Digital Media and Society

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Those of us studying digital media are lucky enough to find a wealth of resources freely available online. We’ve tried to provide a path in to some of this literature here, but the list is by no means complete. The page will be updated periodically. Please feel free to email suggestions for additions to digitalmedia@polity.co.uk. For the most up-to-date selection of links, you can also check out our resources page on del.icio.us: http://delicious.com/digitalmediaandsociety/resources 

Journals

Online Journals

• First Monday: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/
• International Journal of Communication: http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc

Print journals

• New Media and Society http://nms.sagepub.com/
• Convergence http://convergence.beds.ac.uk/

Social Media

• Danah Boyd maintains a great list of research on social network sites with many hyperlinks to the articles in question:
  http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html
• Her article co-authored with Nicole Ellison is a great starting point for an overview of social networking and is available online from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
• Tim O’Reilly: What is Web 2.0? http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
• Clay Shirky’s webpage with links to many articles: http://www.shirky.com/

Youth / Education / Literacy

• The MIT Press publish The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. All texts are available open access here: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/site/c.enJLKQNlFiG/b.2029271/k.98D4/MacArthur_Series.htm

Other online books:

• Gillmor, We the Media http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007331/book/index.csp
• Lessig, Code http://codev2.cc/

Other print resources: