PLEASE NOTE: All CMIT modules have now been withdrawn,
and are unavailable for the 2010/11 academic year
These web pages and lecture notes are left as reference for those students
requiring CMIT modules to complete their programme only, and are not an
indication of modules currently offered.
MIT3107/3207 Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace
Reading List
Introductory Reading
The module notes are designed to give introductions to most of the topics covered, and contain links and references to further reading throughout, most of which will be found online. If you want a further overview, then these books may help, and can be borrowed from the CMIT office.
- Whittaker, Jason (2003),
- The Internet: The Basics, London: Routledge. [Copy held in CMIT Office]
- Castells, Manuel (2001),
- The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society, London: Routledge.[Main Library 001.64404 CAS]
- Dyson, Esther (1997),
- Release 2.0: A design for living in the Digital Age, Broadway Books, New York. [Copies held in CMIT Office]
- Iiyoshi, Tori and Kumar, M S Vijay (2008),
- Opening Up Education: The collective advancement of education through open technology, open content and open knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Available from: http://mitpress.mit.edu/opening_up_education/ [Accessed September 2008]
- Ludlow, Peter, ed. (1996),
- High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [Main Library 001.64026 LUD]
Also available from: http://semlab2.sbs.sunysb.edu/Users/pludlow/highnoon.html [Accessed January 2000]. - Mitchell, William (1995),
- City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Also available from: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits/ [Accessed January 2000, broken September 2008]. - Porter, David, ed. (1996),
- Internet Culture, Routledge, London. [Main/St.Luke's Libraries, 001.64404 POR].
Journals
- First Monday
- http://www.firstmonday.org/
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- http://jcmc.indiana.edu/
- Journal of Digital Information
- http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
- Information and Communications Technology Law
- http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=104535
- Learned Publishing
- http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp
- Currents in Electronic Literacy
- http://currents.cwrl.utexas.edu/
Many journals and articles are now available both on and off campus through the Athens system. Usually, you'll need to log in with your University username and password to gain access.
Bloggers and Web Commentary
- Clay Shirky http://www.shirky.com/
- Articles on economics and culture, media and community, and open source issues.
Further Reading
For topic-specific reading material, please consult the individual sections of the lecture notes.
For more in-depth coverage, and for books and resources on specific issues, look at the working bibliography for all Gary's modules. Note that many of the more specialised titles on this list are personal copies belonging to CMIT staff - if you can't find a book, ask Gary!
There are some scanned excerpts of a few of these books available in a local archive. Also avalable are some audio files, mostly of useful radio programmes. These are available only from computers on the campus network.