MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

This course introduces the student to the history, philosophy, epistemology and analysis of media and mass communication. The class covers social, cultural, and political changes triggered by new media and communication technologies and presents current theory and research models. Students will specifically focus on the implications of the phonetic alphabet, the invention of the printing press, television, and cyberspace and will participate in a mixture of lectures, readings, discussions, experiments and projects.

• CLASS INFORMATION
  
• CLASS SCHEDULE

• MATERIAL
  • Required Reading
  • Course Pack Materials
    
• REQUIREMENTS

Reading for the class will be assigned from the textbooks as well as in the form of handouts and online readings; handouts will be handed out as early as possible prior to the date the reading is to be completed. All reading, including the online readings, has to be done before coming to class on the assigned date.

The purpose of the relatively large number of books is to ensure that graduates of the program have a solid basic library of text references and resources to draw from as they work in this field in the future.

The books and handouts currently required for the class are listed below in alphabetical order by the author's last name. This list is accurate as of this date, but the instructor can and does change individual titles occasionally based on the publication of new work or the unavailability of a given title.

A complete and up-to-date list of titles, authors, and editions will be available two weeks before the first day of classes. It is recommended to place orders as soon as possible after that, to ensure that students will be ready to participate in the course. Books and other course materials can be ordered from our Online Bookstore. Alternatively, books can be purchased elsewhere; CoursePaks (handout materials), however, are available only from the Online Bookstore.

Please note that courses may be cancelled for low enrollment. We recommend that you inquire about book refund policies before you place your orders.

	Carey, James W. Communication As Culture : Essays on Media and Society (Media and Popular Culture 1). Unwin Hyman, December 1988, 241 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 041590725X http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/041590725X/egs/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/041590725X/egs0f/
	Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Ace Books. May 1995, 271 pages, Reissue edition, Mass Market Paperback, ISBN: 0441569595, Online edition, July 1993, Available: http://www.nootrope.net/neuromancer.html (October 20 2001) http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441000681/egs0f http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441569595/egs/ Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Ace Books. July 1994, 278 pages, Reprint edition, Hardcover, ISBN: 0441000681 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441000681/egs/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441000681/egs0f Gibson, William. Neuromancer-Trilogie. Heyne, Munich. 2000, 1004 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 3453164105 http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3453164105/egs0f
	Innis, Harold A. and David Godfrey (Editor). Empire and Communications. Pr Porcepic Ltd. June 1986, Paperback, ISBN: 0888782446 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0888782446/egs/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0888782446/egs0f/
	McLuhan, Herbert Marshall and Lewis H. Lapman (Introduction). Understanding Media. The Extensions of Man. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998, Seventh printing, First MIT Press edition 1994, 1964, 365 pages, ISBN: 0262631598 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262631598/egs/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262631598/egs0f/
	Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. Harvest Books. September 1990, Paperback, ISBN: 015688254X http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/015688254X/egs/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/015688254X/egs0f/
	Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon. Avon Books (Trd.). May 4, 1999, 918 pages, Hardcover, rough cut edition, ISBN: 0380973464, Excerpt Available: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/text.html (October 10 2001) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380973464/egs/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380973464/egs0f Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon. Harperperennial Library. May 2, 2000, 918 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0380788624 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380788624/egs http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380788624/egs0f Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon. Goldmann, Munich. 2001, 1180 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 3442545293 http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3442545293/

The information presented in this document does not represent an offer to buy or sell anything, it is intended for educational purposes only. Although it is advisable to use the aforementioned material for reading assignments and class studies, there are other publishers, editions and sources that might serve the same purpose.

