Digital Journalism Exercises
Copyright
© 1998 Elizabeth Osder
The Literature of Cyberspace (Book
Report)
Each student is
required to read and present one major text on cyberspace, technology,
etc. On the day of your presentation
please circulate a one-page abstract of your book and give a brief 15-minute
presentation of the material. Please
also provide a brief biography of the author and their relevance to the course.
Please also email
your abstract to the instructor.
Try buying a book
online:
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
Choose from the
list below or select another title:
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Stewart Brand, The
Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT: New York: Viking, 1987
Douglas Copeland,
Microserfs: New York: Regan Books, 1995.
Esther Dyson, Release
2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age: New York: Broadway Books, 1997.
Bill Gates, The Road Ahead: New York: Penguin
Books, 1995
William Gibson, Neuromancer:
New York: Ace Books, 1994.
Katie Hafner and
Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late:
The Origins of the Internet:
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Katie Hafner and
John Markoff, Cyberpunk: New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. **
John Hagel,
Arthur Armstrong, Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through
Virtual
Communities: New York: Harvard Business School Press,
1997.
Steven Johnson, Interface
Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way WeCreate and Communicate: San Francisco: Harper, 1997
Jon Katz, Media
Rants : Postpolitics in the Digital Nation: San Franscisco: Hard Wired,
1997.
Jon Katz , Virtuous
Reality : How AmericaSurrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists,
Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett: New York: Random House, 1997
Kevin Kelly, Out
of Control: Reading, Mass. Addison Wessley, 1994
Tracy Kidder, The
Soul of a New Machine: New York:
Avon Books, 1995.
Arthur Kroker,
Marilouise Kroker, Digital Delirium : New York, Saint Martin, 1997.
James Howard
Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's
Man-Made Landscape: New York: Touchstone Books, 1994.
Pierre Levy,
Robert Bononno (Translator), Collective
Intelligence : Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace: New York: Plen
Publishing, 1997.
Steven Levy, Instantly
Great : The Life and Times of the
Macintosh, The Computer That Changed Everything: New York: Viking, 1994 **
Tsutomu
Shimomura, John Markoff, Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of
Kevin Mitnick,
America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It:
New York: Hyperion, 1996.
Marshall McLuhan,
Understanding Media: The Extension of Man: New York: McGraw Hill, 1964.
**
Chuck Martin, The
Digital Estate: New York: McGraw Hill, 1997. **
Nicholas
Negroponte, Being Digital: New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology: New York: Random House, 1992. **
Howard Rheingold,
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier: Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley, 1993. **
Douglas Rushkoff
, Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture: New York:
Ballentine, 1996.
John Seabrook , Deeper
: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace:
New York: Simon and Schuster,
1997.
Hardcover, 288 pages
David Shenk , Data
Smog: Surviving the Information Glut : San Francisco: Harper, 1997.
Neal Stephenson, Snow
Crash: New York: Spectra, 1993. **
Clifford Stoll, Silicon
Snake Oil: New York: Anchor Books,
1996.
Sherry Turkle, Life
on Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet: New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1996.
William C.
Wresch, Have & Have-Nots in the Information Age: Rutgers:
Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Richard
Wurmen, Informamtion Anxiety: New York:
Doubleday, 1989. **
** Books I can
lend out