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{{See also|Writing on New Media}}
{{See also|Writing on New Media}}


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This collection of essays, articles, videos, and fiction explore the many facets of “[[New Media|new media]].” Use these suggestions as a basis for your investigation into these various topics that make up our current understanding of new media. This is an on-going project, so if you have suggestions for articles to include, please suggest them on the talk page or below.{{efn|I try to link all sources if they are available online, even if the reference points to a book.}}
{{dc|T}}{{start|his collection of essays, articles, videos, and fiction}} explore the many facets of “[[New Media|new media]].” Use these suggestions as a basis for your investigation into these various topics that make up our current understanding of new media. This is an on-going project, so if you have suggestions for articles to include, please suggest them on the talk page or below.{{efn|I try to link all sources if they are available online, even if the reference points to a book.}}


== Anthologies ==
== Anthologies ==
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== Defining New Media ==
== Defining New Media ==
* {{cite web |url=https://grlucas.net/grl/New_Media |title=New Media |last=Lucas |first=Gerald |date=Dec 23, 2013 |website=LitMUSE |publisher=Medium |access-date=2018-08-12 |ref=harv |quote=New media studies involve the digital technologies of human participation and communication, and the study of the social and cultural changes that these technologies precipitate. }} Includes presentation slides and audio.
{{see also|Writing on New Media#Defining New Media}}
* {{cite book |last=Manovich |first=Lev |chapter=New Media from Borges to HTML |editor1-last=Wardrip-Fruin |editor2-last=Montfort |title=NMR |chapter-url=http://manovich.net/content/04-projects/033-new-media-from-borges-to-html/30_article_2001.pdf |access-date=2018-08-11 |page=13–25 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite web |url=https://grlucas.net/grl/New_Media |title=New Media |last=Lucas |first=Gerald |date=Dec 23, 2013 |website=Gerald R. Lucas |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-12 |ref=harv |quote=New media studies involve the digital technologies of human participation and communication, and the study of the social and cultural changes that these technologies precipitate. }} Includes presentation slides and audio.
* {{cite book |last=Murray |first=Janet H. |chapter=Inventing the Medium |editor1-last=Wardrip-Fruin |editor2-last=Montfort |title=NMR |page=3–11 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Manovich |first=Lev |chapter=New Media from Borges to HTML |editor1-last=Wardrip-Fruin |editor2-last=Montfort |title=NMR |chapter-url=http://manovich.net/content/04-projects/033-new-media-from-borges-to-html/30_article_2001.pdf |access-date=2018-08-11 |page=13–25 |author-link=w:Lev Manovich |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Murray |first=Janet H. |chapter=Inventing the Medium |editor1-last=Wardrip-Fruin |editor2-last=Montfort |title=NMR |page=3–11 |author-link=w:Janet H. Murray |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Spiller |first=Neil |chapter=Introduction |date=2002 |editor-last=Spiller |title=Cyber Reader |page=6–19 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Spiller |first=Neil |chapter=Introduction |date=2002 |editor-last=Spiller |title=Cyber Reader |page=6–19 |ref=harv }}


