Digital Media Ph.D.

Exam Reading List

I. Media Theory and Related Theoretical Contexts
Anthologies, Texts, Reference Books................................................................................. 2 General Works .................................................................................................................... 2 Body / Mind / Technology.................................................................................................. 3 Language and Linguistics ................................................................................................... 4 Intellectual Property............................................................................................................ 5 Narrative ............................................................................................................................. 5 Philosophy and Aesthetics .................................................................................................. 6 Post-Modernism.................................................................................................................. 7 Technology and Culture...................................................................................................... 7 Visualization and Visual Culture ........................................................................................ 8 Other Areas of Media-Related Investigation ...................................................................... 9

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Anthologies, Texts, Reference Books

Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2001. Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall. Visual Culture: The Reader. London: Sage Publicatons, 1999. Fiske, John. Introduction to Communication Studies. New York: Routledge, 1990. Jordan, Ken and Randall Packer. Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. Mattelart, Armand and Michele Mattelart. Theories of Communication: A Short Introduction. London: Sage Publications, 1998. Montfort, Nick and Noah Waldrip-Fruin. The New Media Reader. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. O'Sullivan, Tim. Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1994. Pierce, John Robinson. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals, and Noise. New York: Dover, 1980.

General Works
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies (selections from this and other works). New York: Noonday Press, 1973. Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations. New York: Semiotext, 1983. Baudrillard, Jean. System of Objects. New York: Verso, 1993. Baudrillard, Jean. Symbolic Exchange and Death. London: Sage, 1993. Baudrillard, Jean. The Ecstasy of Communication. New York: Semiotext, 1987. Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. New York: Schocken, 1968. Bowker, G and S.L. Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997. Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter. New York: Routledge, 1993. Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone, 1995. Deluze, Giles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Deluze, Giles and Felix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1974. Derrida, Jacques. Margins of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

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Foucault, Michael. Discipline and Punish. New York: Pantheon, 1977. Foucault, Michael. Archeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon, 1972. Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973. Goffman, Erving. Interaction Ritual. New York: Anchor Books, 1967. Goffman, Erving. Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1959. Golding, Sue. The Eight Technologies of Otherness. New York: Routledge, 1997. Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Art: an Approach to a Theory of Symbols. Indianapolis: Hacket, 1976. Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. New York: Routledge, 1991. Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. Shannon, Claude and Warren Weaver. Information Theory. Illinois: University of Illinois, 1963. Svenonius, Ellen. The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldrine, 1966. Umberto, Eco. The Open Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1997. Umberto, Eco. Travels in Hyperreality. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. Umberto, Eco. Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language. London: Macmillan, 1984. Virilio, Paul. The Vision Machine. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1994. Virilio, Paul. War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. London: Verso, 1989. Weiner, Norbert. Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Cambridge: MIT, 1962.

Body / Mind / Technology

Adam, Alison. Artificial Knowing and the Gender Machine. London: Routledge, 1998. Aronowitz, Stanley, Barbara Martinson and Michael Menser. Technoscience and Cyberculture. New York: Routledge, 1996. Bukatman, Scott. Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

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Cartwright, Lisa. Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. Gibson, JJ. The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. Westport: Greenwood, 1983. Gray, Charles Hables. The Cyborg Handbook. New York: Routledge, 1995. Ihde, Don. Bodies in Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Johnson, Mark. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987. Lakoff, George. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied mind and its challenge to western philosophy. New York: Basic Book, 1999. Martinson, Barbara and Michael Menser. Technoscience and Cyberculture New York: Routledge, 1996. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge, 2002. Minsky, Martin. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. Picard, Rosalind. Affective Computing. Cambridge: MIT, 2000. Romanyshyn, Robert. Technology as Symptom and Dream. London: Routledge, 1989. Rosch, Eleanor, Evan Thompson and Francisco Varela. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. Springer, Claudia. Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Stone, Rosanne Allucquere. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. Stone, Rosanne Allucquere. Will the Real Body Please Stand up. Cambridge: MIT, 1991. Taussig, Michael. Mimesis and Alterity. New York: Routledge, 1993. Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer Power and Human reason. New York: Freeman, 1976.