Bagdikian, Ben. The Media Monopoly. Beacon Pr. May 2000, 344 pages, 6th edition Paperback, ISBN: 0807061794, Excerpts Available 5th edition: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaMonopoly_Bagdikian.html

Barlow, John Perry. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. Davos, Switzerland, February 8 1996,
http://www.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html (October 15 2001) in German
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1028/2.html (October 15 2001)

Baudrillard Jean. Disneyworld Company, trans. By Francois Debrix, Liberation, Paris, March 4th 1996,
http://www.ctheory.com/e25-disneyworld_comp.html

Berners-Lee, Tim, Mark Fischetti (Contributor), Michael L. Dertouzos Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor, Harper San Francisco. September 22, 1999, 226 pages, Hardcover, 1 Ed edition, ISBN: 006251586

Bush, Vannemar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic Monthly. July 1946
http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/vbush-all.shtml or http://www.w3.org/History/1945/vbush/

Castells, Manuel. The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. Volume I, The Rise of the Network Society, Oxford 1998, pp. 151-231, 240-51, 264-72

Chomsky, Noam. Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (The Open Media Pamphlet Series, No 1). Seven Stories Press, April 1997, 64 pages, first edition, ISBN: 1888363495
http://mimas.campus2.ankara.edu.tr/~erdogan/medcon.html or
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/talks/9103-media-control.html

Chronicle of Higher Education article on Joshua Berman's online Turing Game
("An On-Line 'Quiz Show' Uses Anonymity of the Internet to Reveal Biases," Sept. 15 1999, http://chronicle.com/free/99/09/99091501t.htm);
browse the Turing Game
(and play it if you wish http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/turing/)

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press. January 1988, 629 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0816614016

Deleuze, Gilles. Nomadology: The War Machine. Autonomedia, June 1986, ISBN: 0936756098

Dibbell, Julian. “A Rape in Cyberspace. How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society.” The Village Voice. December 23, 1993, http://www.levity.com/julian/bungle_vv.html

Dery, Mark. Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series. Pamphlet #25, April 1993
http://www.essentialmedia.com/Shop/Dery.html

Dominguez, Ricardo. “Electronic Zapatismo.” CTheory. January 21 1998
http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=184 [Accessed: March 8 2002] or
http://www.aec.at/infowar/NETSYMPOSIUM/ARCH-EN/msg00008.html [Accessed: March 8 2002]

Edwards, Gavin. “Cyberlit. William Gibson's latest story costs $450, comes on disk, and self-destructs after one reading.” Details. June 1992, Transcribed by Debaser
http://www.textfiles.com/sf/cyberlit.txt

Evans, Philip, Thomas S. Wurster. Blown to Bits : How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy. Harvard Business School Pr. November 1999, 261 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 087584877X

Gibson, William. Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) Kevin Begos Publishing, New York. 1992
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/%7Ereid/htmldocs/agrippa.html

Gibson, William. All Tomorrow's Parties. Putnam Pub Group, October 21 1999, 277 pages, ISBN: 0399145796

Gibson, William. Idoru. Berkley edition, September 1997, Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 1996

Gibson, William. Virtual Light. Reprint edition, Bantam Books, August 1994

Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Ace Books. May 1995, 271 pages, Reissue edition, Mass Market Paperback, ISBN: 0441569595, Online edition, July 1993
http://www.nootrope.net/neuromancer.html (October 20 2001)

Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Script. May 18 – 21 1990
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/2393/wgneuro.txt([Accessed October 15 2001]

Gilliam, Terry Vance. Brazil. Script. October 1983
http://you.co.il/scripts/brazil.html [Accessed November 15 2001]

Guardian Unlimited Books. Our Word Is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos. Guardian Unlimited Books. Book Extracts. March 3 2001
http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,445551,00.html

Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought). MIT Press. August 28 1991, 333 pages, Reprint edition, Paperback, ISBN: 0262581086
http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~mandellc/myhab.htm

Haraway Donna J. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. December 1991, 287 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0415903874, pp.149-181.
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~alc8/cyborg.html#title2

Hegener, Michiel. Telecommunications In Africa - Via Internet In Particular. March 21 1996,
http://www.thing.at/texte/hegener1.html