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Software and code determines how we work and play.
Software and code determines how we work and play.
* {{cite web |url=http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html |title=An Open Letter to Hobbyists |last=Gates |first=Bill |date=February 3, 1976 |website=Blinken Lights |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-16 |quote=As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. | ref=harv }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html |title=An Open Letter to Hobbyists |last=Gates |first=Bill |date=February 3, 1976 |website=Blinken Lights |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-16 |quote=As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. | ref=harv }}
* {{cite AV media |people=Moore, J.T.S. (Director) |date=2001 |title=Revolution OS |trans-title= |medium=video |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8K460vx1c |access-date=2018-08-16 |archive-url= |archive-date= |format= |time= |location= |publisher= |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |ref= }}
* {{cite AV media |people=Moore, J.T.S. (Director) |date=2001 |title=Revolution OS |trans-title= |medium=video |language=English |url=https://youtu.be/4vW62KqKJ5A |access-date=2019-07-20 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite web |url=https://opensource.org/osd-annotated |title=The Open Source Definition |last=Perens |first=Bruce |date= |website=Open Source |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-16 }}
* {{cite web |url=https://opensource.org/osd-annotated |title=The Open Source Definition |last=Perens |first=Bruce |date= |website=Open Source |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-16 }}
* {{cite AV media |people=Puttonen, Hannu (Director) |date=2001 |title=The Code |trans-title= |medium=video |language=English |url=https://youtu.be/XMm0HsmOTFI |access-date=2019-07-20 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Raymond |first=Eric S. |date=1999 |title=The Cathedral and the Bazaar |url=http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ |location= |publisher=O'Reilly Media |page= |isbn=1-565-92724-9 }}
* {{cite book |last=Raymond |first=Eric S. |date=1999 |title=The Cathedral and the Bazaar |url=http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ |location= |publisher=O'Reilly Media |page= |isbn=1-565-92724-9 }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html |title=The GNU Manifesto |last=Stallman |first=Richard |date=1985 |website=GNU |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-16 }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html |title=The GNU Manifesto |last=Stallman |first=Richard |date=1985 |website=GNU |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-16 }}
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* {{cite magazine |last=Humphries |first=Courtney |date=October 18, 2018 |title=Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612257/digital-version-after-death/ |magazine=MIT Technology Review |location=Rewriting Life |publisher= |access-date=2018-10-26 |ref=harv |quote=Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital 'you' that doles out advice—even when you're gone. }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Humphries |first=Courtney |date=October 18, 2018 |title=Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612257/digital-version-after-death/ |magazine=MIT Technology Review |location=Rewriting Life |publisher= |access-date=2018-10-26 |ref=harv |quote=Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital 'you' that doles out advice—even when you're gone. }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Joy |first=Bill |date=April 1, 2000 |title=Why the Future Doesn't Need Us |url=https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/ |magazine=Wired |location=Ideas |access-date=2018-08-18 }} Computer scientist Bill Joy works us that our current trajectory might obsolete humanity. An important essay on [[Wikipedia:biotechnology|biotechnology]], [[Wikipedia:nanotechnology|nanotechnology]], and [[Wikipedia:robotics|robotics]]. A counterpoint to the more optimistic views of thinkers like Ray Kurzweil and [[Wikipedia:Hans Moravec|Hans Moravec]].
* {{cite magazine |last=Joy |first=Bill |date=April 1, 2000 |title=Why the Future Doesn't Need Us |url=https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/ |magazine=Wired |location=Ideas |access-date=2018-08-18 }} Computer scientist Bill Joy works us that our current trajectory might obsolete humanity. An important essay on [[Wikipedia:biotechnology|biotechnology]], [[Wikipedia:nanotechnology|nanotechnology]], and [[Wikipedia:robotics|robotics]]. A counterpoint to the more optimistic views of thinkers like Ray Kurzweil and [[Wikipedia:Hans Moravec|Hans Moravec]].
* {{cite book |last=Kurzweil |first=Ray |date=1999 |title=The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence |url=https://archive.org/details/ageofspiritualma00kurz |location=New York |publisher=Viking Penguin |page= |isbn=0670882178 |quote=The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are. }} One of the first proponents of the [[Wikipedia:Technological singularity|technological singularity]].
* {{cite magazine |last=Kurzweil |first=Ray |date=April 2006 |title=Reinventing Humanity |url=http://www.singularity.com/KurzweilFuturist.pdf |magazine=The Futurist |pages=39–48 |access-date=2019-08-12 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Kurzweil |first=Ray |authormask=1 |date=1999 |title=The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence |url=https://archive.org/details/ageofspiritualma00kurz |location=New York |publisher=Viking Penguin |page= |isbn=0670882178 |quote=The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are. }} One of the first proponents of the [[Wikipedia:Technological singularity|technological singularity]].
* {{cite news |last=O'Connell |first=Mark |date=March 25, 2017 |title='Your Animal Life Is over. Machine Life Has Begun.' The Road to Immortality |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/25/animal-life-is-over-machine-life-has-begun-road-to-immortality |work=The Guardian |location=The Observer: Science |access-date=2018-08-18 }}
