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Media, Technology and Everyday Life (MC409)

 

Reading List

 

Lectures

 

1. Mapping the field

2. Information revolution and other social consequences of ICTs

3. Factors shaping everyday ICTs: Frameworks

4. Factors shaping everyday ICTs: Historical examples

5. ICTs in domestic life

6. The dynamics of ICTs and everyday life

7. Social networks and ICTs

8. ICTs in public and private times and spaces

9. Children, youth and ICTs

10. Digital divides

 

Reading:

 

2. Information revolution and other social consequences of ICTs

 

*Dutton, W. (1995) ‘Driving into the Future of Communications.  Check the Rear View Mirror’, in Emmott, S. (Ed.) Information Superhighways: Multimedia Users and Futures, Academic Press, London

 

Garnham, N. (1994) 'Whatever Happened to the Information Society?', in Mansell, R. (Ed.) Management of Information and Communication Technologies: Emerging Patterns of Control, ASLIB, London, pp.42-51

 

Jouet, J. (2000) ‘Retour Critique sur la Sociologie des Usage’, Réseaux No.100, pp.486-521.

 

*Lyon, D. (1988) The Information Society: Issues and Illusions, Polity Press, Oxford (esp. pp.1-21, 123-9)

 

Punie, Y. (1997) ‘Created or Constrained Consumption? An Assessment of Demand for New Media Technologies in the Home’, The Communication Review, Vol.2, No.2, pp.179-205.

 

Robins, K. and Webster, F. (1988) ‘Cybernetic Capitalism: information, Technology and Everyday Life’, in Mosco,V. and Wasko, J.(eds) The Political Economy of Information, University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin

 

Roszak, T. (1986) The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking, Lutterworth Press, Cambridge (especially pp.21-31, 167-72)

 

*Silverstone, R. (1995) ‘Media, Communication, Information and the “Revolution” of Everyday Life’, in Emmott, S. (ed) Information Superhighways: Multimedia Users and Futures, Academic Press, London.

 

Silverstone, R. (1996) Future Imperfect: Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life, in Dutton, W. (Ed.) Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

 

Winner, L. (1989), ‘Mythinformation in the High-Tech Era, in Forester, T. (Ed.) Computers in Human Context: Information technology, Productivity and People, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

 

Winston, B. (1989) ‘The Illusion of Revolution’, in Forester, T. (Ed.) Computers in Human Context: Information technology, Productivity and People, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

 

 

 

 

3. Factors shaping everyday ICTs: Frameworks

 

Akrich, M. (1992) ‘The De-scription of Technical Objects’, in Bijker, W. and Law, J. (eds) Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change MIT Press, Cambridge

 

Bakardjieva, M. (2005) Internet Society. The Internet in Everyday Life, Sage, London (Chapter 1, pp.9-36)

 

Dosi, G. (1984) Technical Change and Industrial Transformation: The Theory and An Application to the Semiconductor Industry, Macmillan, London.

 

Haddon, L. (2002) ‘Information and Communication Technologies and the Role of Consumers in Innovation’, in McMeekin. A., Green, K., Tomlinson, M. and Walsh, V. (eds) Innovation by demand: interdisciplinary approaches to the study of demand and its role in innovation. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 151-67

 

Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.54-66. (especially chapters 2, ,3 and 4)

 

Hughs, T. (1987) The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

 

Latour B (1986) Science in action. Open University Press, Milton Keynes

 

Law J and Callon M (1992) The Life and Death of an Aircraft: a Network Analysis of Technical Change, in Bijker, W. and Law, J. (eds) Shaping technology/ Building society: studies in sociotechnical change. Routledge, London, pp 29-52

 

Mackenzie, D. and Wacjman, J. (eds.) (1999, 2nd Edition) The Social Shaping of Technology, Open University Press, Milton Keynes esp. Part 1 Introductory Essay and General Issues.

