reading schedule, part 1

For those playing at home, this is the reading schedule I've set forth for the summer. It's pretty text-heavy, so I'll post it in three parts. Parentheses indicate author names, and brackets indicate thematic sections of the book (where applicable).

Week 1 (5/26 – 6/1)

An Introduction to Cybercultures, David Bell, pp. 1-112

Includes:

• Cybercultures: an introduction
• Storying Cyberspace 1: Material and symbolic stories
• Storying Cyberspace 2: Experiential stories
• Cultural Studies in Cyberspace
• Community and Cyberculture

Week 2 (6/2 – 6/8)

An Introduction to Cybercultures, David Bell, pp. 113-207

Includes:

• Identities in Cyberculture
• Bodies in Cyberculture
• Cybersubcultures
• Researching Cybercultures

Week 3 (6/9 – 6/15)

Critical Cyberculture Studies, David Silver and Adrienne Massanari, eds., pp. 1-106

Includes:

• Foreword: Dreams of Fields: Possible Trajectories of Internet Studies (Steve Jones)
• Introduction: Where Is Internet Studies? (David Silver)
• The Historiography of Cyberculture (Jonathan Sterne) [Fielding the Field]
• Cultural Difference, Theory, and Cyberculture Studies: A Case of Mutual Repulsion (Lisa Nakamura) [Fielding the Field]
• How We Became Postdigital: From CyberStudies to Game Studies (Espen Aarseth) [Fielding the Field]
• Internet Studies in Times of Terror (David Silver and Alice Marwick) [Fielding the Field]
• Catching the Waves: Considering Cyberculture, Technoculture, and Electronic Consumption (Wendy Robinson) [Fielding the Field]
• Cyberculture Studies: An Antidisciplinary Approach (version 3.0) (McKenzie Wark) [Fielding the Field]
• Finding the Quality in Qualitative Research (Nancy K. Baym) [Critical Approaches and Methods]
• Web Sphere Analysis and Cybercultural Studies (Kirsten Foot) [Critical Approaches and Methods]
• Connecting the Selves: Computer-Mediated Identification Processes (Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera) [Critical Approaches and Methods]

Week 4 (6/16 – 6/22)

Critical Cyberculture Studies, David Silver and Adrienne Massanari, eds., pp. 107-204

Includes:

• The Structural Problems of the Internet for Cultural Policy (Christian Sandvig) [Critical Approaches and Methods]
• Cultural Considerations in Internet Policy and Design: A Case Study from Central Asia (Beth E. Kolko) [Critical Approaches and Methods]
• Bridging Cyberlife and Real Life: A Study of Online Communities in Hong Kong (Anthony Fung) [Critical Approaches and Methods]
• Overcoming Institutional Marginalization (Blanca Gordo) [Critical Approaches and Methods]
• The Vertical (Layered) Net: Interrogating the Conditions of Network Connectivity (Greg Elmer) [Critical Approaches and Methods]
• The Construction of Cybersocial Reality (Stine Gotved) [Critical Approaches and Methods]
• E-scaping Boundaries: Bridging Cyberspace and Diaspora Studies through Nethnography (Emily Noelle Ignacio) [Cultural Difference in/and Cyberculture]
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Cybercultures (Madhavi Mallapragada) [Cultural Difference in/and Cyberculture]