* {{cite news |last=O'Connell |first=Mark |date=March 25, 2017 |title='Your Animal Life Is over. Machine Life Has Begun.' The Road to Immortality |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/25/animal-life-is-over-machine-life-has-begun-road-to-immortality |work=The Guardian |location=The Observer: Science |access-date=2018-08-18 }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Popper |first=Ben |date=October 22, 2012 |title=Rapture of the Nerds: Will the Singularity Turn Us into Gods or End the Human Race? |url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3535518/singularity-rapture-of-the-nerds-gods-end-human-race |magazine=Verge |location= |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-18 |quote=A gathering of experts on artificial intelligence becomes a search for deeper meaning. |ref=harv }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Popper |first=Ben |date=October 22, 2012 |title=Rapture of the Nerds: Will the Singularity Turn Us into Gods or End the Human Race? |url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3535518/singularity-rapture-of-the-nerds-gods-end-human-race |magazine=Verge |location= |publisher= |access-date=2018-08-18 |quote=A gathering of experts on artificial intelligence becomes a search for deeper meaning. |ref=harv }}
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* {{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@cdixon/eleven-reasons-to-be-excited-about-the-future-of-technology-ef5f9b939cb2 |title=Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology |last=Dixon |first=Chris |date=August 18, 2016 |website= |publisher= Medium |access-date=2018-08-18 |quote=}}
* {{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@cdixon/eleven-reasons-to-be-excited-about-the-future-of-technology-ef5f9b939cb2 |title=Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology |last=Dixon |first=Chris |date=August 18, 2016 |website= |publisher= Medium |access-date=2018-08-18 |quote=}}
* {{cite web |url=https://medium.com/singularityu/6-tips-on-the-future-of-learning-from-actual-teenage-exponential-thinkers-6231c4ec2dd2 |title=6 Tips on the Future of Learning from Actual Teenage Exponential Thinkers |last=Falck |first=Libby |date=March 16, 2017 |website=Singularity U |publisher=Medium |access-date=2018-08-18 |quote=}}
* {{cite web |url=https://medium.com/singularityu/6-tips-on-the-future-of-learning-from-actual-teenage-exponential-thinkers-6231c4ec2dd2 |title=6 Tips on the Future of Learning from Actual Teenage Exponential Thinkers |last=Falck |first=Libby |date=March 16, 2017 |website=Singularity U |publisher=Medium |access-date=2018-08-18 |quote=}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614057/china-squirrel-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits |title=China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns. |last=Hao |first=Karen |date=August 2, 2019 |website=MIT Technology Review |publisher= |access-date=2019-08-06 |quote=In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas. |ref=harv }}
* {{cite speech |last=LaPlante |first=Logan |author-link= |title=Hackschooling Makes Me Happy |event=TEDx |date=February 12, 2013 |location=University of Nevada |publisher=TEDx Talks |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY |access-date=2018-08-18 |language=English }}
* {{cite web |url=https://medium.com/synapse/the-liberal-arts-are-dead-22083cc3220a |title=The Liberal Arts Are Dead |last=Lucas |first=Gerald |date=March 28, 2015 |website=The Synapse |publisher=Medium |access-date=2018-08-18 |quote=Should we educators just face the music and accept the fact higher ed is now just for job training? }}
* {{cite web |url=https://medium.com/synapse/the-liberal-arts-are-dead-22083cc3220a |title=The Liberal Arts Are Dead |last=Lucas |first=Gerald |date=March 28, 2015 |website=The Synapse |publisher=Medium |access-date=2018-08-18 |quote=Should we educators just face the music and accept the fact higher ed is now just for job training? }}
* {{cite speech |last=Mitra |first=Sugata |author-link= |title=Build a School in the Cloud |event=TED2013 |date=February 2013 |location= |publisher=TED Talks |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud |access-date=2017-08-09 |language=English }}
* {{cite news |last=Newport |first=Cal |date=January 25, 2019 |title=Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/sunday/steve-jobs-never-wanted-us-to-use-our-iphones-like-this.html |work=New York Times |location=Opinion |access-date=2019-01-26 |quote=The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan. }}  
* {{cite news |last=Newport |first=Cal |date=January 25, 2019 |title=Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/sunday/steve-jobs-never-wanted-us-to-use-our-iphones-like-this.html |work=New York Times |location=Opinion |access-date=2019-01-26 |quote=The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan. }}  
* {{cite speech |last=Robinson |first=Ken |author-link= |title=Bring on the Learning Revolution |event=TED |date=February 2010 |location= |publisher=TED Talks |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution |access-date=2014-08-18 |language=English }}
* {{cite news |last=Sarner |first=Moya |date=October 9, 2018 |title=The Age of Envy: How to be Happy When Everyone Else’s Life Looks Perfect |url=https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-age-of-envy-how-to-be-happy-when-everyone-else-s-life-looks-perfect |work=The Guradian |location= |access-date=2019-08-17 |ref=harv |quote=Social media has created a world in which everyone seems ecstatic – apart from us. Is there any way for people to curb their resentment? }}
* {{cite news |last=Sax |first=David |date=November 18, 2017 |title=Our Love Affair with Digital Is Over |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/opinion/sunday/internet-digital-technology-return-to-analog.html |work=The New York Times |location=Opinion |access-date=2018-08-18 }}
* {{cite news |last=Sax |first=David |date=November 18, 2017 |title=Our Love Affair with Digital Is Over |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/opinion/sunday/internet-digital-technology-return-to-analog.html |work=The New York Times |location=Opinion |access-date=2018-08-18 }}
* {{cite speech |last=LaPlante |first=Logan |author-link= |title=Hackschooling Makes Me Happy |event=TEDx |date=February 12, 2013 |location=University of Nevada |publisher=TEDx Talks |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY |access-date=2018-08-18 |language=English }}


