I am often asked to recommend books related to the research that I do. It's hard to really list all of the books that I lurve, but here are some of the ones I use over and over and over again.
Publics |
Publics and Counterpublics
by Michael Warner |
The Human Condition
by Hannah Arendt |
Behavior in Public Places
by Erving Goffman |
Habermas and the Public Sphere
by Craig Calhoun |
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Identity |
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman |
The Practice of Everyday Life
by Michel de Certeau |
The Subcultures Reader
by Ken Gelder and Sarah Thornton (Eds.) |
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Technology and Society |
No Sense of Place
by Joshua Meyrowitz |
Communites in Cyberspace
by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock (Eds.) |
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda (Eds.) |
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
by Henry Jenkins |
Smart Mobs
by Howard Rheingold |
Code 2.0
by Lawrence Lessig |
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Youth |
Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
by Paul Willis |
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
by Thomas Hine |
Jocks and Burnouts
by Penny Eckert |
Teenage Wasteland
by Donna Gaines |
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption
by Murray Milner, Jr. |
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before
by Jean |
Gender Play
by Barrie Thorne |
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Networks |
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications
by Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust |
The Wealth of Networks
by Yochai Benkler |
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
by Robin Dunbar |
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Critical Theory |
Discipline and Punish
by Michel Foucault |
Disctinction
by Pierre Bourdieu |
Gender Trouble
by Judith Butler |
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Ethnography |
Interpretation of Cultures
by Clifford Geertz |
Virtual Ethnography
by Christine Hine |
The Ethnography of Communication
by Muriel Saville-Troike |
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