knowledge Management)

  • P. Cilliers, “Complexity and Postmodernism”, 1998
  • F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn, V. Turchin, Principia Cybernetica Web, 1999-2005 <http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/DEFAULT.html>
  • D.J. Snowden Knowledge Management Review, "Just-in-Time Knowledge Management", October-November 2002
  • D.J. Snowden, "Multi-ontology sense making a new simplicity in decision making", 2005
  • D.J. Snowden, "Complex acts of knowing: paradox and descriptive self-awareness", 2002

 

Social network theory and analysis

  • Anklam, P., Ark Group, "Managing Social Networks in London Organisations" + Blog, November 2004 (15-3)
  • Barabasi, A.L., “Linked. The New Science of Networks”, Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002.
  • Barnes, J., ‘Class and Committee in a Norwegian Island Parish’, Human Relations, 7, 1954
  • Barnes, J., 1972. Social Networks. New York: Addison-Wesley. (no)
  • Benkler, Y., The Wealth of Networks, Yale University Press, 2006
  • Borgatti, Stephen, "Identifying sets of key players in a social network"
  • Borgatti, S.P. and Foster, P., “The network paradigm in organizational research: A review and typology”, Journal of Management. 29(6): 991-1013, 2003
  • Moses Boudourides(2002). “A Review of Network Theories On The Formation of Public Opinion”. Contributed paper at the EURICOM Colloquium: Electronic
  • Burt, R., “Structural holes: The social structure of competition” Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press., 1992
  • Burt, R. S., Structural holes and good ideas, American Journal of Sociology, 110, 349-399, 2004
  • Castells, M.,  interview on "Identity and Change in the network society"
  • Castells, M., Plenary Session at ICA Conference 2006, June 19th 2006, Dresden, Germany
  • Castells, M (1996-98), The Information Age, 3 volumes. Oxford: Blackwell (started only)
  • Castells, M., “The Internet Galaxy. Reflections on the Internet. Business and Society”, Oxford University Press, 2001
  • Castells, Manuel, "Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society", British Journal of Sociology 1, March 2000
  • Castilla, Hwang, Granovetter and Granovetter, "Social Networks in Silicon Valley" (Siliconvalleyedge)
  • Douglass, D., Some Hypothetical "Laws of Social Networks", Web resource (read again)
  • Ethier, J., "Social Network theory, current research", 2004  <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/perrolle/archive/Ethier-SocialNetworks.html>
  • Gladwell, M., "The tipping point", 
  • Granovetter, M.S., "Ignorance, Knowledge and Outcome in a small world"
  • Granovetter, M. S., “The strength of weak ties” American Journal of Sociology, 78, May 1973, pp 1360–1380.
  • Granovetter, M. S., “The strength of the weak ties: a Network Theory Revisited”, Sociological Theory, Vol 1, 1983, pp.201-233
  • Granovetter, M. 1985. Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology, 91(3): 481–510.
  • Haythornthwaite, C., Social networks and Internet connectivity effects” Journal of Information, communication and society, January 2006
  • Haythornthwaite, C. 2002. Strong, Weak, and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media. The Information Society, 18: 385-401
