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Reading Lists:

List 1: Media Theory and Related Theoretical Contexts

  1. Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics: The Basics. (media theory, semiotics, specials)
  2. Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. (specials, media theory, semiotics)
  3. Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations. (specials, media theory, simulation, semiotics)
  4. Baudrillard, Jean. The System of Objects. (media theory, semiotics, specials)
  5. Bowker, G and S.L. Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. (media theory, specials)
  6. Deleuze, Giles and Guattari, Felix. A Thousand Plateaus. (dms, media theory, philosophy)
  7. Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter. (media theory, feminism, embodiment, specials)
  8. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. (media theory, dms, embodiment)
  9. Foucault, Michel. Archaeology of Knowledge. (specials, media theory, linguistics)
  10. Goffman, Erving. Interaction Ritual. (specials, media theory, sociology)
  11. Goffman, Erving. Frame Analysis. (specials, media theory, sociology)
  12. Goffman, Erving. Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. (media theory, dms, sociology, performance)
  13. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. (media theory, dms, media theory)
  14. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. (media theory, dms, media theory)
  15. Shannon, Claude and Warren Weaver. Information Theory. (media theory, specials)
  16. Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. (specials, media theory, sociology, anthropology)
  17. Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. (media theory, dms, sociology, anthropology)
  18. Engels, Friedrich. Origin of Family, Property, and State. (media theory, marxism, specials)
  19. Adam, Alison. Artificial Knowing. (specials, media theory, feminism, embodiment, ai)
  20. Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer Power and Human Reason. (specials, media theory, ai)
  21. De Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics. (specials, media theory, semiotics, linguistics)
  22. McCall, George J.. Identities and Interactions. (specials, media theory, sociology)
  23. Ortony, Andrew. Metaphor and Thought. (specials, media theory, linguistics)
  24. Vygotsky, Lev. Thought and Language. (specials, media theory, linguistics)
  25. Cooper, Lane. The Poetics of Aristotle. (media theory, philosophy, specials)
  26. Genette, Gerard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. (specials, media theory, narrative)
  27. Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. (media theory, dms, fan culture)
  28. Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture. (media theory, dms)
  29. McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. (media theory, specials)
  30. Mitchell, W.T.J.. On Narrative. (specials, media theory, narrative)
  31. Martin, Wallace. Recent Theories of Narrative. (specials, media theory, narrative)
  32. Prince, Gerald. A Dictionary of Narratology. (specials, media theory, narrative)
  33. Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. (specials, media theory, narrative)
  34. Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. (specials, media theory, narrative, feminism)
  35. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. (specials, media theory, narrative)
  36. Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. (media theory, dms, philosophy)
  37. Eagleton, Terry.. The Ideology of the Aesthetic. (media theory, philosophy, specials)
  38. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. (media theory, philosophy, specials)
  39. Bukatman, Scott. Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction. (media theory, science fiction, specials)
  40. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. (media theory, dms, postmodernism)
  41. Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. (media theory, dms, postmodernism)
  42. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. (specials, media theory, anthropology, specials)
  43. Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. (media theory, anthropology, specials)
  44. Levy, Pierre. Collective Intellicence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace. (media theory, anthropology, cyberculture, specials)
  45. Stafford, Barbara. Visual Analog: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting. (media theory, visual culture, specials)
  46. Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives. (specials, media theory, philosophy, psychology)
  47. Allen, Robert. Chennels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism. (media traditions, media theory, specials)
  48. Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. (specials, media traditions, media theory)
  49. Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. (media traditions, media theory, specials)
  50. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. (dms, digital media, media theory)
  51. Bogost, Ian. Unit Operations. (digital media, dms, games, cybertext, media theory, simulation)
  52. Bogost, Ian. Persuasive Games. (specials, digital media, games, media theory)
  53. Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. (media theory, cyberculture, dms)
  54. Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Reproduction. (dms, media theory, postmodernism)
  55. Kittler, Friederich. There is No Software. (dms, media theory, postmodernism)
  56. Bolter, Jay and Grusin, Richard. Remediation: Understanding New Media. (dms, media theory)
  57. McKenzie, Jon. Perform Or Else. (dms, performance, media theory)
  58. Auslander, Philip. Liveness. (dms, performance, media theory)
Total readings with tag "media theory": 58. Total annotated: 36 [62.1%]

List 2: Media Traditions

  1. Oldenburg, Ray.. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. (media traditions, architecture, specials)
  2. Whyte, William Hollingsworth. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. (media traditions, architecture, specials)
  3. Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. (media traditions, fiction, settings, specials)
  4. Stoppard, Tom. Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. (media traditions, fiction, specials)
  5. Catullus. Collected Poetry. (media traditions, settings, specials)
  6. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. (specials, media traditions, fiction, settings)
  7. Austen, Jane. Emma. (specials, media traditions, fiction, settings)
  8. Cholderlos de Laclos, Pierre. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. (specials, media traditions, fiction, settings)
  9. Carver, Raymond. Short Cuts. (media traditions, fiction, settings, specials)
  10. Altman, Rick. Film/Genre. (media traditions, film, specials)
  11. Bordwell, David. Narration in the Fiction Film. (media traditions, film, specials)
  12. Bordwell, David and Thompson, Kristen. Film Art: An Introduction. (media traditions, film, specials)
  13. Kolker, Robert. A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorcese, Spielberg, Altman. (media traditions, film, specials)
  14. Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. (media traditions, film, feminism, visual culture, specials)
  15. Bolter, J. David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. (media traditions, narrative, cybertext, specials)
  16. Bringhurst, Robert and Chappell, Warren. A Short History of the Printed Word. (media traditions, narrative, specials)
  17. Gaur, Albertine. A History of Writing. (media traditions, narrative, specials)
  18. Goody, Jack. Representations and Contradictions: Ambivalence towards Images, Theatre, Fiction, Relics, and Sexuality. (media traditions, specials)
  19. Lord, A.B.. Singer of Tales. (media traditions, specials)
  20. Sampson, Geoffrey. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. (specials, media traditions, narrative, linguistics)
  21. Polti, Georges. Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. (specials, media traditions, narrative)
  22. Jameson, Frederic. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. (media traditions, utopias, science fiction, specials)
  23. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. (media traditions, fiction, science fiction, utopias, specials)
  24. Skinner, B.F.. Walden Two. (media traditions, utopias, specials)
  25. Kumar, K.. Utopia and Anti-utopia in Modern Times. (media traditions, utopias, specials)
  26. Foster, Hal. The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century. (media traditions, postmodernism, specials)
  27. Auslander, Phillip. From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism. (media traditions, postmodernism, specials)
  28. Caillois, Roger. Man, Plan, and Games. (specials, media traditions, games)
  29. Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: a Study of the Play-Element in Culture. (specials, media traditions, games)
  30. Sutton-Smith, Brian. The Ambiguity of Play. (specials, media traditions, games)
  31. Salen, Katie and Zimmerman, Eric. Rules of Play. (specials, media traditions, games)
  32. Winnicott, D. W.. Playing and Reality. (specials, media traditions, games)
  33. Allen, Robert. Chennels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism. (media traditions, media theory, specials)
  34. Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. (specials, media traditions, media theory)
  35. Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. (media traditions, media theory, specials)
  36. Svendsen, Lars. A Philosophy of Boredom. (media traditions, philosophy, specials)
  37. Mannheim, Karl. Ideology and Utopia. (media traditions, utopias, sociology, specials)
  38. Wiltshire, John. Recreating Jane Austen. (specials, media traditions, narrative, fiction, adaptation)
  39. Carrol, Noel. Theories of Art. (dms, art, media traditions)
  40. Gunning, Tom. An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator. (dms, film, media traditions)
  41. Bordwell, David. Film Studies and Grand Theory. (dms, film, media traditions)
  42. Eco, Umberto. The Open Work. (dms, philosophy, narrative, media traditions)
Total readings with tag "media traditions": 42. Total annotated: 4 [9.5%]

