Sources of SOC 585R Readings
Note: Some chapters in edited volumes are currently listed by editor's (rather than author's) name.
Asterisked sources contain a significant number of required readings, and are therefore worth purchasing.
  • Baym, Nancy K.
    • 2000. Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. *
  • Behar, Joseph E. (editor)
    • 1997. Mapping Cyberspace: Social Research on the Electronic Frontier. n.p.: Dowling College Press.
  • Best, Samuel J. and Brian S. Krueger.
    • 2004. Internet Data Collection, part of the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. *
  • Dery, Mark.
    • 1994. Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Ellul, Jacques.
    • 1964. The Technological Society. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Gackenbach, Jayne. (editor)
    • 1998. Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implications. San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Haythornthwaite, Caroline and Barry Wellman.
    • 2001. American Behavioral Scientist, 45:3 (Nov.), special issue devoted to The Internet in Everday Life.
  • Heim, Michael.
    • 1993. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Jones, Steven G. (editor)
    • 1997. Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cyberspace. London: Sage Publications. *
    • 1998. Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. *
    • 1999. Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. *
  • Kahin, Brian and James Keller. (editors)
    • 1995. Public Access to the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Kim, Amy Jo.
    • 2000. Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities. Berkeley: Peachpit Press.
  • Lanham, Richard A.
    • 1993. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Mann, Chris and Fiona Stewart.
    • 2000. Internet Communication and Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online. London: Sage Publications.
  • Markham, Annette N.
    • 1998. Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. Walnut Creek: Sage Publications.
  • Negroponte, Nicholas.
    • 1995. Being Digital. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Poster, Mark.
    • 2001. What's the Matter with the Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Rheingold, Howard.
    • 1991. Virtual Reality. New York: Simon and Schuster.
    • 1993. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
  • Shields, Rob. (editor)
    • 1996. Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. London: Sage Publications.
  • Smith, Marc A. and Peter Kollock.
    • 1999. Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge. *
  • Standage, Tom.
    • 1998. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers. New York: Walker and Company.
  • Wallace, Patricia.
    • 1999. The Psychology of the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wood, Andrew and Matthew J. Smith.
    • 2000. Online Communication: Linking Technology Identity and Culture. Mahwah (NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. *
  • Wooley, Benjamin.
    • 1992. Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality. London: Penguin Books.

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