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Saturday, July 26, 2003:

The Web passes television! With teenagers spending more time online than watching television and listening to the radio, we really do need to spend more time thinking about identity & community creation on the Internet.
Forbes.com: Youth spend more time on Web than TV-study
Samantha Blackmon // 7/26/2003 03:52:39 PM

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Monday, July 21, 2003:

It's done. The reading list for ENGL 605 that is. Books have been ordered at Von's in West Lafayette. Books marked with (opt.) are optional purchases that may be helpful to broader research interests and there will be readings from them during the semester that will be made available to those who don't purchase the entire text. I am currently working on a course pack that will be available at CopyMat. I have included ISBN numbers in case people want to try to find cheaper copies online.
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Jean Baudrillard; Simulacra and Simulation 0472065211

Andy Clark: Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again (opt.) 0262531569

Andy Clark: Natural Born Cyborg (opt.) 0195148665

Stephen Doheny-Farina: The Wired Neighborhood (opt.) 0300074344

Donna J. Haraway: Modest_Witness@
Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse (opt.) 0415912458

N. Katherine Hayles: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in
Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics 0226321460

Lisa Nakamura: Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet 0415938376

Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs 0738206083

Howard Rheingold: The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic
Frontier 0262681218 (Make sure you get the 2nd edition-2000)

Cynthia Selfe: Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The
Importance of Paying Attention 0809322692

Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age 0553380966

Samantha Blackmon // 7/21/2003 10:07:38 AM

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