List 3: Digital Media Forms and Technologies

  1. Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. (digital media, dms, cybertext)
  2. Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul. The Social Life of Information. (digital media, dms)
  3. Cassell, Justine and Jenkins, Henry. From Barbie to Mortal Combat. (digital media, games, specials)
  4. Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theatre. (digital media, dms, cybertext)
  5. Leblin, P. David. Zork: A Computerized Fantasy Simulation Game; IEEE Computer. 12 Apr-79 (online). (digital media, games, specials)
  6. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. (dms, digital media, media theory)
  7. Norman, Donald. The Psychology of Everyday Things. (digital media, dms, hci)
  8. Papert, Seymour. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. (digital media, cyberculture, specials)
  9. Starr, Paul. Seductions of Sim: Policy as a Simulation Game. The American Prospect. 17 Spring, 1994. 19-29 (online). (specials, digital media, simulation, games)
  10. Turing, Alan. Computing Machinery and Intelligence. (digital media, ai, dms)
  11. Turkle, Sherry. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. (specials, digital media, cyberculture)
  12. Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. (digital media, dms, cyberculture)
  13. Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. (digital media, art, specials)
  14. Ryan, Marie-Laure. Possible Worlds: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory. (digital media, ai, narrative, games, specials)
  15. Mateas, Michael. Terminal Time. (digital media, ai, art, specials)
  16. Mateas, Micahel. Interactive Drama, Art, and Artificial Intelligence. (specials, digital media, ai, art, specials)
  17. Mateas, Michael and Stern, Andrew. Facade. (specials, digital media, ai, art, games, social simulation)
  18. Crawford, Chris. Erasmatron. (digital media, narrative, ai, social simulation, specials)
  19. Bates, Joseph et al. Oz Group, CMU. (digital media, ai, simulation, social simulation, specials)
  20. Conway, Jams. The Game of Life. (digital media, simulation, emergence, specials)
  21. Wright, Will. The Sims (and sequels, expansion packs). (specials, digital media, ai, games, simulation, social simulation, specials)
  22. Wright, Will. Sim City (and sequels). (digital media, games, simulation, specials)
  23. Meier, Sid. Civilization (and sequels). (specials, digital media, games, simulation, specials)
  24. Stern, Andrew. Dogz, Catz, Babyz. (digital media, ai, games, simulation, social simulation, specials)
  25. Weizenbaum, Joseph. Eliza. (digital media, simulation, specials)
  26. Nintendo. Animal Crossing. (digital media, games, social simulation, specials)
  27. Jenkins, Henry and Weise, Matthew et al. Revolution! (Neverwinter Nights mod). (digital media, social simulation, games, specials)
  28. Joyce, Michael. Afternoon (Eastgate Systems). (digital media, art, specials)
  29. Bruckman, Amy. Various works. (digital media, art, specials)
  30. Foner, Lenny. Entertaining Agents. (digital media, art, social simulation, specials)
  31. Morningstar, C. and Farmer, R.. The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat. (digital media, games, cyberculture, specials)
  32. Mateas, Michael and Sengers, Pheobe. Narrative Intelligence. (specials, digital media, ai, narrative)
  33. Meadows, M.S.. Pause and Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative. (digital media, narrative, cybertext, specials)
  34. Taylor, T.L.. Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture. (digital media, games, cyberculture, specials)
  35. Fine, Gary Allan. Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds. (digital media, games, roleplaying, specials)
  36. Castranova, E.. Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games. (digital media, games, cyberculture, specials)
  37. Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. (digital media, narrative, film, specials)
  38. Herman, David. Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative. (digital media, narrative, specials)
  39. Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck. (digital media, dms, narrative, games, cybertext)
  40. Bogost, Ian. Unit Operations. (digital media, dms, games, cybertext, media theory, simulation)
  41. Bogost, Ian. Persuasive Games. (specials, digital media, games, media theory)
  42. Juul, Jesper. Half Real. (specials, digital media, games)
  43. Turner, Scott. The Creative Process. (specials, digital media, narrative, simulation)
  44. Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Harrigan, Pat. First Person (collection). (digital media, games, specials)
  45. Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Harrigan, Pat. Second Person (collection). (digital media, games, specials)
  46. Wolf, Mark. The Video Game Theory Reader (collection). (digital media, games, specials)
  47. Montfort, Nick. Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. (digital media, narrative, games, specials)
  48. Landow, George. Hypertext 2.0. (dms, cybertext, digital media)
  49. Hayles, Katherine. Writing Machines. (dms, cybertext, digital media)
  50. Weiner, Norbert. Cybernetics. (dms, ai, digital media)
Total readings with tag "digital media": 50. Total annotated: 9 [18.0%]

