this is a draft of the reading list. Those items with asterisks should be purchased immediately.

 

Academic Books:

*Castells, Manuel (1996). The Rise of the Network Society. Blackwell Press.
*Hayles, Katherine (1999). How we Became Posthuman. University of Chicago Press.
Jones, Steve (1995). Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community
*McLuhan, Marshall (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. (various press reprints)
*Ortony, Andrew (1993). Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge University Press.

Stefik, Mark (1996). Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors. MIT Press.

 

Fiction Books
*Gibson, William (1988). Neuromancer.
*Stephenson, Neal (1991). Snow Crash.

 

Also, students will sign up to read some but not all of these titles

Cherny, Lynn (1996). Wired_Women. Seal Press.
Featherstone, Michael and Burrows, Roger (1996). Cyberspace, Cyberbodies, Cyberpunk)
Turkle, Sherry (1984). The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Touchstone Press.

Turkle, Sherry (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Touchstone Press.

 

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