Elephant Seals: Ethnography of the Internet Books & Webnographers.org

Here's a recent list of books concerning internet ethnography on Webnographers.org. These books offer fascinating research into, and context for, some of the changes brought about by the information technology revolution. (For the record, I posted the majority of these books and categories to the nascent Webnographer.org's wiki books' page - [editable web pages]). Like other wikis, we can all edit and add content here, too.



Webnographers: Resources for Virtual Ethnography

== Cultural Geography ==

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 2006. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 1994. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

== Cultural History ==

Turner, Fred. 2006. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

== Digital Divide and Internet Ethnography ==


== Ethnography ==

Cerwonka, Allaine and Liisa Malkki. 2007. Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Clifford, James and George E. Marcus (eds.). 1986. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

== Ethnographies Relating to the Internet ==


== Free Software Culture ==

Kelty, Christopher M. 2008. [http://twobits.net/ Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software]. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

== Future of the Internet ==

Zittrain, Jonathan. 2008. [http://futureoftheinternet.org/download The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It]. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

== Hacker Culture ==

Himanen. Pekka. 2001. The Hacker Ethic and Spirit of the Information Age. (Prologue by Linus Torvalds; Epilogue by Manuel Castells). New York: Random House.

== Information Technology and Nonmarket Information Production ==

Benkler, Yochai. 2007. [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom]. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

== Linguistics and Virtual Ethnography ==

== Media Studies ==

Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke. 2005 (2002). [http://www.amazon.com/Social-History-Media-Gutenberg-Internet/dp/0745635121/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233819688&sr=1-1 A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet, 2nd ed]. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Gitlin, Todd. 2003 (1980). [http://www.amazon.com/Whole-World-Watching-Unmaking-Preface/dp/0520239326/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233819735&sr=1-3 The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Left, 2nd ed]. Berkeley: University of California Press.

[[henry jenkins | Jenkins, Henry]]. 2008. [http://www.amazon.com/Convergence-Culture-Collide-Revised-Afterword/dp/0814742955/ref=pd_sim_b_4 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide]. New York: NYU Press.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2006. Code 2.0. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2005. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. New York, NY: Penguin.

Lessig. Lawrence. 2008. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press HC.

Levinson, Paul. 1999. [http://www.amazon.com/Digital-McLuhan-Guide-Information-Millennium/dp/0415249910/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233819782&sr=1-1 Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium]. New York: Routledge.

Levinson, Paul. 1998. [http://www.amazon.com/Soft-Edge-Natural-Information-Revolution/dp/0415197724/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233819841&sr=1-2 The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution]. New York: Routledge.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1962. [http://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Galaxy-Making-Typographic-Man/dp/0802060412/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233819961&sr=1-14 The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man]. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1964. [http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Media-Extensions-Marshall-McLuhan/dp/0262631598/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233819880&sr=1-1 Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man]. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Meyrowitz, Joshua. 1985. [http://www.amazon.com/No-Sense-Place-Electronic-Behavior/dp/019504231X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233820002&sr=1-1 No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior]. New York: Oxford University Press.

Spigel, Lynn. 1992. [http://www.amazon.com/Make-Room-TV-Television-Postwar/dp/0226769674/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233820033&sr=1-1 Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Thompson, John. 1995. [http://www.amazon.com/Media-Modernity-Social-Theory/dp/0804726795/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233820075&sr=1-1 Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media]. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

== Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications ==

Packer, Randall and Jordan, Ken (eds.). 2001. Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York: W.W. Norton.

== Network Society ==

Castells, Manuel. 2003. The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Castells, Manuel. 2000. The Rise of the Network Society. (Vol. 1 - 2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.

Castells, Manuel. 2004. The Power of Identity. (Vol. 2 - 2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.

Castells, Manuel. 2000. The End of Millenium. (Vol. 3 - 2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.

Stalder, Felix. 2006. Manuel Castells: The Theory of the Network Society. Cambridge: Polity.

== Open Source Information Technology==

Raymond, Eric. S. 2000. [http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary]. (First presented at the Linux Kongress in 1997). O'Reilly Media.

== Programming Languages and Ethnography ==

== Social Change and Virtual Ethnography ==

Dutton, William H. 1999. Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

== Social Implications of Information Technology ==

Shirky, Clay. [http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/1594201536/ref=pd_sim_b_2 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations]. Penguin Press, 2008.

== Social Networking ==

Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, [[danah boyd]], Rachel Cody, Becky Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp. 2008. [http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media]. E-Book. Researchers at the University of Southern California and UC Berkeley have been conducting ethnographic research on kids' informal learning with digital media since 2005. This is what they found.

Ryan Jenny. 2008. [http://www.thevirtualcampfire.org The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social Networking]. E-Book. Anthropologist [[Jenny Ryan]] explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between human and machine, public and private, voyeurism and exhibitionism, the history of media and our digitized future. Woven throughout are the stories and experiences of those who engage with these sites regularly and ritualistically, the generation of "digital natives" whose tales attest to the often strange and uncomfortable ways online social networking sites have come to be embedded in the everyday lives of American youth.

== TCP/IP and Ethnography ==


== The 'Virtual' vis-à-vis Internet Ethnography ==


== Virtual Archives and Ethnography ==

Fabian, Johannes. 2008. Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

== Virtual Communities ==

Rheingold, Howard. 1993. [http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/ The Virtual Community]. Written at the dawn of the cyberculture, The Virtual Community explores the heart of the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (more commonly known as the WELL}. Part ethnography, part history, part journalism and part philosophy, [[Howard Rheingold]]'s engaging seminal work is a must-read for those interested in online communities.

== Virtual Ethnography ==

Boellstorf, Tom. 2008. [http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Age-Second-Life-Anthropologist/dp/0691135282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233822027&sr=1-1 Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human]. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

[[ christine hine | Hine, Christine]]. 2005. [http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Methods-Christine-Hine/dp/1845200853/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233820859&sr=1-2 Virtual Methods]. Oxford: Berg Publishers.

Hine. Christine. 2000. [http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Ethnography-Christine-M-Hine/dp/0761958959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233820859&sr=1-1 Virtual Ethnography]. London: Sage Publications.

Miller, Daniel and Don Slater. 2000. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford: Berg.

== Virtual Ethnography and Globalization, Governmentality and Neo-Liberalism ==


== Virtual Ethnography of the Law ==

[http://creativecommons.org/about/history/ History of Creative Commons' Law]

== Virtual Worlds ==

Malaby, Thomas M. 2009. Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Pearce, Celia. 2009. Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

== Webnographies ==

http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books


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Elephant seals on the beach: http://www.pointreyesweekend.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/elephant_seals.jpg

Could this photo and 'lifestyle' be a 'metaphor' for Harbin? :) These elephant seals are nude, obviously.


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I think my Harbin ethnography, tentatively entitled something like "Harbin Hot Springs: An Ethnography of Hippies, Healing, Counterculture, and Clothing-Optional Virtual Harbin," will be a part of these.