Students will choose 50 works from each of the following 4 main categories, for a total of 200 works.

I. Media Theory and Related Theoretical Contexts

II. Media Traditions
III. Digital Media Forms and Technologies
IV. Self-Defined Specialty Area


Media Theory and Related Theoretical Contexts

Anthologies, Texts, Reference Books
General Works
Body/Mind/Technology
Language and Linguistics
Intellectual Property
Narrative
Philosophy and Aesthetics
Post-Modernism
Technology and Culture
Visualization and Visual Culture
Other Areas of Media-Related Investigation


 Anthologies, Texts, Reference Books
  • Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2001.
  • Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall. Visual Culture: The Reader. London: Sage Publicatons, 1999.
  • Fiske, John. Introduction to Communication Studies. New York: Routledge, 1990.
  • Jordan, Ken and Randall Packer. Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
  • Mattelart, Armand and Michele Mattelart. Theories of Communication: A Short Introduction. London: Sage Publications, 1998.
  • Montfort, Nick and Noah Waldrip-Fruin. The New Media Reader. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
  • O'Sullivan, Tim. Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1994.
  • Pierce, John Robinson. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals, and Noise. New York: Dover, 1980.
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 General Works
  • Barthes, Roland. Mythologies (selections from this and other works). New York: Noonday Press, 1973.
  • Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations. New York: Semiotext, 1983.
  • Baudrillard, Jean. System of Objects. New York: Verso, 1993.
  • Baudrillard, Jean. Symbolic Exchange and Death. London: Sage, 1993.
  • Baudrillard, Jean. The Ecstasy of Communication. New York: Semiotext, 1987.
  • Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. New York: Schocken, 1968.
  • Bowker, G and S.L. Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
  • Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone, 1995.
  • Deluze, Giles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
  • Deluze, Giles and Felix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
  • Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1974.
  • Derrida, Jacques. Margins of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
  • Foucault, Michael. Discipline and Punish. New York: Pantheon, 1977.
  • Foucault, Michael. Archeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon, 1972.
  • Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
  • Goffman, Erving. Interaction Ritual. New York: Anchor Books, 1967.
  • Goffman, Erving. Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1959.
  • Golding, Sue. The Eight Technologies of Otherness. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Art: an Approach to a Theory of Symbols. Indianapolis: Hacket, 1976.
  • Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. New York: Routledge, 1991.
  • Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
  • McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
  • Shannon, Claude and Warren Weaver. Information Theory. Illinois: University of Illinois, 1963.
  • Svenonius, Ellen. The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
  • Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldrine, 1966.
  • Umberto, Eco. The Open Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1997.
  • Umberto, Eco. Travels in Hyperreality. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
  • Umberto, Eco. Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language. London: Macmillan, 1984.
  • Virilio, Paul. The Vision Machine. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1994.
  • Virilio, Paul. War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. London: Verso, 1989.
  • Weiner, Norbert. Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Cambridge: MIT, 1962.
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 Body / Mind / Technology
  • Adam, Alison. Artificial Knowing and the Gender Machine. London: Routledge, 1998.
  • Aronowitz, Stanley, Barbara Martinson and Michael Menser. Technoscience and Cyberculture. New York: Routledge, 1996.
  • Bukatman, Scott. Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
  • Cartwright, Lisa. Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
  • Gibson, JJ. The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. Westport: Greenwood, 1983.
  • Gray, Charles Hables. The Cyborg Handbook. New York: Routledge, 1995.
  • Ihde, Don. Bodies in Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
  • Johnson, Mark. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987.
  • Lakoff, George. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied mind and its challenge to western philosophy. New York: Basic Book, 1999.
  • Martinson, Barbara and Michael Menser. Technoscience and Cyberculture New York: Routledge, 1996.
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Minsky, Martin. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
  • Picard, Rosalind. Affective Computing. Cambridge: MIT, 2000.
  • Romanyshyn, Robert. Technology as Symptom and Dream. London: Routledge, 1989.
  • Rosch, Eleanor, Evan Thompson and Francisco Varela. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.
  • Springer, Claudia. Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
  • Stone, Rosanne Allucquere. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
  • Stone, Rosanne Allucquere. Will the Real Body Please Stand up. Cambridge: MIT, 1991.
  • Taussig, Michael. Mimesis and Alterity. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer Power and Human reason. New York: Freeman, 1976.
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 Language and Linguistics
  • de Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in general Linguistics. London: Duckworth, 1974.
  • Johnson, Mark and George Lakoff. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
  • Ortony, Andrew. Metaphor and Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Pinker, Stephen. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York: Perennial, 2000.
  • Rotman, Brian. Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero. Hampshire: Macmillan, 1987.
  • Sacks, Sheldon. On Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
  • Vygotsky, Lev. Thought and Language. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.
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 Intellectual Property
  • Brinson, J Dianne and Mark Radcilffe. Multimedia Law Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developers and Publishers. Menlo Park: Ladera, 1994.
  • Coombe, Rosemary. The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropiation, and the Law. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
