Bibliography
Readings: with 'sociology'
- 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)
- Anonymous: The Laws of Etiquette [[posted]] (source) (performance, sociology, specials, settings)
This dated text provides a guide to social rules within a heavily structured society.
- Denzin, Norman: Performance Ethnography [[posted]] (sociology, specials, performance)
- Goffman, Erving: Forms of Talk [[posted]] (specials, sociology, performance)
- Fine, Gary Alan: Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds [[posted]] (digital media, games, roleplaying, specials, sociology)
- Nardi, Bonnie: Beyond Bandwidth: Dimensions of Connection in Interpersonal Communication [[posted]] (hci, anthropology, sociology, digital media, specials)
- Bakhtin, Mikhail: The Dialogic Imagination [[posted]] (philosophy, sociology, specials, narrative)
- Goldmann, Lucien: Towards a Sociology of the Novel [[posted]] (sociology, narrative, specials)
- Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster: The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen [[posted]] (fan culture, sociology, specials, settings)
- Williams, Hendricks, Winkler: Gaming as Culture [[posted]] (specials, roleplaying, sociology, games)
- Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, Cain: Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds [[posted]] (specials, anthropology, sociology)
- Fussell, Paul: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System [[posted]] (specials, sociology)
- Mead, George Herbert: Mind, Self, and Society [[posted]] (sociology, specials)
- Blumer, Herbert: Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method [[posted]] (sociology, specials)
- Berger, Peter and Luckman, Thomas: The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge [[posted]] (specials, sociology)
- Goffman, Erving: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [[posted]] (media theory, dms, sociology, performance)
- Geertz, Clifford: The Interpretation of Cultures [[posted]] (media theory, dms, sociology, anthropology)
- Mannheim, Karl: Ideology and Utopia (media traditions, utopias, sociology)
- Nardi, Bonnie: Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (hci, sociology, ai)