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This collection of essays, articles, videos, and fiction explore the many facets of “new media.” Use these suggestions as a basis for your investigation into these various topics that make up our current understanding of new media. This is an on-going project, so if you have suggestions for articles to include, please suggest them on the talk page or below.[b]

Anthologies

  • Gray, Chris Hables; Mentor, Steven; Figueroa-Sarriera, Heidi J., eds. (1995). The Cyborg Handbook. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415908493.
  • Spiller, Neil, ed. (2002). Cyber Reader: Critical Writing for the Digital Era. Phaidon Press. ISBN 0714840718.
  • Wardrip-Fruin, Noah; Harrigan, Pat, eds. (2004). First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0262232324.
  • Wardrip-Fruin, Noah; Montfort, Nick, eds. (2003). The New Media Reader. Cambridge: The MIT Press. ISBN 0262232278.[c]

Defining New Media

  • Lucas, Gerald (Dec 23, 2013). "New Media". Gerald R. Lucas. Retrieved 2018-08-12. New media studies involve the digital technologies of human participation and communication, and the study of the social and cultural changes that these technologies precipitate. Includes presentation slides and audio.
  • Manovich, Lev. "New Media from Borges to HTML" (PDF). In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR. p. 13–25. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  • Murray, Janet H. "Inventing the Medium". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR. p. 3–11.
  • Spiller, Neil (2002). "Introduction". In Spiller. Cyber Reader. p. 6–19.

Fiction

  • Borges, Jorge Luis (1945). "The Aleph" (PDF). Sur. Translated by Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas. Buenos Aires.
  • — (1941). "The Garden of the Forking Paths". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR. Translated by Yates, Donald A. p. 29–34.
  • — (1998) [1941]. "The Library of Babel" (PDF). Collected Fictions. Translated by Hurley, Andrew. New York: Penguin. p. 112–118. ISBN 0670849707.
  • Di Filippo, Paul. "A Short Course in Art Appreciation". Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans. Canton, OH: Prime Books. pp. 33–41.
  • Forster, E. M. (1909). "The Machine Stops". NCSA. Retrieved 2018-08-18. Paul Rajlich states: "Anybody who uses the Internet should read E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops'. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published."
  • Liu, Ken (October 2001). "Staying Behind". Clarkesworld. Issue 61. Retrieved 2018-08-18. Audio version available.
  • Stephenson, Neal (1992). Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0553562614.
  • Sterling, Bruce (1999). "Deep Eddy". A Good Old-fashioned Future. New York: Spectra. pp. 141–187. In this techno-allegory, spec-wearing Eddy travels to Europe on a quest for love and enlightenment.
  • — (1999). "Maneki Neko". A Good Old-fashioned Future. pp. 1–19. A god-like, network panopticon guides the action in this near-future tale, but all people are not happy with its beneficence.

