Readings & Viewings

Many of the readings for this course are available on the web to anyone for free. Some readings are available online through the City Tech Library’s resources and you will need to authenticate with the library barcode number from your City Tech ID to access them from off campus.

 

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th Ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
(in the library at the Reference Desk and on Reserve: call number BF76.7 .P83 2010)

American Psychological Association. (2007). APA style guide to electronic references. Washington, DC.
(in the library at the Reference Desk and on Reserve: call number PN171 .A63 2007)

Badke, W. B. (2008). Research strategies: Finding your way through the information fog. New York: iUniverse.
(in the library on Reserve: call number Z710 .B23 2008)

Baker, N. (2008, March 20). The charms of Wikipedia. New York Review of Books 55(4). http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131

Bee, R. (2008). The importance of preserving paper-based objects in a digital world. Library Quarterly, 78, 179-194.

Berners-Lee, T. (2010, December). Long live the Web: A call for continued open standards and neutrality. Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web

 

boyd, d . (2008). Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 14(1), 13 -20.

 

Center for Social Media. (2008). The code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education. http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education

Common Craft. (2007). Blogs in plain English. http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs

Common Craft. (2008). Social media in plain English. http://www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia

Common Craft. (2007). Wikis in plain English. http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

Common Craft. (2008). Web search strategies in plain English. http://www.commoncraft.com/search

Cornell University Library. (2009). Critically analyzing information sources. http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm

Dye, J. (2006). Folksonomy: A game of high-tech (and high-stakes) tag. EContent, 29(3), 38-43.

Edge, I.E. (2006). Write it down! The importance of documentation. Tech Directions, 66(3), 16-18.

Eland, T. (2004). Critical thinking, deviant knowledge and the alternative press. Minnesota Association for Continuing Adult Education Update Newsletter, December, 4-6.
(available at http://www.minneapolis.edu/library/courses/infs1000/files/Readings/Critical%20Thinking%20Deviant%20Knowledge.pdf)

Elton, S. (2009, August 29). Love for labels. Billboard, 121(34), 4.

Faden, E. (2007). A fair(y) use tale. http://dotsub.com/view/4918f3c8-8f04-4aa1-b300-39048dca6822

Fister, B. (2003). The devil in the details: Media representation of ritual abuse and evaluation of sources. SIMILE: Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education, 3(2), 1-14.

Gibaldi, J. (2009). MLA handbook for writers of research papers. New York: Modern Language Association of America. (in the library on Reserve and in Reference : call number LB2369 .G53 2009)

Grey, C.G.P (2011). Copyright: Forever less one day. http://blog.cgpgrey.com/copyright-forever-less-one-day/

Grimmelman, J. (2008/2009). The Google dilemma. New York Law School Law Review, 53, 939-950. http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=james_grimmelmann

Harrington, M. and C. Meade. (2008). read:write: Digital possibilities for literature. Institute for the Future of the Book. http://www.futureofthebook.org.uk/ifbook%20ACE%20report_final.pdf

Harrod, H. (2009, March 28). It’s the playground of narcissistic teenagers and amateur photographers, but 3 billion images (and counting) on flickr could be the greatest social document of the century. The Sunday Telegraph, pp.22.

Hauptman, R. (2008). Documentation. A history and critique of attribution, commentary, glosses, marginalia, notes, bibliographies, works-cited lists, and citation indexing and analysis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
(in the library on Reserve: call number PN171 .F56 H38 2008)

Howard, J. (2010, October 10). Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Hot-Type-A-Modern-Scholars/124870/

Isserman, M. (2003, May 2). Plagiarism: a lie of the mind. Chronicle of Higher Education, 49(34), B12. http://chronicle.com/article/Plagiarism-a-Lie-of-the-Mind/23609/

Leibman, A. (2010). How search engines work: the mechanics behind the results. Smart Computing, 21(6), 50-51. http://bit.ly/oSkljD

Lessig, L. (2007). Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity.
http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

Levi, Y. (2008). Digital preservation: An ever-growing challenge. Information Today, 25(8), 22.

Levinson, C. (2006). Anthropology, taxonomies, and publishing. Online, 30(4), 28-30.

Library of Congress. (n.d.). Library of Congress Classification Outline. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

Liddy, E. (2001). How a search engine works. Searcher, 9(5), 39-45.

Malitz, D. (2007, October 11). Radiohead’s ‘Rainbows’: Is free release a potential pot of gold? The Washington Post, C01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101002442.html

Marshall, P. (2009, November 6). Online privacy. CQ Researcher, 19, 933-956. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

Martin, B. (1998). The politics of research. In Information liberation: Challenging the corruptions of information power. London: Freedom Press
(available at: http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/98il/il07.pdf)

Pavlik, J. V. (2008). Media in the digital age. New York: Columbia University Press.
(in the library on Reserve: call number HM851 .P38 2008)

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) (2010). APA Style. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) (2010). MLA Style. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Robinson, C. (2009). Documentation dilemmas. Journal for Quality & Participation, 31(4), 35-37.

Sloan, R. (2004). EPIC 2015 – Museum of Media History. http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/

UC Berkeley – Teaching Library Internet Workshops. (2010). Evaluating web pages: Techniques to apply and questions to ask. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Web 2.0. (2011, August 22). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0

Wright, F. (1997). The history and characteristics of zines, Part I. http://www.zinebook.com/resource/wright1.html

Zine World. (2007). Zines 101—A quick guide to zines. http://www.undergroundpress.org/pdf/Zines101.pdf

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