Bibliography
Readings: with 'media theory'
- Radway, Janice: Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature [[posted]] (specials, media theory, narrative, feminism)
- McCloud, Scott: Understanding Comics [[posted]] (media theory, specials, narrative)
- Mitchell, W.T.J.: On Narrative [[posted]] (specials, media theory, narrative)
symposium exploring the essence of narrative
- Martin, Wallace: Recent Theories of Narrative [[posted]] (specials, media theory, narrative)
- Prince, Gerald: A Dictionary of Narratology [[posted]] (specials, media theory, narrative)
- Propp, Vladimir: Morphology of the Folktale [[posted]] (specials, media theory, narrative)
- Watt, Ian: The Rise of the Novel [[posted]] (specials, media theory, narrative)
Relevant to understanding the historical context of the novel, and comparing that with the use of adaptation
- Foucault, Michel: Archaeology of Knowledge [[posted]] (specials, media theory, linguistics, philosophy)
- De Saussure, Ferdinand: Course in General Linguistics [[posted]] (specials, media theory, semiotics, linguistics)
- Vygotsky, Lev: Thought and Language [[posted]] (specials, media theory, linguistics, psychology)
- Ortony, Andrew: Metaphor and Thought [[posted]] (specials, media theory, linguistics)
- Turner, Victor: The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure [[posted]] (specials, media theory, sociology, anthropology)
- Goffman, Erving: Interaction Ritual [[posted]] (specials, media theory, sociology)
Goffman applies theory of ritual to social behavior. Ritual is useful because it ties in with potential ideas in AI, specifically scripted interactions.
- Goffman, Erving: Frame Analysis [[posted]] (specials, media theory, sociology)
Goffman's view of frames can be used to formalize contextual behavior and patterns in interaction.
- McCall, George J. and Simmons, J. L.: Identities and Interactions [[posted]] (specials, media theory, sociology)
- Burke, Kenneth: A Grammar of Motives [[posted]] (specials, media theory, philosophy, psychology, performance)
- Eagleton, Terry.: The Ideology of the Aesthetic [[posted]] (media theory, philosophy, specials)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Philosophical Investigations [[posted]] (media theory, philosophy, specials)
- Allen, Robert: Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism [[posted]] (media traditions, media theory, specials)
- Postman, Neil: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business [[posted]] (specials, media traditions, media theory)
Postman's idea of media literacy connects to the idea of simulation literacy.
- Williams, Raymond: Television: Technology and Cultural Form [[posted]] (media traditions, media theory, specials)
- Baudrillard, Jean: Simulations [[posted]] (specials, media theory, simulation, semiotics)
Baudrillard defines a perspective on simulation as a cultural and philosophical concept. Baudrillard\'s simulation is important in understanding computational simulation.
- Chandler, Daniel: Semiotics: The Basics [[posted]] (media theory, semiotics, specials)
A review of semiotics, and specifically addresses ideas of communication and shared meaning. Covers several theories on how meaning is made and communicated.
- Adam, Alison: Artificial Knowing [[posted]] (specials, media theory, feminism, embodiment, ai)
- Weizenbaum, Joseph: Computer Power and Human Reason [[posted]] (specials, media theory, ai)
- Bogost, Ian: Persuasive Games [[posted]] (specials, digital media, games, media theory)
- Murray, Janet: Inventing the Medium [[posted]] (media theory, digital media, specials)
- Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies [[posted]] (specials, media theory, anthropology)
Extremely useful for contrasting against the rhetoric of Civilization.
- Stafford, Barbara: Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting [[posted]] (media theory, visual culture, specials)
- Bowker, G and S.L. Star: Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences [[posted]] (media theory, specials)
Classification relates to cognitive science, mental models, and reasoning. Bowker and Star encourage the idea that reality is constructed through classification.
- Lyotard, Jean-Francois: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge [[posted]] (media theory, dms, postmodernism)
- Jameson, Frederic: Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism [[posted]] (media theory, dms, postmodernism)
- Benjamin, Walter: The Work of Art in the Age of Reproduction [[posted]] (dms, media theory, postmodernism)
- Kittler, Friedrich: There is No Software [[posted]] (dms, media theory, postmodernism)
- Goffman, Erving: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [[posted]] (media theory, dms, sociology, performance)
- McKenzie, Jon: Perform Or Else [[posted]] (dms, performance, media theory)
- Auslander, Philip: Liveness [[posted]] (dms, performance, media theory)
- Deleuze, Giles and Guattari, Felix: A Thousand Plateaus [[posted]] (dms, media theory, philosophy)
- Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max: The Dialectic of Enlightenment (media theory, dms, philosophy)
- Bogost, Ian: Unit Operations (digital media, dms, games, cybertext, media theory, simulation)
- Manovich, Lev: The Language of New Media [[posted]] (dms, digital media, media theory)
- Foucault, Michel: Discipline and Punish [[posted]] (media theory, dms, embodiment)
- Geertz, Clifford: The Interpretation of Cultures [[posted]] (media theory, dms, sociology, anthropology)
- Jenkins, Henry: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture [[posted]] (media theory, dms, fan culture)
- Negroponte, Nicholas: Being Digital [[posted]] (media theory, cyberculture, dms)
- McLuhan, Marshall: Understanding Media [[posted]] (media theory, dms)
- Jenkins, Henry: Convergence Culture [[posted]] (media theory, dms)
- Bolter, Jay and Grusin, Richard: Remediation: Understanding New Media [[posted]] (dms, media theory)
- Barthes, Roland: Mythologies [[posted]] (media theory, semiotics)
Mythologies describes a semiotic structure for interpreting media and cultural artifacts. His critique of embedded meaning in media exposes how meaning can be better conveyed with simulation.
- Baudrillard, Jean: The System of Objects [[posted]] (media theory, semiotics)
Relates objects to the psychology of desire.
- Cooper, Lane: The Poetics of Aristotle [[posted]] (media theory, philosophy, narrative)
Cooper gives a straightforward analysis of Aristotle's poetics.
- Genette, Gerard: Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method [[posted]] (media theory, narrative)
- Butler, Judith: Bodies That Matter (media theory, feminism, embodiment)
- Engels, Friedrich: Origin of Family, Property, and State (media theory, marxism)
- Bukatman, Scott: Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (media theory, science fiction)
- Diamond, Jared: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (media theory, anthropology)
Also extremely useful for contrasting against the rhetoric of Civilization.
- Shannon, Claude and Warren Weaver: Information Theory (media theory)