  • INSNA http://www.insna.org/INSNA/na_inf.html
  • Jack, S., "The Role, Use and Activation of Strong and Weak Network Ties: A Qualitative Analysis", September 2005
  • Krebs, V., http://www.orgnet.com/sna.html
  • Newman, M. E. J. 2002. The structure and function of networks. Computer Physics Communications, 147: 40–45. (reading newer)
  • Newman, M. E. J. 2003. The structure and function of complex networks, SIAM Review 45, 167-256. (reading newer)
  • Newman, M. E. J., “The structure and dynamics of networks”, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2006
  • Palo Alto Research Center and IBM, "Social Networks and Social Networking", Web resource
  • H. W. Park, "Hyperlink Network Analysis as research method", INSNA, 2003
  • Reed,D., The Law of the Pack, Harvard Business Review, February 2000
  • David P. Reed, "That Sneaky Exponential—Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the Power of Community Building", available at http://www.reed.com/Papers/GFN/reedslaw.html
  • John Scott, "Social Network Analysis: A handbook", 1992 ok
  • David J. Snowden, "On Social Network Analysis and Social Network Stimulation" (15-3)
  • Felix Stalder, "Manuel Castells"
  • "SNA Encyclopedia Entry", Web
  • Van Loon, J., "Network", Theory, Culture and Society 23, 2006
  • Watts, D.J., Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, 368 pp.
  • Webster, F., “The concept of network” in New Keyword, a revised vocabulary of culture and society, 2005
  • Wellman, B., "Computer networks as social networks", 2001
  • Wellman, B.,  "Network for Newbies", Powerpoint presentation
  • Wellman, B., PEW/INTERNET, "The strength of the Internet Ties", January 2006
  • Wellman, B., "Little Boxes, Glocalization and Networked Individualism", 2001
  • Wellman, B. and Berkowitz, S. 1988. Social Structures: A Network Approach. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wellman, B. and Frank, K. 2001. Network Capital in a Multi-Level World: Getting Support from Personal Communities. N. Lin, K. Cook and R. Burt (Eds.) Social Capital: Theory and Research, Chicago: Aldine DeGruyter.
  • Handbook of Graphs and Networks, edited by S. Bornholdt and H. G. Schuster (Wiley-VCH, Berlin, 2002)
  • S. N. Dorogovtsev and J. F. F. Mendes, Evolution of Networks: From Biological Nets to the Internet and WWW (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003);
  • Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks - Mark Buchanan - W.W.Norton & Company - 2003
  • “The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Networking”, Accessed: December 1, 2003. Online. Internet. <http://www.darwinmag.com/read/110103/pitfalls.html>
  • Kadushin, Charles. “A Short Introduction to Social Networks: A Non-Technical Elementary Primer” Accessed: October 29, 2003. Online. Internet. <http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~cerpe/papers/kadushin.html>.
  • Paul Duguid on "The wealth of networks"
  • Friedkin, N.E. and E. C. Johnsen. 1997. Social Positions in Influence Networks. Social Networks 19 209-222.
  • Lorrain, F. and White, H. C. 1971. The structural equivalence of individuals in social networks. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1:49-80.