  • Herrington, TyAnna. Controlling Voices: Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies, and the Internet. Carbondale: Southern Illinois IP, 2001.
  • Herrington, TyAnna. "The Interdependency of Fair Use and the First Ammendment". Computers and Composition Special Issue: Intellectual Property. 15.2 1998 125-143
  • Herrington TyAnna. "Who Owns My Work? The State of Work for Hire for Academics in Technical Communication". Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 13.2 April, 1999.
  • Herrington TyAnna. "Work for Hire for Non-academic Creators". Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 13.4 October, 1999.
  • Jaszi, Peter. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropiation in Law and Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
  • Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
  • Lindberg, Stanley and Ray L. Patterson. The Nature of Copyright. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
  • Litman, Jessica. Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2001.
  • Patterson, L. Ray. The Nature of Copyright. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
  • Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
  • Woodmansee, Martha and Peter Jaszi. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropiation in Law and Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
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 Narrative
  • Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.
  • Bal, Mieke. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
  • Chapman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
  • Genette, Gerard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
  • Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. London: Routledge, 1992.
  • Lord, A.B.. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1960.
  • McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. New York: Perrennial, 1984.
  • McQuillan, Martin. The Narrative Reader. London: Routledge: 2000.
  • Mitchell, W.T.J. On Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981
  • Martin, Wallace. Recent Theories of Narrative. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
  • Prince, Gerald. A Dictionary of Narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
  • Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968.
  • Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
  • Ryan, Marie-Laure. Possible Words: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
  • Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.
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 Philosophy and Aesthetics
  • Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. London: Continuum, 1976.
  • Carroll, Noel. Theories of Art Today. Wisconsin: 2000.
  • Carroll, Noel. Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction. New York: Routeledge, 1998.
  • Carroll, Noel. A Philosophy of Mass Art. Clarendon, 1998.
  • Horkheimer, Max. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. London: Continuum, 1976.
  • Husserl, Edmund. Ideas; general introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Australia: Allen and Unwin,
  • Husserl, Edmund. Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. New York: MacMillan, 1958.
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 Post-Modernism
  • Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1990.
  • Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
  • Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979.
  • Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
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 Technology and Culture
  • Biagioli, Maria. The Science Studies Readers. 1999.
  • Bolter, David Jay. Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
  • Clarke, Bruce and Linda Dalrymple Henderson. From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art and Literature. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002.
  • Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999.
  • Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. New York: Knopf, 1967.
  • Ezrahi, Yaron. Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism. University of Mass, 1994.
  • Feenberg, Andrew. Critical Theory of Technology. New York: Oxford, 1991.
  • Feenberg, Andrew. Questioning Technology. New York: Routledge, 1999.
  • Gelernter, David. Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology. New York: Basic Books, 1998.
  • Hardison, O.B.. Dissapearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century. New York: Viking, 1989.
  • Ihde, Don. Technology and the Lifeworld. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1992.
  • Kittler, Frederic. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999.
  • Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or the Love of Technology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
  • Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
  • Latour, Bruno. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
  • Latour, Bruno. Conversations on Science, Culture and Time. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
  • Lavery, David. Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
  • Levy, Pierce. Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World of Cyberspace. Perseus Book Group, 2000.
  • Mazlish, Bruce. The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
  • Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilizations. New York: Harcourt, 1964.
  • Pursell, Carroll. White Heat: People and Technology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Serres, Michel and Bruno Latour. Conversations on Science, Culture and Time. University of Michigan Press, 1995.
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 Visualization and Visual Culture
  • Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking Press, 1995.
  • Cartwright, Lisa and Maria Sturken. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perceptions: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
  • Helfand, Jessica. Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
  • Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century French Thought. California: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Mirzeoff, N. An Introduction to Visual Culture.
  • Mitchell, W.J.T. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
  • Stafford, Barbara. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.
  • Stafford, Barbara. Visual Analog: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
  • Stafford, Barbara. Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
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Other Areas of Media-Related Investigation
 Students may propose different groupings of the listed texts, more focused subspecialties within these groups, or additional areas of investigation: e.g. Freudian Theory, Post-Structuralist Theory, Cognitive Theory, Gender Theory, etc.
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