 

McLuhan, M. (1964) Understanding Media, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London

 

Molina, A. (1989) The Social Basis of the Microelectronics Revolution. Edinburgh University Pres, Edniburgh

 

Oudshoorn, N and Pinch, T. (2003) How Users Matter. The Co-construction of Users and Technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (especially the introduction and chapter 3)

 

Williams, R. and Edge, D. (1999) ‘The Social Shaping of Technology’, in Dutton, W. Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp41-43

 

Woolgar, S. (1991) ‘Configuring the User: The Case of Usability Trials’, in Law. J (Ed.) A Sociology of Monsters. Routledge, London, pp. 57-99

 

Woolgar, S. (1996) Technologies as cultural Artefacts, in Dutton, W. (Ed.) (1996) Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

 

 

4. Factors shaping everyday ICTs: Historical examples

 

Cawson, A., Haddon, L. and Miles, I. (1995) The Shape of Things to Consume: Bringing Information Technology into the Home, Avebury, London (especially chapter 1, pp.7-23. and chapters 3, 4 and 5).

 

Douglas, S. (1986) ‘Amateur Operators and American Broadcasting: Shaping the Future of Radio’, in Corn, J. (Ed.), Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp.34-57.

 

Dutton, W. (1999) ‘The Social Shaping of Tele-Access. Inventing our Futures’, in Dutton, W. Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.79-110.

 

*Flichy, P. (1995) Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact of New Communication Technologies, Sage, London.

 

Forty, A. (1986) Objects of Desire: Design and Society 1750-1980, Thames and Hudson, London, p.200-206 (but glance through the rest of the book as well).

 

De Guy, P., Hall, S., Janes, L., Mackay, H. and Negus, K. (1997) Doing Cultural Studies. The Story of the Sony Walkman, Sage, London (Chapter 2).

 

Haddon, L. (1988) ‘The Home Computer: The Making of a Consumer Electronic’, Science as Culture, No.2, pp.7-51.

 

*Haddon, L. (1999) ‘The Development of Interactive Games’, in Mackay, H. and O’Sullivan, T. (eds) The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation, Sage, London.

 

Johnson, L. (1981) ‘Radio and Everyday Life: The Early Years of Broadcasting in Australia, 1922-45, Media, Culture and Society, Vol.3, No. 2, pp.167-78

 

Keen, B. (1987) ‘Play It Again Sony: The Origins and Double Life of Home Video Technology’, Science as Culture, No.1, pp.7-42.

 

Lally, E. (2002) At Home with Computers, Berg, Oxford.

 

Marvin, C. (1988) When Old Technologies were New: Thinking about Communications in the Late Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford. (especially the introduction and pp.63-108)

 

*de Sola Pool, I.(Ed.) (1977) The Social Impact of the Telephone, MIT Press, Cambridge, (especially the chapter by Aronson, but also Briggs, and de Sola Pool).

 

Spigel, L. (1992) Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

 

Sotamaa, O. (2005) ‘Creative User-Centred Design Practices: Lessons from Game Cultures’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.104-116.

 

Williams, R. (1974) Television: Technology and Cultural Form, Fontana/Collins, Glasgow (especially pp.15-31)

 

 

5. ICTs in domestic life

 

Bakardjieva, M. (2005) Internet Society. The Internet in Everyday Life, Sage, London

 

Frissen, V. (2000) ‘ICTs in the Rush Hour of Life’, The Information Society, No.16, pp 65-75.

 

Haddon, L. (2004) Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction and Research Guide, Berg, Oxford.

 

Hirsch, E. (1992) ‘The Long Term and the Short Term of Domestic Consumption: An Ethnographic Case Study’, in Silverstone, R. and Hirsch, E. (eds) Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces. London: Routledge, pp.208-26.

 

Lally, E. (2002) At Home with Computers, Berg, Oxford

 

*Lull, J. (1990) Inside Family Viewing: Ethnographic Research on Television’s Audiences, Routledge, London, (especially chapter 2)

 

Moores, S. (1988) ‘The Box on the Dresser: Memories of Early Radio and Everyday Life, Media, Culture and Society, Vol.10, No.1, pp.23-40.

 

Moores, S. (1993) Interpreting Audiences: The Ethnography of Media Consumption, Sage, London (see pp.75-116).

 

Morley, D. (1986) Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure, Comedia, London.

 

Morley, D. (1992), Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies, Routledge, London (see chapter 9)

 

Silverstone, R. (1994) Television and Everyday Life, Routledge, London (see chapter 5, pp.122-31).

 

*Silverstone, R. and Hirsch, E.(eds) Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces, Routledge, London, (especially chapters 1 and 13).