Foundational and Transitional Thinking

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Advanced Computing

Being Digital: Revolution and Democracy (and Autocracy)

  • Andrew-Gee, Eric (January 26, 1018). "Your Smartphone Is Making You Stupid, Antisocial, and Unhealthy. So Why Can't You Put It Down?". Globe and Mail. Digital Distraction. Retrieved 2018-08-13. Eric Andrew-Gee explores the growing body of scientific evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds.
  • Barbrook, Richard; Cameron, Andy (1995). "The Californian Ideology". Imaginary Futures. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  • Baudrillard, Jean (1972). "Requiem for the Media". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR (PDF). p. 277–288. A reaction to Enzensberger’s essay below.
  • Beauchamp, Zack (January 22, 2019). "Social Media Is Rotting Democracy from Within". Vox. Retrieved 2019-01-26. How social platforms enable far-right politicians’ campaigns to undermine democracy.
  • Boal, Augusto (1974). "Theatre of the Oppressed". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR. p. 339–352.
  • Enzensberger, Hans Magnus (1970). "Constituents of a Theory of the Media". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR. p. 259–275.
  • Leonard, Andrew (August 16, 2018). "Meet the Man With a Radical Plan for Blockchain Voting". Wired. Backchannel. Retrieved 2018-08-18. A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.
  • Negroponte, Nicholas (1996). Being Digital. New York: Vintage. ISBN 0679762906.
  • Nelson, Ted (1974). "Computer Lib / Dream Machines". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR.
  • Skipper, Clay (January 23, 2019). "Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes". GQ. Level Up. A Q+A with the computer scientist about his new book Digital Minimalism, why future workplaces may go email-free, and why tech backlash is about to go mainstream.

Cyberdrama & Ludology

  • Aarseth, Espen (2004). "Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation". In Wardrip-Fruin; Harrigan. First Person. p. 45–55. "Where is the text in chess?" asks Espen Aarseth. Rules, play, and semiosis are the (un)common ground between games and stories in "interactive narrativism" and the art of simulation.
  • Avent, Ryan (May 2017). "Escape to Another World". The Economist. Work. Retrieved 2018-08-14. As video games get better and job prospects worse, more young men are dropping out of the job market to spend their time in an alternate reality.
  • Bishop, Bryan (January 26, 2018). "I Just Saw the First Movie from Oculus, and It Is the Future". The Verge. Tech. Retrieved 2018-08-14. Hiding from robots while looking like a cyborg.
  • Jenkins, Henry (2004). "Game Design as Narrative Architecture". In Wardrip-Fruin; Harrigan. First Person. p. 118–130. Henry Jenkins uses narrative space to distinguish between different tale-ends.
  • Moulthrop, Stuart (2004). "From Work to Play". In Wardrip-Fruin; Harrigan. First Person. p. 56–70. Stuart Moulthrop (re)mediates the interpretation (narrativists) vs. configuration (ludologists) debate by going macropolitical.
  • Murray, Janet H. (1997). Hamlet on the Holodeck. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0684827239. A seminal work theorizing the cyberbard who can bring to bear yet-known talents in crafting the digital expression that will define our time.
  • Reagan, Andrew (July 6, 2016). "Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2018-08-14. Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories.

