Readings for today:
- Fred Turner, "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community," Technology and Culture, Vol. 46 (2005): 486-512.
- David J. Gunkel and Ann Hetzel Gunkel, "Terra Nova 2.0—The New World of MMORPGs," Critical Studies in Media Communication, Volume 26, Issue 2 June 2009 , pp. 104-127.
- Lance Bennett, "The Internet and Global Activism," in eds. Nick Couldry and James Curran, New Media Power (Rowman and Littlefield: 2003).
- Philip Howard, Lee Rainie and Steve Jones, "The Place of the Internet in Everyday Life." (excerpt)
- Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner, "Internet Subcultures and Oppositional Politics."
- National Science Foundation, "The Internet: Changing the Way We Live." (aside from the technologically deterministic title, it's a nice overview of some key events and 'players' in the development of the internet).
- Maria Bakardjieva, "Virtual togetherness: An Everyday-life Perspective," Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 25 (2003): 291–313.
- Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Civil Disobedience (Autonomedia: 1996).
- Critical Art Ensemble, Digital Resistance (Autonomedia: 2001).
- Global internet statistics.
- Internet pornography statistics.
- Online dating and avatars.