 

Silverstone, R. and Haddon, L. (1996) ‘Design and the Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies: Technical Change and Everyday Life’, in

Silverstone and Mansell, R (eds) (1996) Communication by Design. The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.44-74.

 

Ward, K. (2005) ‘Internet Consumption in Ireland – Towards a “Connected’ Life”’, in Silverstone, R. (Ed.) Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate

 

 

6. The dynamics of ICTs and everyday life

 

Claisse, G. (2000) ‘Identités Masculines et Féminines au Telephone.  Des Rôles, des Pratiques des Perception Contrastés’, Reseaux, Vol.18, No.103, pp.51-90 (English summary: http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Teach.html)

 

Cummings, J. and Kraut, R. (2002) ‘Domesticating Computers and the Internet’, Information Society, Vol.18, No.3, pp.221-32.

 

Haddon, L. (1995), ‘Information and Communication Technologies: A View from the Home’, in Kollman, K. and Zimmer, M. (eds) Neue Kommunications- und Informationstechnologie für Verbraucher, Verlag des Österreichischen Gewerkschaftsbundes, Wien, pp.127-144. Available at http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Date.html

 

*Haddon, L. (2004) Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction and Research Guide, Berg, Oxford (Chap. 8).

 

Haddon, L. and Silverstone, R. (1994) ‘Telework and the Changing Relationship of Home and Work’, in Mansell, R. (ed.), Management of Information and Communication Technologies: Emerging Patterns of Control, Aslib, London, pp. 234-47; also in Heap et al. (1995) (eds.) Information Technology and Society: A Reader, Sage, London, pp.400-12.

 

Haddon, L. and Silverstone, R. (1994) ‘The Careers of Information and Communication Technologies in the Home’, in Bjerg, K. and Borreby, K. (eds.) Proceedings of the  International Working Conference on Home Oriented Informatics, Telematics and Automation, Copenhagen, June 27th-July 1st. Available at http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Date.html

 

Manceron, V., Leclerc, C, Houdart, S., Lelong, B. and Smoreda, Z. (2001) Processus de Hiérarchisation au Sein des Relations Sociales et Diversification des Modes de Communication au Moment de la Naissance d’un Premier Enfant, paper for the conference ‘e-Usages’, Paris, 12-14th June. (English summary: http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Teach.html)

 

7. Social networks, social capital

 

Anderson, B and Tracey, K. (2001) ‘Digital Living: The Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet on Everyday Life’, American Behavioral Scientist, 45: 3, 456-75, also in Wellman, B. and Haythornthwaite, C. (eds) The Internet in Everyday Life, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.139-63.

 

*Bakardjieva, M and Smith, R. (2001) ‘The Internet in Everyday Life: Computer Networking from the Standpoint of the Domestic User’, New Media and Society, Vol.3, No.1, pp.67-84.

 

Castells, M. (2001) The Internet Galaxy. Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society, Oxford University Press, chapter 4, pp 116-36

 

Haddon, L. (1992) ‘Explaining ICT Consumption: The Case of the Home Computer’, in Silverstone, R. and Hirsch, E. (eds) Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces, Routledge, London, pp.82-96.

 

*Haddon, L. (2004) Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction and Research Guide, Berg, Oxford (Chap. 5, second half of Chap 3).

 

Katz, J. and Rice, R (2002) Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement and Interaction, MIT press, Boston (Chap. 10)

 

Kraut, R., Patterson, M., Lundmark, V, Keisler, S., Mukhopadhyay, T., and Scherlis, W. (1998) ‘Internet Paradox. A Social Technology that Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?’ American Psychologist, Vol.53, No.9, pp.1017-31.

 

Kraut, R., Kiesler. S., Boneva, B., Cummings, J. Helgeson, V. and Crawford, A. (2002) ‘Internet Paradox Revisited’, Journal of Social Issues, Vol.58, pp.49-74.

 

Ling, R. (2004), The Mobile Connection. The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann (Chap.5, 8).

 

Nie, N. (2001) ‘Sociability, Interpersonal Relations and the Internet. Reconciling Conflicting Findings’, American Behavioral Scientist, Vol.45, No.3, pp.420-35.

 

Nie, N., Hillygus, D. and Erbring, L. (2002) ‘Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations and Sociability: A Time Diary Study’, in Wellman, B. and Haythornthwaite, C. (eds) The Internet in Everyday Life, Blackwell, Oxford, pp.215-43.

