Books
This list has been updated for Fall 2009.
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.
- Lessig, L. (2008). Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin 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.
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, 6th ed. (see Amazon.com) -- you are required to follow APA style for all your citations and reference lists in this course. Note that you can buy a used copy of the 5th edition for a lower price (see Amazon.com); I do not mind if you use the 5th edition. You will need to refer to this book to format your reference list and in-text citations correctly. Failure to follow this format precisely will lower your grade in this course. Information about the brand-new 6th edition is here.
- Rubin, R. B.; Rubin, A. M., & Haridakis, P.M. (2009). Communication Research: Strategies and Sources, 7th ed. Wadsworth. (See the table of contents.) Note that you can buy a used copy of the 6th edition for a very cheap price (see Amazon.com); this book is an excellent guide to doing graduate-level research and should prove invaluable to you if this is your first semester in grad school. The 7th edition is also available at a lower price as an e-book.
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. Failure to use the 5th or 6th edition of the book will result in a lower grade on your work in this course.