DLL Field List

Candidates in the DLL concentration are expected to select a minimum of 20 texts from this list and then to work with their faculty committee to flesh out their reading lists, which should total approximately 60-80 texts.

Aarseth, Espen, Cybertext

Baron, Naomi S. Always On. Oxford UP, 2008.

Bender, Gretchen and Timothy Druckrey. Ideologies of Technology: Culture on the Brink

Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush)

Conley, Verena Andermatt. Rethinking Technologies.

Crystal, David. Language and the Internet (2nd ed. 2006, CUP)

Dibble, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace"

Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

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Hayles, Katherine. Writing Machines

---. Electronic Literature

---. How We Became Posthuman

Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds

Kittler, Friedrich. Literature, Media, Information Systems

---. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter

---. Discourse Networks, 1800/1900

Kress, Gunther R. Literacy in the new media age.  London: Routledge, 2003.

Landow, George. Hypertext 3.0

Lanham, Richard, The Electronic Word

---. The Economics of Attention (Chicago, 2006)

Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or the Love of Technology.

L�vy, Pierre. Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age.

Liu, Alan. The Laws of Cool

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. MIT P, 2002.

Maturana, Humberto R. and Francisco Varela, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

McGann, Jerome. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media 

---. The Medium is the Massage

Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck

Nakamura, Lisa. "Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet" (2007)

Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

Poster, Mark. Information Please.

Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/)

Ronell, Avital. The Telephone Book

Rushkoff, Douglas. Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace.

Selber, Stuart. A. Multiliteracies for a digital age.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen

Virilio, Paul. Open Sky

Zuboff, Shoshana. In the age of the smart machine: The future of work and power.