reading list

This blog was originally constructed as a study space for my second doctoral exam. Below is the reading list for the exam, approved by my examination committee. The exam took place on 09.04.07 - I passed : )

A PDF of the following reading list can be downloaded here. The most current version of my 2nd doctoral exam statement can found here.

My second doctoral examination committee:

• Professor Joseph Glick, CUNY Graduate Center (chair)
  Developmental Psychology / Executive Officer, Psychology
• Professor Joan Greenbaum, CUNY Graduate Center
  Computer Science / Environmental Psychology / Interactive Technology & Pedagogy
• Professor Cindi Katz, CUNY Graduate Center
  Environmental Psychology / Geography

My second doctoral exam reading list:

TOPIC 1. THE CYBERCITY
1.1. identifying the cybercity
1.2. identity and the cybercity
1.3. governance and the cybercity

TOPIC 2. DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION IN THE CYBERCITY
2.1. democracy and education
2.2. citizen participation and the cybercity
2.3. education, development and the cybercity

TOPIC 1: the cybercity

1.1. identifying the cybercity

• Benedikt, M. (2001). Cyberspace: Some proposals. In M. Benedikt (Ed.), Cyberspace: First Steps. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
• Bourdieu, P. (1998). On television. New York: New Press.
  • Part Two: Invisible structures and their effects
• Boyer, M. C. (1996). CyberCities. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
• Castells, M. (2000). The rise of the network society (2nd ed.). Oxford ; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.
  • Chapter 1: The information technology revolution
  • Chapter 2: The new economy: Informationalism, globalization, networking
  • Chapter 5: The culture of real virtuality: the integration of electronic communication, the end of the mass audience and the rise of interactive networks
  • Chapter 6: The space of flows
• Castells, M. (2004). The network society : a cross-cultural perspective. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub.
  • Chapter 1: Informationalism, networks and the network society: a theoretical blueprint
• Castells, M. (2007). Mobile communication and society : a global perspective : a project of the Annenberg Research Network on international communication. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Chapter 4: The mobile youth culture
  • Chapter 7: The mobile civil society: Social movements, political power, and communication networks
• Dougherty, R. (1994). Natural language computing : an English generative grammar in Prolog. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Chapter 1.1: The information society
• Edwards, P. N. (1996). The closed world : computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Chapter 1: “We defend every place” : Building the cold war world
  • Chapter 6: The machine in the middle: Cybernetic psychology and World War II
  • Chapter 9: Computers and politics in Cold War II
  • Chapter 10: Minds, machines and subjectivity in the closed world
• Escobar, A. (1994). Welcome to cyberia : notes on the anthropology of cyberculture. Current Anthropology, 35(3), p211-231.
• Gibson, W. (2004). Neuromancer (20th anniversary ed.). New York: Ace Books.
• Graham, S. (2004). The cybercities reader. London ; New York: Routledge.
• Greenbaum, J. M. (2004). Windows on the workplace : technology, jobs, and the organization of office work (2nd ed.). New York: Monthly Review Press.
• Huws, U. (2003). The making of a cybertariat : virtual work in a real world. New York: Monthly Review Press.
  • Chapter 1: New technology and domestic labor
  • Chapter 3: Terminal isolation: the atomization of work and leisure in the wired society
  • Chapter 4: The global office: Information technology and the relocation of white collar work
• Indergaard, M. (2004). Silicon Alley : the rise and fall of a new media district. NY: Routledge
• Jacobs, J. (1961). The death and life of great American cities. [New York]: Random House.
• Lefebvre, H. (2004). Rhythmanalysis : space, time, and everyday life. London ; New York: Continuum.
• Lefebvre, H. (2003). The urban revolution. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Lynch, K. (1984). Good city form. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Mitchell, W. J. (1995). City of bits : space, place, and the infobahn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Mitchell, W. J. (1999). E-topia : “Urban life, Jim–but not as we know it”. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Chapter 3: Software: New genius of place
  • Chapter 4: Computers for living in
  • Chapter 8: The teleserviced city
• Tomas, D. (2001). Old rituals for new space: Rites de passage and William Gibson’s cultural model of cyberspace. In M. Benedikt (Ed.), Cyberspace: First Steps. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
• Wexelblat, A. (2001). Giving meaning to place: Semantic spaces. In M. Benedikt (Ed.), Cyberspace: First Steps. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

