reading lists

Lists are in PDF format.

• Digital Media Theory
  • These texts weave together perspectives on mediated environments, issues of relationships and connection across new media technologies, and the creation (and outcomes) of new forms of media. This list supports a scholarly expertise on the current important discussions in digital media theory, as well as insight into web-based videos, community building, and issues of identity in digital media.
• Feminist Theory
  • The first section in this list, Feminist Media Studies, incorporates readings that take a relatively contemporary feminist approach to making and participating in new media, and with gender issues that manifest in online spaces. The second section, Identity, Embodiment, and Agency, focuses on these issues from a feminist perspective.
• Culture and Technology
  • This list is focused largely in cultural studies. The first section, Relationships of Connectivity, takes readings from social perspectives as possible modes to interrogate the ways that humans use technology to communicate, and how those technologies shape their experiences. The second section, The Ontology of the (Post)Human, is made up of texts that explore how technologies alter or influence what it means to be human.