I. Life in the Wires: By Arthur Kooker
This book is all about the future of technoculture and the impact of the internet on media, technology, culture, politics etc. It explores how to understand new media to analyze urban spaces, gender and politics. There are many articles here. However, I would like to suggest a few from here since the entire book is not relevant to the requirements mentioned in the question.
II. Screens in the Wire by Arthur and Marilouis Krooker
This article talks about the culture of the screen like Cinema, Television, Surveillance screen and how they act as truth seeing in the psychological territory of our imagination. This article will give insight into how we are living a life of continuously altered reality.
III. Metal Gender – by Steve Dixon
In this article, the author says that AI metal has its own gender. It would be interesting to know how gender operates by virtue of symbolic inscriptions, language that AI metal imbricate in the cyborg body. In general gender theory, it is determined by notion of body, social action and sexual practices. However, cyborg challenges this theory.
IV. Memes in Digital Culture by Limon Shifman
Memes have become an important medium in social media these days. Parodies, imitations and deviation from the real digital content are spreading quickly. The author says that memes are a new mode of political participation. Since we come across many such things in our daily news feed, I think this book would be interesting to add in our curriculum.
V. Digital Culture – Glen Creeber and Katherine Martin
This book explores new media’s important issues and debate that are very helpful to the newcomers to these fields. If talks about TV, Cinema, Digital Democracy, phone, www, news, social networking and everything that is a part of digital culture. So, in my opinion, this book deserves to be on the list.
VI. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture – Martin Lister
This book talks about how our perception has grown out of thinking to visual interpretation over the introduction of technology. As technology evolves, it is enhancing the visual culture. We see news, watch videos for entertainment, advertisements… everything around us is full of pictures. This book will engage us with the technological transformation of image and it’s the implication for photography.
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