Johnson, Spencer, and Kenneth H. Blanchard. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life. Putnam Pub Group (Paper). September 1998, 94 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0399144463

Kahn, David A. Seizing the Enigma. The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes. 1939-1945. Barnes & Noble Books. 1998, ISBN 0-76070-863-0

Kahn, David A. The Codebreakers; The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet. Scribner. December 1996, 1181 pages, Hardcover, Revised edition

Kittler, Friedrich. “The History of Communication Media.” CTheory. July 30 1996, Global Algorithm 114
http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=45

Locke, Christopher, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. The Cluetrain Manifesto : The End of Business As Usual. Perseus Pr. February 2000, 190 pages, Hardcover, 1 edition, ISBN: 0738202444
http://www.cluetrain.com/

Marcos, Subcomandante Insurgente. Speech by Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN March 11, 2001 in the Zocalo of Mexico City. Anti Imperialist League. Justin Podur (transl.). Mexico City, March 11 2001
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBM&object_id=2877

Marcos, Subcomandante Insurgente and Juana Ponce De Leon (Editor). Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcomandante Marcos. Seven Stories Press. November 30, 2000, 512 pages, A Seven st edition, Hardcover, ISBN: 1583220364
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/marcos-weapon.html or http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Print-X!ArticleDetail-28361,00.html

McLuhan, Herbert Marshall and Quentin Fiore (Contributor). War and Peace in the Global Village: An Inventory of Some of the Current Spasti Situations That Could Be Eliminated by More Feedforward. Hardwired. May 1997, Paperback, 192 pages, Reprint edition, ISBN: 1888869070

McLuhan Herbert Marshall and Playboy. “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan.” Playboy Magazine. Interview with Marshall McLuhan, March 1969
http://vcsun.org/~battias/class/454/txt/mclpb.html

McLuhan, Herbert Marshall and Lewis H. Lapman (Introduction). Understanding Media. The Extensions of Man. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998, Seventh printing, First MIT Press edition 1994, 1964, 365 pages, ISBN: 0262631598

Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1995

Plato. Phaedros. Project Gutenberg, Etext of Phaedrus, Etext #1636, translated by Benjamin Jowett, February 1999
ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/pub/gutenberg/etext99/phdrs10.txtor http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/phaedrus.html

Postman, Neil. Informing Ourselves To Death. German Informatics Society, Stuttgart. October 11 1990
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper

Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Viking Press. November 1986, 184 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0140094385

Shannon, Claude E.. and Warren Weaver. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Univ. of Illinois Press. 1963, pp. 3-6
http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/courses/liu/english165/materials/shannon.html

Shannon, C. E. „A mathematical theory of communication.” Bell System Technical Journal. vol. 27, pp. 379-423 and 623-656, July and October, 1948
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf

Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon. Avon Books. May 4 1999, 918 pages, Hardcover, rough cut edition, ISBN: 0380973464
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/text.html

Sterling, Bruce. The Hacker Crackdown. Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. Bantam Books. November 1992, ISBN: 0-553-08058-x
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/hacker/

Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. Violation And Virtuality: Two cases of physical and psychological boundary transgression and their implications. 1993.
http://www.sandystone.com/violation-and-virtuality

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen, Identity in the Age of Internet. First Touchstone Edition 1997, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, 1995 (Introduction: 9-26; Chapter 3: 77-101)

Virilio, Paul. “Cyberwar, God And Television: Interview with Paul Virilio.” CTheory. Interview with Paul Virilio, Louise Wilson. December 1 1994, Article A020
http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=62

Wachowski, Larry and Andy Wachowski. The Matrix. Script. April 8 1996
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Capsule/8448/Matrix.txt(October 15 2001)

Zizek, Slavoj, "From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization of Reality" in Druckery, Timothy. Electronic Culture : Technology and Visual Representation Aperture. October 1996, Hardcover, ISBN: 0893816779

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