 

Ling, R., Anderson, B. and Diduci, D. (2003) ‘Mobile Communication and Social Capital in Europe’, in Nyri, K. (Ed.) Mobile Democracy: Essays on Society, Self and Politics, Passagen Verlag, Vienna, pp.359-74.

 

Miller, D. and Slater, D. (2000) The Internet. An Ethnographic Approach, Berg, Oxford.

 

Putnam, R. (2000) Bowling Alone: The Crumbling and Revival of American Community, Simon and Schuster, New York

 

Rice, R. (2002) ‘Primary Issues in Internet Use: Access, Civic and Community Involvement, and Social Interaction and Expression’, in Lievrouw, L. and Livingstone, S. (eds) The Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences, Sage, London, pp.105-29.

 

Turkle, S. (1984) The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Granada, London.

 

Wellman, B. and Haythornthwaite, C. (eds) (2002) The Internet in Everyday Life, Blackwell, Oxford (Chapters 4,5 and 7)

 

 

8. ICTs in Public and Private Times and Spaces

 

De Guy, P., Hall, S., Janes, L., Mackay, H. and Negus, K. (1997) Doing Cultural Studies. The Story of the Sony Walkman, Sage, London (Chapter 6).

 

Haddon, L. (1999) ‘European Perceptions and Use of the Internet’, paper for the conference Usages and Services in Telecommunications, Arcachon, 7-9 June. Available at http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Date.html

 

*Haddon, L. (2004) Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction and Research Guide, Berg, Oxford (Chap.6, second half of Chap 7).

 

Lally, E. (2002) At Home with Computers, Berg, Oxford.

 

Ling, R. (1997) ‘“One can talk about Common Manners!” The Use of Mobile Telephones in Inappropriate Situations’, in Haddon, L. (Ed.) Communications on the Move: The Experience of Mobile Telephony in the 1990s, COST248 Report, Farsta: Telia, 73-96. Available via http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Date.html

 

*Ling, R. (2004) The Mobile Connection. The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann (Chap.6).

 

Ling, R, Julsrud, T. and Kroug, E. (1997) ‘The Goretex Principle: The Hytte and Mobile Telephones in Norway’, in Haddon, L. (Ed.) Communications on the Move: The Experience of Mobile Telephony in the 1990s, COST248 Report, Farsta, Telia, 97-120. Available via http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Date.html

 

Ling, R. and Thrane, K. (2001), “It actually separates us a little bit, but I think that is an advantage”: The Management of Electronic Media in Norwegian Households. Paper for the conference ‘e-Usages’, Paris, 12-14th June. Available at http://www.telenor.no/fou/program/nomadiske/artikler.shtml

 

Meyrowitz, J. (1985) No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour, Oxford University Press, Oxford (Chapter 7).

 

Scannel, P. (1988) ‘Radio Times: The Temporal Arrangements of Broadcasting in the Modern World’, in Drummond, P. and Paterson, R. (eds) Television and its Audience: International Perspectives, BFI, London, pp.15-31.

 

Silverstone, R. (1993) ‘Time, Information and Communication Technologies in the Household’, Time and Society, Vol.2, No.3, pp.283-311.

 

9. Children and ICTs

 

Ariès, P. (1973) Centuries of Childhood, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

 

Bovill, M. and Livingstone, S. (2001) ‘Bedroom Culture and the Privatization of Media Use’, in Livingstone, S. and Bovill, M. (eds) Children and their Changing Media Environment. A European Comparative Study,Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, pp.179-200.

 

Buckingham, D.  (2002) ‘The Electronic Generation? Children and New Media’, in Lievrouw, S and Livingstone, S. (eds) The Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences, London: Sage, 77-89.

 

Gillis, J. (1981) Youth and History: Tradition and Change in Age Relations, 1770-Present, London: Academic Press.

 

*Haddon, L. (2004) Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction and Research Guide, Berg, Oxford (Chap.3)

 

Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda (eds)  (2005) Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life,  MIT Press, Camb, Mass.

 

Kasesniemi, E. and Rautianen, P. (2002) ‘Mobile Culture of Children and Teenagers in Finland’, in Katz, J. and Aakhus, R. (eds) Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.170-92.

