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Bibliographies & Other Resources

• Cyberculture: An Annotated Bibliography (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies)
• Cyber Culture Bibliography of Books and Theory
• HyperLiterature/HyperTheory HomePage (Virginia Tech)
• Internet Interviews (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies)
• Readings in Technology & Education
• Related Readings: Text-Based Virtual Reality features summaries and discussions of eight books by prominent technology and education theorists.
• Serials in Cyberspace
• The Internet at 35: Still evolving, CNN, Sunday, August 29, 2004

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Blogs

• Kate Baggott, "Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs," June 25, 2004
• Mark Bernstein "Ten Tips on Writing the Living Web"
• Rebecca Blood six rules of blogging ethics
• Rebecca Blood,"Weblogs: a history and perspective" September 2000
• Rebecca Blood, "Weblogs and Journalism in the Age of Participatory Media," July 2003
• Tim Cavanaugh, "Let Slip the Blogs of War," Online Journalism Review, April 2, 2002.
• Julian Dibbell,"Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man"
• Richard Ferdig and Kaye Trammell, "Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'" The Journal, Feb 2004
• Gurak, Antonijevic, Johnson, Ratliff, and Reyman's "Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture"
• Megan Hourihan, "What We're Doing When We Blog," O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2002
• D. J. Jerz, "The Blogosphere: What's in It for Me?"
• Steven Johnson, "Use the Blog, Luke," Salon, May 10, 2002
• J.D. Lasica, "Weblogs: A New Source of News," Online Journalism Review, April 18, 2002
• J.D. Lasica,'Blogging as a Form of Journalism," Online Journalism Review, April 29, 2002
• Dennis Mahoney, "How to Write a Better Weblog"
• George Siemens, "The Art of Blogging" Part 1 and Part 2 December 1, 2002
• Clay Shirky, "Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing," October 3, 2002
• Jill Walker and Torill Mortensen's "Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool,"
• Dave Winer, "What makes a weblog a weblog?" May 23, 2003
  
  

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Cyberculture

• John Perry Barlow Declaration of Independece in Cyberspace
• Daniel Chandler, "Shaping and Being Shaped: Engaging with Media," Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 3:2 (01 February 1996)
• Michael E. Doherty Jr. Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson in "Cyberspace". CMC Magazine (September 1, 1995): 4.
• Dan Gilmore, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
• Bill Joy, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us." Wired, 8.04, April 2000
• Tim Jackson A Prisoner of Hope in Cyberspace.
• Richard A. Lanham, Chapter 4 of The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts (1993) (U. Chicago Press)
• Marlene Manoff (MIT Libraries), "Cyberhope or Cyberhype? Computers and Scholarly Research" (1997)
• Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
• Bruce Murray., Society, Cyberspace and the Future.
• Nicholas Negroponte (MIT Media Lab), Being Digital (excerpts from the book supported by external links and a collection of Negroponte's Wired Magazine columnsNegroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. NY: Knopf, 1995.   Browse through The "Being Digital" Cyberdock.
• Mark Olsen (U. Chicago), "Signs, Symbols, and Discourses.
• Mark Poster, Postmodern Virtualities (1995)
• Neil Postman, "Informing Ourselves to Death," 1990
• Howard Rheingold Taming Technology
• Marc Smith and Peter Kollock, eds., Communities in Cyberspace: Perspectives on New Forms of Social Organizaton
• John Suler, Cyberspace as Psychological Space
• Alan Sondheim, Internet Text
• John Unsworth (U. Virginia), "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality (Draft)" and Electronic Scholarship or, Scholarly Publishing and the Public
• David Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, Chapter one and Chapter Two

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Education and Technology

• John Seely Brown, "Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn." USDLA Journal, 16:2, February 2002.
• David Glenn, "Scholars Who Blog: The soapbox of the digital age draws a crowd of academics." Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6, 2003
• John Unsworth, "The Scholar in the Digital Library," 2002
• Jeffery Young, "'Hybrid' Teaching Seeks to End the Divide Between Traditional and Online Instruction." Chronicle of Higher Education, March 22, 2002

 

Hypertext

• Sven Birkerts, "Into the Electronic Millennium."  
• Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945) (HTML version of the canonical essay on hypertext; originally published in The Atlantic Monthly) "As We May Think," from Atlantic Monthly (July 1945).
• Jerome McGann (U. Virginia) "Radiant Textuality" (the relation of online computing and hypertext to literary scholarship and The Rationale of HyperText"
• John Unsworth's "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality." 

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Virtual Communities

• Collin Gifford Brooke's "The Fate of Rhetoric in an Electronic Age" (Enculturation 1:1, Spring 1997) 
• Judith S. Donath (MIT Media Lab), "Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community" (1996)
• Jan Fernback and Brad Thompson. "Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure?".
• Howard Rheingold, Chapter 5 of Howard Rheingold's book, The Virtual Community  (pp. 92-7 in Wired Society).

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Cyberdemocracy & The Global Village

• William F. Birdsall, "The Internet and the Ideology of Information Technology"
• Jon Katz "Birth of a Digital Nation" (1997) and "The Digital Citizen" (1997) (Wired)
• Mark Poster (U. California, Irvine): Home Page, "CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere" and "Postmodern Virtualities"
• Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Jim Birckhead, David G. Green, and John S. Atkinson, "The Electronic Colonization of the Pacific," Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 3:2 (01 February 1996).
• Langdon Winner (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), "Cyberlibertarian Myths and the Prospects for Community" (1997) ("critique of the banal fantasies that pass as 'vision' among of many of those who speculate about cyberspace and politics in our time")
• Americans in the Information Age Falling Through the Net - National Telecommunications and Information Association (digital divide - haves and have nots, gender, permanent or temporary disabilities, economic and cultural barriers)
  
  

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Technology & The Public Sphere

• John Monberg, "Information Technology Systems as Publics," Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 3:2 (01 February 1996)..
• Mark Poster, "The Net as Public Sphere?" Wired 3:11 (November 1995).
  
  

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The Virtual Library and the Culture of Print

• Terry Abraham. "Books to Bytes: Libraries and the Internet".
• Nancy Kaplan,(U. of Baltimore) "Politexts, Hypertext, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print" (Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine)
• James J. O'Donnell (U. Penn) " The Virtual Library: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed"
• Dean Blobaum (U. Chicago Press), Review of Sven Birkerts's The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age (1995)
• O'Reilly's Open Book Project - here you'll find a number of "Open Books"--books with various forms of "open" copyright, and so available on-line.

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Freedom/Censorship

• John Perry Barlow, "The Economy of Ideas," Wired (March 1994).
• Bentley Systems, "Software Piracy: What You Should Know": An Industry Perspective
• Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone, eds., Open Sources: Voices from the Free
• Dan Farmer, "Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into It," from the author of SATAN.
• Richard M. Stallman, "The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement."
• FBI Documents concerning Encryption. Made available by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.