Books Available in the Bookstore (Spring 2018)
Multiple copies of these books are also available on reserve in the library.
See Class Schedule for listings of specific required and supplementary readings from these books, as well as articles and excerpts on reserve in folders in the library.
Books with Substantial Assigned Readings (Listed in order assigned):
Boyer, Dominic. 2007. Understanding Media: A Popular Philosophy. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Larkin, Brian. 2008. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Fisher, Daniel. 2016. The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Recommended (a few chapters assigned) (Listed in order assigned):
Bolter, J. David and Richard Grusin. 1999. Remediation: Understanding New Media.
Peters, John Durham. 1999. Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Warner, Michael. 2002. Publics and Counterpublics. Zone Books.
Browne, Simone. 2015. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Duke University Press.
Nakamura, Lisa and Peter Chow-White, eds., 2012. Race After the Internet, Routledge.