  

Social Movements, Politics and Activism

  • Philip E. Agre, Real Time politics - the Internet and the political process, 2002
  • Douglas Kellner, Globalization and Technopolitics, available at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html
  • W .Lance Bennett, "Communicating Global Activism" (check references 15-20/3)
  • Bennett, W.L., “New Media Power: the Internet and Global Activism” in Couldry, N. and Curran,J., Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003,
  • P. Howard, L.W. Bennett, "New media campaign and the managed citizen", Cambridge University Press, 2005
  • R. Kelly Garrett, "Protest in an information society: A review of literature on social movements and new ICTs", Journal of ICS, 2006
  • Richard Kahn, Douglas Kellner, "New media and internet activism: from the ‘Battle of Seattle’ to blogging", SAGE, 2004
  • Sergey Mamay, "Theories of Social Movements and their current development in Soviet Society", 1996 ok
  • Charles Tilly, "Social Movements, 1768-2004", Paradigm Publishers, 2004
  • Donatella Della Porta and Sidney Tarrow, "Transnational protest and global activism"  (24-25/4)
  • Mark Surman and Katherine Reilly, "Appropriating the Internet for Global Activism", Spring 2004
  • M. Diani and D. McAdam, "Social Movements and Networks, Relational approaches to collective action", Oxford University Press, 2003.
    • Passy, Social networks matter: but how
  • Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani, "Social Movements: An Introduction"
    • "Social Movements and organisational forms", Chapter 6Donatella della Porta, "Making the Polis: Social Forums and Democracy in the Global Justice Movement"
  • Diani, M., McAdam, D., "Social Movements and Networks", Oxford University Press, 2000
  • Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani, "Social Movements: An Introduction 2nd edition”, Oxford University Press, 2006
  • M. Pendakur and R. Harris, "Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age", 2002 (part)
  • T. Bentley, "Everyday Democracy", DEMOS, 2005
  • Jeff Juris “Networked Social Movements: the Movement Against Corporate Globalization” in Manuel Castells (editor) “The Network Society. A Cross-Cultural Perspective”, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004.
  • Araba Sey and Manuel Castells “Networked Politics: Internet and the Political Process” in Manuel Castells (editor) “The Network Society: a Cross-Cultural Perspective”, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004.
  • C. Tilly, "Trust and Rule", Cambridge University Press, 2005
  • Charles Tilly, Identities, Boudaries and Social Ties, Paradigm Publishers, London, 2005 (24-5)
  • Adam Philips, Review of Charles Tilly's latest book "Why? What happens when people give reasons...and Why", London Review fo Books, 25th of May, 2006 
  • Stefano Gazziano, Luca Longo - Internet e Politica 2005 - La rete e le elezioni: e se davvero la rivoluzione non fosse più in TV?, BCM Edizioni
  • Steffen Albrecht, WHOSE VOICE IS HEARD IN ONLINE DELIBERATION? A study of participation and representation in political debates on the Internet, Journal of Information, communication and society, February 2006
  • McDonald K., From Solidarity to Fluidarity: social movements beyond 'collective identity'—the case of globalization conflicts Source: Social Movement Studies, Volume 1, Number 2, 1 October 2002, pp. 109-128(20)
  • "Emerging Trends in the Study of Protest and Social Movements", Pamela E. Oliver, Jorge Cadena-Roa, Kelley D. Strawn, edited by Betty A. Dobratz, Timothy Buzzell, and Lisa K. Waldner. JAI Press, Inc. 2003.
  • Meyer, D. S. and S. Staggenborg (1996). "Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity." (started)
  • Meyer, David S. "Conceptualizing Political Opportunity"
  • Meyer D.S., "Political Opportunity and Nested Institutions"
  • Meyer, David S., "The politics of protest : social movements in America", 2006
  • Debra C. Minkoff, John D. McCarthy, "Reinvigorating the Study of Organizational Processes in Social Movements"
  • Pamela Oliver, "Web resource on Political Opportunities and Constraints", http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/SOC924/Assignments/PoliticalConstraints.htm#SocForum
  • Kathleen M. Blee, Ashley Currier, "Character Building: the Dynamics of Emerging Social Movement Groups"
  • Conway, Janet,  "Social Forums, Social Movements and Social Change: A Response to Peter Marcuse on the Subject of the World Social Forum"
  • McAdam, D. , McCarthy, J. D. and Mayer, N. Z., "Comparative perspectives on social movements : political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings", 1996
  • Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly, "Dynamics of contention"
  • Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly, "How social movements matter"
  • Ruud Koopmans, "The Missing Link Between Structure and Agency: Outline of an Evolutionary Approach to Social Movements"
  • Koopmans R., "Political. Opportunity. Structure. Some Splitting to Balance the Lumping"
  • Peter Marcuse, "Are Social Forums the Future of Social Movements?"
  • Martha McCaughey (Editor), Michael D. Ayers (Editor), "Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
    • "Notes on Politicizing "homo economicus"
    • New media, new movements?
    • Jacob Rosenkrands
    • Van Aelst, Walgrave
  • Yilmaz, "Development" (2006)
  • Book Review: An Alternative Internet: Radical Media, Politics and Creativity - GOT
  • Book Review: Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace - GOT
  • Book Review: Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements - GOT
  • Book Review: Media and the Restyling of Politics: Consumerism, Celebrity and Cynicism - GOT
  • Book Review: Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics
  • Habermas, J. (1981) New social movements. Telos. 49 (Fall): 33-37.
  • Kitschelt, H. (1986) Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protests. British Journal of Political Science. 16: 57-85.
  • Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, The politics of small things : the power of the powerless in dark times, Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Stephen Coleman, Oxford University, Reinventing Spaces
  • Stephen Coleman, Oxford University, Blogs and the new politics of listening
  • Coleman, S., “The Network Empowered Citizen: How people share civic knowledge online”, Oxford Internet Institute, 2004

 

