William Merrin, "Media Studies 2.0 - my thoughts" (2007)

David Berry, "Media Studies 2.0" (response to Merrin) (2007)

First Monday -- 13(3) special issue, "critical perspectives on Web 2.0" (2008)

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Henry Jenkins, "Eight Traits of the New Media Landscape" (2006)

Eric Bucy, "Interactivity in Society: Locating an Elusive Concept," The Information Society 20(5): 373-84. (2004)

John Naughton, "Blogging and the Emerging Media Ecosystem"

Colin Sparks, "The impact of the internet on the existing media," in Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks, eds., Towards a political economy of culture: Capitalism and communication in the 21st century. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield. (2004)

Jody Berland, "Cultural Technologies and the "Evolution" of Technological Cultures," in Thomas Swiss and Andrew Herman, eds., The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory. New York: Routledge, pp. 235-258. (2000)

Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (2000)

Rosalind Williams, "Afterword to Castell's The Network Society, A Cross-cultural Perspective: An Historian's View."

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Walter Lippmann, "The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads," Public Opinion (1922)

C. Edwin Baker, "Not Toasters: The Special Nature of Media Products," Media, Markets, and Democracy (2001)

Michael Schudson, "What's Unusual About Covering Politics as Usual" in Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer, eds., Journalism After September 11 London: Routledge: 36-47. (2002)

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Bruce Sterling, "A Short History of the Internet" (1993)

Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture Chicago; University of Chicago Press (2006)

Amanda Lotz, The television Will be Revolutionized New York: NYU Press (2007)
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Vincent Mosco, The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2005)

Lisa Gitelman, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2006)

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, "American Ideas about Technology." A Social History of American Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 201-219. (1997)

Rob Kling, "Hopes and Horrors: Technological Utopianism and Anti-utopianism in Narratives of Computerization" Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices. (1996)

Geoffrey Nunberg, "Farewell to the Information Age," The Future of the Book. (1996)

Dan Harries, ed., The New Media Book (2002)
     Lev Manovich, "Old Media as New Media: Cinema" 209-218
     William Uricchio, "Old Media as New Media: Television" 219-230
     Jan Simons, "New Media as Old Media: Cinema" 231-241
     William Boddy, "New Media as Old Media: Television" 242-253

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"Who Owns the Media?" FreePress.net

Robert McChesney, "So much for the magic of technology and the free market: the world wide web and the corporate media system." in Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss, eds., The world wide web and contemporary cultural theory. New York: Routledge, 5-36 (2000)

Robert McChesney, "Fight for a Free Press" Nation (2002)

James Gattuso, "The Myth of Media Concentration," The Heritage Foundation (2003)

Robin Manselland M Javary, "New media and the forces of capitalism," in Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks, eds., Towards a political economy of culture: Capitalism and communication in the 21st century. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield. (2004)

Ben Bagdikian, "The U.S. Mass Media: Supermarket or Assembly Line?" in Iyengar and Reeves, eds., Do The Media Govern? 66-76. ()

Nicholas Garnham, "Constraints on multimedia convergence." in William Dutton, ed., Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1996)

Gina Neff, "The Changing Place of Cultural Production: The Location of Social Networks in a Digital Media Industry" The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, 597.1 (2005)

Anup Shah, "Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership" (2007)

Frank Rose, "The Civil War Inside Sony" Wired 11.02 (2003)

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Search Engine Watch

Hitwise: Search Engine Traffic Analysis

Lucas Introna and Helen Nissenbaum, "Defining the Web: The Politics of Search Engines" Computer (2000)

James Grimmelmann, "The Structure of Search Engine Law," Iowa law Review 93.1 (2007)

Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything (blog, forthcoming book)

Jeffrey Toobin, "Google's Moon Shot: The Quest for a Univeral Library" The New Yorker (2007)

Nicolas Carr, "The Google Enigma" Strategy+Business (2008)

Lisa Vaas, "Is It OK That Google Owns Us?" eWeek (2007)

Adam Ostrow, "My Soul, and 10 Other Things that Google owns" Mashable (2007)

Marc and Angel, "Google Owns My Identity: 16 Things They Know About Me" (2007)

i.nconspicuo.us, "Google Owns You": Part one, Part two, Part three (2007)

VPRO Backlight, "Google: Behind the Screen" [56 min] (2006)

Jeff Chester, on Google, Digital Destiny

Tim O'Reilly, "The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why its Bogus" (2004)

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Tiziana Terranova, "Free labor: producing culture for the digital economy." Social Text 18.2: 33-58. (2000)

Olli Sotamaa, "Let Me Take You to The Movies: Productive Players, Commodification and Transformative Play," Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 13: 383-401. (2007)

Mimi Ito +, "Networked Public Culture" (2006)

Shawn Shimpach, "Working Watching: The Creative and Cultural Labor of the Media Audience" Social Semiotics 15.3: 343-360 (2005)

