Communication & Media

*note: This page is being gradually developed over time. Contributions will be credited. Links welcome.

• The Ecstasy of Communication by Jean Baudrillard
  (1988, non-fiction... postmodern)

• The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts
  (19??... external link to book info, review, and another review)

• Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing by Jay David Bolter
  (1991, non-fiction...Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, US...
  also check the Jay David Bolter Website)

• Who Owns Information: From Privacy to Public Access by Anne Wells Branscomb
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and its Audience edited by Deborah Cartmell, I.Q.Hunter, Heidi Kaye, Imelda Whelehan
  (April 1997, non-fiction, media studies, film criticism...Pluto Press, London, UK, hbk, ISBN 0-7453-1203-9)
  "audience response, interaction and manipulation."

• Communications Tomorrow: The Coming of the Information Society edited by Edward Cornish
  (19??, non-fiction...World Future Society, Bethesda, Maryland, US)

• Understanding Hypermedia by Bob Cotton, Richard Oliver
  (1993, non-fiction)

• The Cyberspace Lexicon: An Illustrated Dictionary of Terms, from Multimedia to Virtual Reality by Bob Cotton, Richard Oliver
  (1994, non-fiction, reference)

• Timeshift: On Videoculture by Sean Cubitt
  (1991, non-fiction)

• Hypermedia and Literary Studies by Paul Delany, George P.Landow
  (1991, non-fiction, anthology...MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)

• Pictorial Communication in Virtual and Real Environments by S.R.Ellis
  (1991, non-fiction)

• The Consciousness Industry: On Literature, Politics and the Media by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  (1974, non-fiction...Seabury Press / Continuum, New York, US)

• The Age of Television by Martin Esslin
  (19??, non-fiction...W.H.Freeman, US)

• The Whole World Is Watching by Todd Gitlin
  (1980, non-fiction...University of California Press, Berkeley, US... mass media in the making and unmaking of the new left)

• Watching Television: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture by Todd Gitlin
  (1986, non-fiction...Pantheon Books, New York, US)

• Format & Anxiety: Paul Goodman Critiques the Media by Paul Goodman
  (19??, non-fiction, essays...Autonomedia, Brooklyn, New York, US... critique of literature, pornography, the movies, television, and other media issues)

• DIY TV: The Video Activists' Handbook by Thomas Harding
  (1997, non-fiction...Pluto Press, London, UK, hbk, ISBN 0-7453-1174-1... by the co-founder of Undercurrents Alternative News Video, Britain's first ever VHS cassette news service)
  "A lively survey of the international video activist scene and the historical antecedents of these new protest movements."

• On Television by Stuart Hood, Thalia Tabary-Peterssen
  (October 1996, non-fiction, media studies...Pluto Press, London, UK, hbk... the revised 4th edition also covers media use in the Gulf War)
  "lucid, jargon-free and impressively concise analysis of every aspect of the television industry."

• Black Hole edited by Carolyn Hughes
  (1992, non-fiction, omnibus, media studies... contains: "Jamming the Media" by Gareth Branwyn... "This essay, as well as the companion pieces in this underground omnibus, explore the interstice between cyberpunk and culture jamming.")

• CyberArts: Exploring Art & Technology edited by Linda Jacobson
  (1992, non-fiction, essays, articles, anthology...Miller-Freeman, US)

• The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System by Fredric Jameson
  (1992, non-fiction...Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, US)

• Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins
  (1992, non-fiction...Routledge, New York, US)
  "Illuminates the general question of how individuals appropriate fantasy materials in the construction of identity." --Sherry Turkle.

• Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age edited by Kevin Kelly, Richard Kadrey, et al
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Digital Creativity by Owen Kelly
  (1996, non-fiction...Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 98 Portland Place, London W1N 4ET, UK... multimedia, digital arts, internet, CD-ROM... e-mail Owen Kelly: owenk@booha.easynet.co.uk)
  "A concise, knowledgable and realistic appraisal of digital media and its creative use." --Henry W.Targowski.

• Subliminal Seduction by William Bryan Key
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Media Sexploitation by William Bryan Key
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Television by Jacques Lacan
  (19??, non-fiction... postmodern)

• Hypertext: The Convergence of Critical Theory and Technology by George P.Landow
  (1992, non-fiction...Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, US)

• Hypermedia and Literary Studies edited by George P.Landow and Paul Delany
  (1991, non-fiction, anthology...MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)

• The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts by Richard A.Lanham
  (19??, non-fiction... here's a link to an excerpt)

• The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society by Yoneji Masuda
  (19??, non-fiction...World Future Society, Bethesda, Maryland, US)

• The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man by Marshall McLuhan
  (1951, non-fiction, advertising)
  "An enlightened analysis of advertisements." --Henry W.Targowski.

• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
  (1964, non-fiction... a classic)

• The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel
  (1967, non-fiction, image/text collage)
  "A collection of mindbytes." --Henry W.Targowski.

• Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations by Marshall McLuhan
  (1967, non-fiction...Something Else Press, New York, US)

• Cyber Movies - Cyborg, Hackers, Mondi Virtuali: Guida al Cinema del Terzo Millenio by Gianluigi Negri
  (19??, non-fiction... Italian language... for more information e-mail: radio12@immagica.it... cyber cinema, hackers in film, virtual reality)

• The More You Watch the Less You Know by Danny Schechter
  (1997, non-fiction, news media...Seven Stories Press, New York, US, hbk... check: Danny Schechter's website -- for journalists to report on censorship and discrimination in their newsrooms)
  "Chronicles how print, radio and television news have been dumbed down into a morass of glitz and entertainment that only hints of journalism." --John Veit (in High Times , January 1998).

• "Information Superhighway or Corporate Monorail?" by Herbert I.Schiller
  (April 1994, non-fiction)

• Goodbye Gutenberg: The Newspaper Revolution of the 1980s by Anthony Smith
  (1980, non-fiction)

• The Geopolitics of Information: How Western Culture Dominates the World by Anthony Smith
  (1980, non-fiction)

• Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age by Claudia Springer
  (1996, non-fiction)

• The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit by Sherry Turkle
  (1984, non-fiction...Simon & Schuster, New York, US)

• Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle
  (1995, non-fiction...Simon & Schuster, New York, US... identity, internet, cyberspace, virtual reality, MUDs, artificial life)

• War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception by Paul Virilio
  (1989, non-fiction)

• Art in the Age of Mass Media by John A.Walker
  (October 1996, non-fiction, media studies, illustrated...Pluto Press, London, UK, hbk, ISBN 0-7453-0832-5... "interactions between high and low culture in a postmodern, culturally diverse world.")

• Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events by McKenzie Wark
  (1994, non-fiction)

• Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising by Judith Williamson
  (19??, non-fiction)

• The Plug-In Drug: TV, Children, and the Family by Marie Winn
  (1977, non-fiction)

• Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood
  (1970, non-fiction, illustrated... experimental film, video, computer art... contains: Introduction by R.Buckminster Fuller)
  "Excellent coverage, great images... in the forefront of the media revolution." --Henry W.Targowski.

"Virtual Textuality" by Scott Bukatman
("This is the location of Bukatman's "Virtual Textuality" essay, originally published in Artforum , discussing the hypertext." --Kyle Seifried.)

Adbusters edited by ?
(Vancouver-based magazine... 1243 West 7th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6H 1B7, Canada)
"attacks the various ways commercial media sell ownership as identity and consumption as a way of life."

"The Art and Science of Billboard Improvement" by ?
(pamphlet... Processed World, 41 Sutter Street, #1829, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA)

C-Theory edited by Arthur Kroker and Marilouis Kroker
(online magazine... electronic review of books on theory, technology, culture...
*note: this is the new URL... original link: C-Theory )

"Culture Jamming -- Culture Jamming, Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs" by Mark Dery
(1993, pamphlet, non-fiction...Open Media, Westfield, New Jersey, US)

"Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda" by Noam Chomsky
(19??, pamphlet, non-fiction...Open Media, Westfield, New Jersey, US)
"Beginning with a brief review of the origins of propaganda in America, Chomsky examines the varieties of mind control and behavior modification that result when government and business use image manipulation & disinformation to influence events."

"Seize the Media: A Treatise by the Immediast Underground" by Greg Ruggiero, Stuart Sahulka
(1992, non-fiction, pamphlet, illustrated...Open Media, Westfield, New Jersey, US... theory, graphics, and proposals)
"The Immediast Underground calls for the liberation of public space and the development of a national public media network."

Jean Baudrillard
(Anachron Library entry... bibliography, links)

Guy Debord
(Anachron Library entry... bibliography, links)

Fredric Jameson
(Anachron Library entry... bibliography)

Marshall McLuhan
(Anachron Library entry... bibliography, links)

alt.hypertext
(newsgroup)

CyberReader: Ch04: Hypertext/Multimedia
(information resource with links... site maintained by Victor J.Vitanza...
have linked to the Anachron Library entry for William Gibson's book Agrippa )

Geekgirl Post Office
(part of Geekgirl , an australian online zine for cyberchix and technowhores... this link connects you to their post office where you'll find "new electronic postcards to send to your friends, free of charge")

Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
(resource page)

Hypertext Places
(hypertext links page)

Hypertext Sources
(hypertext links page)

Hypertext Terms
(a glossary)

Media and Communications Study Page
(links to study resources on the net)

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