Books
This list has been updated for Fall 2008.
For your reading assignments, please refer to the weekly links on the Schedule page. Note: The Jenkins text is needed immediately in Week 1.
Required Books
- Beckett, C. (2008). SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World. Blackwell.
- Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York University Press.
- O'Harrow, R. (2005). No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society. New York: Free Press.
- Tilly, C. (2007). Democracy. Cambridge University Press.
- Vaidhyanathan, S. (2004). The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. New York: Basic Books.
Don't be intimidated by the required books list. You will learn a lot and probably even enjoy reading these books!
Recommended
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. -- you are required to follow APA style for all your citations and reference lists in this course.
- Rubin, R. B.; Rubin, A. M., & Piele, L. J. (2005). Communication Research: Strategies and Sources, 6th ed. Wadsworth. (See the table of contents.)
The recommended books will help you do your best in this course. They will not be discussed in class. No assignments will be made from these books.
Note, however, that you MUST follow APA for your in-text citations and your reference list, and you cannot find all the current style from Web sites.