Jonathan Zittrain, "The Generative Internet" Harvard Law Review 119: 1974-2040 (2006)

Gerhard Fischer, "Beyond 'Couch Potatoes': From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors" First Monday 7.12 (2002)

Pew, "Riding the Waves of Web 2.0" and "User Generated Content" (presentation) (2006)

John Holden, "Logging on: Culture, Participation, and the Web," (report) Demos (2007)

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent and Graham Vickery, "Participative Web: User-Created Content," (report) Committee for Information, Computer and Communication Policy, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (2006)

Sonia Livingstone, "The Challenge of Changing Audiences: Or, What is the Audience Researcher to do in the Age of the Internet?" European Journal of Communication, 19.1: 75-86. (2004)

TL Taylor, "Whose Game is this anyway?" in , Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 125-150 (2006)

"Social Media in the 1990s"()

Lelia Green and Carmen Guinery, "Harry Potter and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon" M/C Journal 7.4 (2004)

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Jane McGonigal, "Please feed (but don't fetishize) the participation" Avant Game (2006)

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Matt Carlson, "Tapping into TiVo: Digital video recorders and the transition from schedules to surveillance in television" New Media & Society 8.1: 97-115 (2006)

Joseph Jaffe, Life after the 30 Second Spot: Energize Your Brand With a Bold Mix of Alternatives to Traditional Advertising Wiley (2005)

Frontline: "The Persuaders" (2004)

Ralph Wilson, "The Six Principles of Viral Marketing" Web Marketing Today (2000)

Joseph Jaffe, "Viral Marketing" iMedia Connection (2003)

"I'd Love This Product Even If I Weren't A Stealth Marketer", The Onion (2005)

Sam Coates, "Fake Bloggers to Be Named and Shamed" The Times (2007)

Joseph Jaffe, "Involving Experiences" iMedia Connection (2003)

Joseph Jaffe, "Inviting Interaction" iMedia Connection (2003)

Joseph Jaffe, "Case Study: See What Happens" iMedia Connection (2004)

Joseph Jaffe, "Consumer Generated Content" (in advertising) iMedia Connection (2005)

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Chris Anderson, "Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business" Wired 16.03 (2008)

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Frontline: "News War" (2007)

John Pavlik, Journalism and New Media New York: Columbia University Press (2001)

Pablo Boczkowski, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2005)
     Chapter 3, "Hedging: A Web of Challenges in the Second Half of the 1990s"      Chapter 4: "Mimetic Originality: The New York Times on the Web's Technology Section"

Ben Scott, "A Contemporary History of Digital Journalism," Television and New Media 6.1: 89-126 (2005)

W. Lance Bennett, Regina Lawrence & Steven Livingston, "The semi-independent press: a theory of news and democracy," in W. Lance Bennett, Regina Lawrence, and Sonia Livingstone, When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 46-71. (2007)

Darin Barney, "The multiplication of news platforms: the 'privatization' of the media," Policy Options, 27.2: 63-66. (2006)

Mark Deuze, "What is journalism? Professional identity and ideology of journalists reconsidered" Journalism 6.4: 442-464 (2005)

Peter Dahlgren, "Media Logic in Cyberspace: Repositioning Journalism and its Public" Javnost/The Public 3(3): 59-73 (1996)

special issue: war coverage in cyberspace, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12:1

David Bollier, "The Evolution of Journalism in a Changing Market Economy" (2001)

Howard Tumber, "Democracy in the Information Age: The Role of the Fourth Estate in Cyberspace," Information, Communication & Society 41: 95-112. (2001)

Robin Sloan, Museum of Media History: "Epic 2015"

Anthony Bianco, "The Future of the New York Times," Business Week (2005)

The Project for Excellence in Journalism, "Return to Normalcy? How the Media Have Covered the War on Terrorism" (2002)

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Steve Outing, "What Journalists can Learn from Bloggers" and "What Bloggers can Learn from Journalists" Poynter Online (2004)

Jay Rosen, "Journalism is Itself a Religion" PressThink (2004)

Jay Rosen, "The Weblog: An Extremely Democratic Form of Journalism" PressThink (2004)

Nicholas Lemann, "Amateur Hour: Journalism without Journalists." The New Yorker (2006)

danah boyd, "A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium." Reconstruction 6.4 (2006)

Jan Schmidt, Blogging practices: An analytical framework. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12.4 (2007)

Chris Mooney, Forum: How Blogging Changed Journalism - Almost. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2002).