 

James, A. and Prout, A. (eds) (1997) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Children, London: Falmer Press.

 

Lenhart, A., Rainie, L. and Lewis, O. (2001) Teenage Life On-Line. The Rise of

Instant Messaging and the Internet’s Impact on Friendship and Family Relationships, http://www.pewinternet.org/ June 20th.

 

Ling, R. (2004) The Mobile Connection. The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann (Chap.5, 7).

 

Ling, R. and Yttri, B. (2002) Hyper-Coordination via Mobile Phones in Norway’, in Katz, J. and Aakhus, R. (eds) Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.139-69.

 

Livingstone, S. (1997) ‘Mediated Childhoods: A Comparative Approach to Young People's Changing Media Environment in Europe’, European Journal of Communication, 13: 4, 435-56.

 

Livingstone, S. (2002) Young People and New Media, London: Sage.

 

Livingstone, S. and Bober, M. (2003) UK Children go Online: Listening to Young People’s Experiences, London, Media@LSE, http://www.children-go-online.net.

 

*Livingstone, S. and Bovill, M. (eds) Children and their Changing Media Environment. A European Comparative Study, Mahwah, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 53-84.

 

Nafus, D. and Tracey, K. (2002) ‘Mobile Phone Consumption and Concepts of Personhood’, in Katz, J. and Aakhus, R. (eds) Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.206-22.

 

Pasquier, D. (2001) ‘Media at Home: Domestic Interactions and Regulation’, in Livingstone, S. and Bovill, M. (eds) Children and their Changing Media Environment. A European Comparative Study, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 161-78.

 

Pasquier, D., Buzzi., C., d'Haeevens, L. and Sjoberg (1998) ‘Family Lifestyles and Media Use Patterns: An Analysis of Domestic Media among Flemish, French, Italian and Swedish Children and Teenagers’, European Journal of Communication, 13: 4,

503-19.

 

Taylor, A. and Harper, R. (2001), The Gift of the Gab? A Design Oriented Sociology of Young People’s use of ‘MobilZe!’  Working Paper, Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey, UK, available at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/papers.html

 

10. Digital Divide

 

Chen, W., Boase, J. and Wellman, B. (2002) ‘The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses around the World’, in Wellman, B. and Haythornthwaite, C. (eds) The Internet in Everyday Life, Oxford: Blackwell, 74-113

 

Haddon, L. (2000) ‘Social Exclusion and Information and Communication Technologies: Lessons from Studies of Single Parents and the Young Elderly’, New Media and Society, Vol.2, No.4, 387-406.

 

*Haddon, L. (2004) Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction and Research Guide, Berg, Oxford (Chap.2)

 

Horrigan, J., Rainie, L., Allen, K., Madden, M. and O’Grady, E (2003) The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A New Look of Internet Access and the Digital Divide, Pew Internet and American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/ April, 16th.

 

Howard, P., Rainie, L, and Jones, S. (2002) ‘Days and Nights on the Internet’, in Wellman, B. and Haythornthwaite, C. (eds) The Internet in Everyday Life, Oxford: Blackwell, 45-73.

 

Katz, J. and Aspden, P. (1998) ‘Internet Dropouts in the USA. The Invisible Group’, Telecommunications Policy, Vol.24, No.4/5, pp.327-39.

 

*Katz, J. and Rice, R (2002) Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement and Interaction, MIT press, Boston (Chapters 2 to 5)

 

Katz, J. Rice, R. and Aspden, P. (2001) ‘The Internet, 1995-2000. Access, Civic Involvement and Social Interaction’, American Behavioral Scientist, 45: 3, 405-17.

 

Kingsely, P. and Anderson, T. (1998) ‘Facing Life without the Internet’, Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 8: 4, 303-12.

 

Wellman, B. and Haythornthwaite, C. (eds) (2002), The Internet in Everyday Life, Blackwell, Oxford (Chapters 2 and 3)

 

*Wyatt, S. Thomas, G. and Terranova, T. (2002), ‘They Came, they Surfed, they Went Back to the Beach: Conceptualising Use and Non-Use of the Internet’, in

Woolgar, S. (Ed.) Virtual Society? Technology, Cyperbole and Reality, University Press, Oxford, pp.23-40.