Modernity

  • Beck, Ulrich/Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth (2001): "Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences", Sage.  (15-20/4)
  • Beck, Ulrich/Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth (1992): "Risk society: towards a new modernity", Sage.
  • Beck, Ulrich, The Cosmopolitan Vision, Cambridge : Polity, 2006.
  • Global-net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements, in «Journal of Public Policy», 25, 1, pp. 165-190. 2006
  •  The Internet, Civil Society and Democracy: A Comparative Perspective, in S. Oates, D. Owen e R.K. Gibson (a cura di), The Internet and Politics, London, Routledge, pp. 1-19.
  • Zuurmond, A. 2005 Organizational Transformation Through the Internet, in «Journal of Public Policies», 25, 1, pp. 133-148.
  • Della Porta, D., Andretta, M., Mosca, L. e H. Reiter, 2006 Globalization from Below. Transnational Activists and Protest Networks, Minneapolis, Minn., University of Minnesota Press.
  • Koopmans, R. e A. Zimmermann, 2003 Political Communication on the Internet, europub project research report (http://europub.wz-berlin.de/Data/reports/WP4/D4-5%20WP4%20Integrated%20Report.pdf).
  • The Internet as a New Opportunity for Transnational Protest Groups, in M. Kousis e C. Tilly (a cura di), Threats and Opportunities in Contentious Politics, Boulder, Col., Paradigm Publishers, pp. 70-85.

 

 Internet

  • Jeff Chester, "The end of the Internet?" article from the Web, February 1, 2006
  • E. Noam, “Interconnecting the Network of Networks”, MIT Press, 2001
  • Philip E. Agre, "Peer-to-peer and the promise of Internet Equality"
  • Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen, "Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm", 2005
  • Andreas Wittel, considerations on "Internet Ethnographic research based on hyperlinks", Web
  • INTERNET AS HYPER-LIBERALISM, First published at Telepolis in 1996, available at http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/net.hyperliberal.html
  • Preece, J., Abras, C., & Maloney-Krichmar, D. 2004. Designing and evaluating online communities: research speaks to emerging practice. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 1(1): 2-18.
  • Kavanaugh, A., Carroll, J. M., Rosson, M. B., Zin, T. T., & Reese, D. D. 2005. Community networks: Where offline communities meet online. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4).
  • Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999
  • Hine, C. , “Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Science Research on the Internet”, Berg Publishers, Oxford, 2005
  • Katz, J., "Social consequences of internet use : access, involvement, and interaction”, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2002

  

Information and Information Society

  • Daniel Bell: ''Who Will Rule? Politicians and Technocrats in the Post-Industrial Society''
  • Information Inequality: an interview with Herbert Schiller
  • Information, knowledge and the close of Friedrich Hayek's system Eastern Economic Journal, Summer 2002  by Khalil, Elias L
  • Theories of the Information Society [1995], 2nd edition (Routledge, 2002), 3rd edition (Routledge, 2006)
  • Frank Webster, "The Information Society Revisited", 2002
  • Information Inequality: Princeton Sociology Paper
  • Claude Shannon,  "Information Theory", Bell Labs on 50 years of Information Theory
  • Claude Shannon, The mathematical theory of communication, 1999
  • A. Davies, "The effect of information in the free market"
  • C. Shapiro, H. Varian, "Information Rules", 1999
  • Wikipedia, Information Cascade Entry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informational_cascade>

 

Some Netminers Articles:

  • Godcasting
  • Yahoo censoring
  • E-petitions
  • File sharing
  • Google print
  • Cos'è esattamente Web2.0?
  • 25 net companie di successo
  • Gli strumenti della politica

 

Media (mainly McLuhan)

  • McLuhan, M.(1964): Understanding Media. New York: Mentor
  • McLuhan, M.(1962): The Gutenberg Galaxy. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
  • McLuhan, M. and Q. Fiore (1967): The Medium is the Massage. New York: Bantam
  • McLuhan, M. and Q. Fiore(1968): War and Peace in the Global Village. New York: Bantam
  • Morris, D.( ) The Human Animal
  • Rucker, R v.b. et al. (Eds.). (1992) Mondo 2000. New York: HarperCollins

 

