Readings on Media and the History of Writing

Barnum. Carol M. Usability Testing and Research. Longman Publishers: New York, 2002.

Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Lawrence Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ, 1991.

Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2000.

Farkas, David K and Jean B. Farkas. Principles of Web Design. Longman Publishers: New York, 2002.

Johnson, Steven. Interface Culture. Basic Books: New York, 1997.

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing. Ablex: Norwood, NJ, 1997.

Kalmbach, James R. The Computer and the Page: Publishing, Technology, & the Classroom, Ablex: Norwood, NJ, 1997.

McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy. Signet Books: New York, 1969.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 1964.

McLuhan, Marshall and Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. HardWired: San Francisco, 1967.

Nielsen, Jakob. Designing Web Usability. New Riders Publishing: Indianapolis, 2000.

Porter, James E. Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing. Ablex: Norwood, NJ, 1998.

O'Donnell, James J. Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace. Harvard UP: Cambridge, MA, 1998.

Readings on Virtual Spaces

Dery, Mark. Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century. Grove Press: NY, 1996.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon & Schuster: NY, 1995.