1.2. identity & the cybercity

• Castells, M. (1997). The power of identity. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
  • Chapter 1: Communal Heavens: Identity and meaning in the network society
  • Chapter 2: The other face of the earth: Social movements and the new global order
  • Chapter 3: The greening of the self: The environmental movement
  • Chapter 6: Informational politics and the crisis of democracy
• Haraway, D. J. (1991). Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature. New York: Routledge.
  • Part Three: Differential politics for inappropriate/d others
• Latour, B. (1993). We have never been modern. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
• Proshansky, H. M., Fabian, A.K., & Kaminoff, R. (1983). Place-Identity: Physical world socialization of the self. Journal of Environmental Psychology (3), 57-83
• Stone, A. R. (1995). The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Chapter 2: Risking themselves: Identity in Oshkosh
  • Chapter 3: In novel conditions: The cross-dressing psychiatrist
  • Chapter 4: Reinvention and encounter: A pause for theory
• Turkle, S. (1996). Constructions and reconstructions of the self in virtual reality. In T. Druckrey (Ed.), Electronic Culture: Technology and visual representation. New York: Aperture.

1.3. governance & the cybercity

• Banscomb, A. W. (1996). Common law for the electronic frontier. In T. Druckrey (Ed.), Electronic Culture: Technology and visual representation. New York: Aperture.
• Boyle, J. (1997). A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism For the Net? Duke Law Journal, 47(1), 87-116.
• Carr, S., Francis, M., Rivin, L. G., & Stone, A. M. (1992). Public space. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
  • Part 1: Public space and public life
  • Part 2: Human dimensions of public space
• Ehrenberg, J. (1999). Civil society : the critical history of an idea. New York: New York University Press.
  • Chapter 6: Civil society and intermediate organizations
  • Chapter 7: Civil society and communism
  • Chapter 8: Civil society and capitalism
  • Chapter 9: Civil society and democratic politics
• George, F. H. (1965). Cybernetics and biology. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman & Company.
• Hunter, D. (2003). Cyberspace as Place and the Tragedy of the Digital Anticommons. California Law Review, 91(2), 439-519.
• Kahin, B., Keller, J., & Harvard Information Infrastructure Project. (1995). Public access to the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Lemley, M. A. (2003). Place and Cyberspace. California Law Review, 91(2), 521-542.
• Lessig, L. (2002). The future of ideas : The fate of the commons in an connected world. New York: Vintage.
• Lessig, L. (2006). Code : version 2.0 ([2nd ed.). New York: Basic Books.
  • Chapter 1: Code is law
  • Part 2: Regulation by code
  • Chapter 11: Privacy
  • Chapter 12: Free speech
• Linder, A. H. & Rosenau, P. V. (2000). Mapping the terrain of the public-private policy partnership. In P. V. Rosenau (Ed.), Public-private policy partnerships. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
• Low, S. M. (2000). On the plaza : the politics of public space and culture (1st ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Chapter Seven: Constructing Difference: The Social and Spatial Boundaries of Everyday Life
  • Chapter Eight: Public Space and Protest: The Plaza as Art and Commodity
• Ludlow, P. (2001). Crypto anarchy, cyberstates, and pirate utopias. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Monahan, T. (2006). Questioning Surveillance and Security. In Monahan, T. (Ed), Surveillance and security : technological politics and power in everyday life. New York: Routledge.
• Rose, N. S. (1996). Inventing our selves : psychology, power, and personhood. Cambridge, England ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Chapter 5: Psychology as an individualizing technology
  • Chapter 6: Social psychology as a science of democracy
  • Chapter 7: Governing enterprising individuals
  • Chapter 8: Assembling ourselves
• Smith, N. & Low, S. (2006). The imperative of public space. In Low, S. & Smith, N. (Eds.), The politics of public space. New York: Routledge.
• Stiglitz, J. & Wallsten S. (2000). Public-Private technology partnerships: Promises and pitfalls. In P. V. Rosenau (Ed.), Public-private policy partnerships. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
• Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the commons : the evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

