Readings
Bell, D. (1973). Post-Industrial Society. Chapter from The coming of the Post-Industrial Society. Reprinted in F. Webster (Ed.) The Information Society reader (pp. 86-102). London: Routledge.
Boczowski, P. & Lievrouw, L.A. (2008). Bridging STS and Communication Studies: Scholarship on media and information technologies. In The handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 3rd ed. (pp.949-977). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Castells, M. (2000). Materials for an exploratory theory of the Network Society. British Journal of Sociology, 51(1), 5-24.
Castells, M. (2009). Communication power. New York: Oxford University Press.
Craig, R.T. (1999). Communication theory as a field. Communication Theory, 9(2), 119-161.
Giddens, A. (1990). The consequences of modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Haythornthwaite, C. (2009). Crowds and communities: Light and heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1-10.
Humphreys, L., Gill, P., & Krishnamurthy, B. (2013). Historicizing new media: A content analysis of Twitter. Journal of Communication, 63, 413-431.
Jensen, T. (2012). Intervention by invitation: New concerns and new versions of the user in STS. Science Studies 25(1), 13-36.
Joerges, B. (1999) Do politics have artefacts? Social Studies of Science, 29(3), 411-31.
Kling, R. (2007). What is Social Informatics and why does it matter? The Information Society, 23, 205-220.
Krippendorff, K. (1993). The past of communication’s hoped-for future. Journal of Communication, 43(3), 34-44.
Lamb, R., & Kling, R. (2003). Reconceptualizing users as social actors in information systems. MIS Quarterly, 27(2), 197-235.
Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. On the difficulty of being an ANT: An interlude in the form of a dialogue (pp. 157-174). New York: Oxford University Press.
Littlejohn, S.W., & Foss, K.A. (2005). Theories of human communication (8th ed.) Communication theory and scholarship (pp. 2-15) and The idea of theory (pp. 16-31). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Masuda, Y. (1990). Managing in the information society: Releasing synergy Japanese style. Image of the future Information Society (pp. 3-10). Oxford: Blackwell.
Meyers, D. (2001). A pox on all compromises: Reply to Craig (1999). Communication Theory, 11(2), 218-230.
Monge, P.R., & Contractor, N.S. (2003). Theories of communication networks. Communication and knowledge networks as complex systems (pp. 79-98). New York: Oxford University Press.
Nardi, B. (1998). Concepts of cognition and consciousness: Four voices. Journal of Computer Documentation, 22(1), 31-48.
Pinch, T.J., & Bijker, W.E. (1987). The social construction of facts and artifacts: Or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other. In W.E. Bijker, T.P. Hughes & T.J. Pinch (Eds.), The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology (pp. 17-49). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Rantanen, T. (2005). Giddens and the ‘G’-word: An interview with Anthony Giddens. Global Media and Communication 1(1), 63-77.
Rogers, E. (1992). On early mass communication study. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 36(4), 467-472.
Rogers, E. (2003). Handout from Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.) New York: Free Press.
Ruggiero, T. (2000). Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21st Century. Mass Communication & Society, 3(1), 3-37.
Shoemaker, P.J., Tankard, J.W., & Lasorsa, D.L. (2004). How to build social science theories. Using and evaluating theory (pp. 167-181). London: Sage.
Suchman, L. (1994). Do categories have politics? The language-action perspective reconsidered. Computer supported Cooperative Work, 2, 177-190.
Urry, J. (2006). Complexity. Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2-3), 111-117.
Winner, L. (2000). Do artifacts have politics? In A.H. Teich (Ed.), Technology and the future, (pp.150-167).