By Mindy McAdams
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I’m on the lookout for a good book that covers the whole spectrum of peer-production and read/write culture (not only journalism).
I want something in addition to, and not redundant of, We the Media (Dan Gillmor) and The Anarchist in the Library (Siva Vaidhyanathan). I will assign both of those again; they are essential reading, in [...]
I’d love to get some feedback about this list at Amazon: 10 books, all of which I recommend highly. What would you add to the list? Would you remove any of the books? I would be very happy to receive suggestions.
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From the New York Times obit for this most readable communication theorist:
Dr. Carey shunned the increasingly abstruse, highly mathematical theoretical work at the frontiers of his field, preferring instead to focus on underlying values. He drew from anthropology and sociology, James Joyce and Boston Red Sox lore, to explore the cultural dimensions of [...]
Kevin Kelly has a comprehensive piece in The New York Times Magazine today about a variety of large-scale projects to scan and make available online as many printed books as possible. Most people have probably heard about Google’s book project, but that’s not the only one.
Of course this raises questions about copyright — and those [...]
Edward Tufte has a new book. Oh my! One chapter is titled “Links and Causal Arrows: Ambiguity in Action,” and another is “Words, Numbers, Images — Together.”
I remember the day I found Tufte’s Envisioning Information in the Mid-Manhattan Library. I think it was in 1991, and I was trying to figure out how to write [...]
Today I braved my university’s clumsy and tedious system for entering textbook adoptions and put in the books I will require for fall semester 2006 courses.
The undergraduate course is the easy one to choose for. This is a class called “Reporting and Writing for Online Media.” I have decided that the best textbook this year [...]
Talk about a cool interface! This would work for certain online journalism stories, I’m quite sure. It is sooo easy to use!
This example comes from the great Web site of the great Scott McCloud, author of both Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. I learned a LOT about storytelling from Understanding Comics back in 1993. At [...]
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