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Online Worlds and Social Networking
BA ModuleSheffield Hallam University, UKDr John PostillSeptember 2009
Textbooks
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Cyberculture: the key concepts
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Arnold.Lister, Martin, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, and Kieran Kelly (2009)
New Media: A Critical Introduction
. New York, NY: Routledge.Thornham, Sue, Caroline Bassett and Paul Marris (eds) (2009)
Media Studies: AReader 
(3rd edition). Edinburgh Univ Press.Thurlow, C., L. Lengel and A. Tomic (2004)
Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet 
, Sage
References for Part 1: Online Worlds
Armitage, J. and J. Roberts (2002).
Living with cyberspace: technology & society in the21st century 
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The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World 
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The cybercultures reader 
. London ; New York,Routledge.Boellstorff, Tom (2008)
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores theVirtually Human
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Burnett, R. and P. D. Marshall (2003)
Web theory: an introduction
. London ; New York,Routledge.Carr, Paul and Graham Pond (2007)
The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life
. St.Martin's Griffin.Castronova, Edward (2006)
Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of OnlineGames
. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Cova, B. and Pace, S. (2006) Brand Community of Convenience Products: New Formsof Customer Empowerment - The Case 'myNutella The Community'.
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Cova, B., Kozinets, R.V., Shankar, A. (Eds) (2007),
Consumer Tribes
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First Monday 
Critical perspectives on the Internet 
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Digital borderlands: cultural studies of identity and interactivity onthe Internet 
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Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet 
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Online a Lot of The Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign
. Durham, NC: DukeUniversity Press.Hine, Christine (2000)
Virtual Ethnography 
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. London ;Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications.Jones, S. (1998).
CyberSociety 2.0 : revisiting computer-mediated communication and community 
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Sexualiti 
es 4(3): 353-369.Kim, A. J. (2000).
Community building on the Web
. Berkeley, Calif., Peachpit Press.Lessig, Lawrence (2002)
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in aConnected World 
. Vintage. http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/Malaby, Thomas M. (2009)
Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life
. Ithaca,NY: Cornell University Press.Markham, A. N. (1998).
Life online: researching real experience in virtual space
.Walnut Creek, CA, Altamira Press.Martey R. M., & Stromer-Galley, J. (2007) The digital dollhouse: Context and socialnorms in The Sims Online.
Games & Culture
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
. New York,NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company.Mitchell, W. J. (1999)
E-topia : "Urban life, Jim--but not as we know it".
Cambridge, MA,MIT Press.O’Brien, J. & Shapiro, E. (2004) “Doing It” on the Web: Emerging Discourses onInternet Sex’, in D. Gauntlett & R. Horsley (eds.)
Web Studies
. London: Arnold: 114-126.Palloff, R. M. and K. Pratt (1999)
Building learning communities in cyberspace:Effective strategies for the online classroom
. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.Pearce, Celia (2009)
Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Gamesand Virtual Worlds
. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.22
 
Ploug, Thomas (2009)
Ethics in Cyberspace: How Cyberspace May InfluenceInterpersonal Interaction
. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.Preece, J. (2000).
Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability 
.Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons.Renninger, K. A., W. Shumar, et al. (2002).
Building virtual communities learning and change in cyberspace
. New York, Cambridge University Press.Rheingold, Howard (1993)
The Virtual Community 
 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/Smith, Marc A. and Peter Kollock (eds.) (1998)
Communities in Cyberspace.
London:Routledge.Schaap, F. (2002)
The words that took us there: ethnography in a virtual reality 
.Amsterdam, Aksant Academic Publishers.Slater, D. (1998) ‘Trading sexpics on IRC: embodiment and authenticity on theinternet’,
Body and Society 
4 (4): 91-117.Turkle, Sherry (1997)
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet 
. New York,NY: Simon and Schuster.Turner, Fred (2006)
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the WholeEarth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
. Chicago, IL: University of ChicagoPress.Vitanza, V. J. (1999)
CyberReader 
. Boston, Allyn and Bacon.Waskul, D.D. & Vannini, P. (2008) ‘Ludic and Ludic(rous) Relationships: Sex, Play, andthe Internet’ in S. Holland (ed.)
Remote Relationships in a Small World 
. New York:Peter Lang: 241-261.Whittaker, J. (2004)
The cyberspace handbook 
. London; New York, Routledge.Wilson, S. M. and L. C. Peterson (2002). "The Anthropology Of Online Communities."
 Annual Review of Anthropology 
31(1): 449-467.Woolgar, S. (2002)
Virtual society?: technology, cyberbole, reality 
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References for Part 2: Social Networking
Barney, D. (2004)
The Network Society 
.
Cambridge: Polity Press.Baron, Naomi (2008)
 Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World 
. Oxford:Oxford University Press.Benkler, Yochai (2007)
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production TransformsMarkets and Freedom
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_PageBennett, W. Lance (ed.) (2007)
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media CanEngage Youth
. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.boyd, danah 2009.
Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics

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