Internet Class 04 - suggested reading list
Below are suggested readings for each session of Internet Class 04.
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Most of these references will be held in the High Use area of the Social Sciences & Humanities library, University of Queensland St Lucia Campus. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/
This library is located in the Duhig Building (Bldg No 2) & Buildings 12 & 12 A (connected by link building) .
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/maps/ssah.html
As well as the usual catalogue details, they have also been listed under a special course code of CCCS2004, and so will be available for perusal by Internet Class attendees.
General reading on Internet Studies
Gauntlett, David, and Horsley, Ross, eds. Web.studies . 2 nd edition. London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press. 2004. [Introduction available online at: http://www.newmediastudies.com/ws2.htm].
Goggin, Gerard (ed.) Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia . Sydney : UNSW Press, 2004. [Chapter 1, ‘Antipodean Internet: Placing Australian Networks', is available online at http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=16205&pid=16159].
Lovink, Geert. Dark Fibre: Tracking Critical Internet Culture . Cambridge , MA : MIT Press, 2002.
Nissenbaum, H. & Price , ME. (eds), Academy and the Internet . New York : Peter Lang, 2004.
Session 2: Gerard Goggin, ‘Internet Histories'
Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet . Cambridge MA : MIT Press, 1999.
Goggin, Gerard. ‘Digital Rainbows: Inventing the Internet in Northern New South Wales .' In Belonging in the Rainbow Region . ed. Helen Wilson. Lismore: Southern Cross University Press, 2003, pp. 227-46. [Available online at: http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=16205&pid=16159].
—. ‘Net Acceleration: The Advent of Everyday Internet.' Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia . Ed. Gerard Goggin. Sydney : UNSW Press, 2004. 55-70.
Rosenzweig, R. ‘How will the net's history be written? — historians and the Internet'. In Academy and the Internet , ed. H. Nissenbaum and M. E. Price. New York : Peter Lang, 2004. [Alternative version is: Rosenzweig, Roy. ‘Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet.' American Historical Review 103 (December 1998): 1530-1552].
Session 3: Roger Clarke, ‘Directions in Internet Technology'
Clarke, Roger. ‘ Peer-to-Peer (P2P) : An Overview.' October 2004. http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/P2POview.html
—. ‘ Origins and Nature of the Internet in Australia . ' January 2004. http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/OzI04.html
—. ‘An Internet Primer: Technology and Governance'. In Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia , pp. 13-27.
—. ‘ The Internet as a Postal Service : A Fairy Story'. January 2004. http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/InternetPS.html
—. ‘ Wireless Transmission and Mobile Technologies '. Revised Working Paper, 18 October 2003 . http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/WMT.html
—. ‘ Overview of Internet Governance '.14 August 2002. http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/Governance.html
—. ‘ A Primer on Internet Technology'. February 1998. http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/IPrimer.html
Session 5: Lisa Nakamura, ‘Visual Culture and the Internet'
Burnett, Robert A., and P David Marshall. ‘The Look of the Web.' In Web Theory: An Introduction , pp. 81-104.
Lovink, Geert. ‘Talking Race and Cyberspace: Interview with Lisa Nakamura.' http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0405/msg00057.html
Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet . London & New York : Routledge, 2002.
Mirzoeff, Nick. ‘The Subject of Visual Culture.' In Mirzoeff, Nick, ed., The Visual Culture Reader, 2 nd edition, pp. 3-23.
Session 6: Geert Lovink, ‘Civil Society and Internet Governance'
Calabrese, Andrew, and Claudia Padovani. ‘Global Communication Governance: The WSIS and Beyond.' Special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies . vol. 18, no. 3, September 2004.
Klein, Hans. ‘Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society.' 9 December 2003 . http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/WSIS.pdf
Lovink, Geert. ‘Open Ends: Civil Society and Internet Governance: Interview with Jeanette Hofmann.' http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0408/msg00041.html
Lovink, Geert . ‘Trial and Error in Internet Governance: ICANN, WSIS and the making of a global civil society.' Interview with Milton Mueller. http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0311/msg00054.html
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) http://www.itu.int/wsis/
Related sites http://www.itu.int/wsis/sites/.
Session 7: Researching Japanese Internet Cultures
Coates, Ken, and Carin Holroyd. Japan and the Internet Revolution . New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Gottlieb, Nanette, and Mark McLelland (eds). Japanese Cybercultures . London : Routledge, 2003.
McLelland, Mark. ‘The Newhalf Net: Japan 's “Intermediate Sex” Online.' International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies , vol. 7, nos 2/3, special edition ‘Queer Webs: Representations of LGBT People and Communities on the World Wide Web,' pp. 163-175.
Session 8: Sue Morris, ‘Ethnographic Research: Networked Computer Gaming'
Chesher, C., and B. Costello. ‘The Games Issue: Studying Computer Games as Media.' Special issue of Media International Australia . No. 110. February 2004.
Morris, S. ‘Co-Creative Media: Online Multiplayer Computer Game Culture'. Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture . http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_article.php?recordID=16
—. ‘Make New Friends and Kill Them: Online Multiplayer Computer Game Culture.' In Goggin, G. (ed.), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia , pp. 133-45.
Gerard Goggin (g.goggin@uq.edu.au)
Centre for Critical & Cultural Studies
University of Queensland
November 2004