Digital Media Studies

  1. Deleuze, Giles and Guattari, Felix. A Thousand Plateaus. (dms, media theory, philosophy)
  2. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. (media theory, dms, embodiment)
  3. Goffman, Erving. Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. (media theory, dms, sociology, performance)
  4. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. (media theory, dms, media theory)
  5. Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. (media theory, dms, sociology, anthropology)
  6. Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. (media theory, dms, fan culture)
  7. Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture. (media theory, dms)
  8. Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. (media theory, dms, philosophy)
  9. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. (media theory, dms, postmodernism)
  10. Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. (media theory, dms, postmodernism)
  11. Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. (digital media, dms, cybertext)
  12. Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul. The Social Life of Information. (digital media, dms)
  13. Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theatre. (digital media, dms, cybertext)
  14. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. (dms, digital media, media theory)
  15. Norman, Donald. The Psychology of Everyday Things. (digital media, dms, hci)
  16. Turing, Alan. Computing Machinery and Intelligence. (digital media, ai, dms)
  17. Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. (digital media, dms, cyberculture)
  18. Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck. (digital media, dms, narrative, games, cybertext)
  19. Bogost, Ian. Unit Operations. (digital media, dms, games, cybertext, media theory, simulation)
  20. Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. (media theory, cyberculture, dms)
  21. Wolfram, Stephen. A New Kind of Science. (dms, simulation, emergence)
  22. Espen Aarseth. Narratavisim and Genre Trouble. (dms, ludology, simulation, games)
  23. Barthes, Roland. The Death of the Author. (dms, postmodernism, narrative)
  24. Greenberg, Clement. Avant-Garde and Kitsch. (dms, postmodernism)
  25. Ryan, Marie-Laure. Avatars of Story. (dms, games, narrative)
  26. Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Reproduction. (dms, media theory, postmodernism)
  27. Kittler, Friederich. There is No Software. (dms, media theory, postmodernism)
  28. Mitchell, W.T.J.. Picture Theory. (dms, visual culture)
  29. Mitchell, W.T.J.. The Reconfigured Eye. (dms, visual culture)
  30. Carrol, Noel. Theories of Art. (dms, art, media traditions)
  31. Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. (dms, postmodernism)
  32. Landow, George. Hypertext 2.0. (dms, cybertext, digital media)
  33. Gunning, Tom. An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator. (dms, film, media traditions)
  34. Bordwell, David. Film Studies and Grand Theory. (dms, film, media traditions)
  35. Hayles, Katherine. Writing Machines. (dms, cybertext, digital media)
  36. Lunenfeld, Peter. Unfinished Business. (dms, cybertext)
  37. Moulthrop, Stuart. From Work to Play. (dms, cybertext, ludology)
  38. Dourish, Paul. Where the Action is. (dms, embodiment, hci)
  39. Suchman, Lucy. Plans and Situated Actions. (dms, embodiment, ai)
  40. de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. (dms, embodiment, marxism)
  41. Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark. Metaphors We Live By. (dms, semiotics, linguistics)
  42. Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. (dms, postmodernism, feminism, cyberculture)
  43. Eco, Umberto. The Open Work. (dms, philosophy, narrative, media traditions)
  44. Bolter, Jay and Grusin, Richard. Remediation: Understanding New Media. (dms, media theory)
  45. Dreyfus, Hubert. The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment. (dms, embodiment, phenomenology, ai)
  46. Moran, Dermot. Introduction to Phenomenology. (dms, embodiment, phenomenology, philosophy)
  47. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The Phenomenology of Perception. (dms, phenomenology, embodiment)
  48. McKenzie, Jon. Perform Or Else. (dms, performance, media theory)
  49. Auslander, Philip. Liveness. (dms, performance, media theory)
  50. Weiner, Norbert. Cybernetics. (dms, ai, digital media)
Total readings with tag "dms": 50. Total annotated: 42 [84.0%]
Total readings: 212. Total annotated: 67 [31.6%]

More targets:
  1. Games: Tracy Fullerton. Game Design Workshop.
  2. Narrative: Marie-Laure Ryan. Narrative as Virtual Reality.
  3. Feminism: Allucquere Rosanne Stone. Feminist Cybertheory. (Cyberspace: first steps)
  4. Architecture: Jane Jacobs. The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
  5. Sociology: Herbert Blumer. Symbolic Interactionism
  6. Sociology: Herbert Mead (?)
  7. Literature/Austen: Virginia Woolf. A Room of One's Own.
  8. Sociology: Herbert Blumer. Symbolic Interactionism
  9. Film: Timecode
  10. Michael Benedikt
    Michael Heim
  11. AI: Athomas Goldberg. "Improv", "Digital Illusion"
  12. AI: Ken Perlin. Improv (?)
  13. AI: Blumberg: Artificial characters group
    Bill Tomlinson
    Michael Patrick Johnson
    Justine Cassell: Embodied Conversational Agents
  14. Multimedia: Pavel Curtis "Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities" in Multimedia -- From Wagner to Virutal Reality
  15. Multimedia: Celia Pearce. The Interactive Book
  16. Games: More Pen & Paper sources: DnD, etcetera
  17. AI: Demetri Terzopoulos
  18. Nancy Drew games: http://www.herinteractive.com/
  19. Other forms of game adaptations?
    Harry Potter, some hollywood games?

Other Potentially Useful:

Papers @ http://www.ict.usc.edu/
   Marsella, Stacy <- emotional agents etc
CYC project - GOFAI symbolic database
Muramatsu & Ackerman CSCW papers (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Nancy Nercessian: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/nersessian/ (philosophy, computing)
http://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/06C/References.htm ?