Emily Nussbaum, "My So-Called Blog." The New York Times Magazine. (2004)

Bonnie Nardi et al.: "I'm blogging this: A Closer look at why people blog"

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Darin Barney, "One Nation Under Google" (2007)

Bentivegna, S. "Politics and new media." In L. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone, Handbook of New Media Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications 50-61 (2002)

Benjamin Barber, "Which Technology and Which Democracy?" in Democracy and New Media, eds. H Jenkins and D. Thorburn, (2003)

Michael Schudson, "Click here for democracy: a history and critique of an information-based model of citizenship," in Democracy and New Media, eds. H Jenkins and d. Thorburn, 2003

Lincoln Dahlberg, The Internet and Democratic Discourse

Coleman, "New mediation and direct representation - reconceptualizing representation in the digital age" ()

Eric Bucy and Gregson, "Media Participation: A legitimizing mechanism of mass democracy" (2001) In Living in the information age: a new media reader. (2005)

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Coleman and Gotze, "Bowling Together - Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation"

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Pew, "The Internet's Broader Role in Campaign 2008" (2008)

Jenkins: "Answering Questions from a Snowman: The YouTube Debate and Its Aftermath" (2007)

Liz Losh, year in digital rhetoric: 2006, 2007

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Horace Newcomb and Paul Hirsch, "Television As A Cultural Forum: Implications for Research," Quarterly Review of Film Studies (1983)

George Lipsitz, "Popular Culture: This Ain't No Sideshow" in Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press pp3-20 (1990)

Rosen, C. "The age of egocasting." The new atlantis. 7.p.51-72. (2005)

Paul Théberge, "Everyday fandom: Fan clubs, blogging, and the quotidian rhythms of the Internet." Canadian Journal of Communication 30: 485-502 (2005)

Frontline, "Growing Up Online" (2008)

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication -- 13(1) special issue on "social networking sites" (2008)

Henry Jenkins, "Complete Freedom of Movement: Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces" From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games Cambridge: MIT Press (1998)

Leslie Haddon, "The Contribution of Domestication Research to In-Home Computing and Media Consumption" The Information Society 22.4 (2006)

Charles Acland, "Cinemagoing and the Rise of the Megaplex" Television and New Media v1.4: 375-402 (2000)

David Nasaw, "Talking and Singing Machines, Parlors and Peepshows," in Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. New York: Basic, pp. 120-134 (notes pp. 279-281). (1993)

Ethan Todras-Whitehill, ÒMaking Connections, Here and NowÓ New York Times (2006)

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Theo Rohle, "Desperately seeking the consumer: personalized search engines and the commercial exploitation of user data" First Monday 12.9 (2007)

Michael Zimmer, "Search 2.0: Web 2.0, Personal Information Flows, and the Drive for the Perfect Search Engine" (2007)

Pew, "Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency" (2007)

"Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?" 92007)

Susan Barnes, "A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States" (2006)

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Farhad Manjoo, "A Picture Is No Longer Worth a Thousand Words" Salon (April 22, 2004)

Tony Dokoupil, "Is User-Generated Content Out?" Newsweek (2008)

Clay Shirky, "Ontology is Overrated" (2005)

Daren C. Brabham, "Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving: An Introduction and Cases," Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 2008 14: 75-90.

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"Truth in Numbers" (due in early 2008) (trailer)

Roy Rosenzweig, "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past" The Journal of American History 93:1: 117-46 (2006)

Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It (2008)
Chapter 6, "The Lessons of Wikipedia"

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Graham Longford, "Pedagogies of Digital Citizenship and the Politics of Code." Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology 9(1): 68-96. (2005)

Mike Godwin, "What Every Citizen Should Know About DRM, a.k.a. 'Digital Rights Management'." Washington, D.C.: Public Knowledge. (2004)

Steve Jobs, "Thoughts on Music." (2007)

Douglas Thomas, Innovation, Piracy, and the Ethos of New Media. in Harries, ed., The New Media Book. (2002)

Roger Silverstone and Leslie Haddon, "Design and domestication of information and communication technologies: Technical change and everyday life." In R. Silverstone & L. Haddon (Eds.) Communication by design: The politics of information and communication technologies (pp. 44-74). New York: Oxford University Press. (1996)

Chris Kelty in CODE ()

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Elizabeth Stark, "Free culture and the internet: a new semiotic democracy" openDemocracy (2006)

Anne-Marie Boisvert, "On Bricolage: Assembling Culture with Whatever Comes to Hand" ()

Mark Deuze, "Participation, Remediation, bricolage: Considering the principal components of digital culture" ()

Pat Aufderheide and Peter jaszi, "Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video" [Center for Social Media] )2007)

Gunderson, "Danger Mouse's Grey Album, Mash-Ups, and the Age of Composition" ()

Jones, Sasha Frere. "1 + 1 + 1 = 1: The New Math of Mash-Ups." The New Yorker 1(2005)

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Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom New haven: Yale University Press (2006)
     Ch 11: The Battle Over the Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environment

Sandvig, Christian, "The Structural Problems of the Internet for Cultural Policy." Paper Presented to the symposium "Critical Cyberculture." Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington. (2003)

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