Others

  • A. M. Branderburger, B. J. Nalebuff, "Co-opetition", 1996
  • A. Sen, (reference, year)
  • Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture. How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
  • Norman Johnson - Collective problem solving - Available here: <http://ishi.lanl.gov/SimSym/nlj_sims.html>
  • Langdon Winner, ARE HUMANS OBSOLETE?
  • , John Searle's Overview, from the Web
  • The culture of chaos, Brian McNair, from the Guardian
  • Johnson,Steven., Everything bad is good for you : how popular culture is making us smarter, Publisher: London : Penguin, 2006.
  • Johnson,Steven., Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software, London : Penguin, 2002, c2001.
  • Surowiecki,J., “The wisdom of crowds : why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations”, London, 2004
  • Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century [An Update]
  • Blau, P. 1977. Inequality and Heterogeneity. New York: Free Press. (reading)
  • P. Sztompka. Trust: A Sociological Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

 

Blog Posts and Blogrolls

 

Websites

 

Web 2.0

 

Interactivity

  • Bretz, R., “Media for Interactive Communication”, Beverly Hills, CA, Sage, 1983
  • Bordewijk, J.L. and B. van Kaam (1986) ‘Towards a New Classification of Tele- Information Services’, InterMedia 14(1): 16–21.
  • Daniel Downes, Interactive realism : the poetics of Cyberspace, Publisher: Montreal, QC : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.
  • Downes, E.J. and McMillan, S.J., “Defining Interactivity: A Qualitative Identification of Key Dimensions”, New Media and Society 2(2): 157–79, 2000
  •  Johan Fornäs, Digital borderlands : cultural studies of identity and interactivity on the Internet, Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, c2002.
  • Grunig, J.E. and L.A. Grunig (1989) ‘Toward a Theory of Public Relations Behavior of Organizations: Review of a Program of Research’, in J.E. Grunig and L.A. Grunig (eds) Public Relations Research Annual Vol. 1, pp. 27–63. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Hawkins, J.M. Wiemann and S. Pingree (eds) Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Process, pp. 110–34. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
  • Heeter, C., “Implications of New Interactive Technologies for Conceptualizing Communication”, in J.L. Salvaggio and J. Bryant (eds) Media Use in the Information Age: Emerging Patterns of Adoption and Computer Use, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989
  • Jensen, J.F. (1998) ‘Interactivity: Tracing a New Concept in Media and Communication Studies’, Nordicom Review 19(1): 185–204.
  • Kiousis, S., “Interactivity: a concept explication”, New media & Society, Vol4(3):355–383, London, 2002
  • McMillan, S.J., “Interactivity is in the Eye of the Beholder. Function, Perception, Involvement, and Attitude Toward Web Sites”, in M.A. Shaver (ed.) Proceedings of the 2000 Conference of the American Academy of Advertising, Michigan State University, 2000
  • McMillan, S.J., “A four-part model of cyber-interactivity: Some cyber-places are more interactive than others”, New Media & Society, Vol4(2):271–291, London, 2002
  • Murray, J.H., ‘The Pedagogy Of Cyberfiction: Teaching a Course on Reading and Writing Interactive Narrative”, in E. Barrett and M. Redmond (eds), Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995
  • S. Rafaeli, Interactivity from new media to communication, in: R.P. Hawkins, J. Wiemann, S. Pingree (Eds.), Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes, Sage, Beverly Hills, CA, 1988, pp. 110-134.
  • Rafaeli, S., “The Electronic Bulletin Board: A Computer Driven Mass Medium”, Computers and the Social Sciences 2(3): 123–36, 1986
  • Rafaeli, S. and Sudweeks, F., “Networked Interactivity”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 2(4), 1997, http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue4/rafaeli.sudweeks.html.
  • Wu, G., “Perceived Interactivity and Attitude Toward Websites”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Advertising in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999
  • Szuprowicz, B.O. (1995) Multimedia Networking. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Wouters-Gerbec, JCMC, Interactive Internet, study on publicly available Search Engines, 2003
  • Matthew Ganz, Interactivity and the Internet, 2003
  • Andrew Doherty, Towards a classification of Internet Interactivity, October 1998

 

 

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