Selected books and articles of general interest for research in social history/new media/technologies

 

 

Selected Readings of interest and Useful Resources

Adas, M. (1990).   Machines as the measure of men.   Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Benjamin, Walter, “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” 1936, (considered a classic, if you haven’t read it now might be the time—available online)

Bousquet, M. 2008, How the University works, NYU Press.

boyd, d. 2014, The social Lives of networked Teens, Yale, Press.

Bowker, G. & Leigh Star, Sorting things out, MIT, 2000. (a wonderful analysis of how we create categories—suggested sociology reading)

Bass, R. (2005) Engines of Inquiry :Teaching, technology and learner-centered approaches to culture and history, Georgetown University.

Birkerts, S. (1994). The Gutenberg elegies. Boston: Faber and Faber.

Castells, M. (2001). The Internet galaxy.   London: Oxford University Press.

Castells, Manuel, “Space of flows, space of places: materials for a theory of urbanism in the information age”, in Graham (ed), The Cybercities reader. Routledge, 2004. (available digitally)

Castells, M., Flecha, R., Freire, P., Giroux, H., Macedo, D., & Willis, P. (1999). Critical education in the new information age. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Connick, G. P. (1997). Issues and trends to take-us into the twenty-first century. In T.E. Cyrs (Ed.), Teaching and learning at a distance: What it takes to effectively design, deliver and evaluate programs (pp. 7-12). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Cuban, L. (2001). Oversold and underused.   Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Cowan, R.S., (1997) Social History of American Technology, Oxford.

Dewey, J. (1916) Democracy and education. New York: Touchstone.

Also available online at: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/dewey.html

Dewey, J, 1938, 1997 Experience and Education, Touchstone.

Dourish, P. 2001, Where the Action is: the foundations of emboided interaction, MIT Press.

Forty, A., 1992, Objects of Desire, Thames & Hudson reprint

Graham, Stephan, The Cybercities Reader, Routledge, 2004. see Introduction, and Manuel Castells “Space of Flows, space of Places”.

Giedion, S. (1948, 1975). Mechanization takes command. New York: Norton.

Greenbaum, J. (2004). Windows on the workplace: Technology, jobs, and the organization of office work. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Greenbaum,J. & Kyng, M. (1991). Design at work. Cooperative Design of Computer Systems New York: Erlbaum Press.

Haraway, D. (1991). Simians, cyborgs and women, the reinvention of nature. ( New York: Routledge).

Harvey, D. (1988). The condition of postmodernity. New York: Blackwell Publishing.

Hayden, D. (1995).   The power of place. Cambridge:   MIT Press.

Johnson, D.L. & Maddux , C.D. (2003). Technology in education: A twenty year perspective. Computers in the Schools, 20 (1/2).

Jones, S. (1999) Doing Internet Research, Critical issues and Methods for Examining the Net,, Calif: Sage.

Kellner, D. “Technological Transformation, Multiple Literacies, and the Re-Visioning of Education,” http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/revisioned.htm

Kling, R. (Ed.) (!1996). Computerization and controversy, value conflicts and social choices, (2nd ed). New York: Academic Press.

Knowles, M., Holton, E.F., & Swanson, R. (1998). The adult learner. Woburn, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Kulik, J. A. (1984). Evaluating the effects of teaching with computers. In G. Campbell & G. Fein (Eds.), Microcomputers in early education. Reston, VA: Reston.

Kulik, J. A., Bangert, R., & Williams, G. (1983). Effects of computer-based teaching on secondary students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 75(1), 19–26.

Kurzweil, R. (1999). The age of spiritual machines. New York: Penguin Books.

Latour, B. (1999). Pandora’s hope: Essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge:   Harvard University Press.

Liu, L., Henderson, N., Johnson, D.L. & Maddux , C.D. (2001). Evaluation and assessment in educational information technology, Part I and II. Computers in the Schools, 18 (2/3/4).

Maddux, C. D., & Johnson, D. L. (1997). Logo: A retrospective. Computers in the Schools, 14(1/2), 1–7).

McCarthy, J. and P. Wright, 2004, Technology as experience, MIT Press, see Chap. 1 & 3 (available digitally)

Meyrowitz, J (1985). No sense of place, the impact of electronic media on social behaviour, Oxford University Press.

Manovich, L. (2001). The language of new media. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Marx, K. (1867). Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 7, “The Labor Process” and Chapter 15,

“Machinery and Modern Industry,” Sections 1-5 and Section 8;

available online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Meyer, K.A. (2004). Evaluating online discussions: Four different frames of analysis. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 8(2).

http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v8n2/v8n2_meyer.asp

McLuhan, M. (1964/1994). Understanding media, the extensions of man. Boston: MIT Press.   (Chap. 1 – The Medium is the Message).

Nelson, C. and S. Watt (2004) Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy, New York: Routledge.

Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas. New York: Basic Books.

Park, J. & Staresina, L. (May 6, 2004). Tracking U.S. trends. Education Week, pp. 64-97.

Piaget, J. (1952). The origins of intelligence in children. New York: Norton.

Picciano, A.G. (2006a). Online learning: Implications for pedagogy and policy. Journal of Thought, 41(1), pp. 75-94.

Picciano, A.G. (2006b). Blended learning: Implications for growth and access. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 10 (3)

http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v10n3/index.asp

Picciano, A.G. (2006c). Educational leadership and planning for technology (4th Ed.). New York: Pearson Education.

Picciano, A.G. (2002). Beyond student perceptions: Issues of interaction, presence, and performance in an online course. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 6(1). http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/jaln-vol6issue1.htm

Picciano, A.G. (2001). Distance learning: Making connections across virtual space and time. New York: Simon & Schuster/Prentice-Hall.

Postman, N. (1993). Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology. New York: Vintage Books.

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants (Parts I and II). On the Horizon, NCB University Press, 9(1), 2001. This article is available on the World Wide Web at various sites including: http://www.marcprensky.com/

Ruch, R. Higher education, Inc. The rise of the for-profit university. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Smith, M.R. & Marx, L. (1994).   Does technology drive history: The dilemma of technological determinism. Cambridge:   MIT Press.

Suchman, L. (2007) Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Thorburn, D. & Jenkins, H. (2003). Rethinking media change: The aesthetics of transition. Cambridge:   MIT Press.

Turkle, S. 2012, Alone Together, Basic Books.

Turner, P. & E. Davenport, (eds) (2006) Space, Spatiality and Technology, London: Springer.

Ullman, E. (1997). Close to the machine: Technophilia and its discontents. (memoir) San Francisco: City Lights Press.

Vygotsky, L. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Washburn, J (2006) University Inc.: The corporate corruption of American Higher Education, Basic Books.