Modes of Cultural Production and Technology
- Walter Ong, “Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media,” (excerpts from Orality and literacy : the technologizing of the word, Methuen, 1982) chapter 9 from Communication in history: technology, culture, society, Boston, MA Allyn & Bacon 2003
- Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," from Illuminations, NY: Schocken, 1969, pp. 217-251. (Recommended: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin)
Recommended:- Jonathan Sterne, “The mp3 as cultural artifact,” New Media & Society, 2006; 8; 825
- Ellen Ullman, "Come In, CQ: The Body on the Wire," in Cherny and Weise (eds.),Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace, pp. 3-23
- James W. Carey, "The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution," and "The History of the Future," in Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989, pp. 113-141 and pp. 173-200.
- Jennifer Light, "When Computers were Women," Technology and Culture - Volume 40, Number 3, July 1999, pp. 455-483, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v040/40.3light.html. (Access from the campus network only.)
Possible books to review: Raymond Williams,
Television: Technology and Cultural Form, Walter Benjamin,
Illuminations; Jonathan Sterne,
The Audible Past; Friedrich Kittler,
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.