TOPIC 2: democracy & education in the cybercity

2.1. democracy & education

• Barber, B. R. (1992). An aristocracy of everyone : the politics of education and the future of America (1st ed.). New York: Ballantine Books.
  • Chapter 5: Conservative excesses and Allan Bloom
  • Chapter 7: Teaching democracy through community service
• Chomsky, N., & Otero, C. P. (2003). Chomsky on democracy & education. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Part II: Anthropology: the cultural environment
  • Section i: Educational institutions
• Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and education: an introduction to the philosophy of education. New York,: The Macmillan Company.
• Dewey, J. (1927). The public and its problems. New York,: H. Holt and Company.
• Marres, N. (2005). Issues spark a public into being. A key but often forgotten point of the Lippmann-Dewey debate. In Latour, B., & Weibel, P. (Eds.). Making things public :atmospheres of democracy. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press.
• Lippmann, W. (1925). The phantom public. New York,: Harcourt.
• Lippmann, W. (1946). Public opinion. New York,: Penguin books.
  • Part V: The making of a common will
  • Part VI: The image of democracy
  • Part VIII: Organized intelligence

2.2. citizen participation & the cybercity

• Arnstein, S. R. (1969). A Ladder of Citizen Prticipation. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35(4), 216-224.
• Berger, J. (1972). Selected essays and articles: the look of things. Harmondsworth,: Penguin.
  • The nature of mass demonstrations
• Brown, P. (1974). Toward a Marxist psychology. New York,: Harper & Row.
• Castells, M. (2007). Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society. International Journal of Communication [Online] 1(1).
• Goffman, E. (1980). Behavior in public places : notes on the social organization of gatherings. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• Institute for Applied Autonomy (2006). Defensive Surveillance: Lessons from the Republican National Convention. In Monahan, T. (Ed), Surveillance and security : technological politics and power in everyday life. New York: Routledge.
• Jenkins, H., Thorburn, D., & Seawell, B. (2003). Democracy and new media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Le Bon, G. (1910). The crowd, a study of the popular mind ([7th impression] ed.). London,: T. F. Unwin.
• Rheingold, H. (2002). Smart mobs : the next social revolution. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Pub.
• Ross, K. (1988). The emergence of social space : Rimbaud and the Paris Commune. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Sorkin, M. (1999). Traffic in democracy. in J. Copjec & M. Sorkin (Eds.), Giving ground : the politics of propinquity. New York: Verso.
• Tsagarousianou, R., Tambini, D., & Bryan, C. (1998). Cyberdemocracy : technology, cities, and civic networks. London ; New York: Routledge.

2.3. education, development & the cybercity

• Garoian, C.R. & Gaudelius, Y. M. (2001). Cyborg Pedagogy: Performing Resistance in the Digital Age. Studies in Art Education, 42(4), 333-47.
• Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and education. New York,: The Macmillan company.
• Gibson, E. J., & Pick, A. D. (2000). An ecological approach to perceptual learning and development. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Chapter 1: Historical perspectives and present-day confrontations
  • Chapter 2: An ecological approach to perceptual development
• Glick, J. (2004). The History of the Development of Higher Mental Functions. In R. W. Rieber & D. K. Robinson (Eds.), The Essential Vygotsky. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
• Goodson, I. (2002). Cyber spaces/social spaces : culture clash in computerized classrooms (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave.
  • Chapter 1: Cyber spaces/social spaces
  • Chapter 2: Culture clash in in computerized classrooms
  • Chapter 4: Machines and mindsets
• Katz, C. (2004). Growing up global : economic restructuring and children’s everyday lives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Chapter 6: Children’s work and play
  • Chapter 8: The strange familiar
• Monahan, T. (2006). The Surveillance Curriculum: Risk Management and Social Control in the Neoliberal School. In Monahan, T. (Ed), Surveillance and security : technological politics and power in everyday life. New York: Routledge.
• Monahan, T. (2005). Globalization, technological change, and public education. New York:Routledge.
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Politics of space
  • Chapter 2: Just another tool?
• Montgomery, K. C. (2007). Generation digital : politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Turkle, S. (2005). The second self : computers and the human spirit (20th anniversary ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Introduction to the MIT Press edition (2004)
  • Introduction (1984): The evocative object
  • Part I: Growing up with computers: The animation of the machine
• Vygotsky, L. S., Cole, M. John-Steiner, V., & Scribner, S. (1978). Mind in society : the development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.