Language and Linguistics

de Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in general Linguistics. London: Duckworth, 1974. Johnson, Mark and George Lakoff. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Ortony, Andrew. Metaphor and Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pinker, Stephen. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York: Perennial, 2000.

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Rotman, Brian. Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero. Hampshire: Macmillan, 1987. Sacks, Sheldon. On Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Vygotsky, Lev. Thought and Language. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.

Intellectual Property
Brinson, J Dianne and Mark Radcilffe. Multimedia Law Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developers and Publishers. Menlo Park: Ladera, 1994. Coombe, Rosemary. The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropiation, and the Law. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Herrington, TyAnna. Controlling Voices: Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies, and the Internet. Carbondale: Southern Illinois IP, 2001. Herrington, TyAnna. "The Interdependency of Fair Use and the First Ammendment". Computers and Composition Special Issue: Intellectual Property. 15.2 1998 125-143 Herrington TyAnna. "Who Owns My Work? The State of Work for Hire for Academics in Technical Communication". Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 13.2 April, 1999. Herrington TyAnna. "Work for Hire for Non-academic Creators". Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 13.4 October, 1999. Jaszi, Peter. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropiation in Law and Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Lindberg, Stanley and Ray L. Patterson. The Nature of Copyright. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. Litman, Jessica. Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2001. Patterson, L. Ray. The Nature of Copyright. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity. New York: New York University Press, 2003. Woodmansee, Martha and Peter Jaszi. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropiation in Law and Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Narrative
Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989. Bal, Mieke. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

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Chapman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. Genette, Gerard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. London: Routledge, 1992. Lord, A.B.. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1960. McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. New York: Perrennial, 1984. McQuillan, Martin. The Narrative Reader. London: Routledge: 2000. Mitchell, W.T.J. On Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981 Martin, Wallace. Recent Theories of Narrative. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. Prince, Gerald. A Dictionary of Narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Ryan, Marie-Laure. Possible Words: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

Philosophy and Aesthetics

Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. London: Continuum, 1976. Carroll, Noel. Theories of Art Today. Wisconsin: 2000. Carroll, Noel. Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction. New York: Routeledge, 1998. Carroll, Noel. A Philosophy of Mass Art. Clarendon, 1998. Horkheimer, Max. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. London: Continuum, 1976. Husserl, Edmund. Ideas; general introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Australia: Allen and Unwin, Husserl, Edmund. Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1970. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. New York: MacMillan, 1958.

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Post-Modernism
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1990. Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979. Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Technology and Culture

Biagioli, Maria. The Science Studies Readers. 1999. Bolter, David Jay. Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Clarke, Bruce and Linda Dalrymple Henderson. From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art and Literature. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999. Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. New York: Knopf, 1967. Ezrahi, Yaron. Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism. University of Mass, 1994. Feenberg, Andrew. Critical Theory of Technology. New York: Oxford, 1991. Feenberg, Andrew. Questioning Technology. New York: Routledge, 1999. Gelernter, David. Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology. New York: Basic Books, 1998. Hardison, O.B.. Dissapearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century. New York: Viking, 1989. Ihde, Don. Technology and the Lifeworld. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1992. Kittler, Frederic. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999. Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or the Love of Technology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. Latour, Bruno. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.

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Latour, Bruno. Conversations on Science, Culture and Time. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Lavery, David. Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. Levy, Pierce. Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World of Cyberspace. Perseus Book Group, 2000. Mazlish, Bruce. The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilizations. New York: Harcourt, 1964. Pursell, Carroll. White Heat: People and Technology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Serres, Michel and Bruno Latour. Conversations on Science, Culture and Time. University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Visualization and Visual Culture

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking Press, 1995. Cartwright, Lisa and Maria Sturken. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perceptions: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. Helfand, Jessica. Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century French Thought. California: University of California Press, 1994. Mirzeoff, N. An Introduction to Visual Culture. Mitchell, W.J.T. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Stafford, Barbara. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. Stafford, Barbara. Visual Analog: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. Stafford, Barbara. Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.

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Other Areas of Media-Related Investigation

Students may propose different groupings of the listed texts, more focused subspecialties within these groups, or additional areas of investigation: e.g. Freudian Theory, Post-Structuralist Theory, Cognitive Theory, Gender Theory, etc.

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