REQUIRED TEXT

Rogers, Everett M. (2003). Diffusion of Innovations, 5th ed. New York: Free Press.

SUPPLEMENTAL SELECTIONS

Atkins, William (2002). The Politics of Southeast Asia's New Media. Richmond, Surrey: Routledge/Curzon.

Castells, Manuel (2000). The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell.

McDaniel, Drew O. (2002). Electronic Tigers of Southeast Asia: The Politics of Media, Technology, and National Development. Ames: Iowa State University Press.

There are, in addition, the following required readings:

Graham, Philip (2000). Hypercapitalism: A political economy of informational idealism. New Media & Society, 2(2), 131-156.

el-Nawawy, Mohammed, and Iskandar, Adel (2003). "The battle for the Arab mind." In M. el-Nawawy and A. Iskandar, Eds., Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network That Is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism, pp. 45-69.

Rheingold, Howard (2002). "Smart mobs: The power of the mobile many." In Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Perseus), pp. 157-182.