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Two books for the history of internet
One is a “proper” one with a very nice language: A History of the Internet and the Digital Future by Johnny Ryan. Especially the early histories parts are informative and fun to read. Not that later...
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Suggested reading: Cihan Tuğal’s Passive Revolution
I have recently finished reading Cihan Tugal’s Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism. I have met Cihan when he was doing his fieldwork for the research for this book when I...
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Mette Hjort, Scott MacKenzie’s edited volume: “Cinema and Nation”
One of the free readings books I am on. I am not working on these issues right now but i like to read about them. So this fits just fine. I am in the middle of it, but i enjoyed reading the first...
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Mark Hansen’s “New philosophy for new media”
Mark Hansen’s New philosophy for new media is one of the enlightening books I have recently read on new media. I am not too knowledgeable on digital art and thus I have had difficulties to grasp all...
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Erkan’ın da katkısının bulunduğu taptaze: “Katılımın E-hali:Gençliğin Sanal...
Valla ne yazdığımı bile unuttum, kitabın çıkması biraz zaman aldı ama sonunda elimizde… Dostum Aslı Telli Aydemir’in eline aklına sağlık, o olmasa ne benim yazım girerdi bu derlemeye ne de kitap...
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More new novels from Erkan’s favorite authors…
view book The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates Release Date: November 1 “The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow,...
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Once upon a time, here are some technological expectations in early 1990s…
From The New Media Theory Reader, 39-40 A basic development in the very near future is the merger of computers and telecommunications (Bradley et al., 1993; Scientific American Special Issue, 1991),...
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Mini review: “You Talkin’ To Me?
You Talkin’ To Me? by Sam Leith My rating: 4 of 5 stars Easy read. Refreshes the very basics of rhetoric. It is a good idea to provide portrayals of rhetorical figures from the classics and moderns. In...
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Mini review: Anthropology Beyond Culture (Wenner Gren International Symposium...
Anthropology Beyond Culture by Barbara J. King My rating: 2 of 5 stars I have encountered the culture debate through the Writing Culture tradition. Later I was excitedly reading Ferguson/Gupta pieces...
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Brief note on New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader by Wendy Hui...
New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is probably one of the best/most substantive readers in new media. It provides a historically...
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