Cyberspace, VR/RL, Augmented Reality

  • Alter, Alexandra. "Is This Man Cheating on His Wife?". Wall Street Journal. Technology. Retrieved 2018-08-15. Alexandra Alter on the toll one man's virtual marriage is taking on his real one and what researchers are discovering about the surprising power of synthetic identity.
  • Barlow, John Perry (February 8, 1996). "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2018-08-14. We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
  • — (April 30, 2015) [1990]. "Virtual Reality and the Pioneers of Cyberspace". Wired. Backchannel. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  • Berners-Lee, Tim (March 11, 2014). "On the 25th Anniversary of the Web". Official Google Blog. Retrieved 2018-08-14. The web has generated trillions of dollars of economic value, transformed education and healthcare and activated many new movements for democracy around the world. And we’re just getting started.; Commentary: Finley, Klint (March 12, 2014). "Inventor of the Web Is Right: We Need an Internet Bill of Rights". Wired. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  • Dibbell, Julian (1998). "A Rape in Cyberspace". My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. New York: Owl. p. 11–30. ISBN 0805036261. How an evil clown, a Haitian trickster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society. Dibbell's classic article about LambdaMOO.
  • Evans, Claire L. (July 20, 2018). "A Mansion Filled With Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young". Undark. Books. Retrieved 2018-08-15. Before the emergence of Warcraft, and the PlayStation, Pavel Curtis created LambdaMOO. Players used text, not images, and imaginations ran wild.
  • Gefter, Amanda (April 21, 2016). "The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality". Quanta. Retrieved 2018-08-15. The cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman uses evolutionary game theory to show that our perceptions of an independent reality must be illusions.
  • Gross, Daniel A. (March 10, 2016). "When You Listen to Music, You're Never Alone". Nautilus. Retrieved 2018-08-15. Technology hasn't diminished the social quality of listening to music.
  • Jamison, Leslie (December 2017). "The Digital Ruins of a Forgotten Future". The Atlantic. Technology. Retrieved 2018-08-15. Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the world they’ve built—illuminate the promise and limitations of online life.
  • Kelly, Kevin (April 2016). "The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World's Most Secretive Startup". Wired. Retrieved 2018-08-15. The technology forces you to be present — in a way flatscreens do not — so that you gain authentic experiences, as authentic as in real life. People remember VR experiences not as a memory of something they saw but as something that happened to them.
  • Turkle, Sherry (1994). "Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in VR". In Spiller. Cyber Reader. p. 208–214.

Cyborg(ology), Transhumanism, Posthumanism

Digital Humanities

  • Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. (2010). "What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?" (PDF). ADE Bulletin (150). Retrieved 2018-08-22. [DH] harbors networks of people who have been working together, sharing research, arguing, competing, and collaborating for many years.... a culture that values collaboration, openness, nonhierarchical relations, and agility.
  • Lucas, Gerald (September 3, 2013). "Defining Digital Humanities". GRLucas.net. Retrieved 2019-02-06. DH stands at the intersection of art and science; it makes technology explicit in our understanding and interpretation of culture. DH makes clear that the humanities and technology are inseparable.
  • Presner, Todd; Schnapp, Jeffrey; Lunenfeld, Peter (June 22, 2009). "The Digital Humanities Manifesto" (PDF). Todd Presner. 2.0. Retrieved 2018-08-22.

HCI, Information Architecture, Hypertext, and the (e)Book

How does the digital influence the way we think? Or, is the medium truly the message?

  • Coover, Robert (1992). "The End of Books". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR. p. 705–709.
  • Harris, Tristan (May 18, 2016). "How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist". Thrive Global. Medium. Retrieved 2018-08-16. When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.
  • Lucas, Gerald R. (Fall 2011). "Norman Mailer and the Novel 2.0" (PDF). The Mailer Review. 5 (1): 248–263. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  • Moulthrop, Stuart (1991). "You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR. p. 691–704.
  • Rosenberg, Scott (April 11, 2017). "How Google Book Search Got Lost". Wired. Backchannel. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  • Winner, Langdon (1986). "Mythinformation". In Wardrip-Fruin; Montfort. NMR. p. 587–598.

Open Source, Free, and Proprietary Software

Software and code determines how we work and play.

Participatory Culture & IP

Issues in open, free, and proprietary culture and its creation and consumption.

Privacy and Security

The Future & the Singularity

Social / Cultural / Educational Media

Notes
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  2. I try to link all sources if they are available online, even if the reference points to a book.
  3. NMR refers to Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort. If an online version is available, I will supply the direct link. Other references are linked directly.