Reading List

2005
06.19

Some books I found useful for my research in the areas of:
IT & WEB
GLOBALIZATION
INDIA/KERALA
TRANSLATION

ON IT & WEB 

Argyle, Katie and Rob Shields. “Is there a body in the Net?” Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. Ed. Rob Shields.
Baym, N. ” The Emergence of Community in Computer-Mediated Communication”, Jones S. (Ed.) Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community.
Bonner, William and Addison Wiggin. Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century. New Jersey: Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Brook, James and Ian Boal. Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. Ed. James San Francisco: City Lights, 1995.
Dechert, Charles. ed. The Social Impacts of Cybernetics. Ed. London: Simm & Schuster, 1967.
Codognet, Philippe. Ancient Images and New Technologies: The Semiotics of Web. Leonardo. 35.1 (2002): 41-49
Cohen, Tom. Along the Watchtower. Cultural Studies and the Ghost of Theory. MLN 112.3 (1997): 400-430
Balg, Ellen. Women’s Access to On-line Discussions about Feminism. Eserver.org.
Dietrich, Dawn. “Refashioning the Techno-Erotic Women: Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix” Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in the Cyber Society. Ed. Steven Jones. London: Routledge 1998. 169-184.
Gajjala, Radhika. An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist Cyberethnography: Complicity and Resistance in the Cyberfield. Feminist Media Studies 2.2 (2000) Cyberdiva.org
Gauntlett, David and Ross Horsley (ed.) Web.Studies. Oxford: OUP, 2004
Glodhaber, Michael. “The Attention Economy and the Net.” First Monday 2.4 (1997
Golding, Peter. World Wide Wedge: Division and Contradiction in the Global Information Infrastructure Media Studies: A Reader. Ed. Paul Marris and Sue Thornham. Washington Square: New York UP: 2000.
Gurumurthy, Anita. Unpacking the Knowledge Economy Whither Knowledge Society? 5 Feb 2004. Nettime.org
Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York; Routledge, 1991 149-181.
Hawthorne, Susan. Wild Bodies/Techno Bodies. Women’s Studies Quarterly. XXIX.3&4 (2001): 54-70.
Healp, Nick. et al. (ed). Information Technology and Society: A reader. New Delhi: Sage, 1996.
Iuppa, Nicholas. Interactive Design for New Media and the Web. Boson: Focal Press, 2001.
Kendrick, Michelle “Interactive Technology and the Remediation of the Subject of Writing” Configurations 9. 2 (2001): 231-251
Kollock, Peter and Marc Smith (ed). Communities in Cyberspace. Marc Smith and Peter Kollock London: Routledge, 1999.
Landow, George P. Hypertext: The convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1992.
Leiner, Barry. “The Past and Future History of the Internet.” Communications of the ACM 40.2 (1997): 102 108.  ACM Digital Library.
Liebowitz, S J. Re-Thinking the Network Economy: The True Forces That Drive the Digital Marketplace. New York: Amacom, 2002. 
Lyon, David. The Roots of Information Technology Information Technology and Society: A Reader. Ed. Nick Healp et al. New Delhi: Sage, 1996. 54-72.
Mihalache, Adrian The Cyber Space-Time Continuum: Meaning And Metaphor The Information Society 18.4 (2002): 293-301 
Miller, Hugh. “The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life: Goffman on the Internet.” Psycopaedia. Jun 1995.
- – - . The Hypertext home: Images and Metaphors of Home on World Wide Web Home Pages. Nottingham Trent University Sep 1999.
Miller, Lara. Women and Children First” Gender and the setting of Electronic Frontier Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. Ed. James Brook and Ian Boal City Lights: San Francisco, 1995. 49-58.
Mitra, Ananda. Marginal voices in Cyberspace. New Media & Society 13.1 (2001): 29.48.
- – - . Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet. Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. Ed. Steven Jones London: Sage, 1997. 55-79.
Nakamura, Lisa. After/Images of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics. 2-4 Oct 1998. .
O’Baoill, Andrew. “Slashdot and the Public Sphere.” First Monday 5.9 (2000).
Odin, Jaishree K. The Edge of Difference: Negotiations between the Hypertextual and the Postcolonial. Modern Fiction Studies: 43.3 (1997): 598-630.
Oguibe, Olu. Forsaken Geographies: Cyberspace and the New World ‘Other’. June 1996. Eserver.org
Page, Barbara. Women writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext. Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 6.2 (1996).
Plant,Sadie. On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations. Cultures of the Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies, Ed. Rob Shields. Sage: London, 1996. 170-183.
Poster,Mark. “CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere”.1995. University of California.
Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. London: MIT Press, 2000.
Robertson, Douglas. The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next level of Civilization New York: OUP, 1998.
Sampio, Ann and Janni Aragon. Filtering Feminisms: Cybersex, E-commerce and the Construction of ‘ bodies in Cyberspace. Women’s Studies Quarterly. XXIX. 3&4 (2001): 126-147.
Sardar, Ziauddin. “alt.avili2ations.faq: Cyberspace as the Darker Side of the West”. Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics of Information New Delhi: Sage, 2000. 14-41.
Shields, Rob. ed. Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. London: Sage, 1996. 58-69.
Singal, Arvind and Everett M Rogers. India’s Communication Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cyber Marts. New Delhi: Sage, 2001.
Smith, Douglas and Richard Jensen. World War Second on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Websites. Washington: S R Books, 2003. 

ON GLOBALIZATION:  
Clarke, David B. The Consumer Society and the Postmodern Society. London: Routledge, 2003.
Dasgupta, Sathi. On the Trail of an Uncertain Dream: Indian Immigrants in the US. New York: AMS Press, 1989.
Eade, John.ed. Living the Global City: Globalisation as a Local Process. London: Routledge, 1997.
Eisenstein, Zilla. Writing Bodies on the Nation for the Globe. Women States and Nationalism: At home in the Nation? Ed. Sita Ranchod-Nilsson and Mary Ann Tetreault. London: Routledge, 2000. 35-53.
- – - . Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism and the Lure of Cyber Fantasy. New York: New York UP, 1998.
Featherstone, Michael. Undoing Culture: Globalisation, Postmodernism and Identity. London: Sage, 1995.
Featherstone, Mike, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson. (Ed.) Global Modernities. London: Sage, 1995. 
Fisher, Maxine. The Indians in New York City: A Study of Immigrants from India. New York: Heritage, 1980.
Inda, Jonathan and Renato Rosaldo. ed. The Anthropology of Globalisation: A Reader. Malden: Blackwell, 2002.
Jain, Ravindra. Indian Communities Abroad: Themes and Literature. New Delhi: Manohar, 1993.
King, Anthony (ed.). Culture, Globalisation and the World System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1993.
Nick, Perry. Hyper Reality and Global Culture. London: Routledge, 1998.
Nigam, Aditya. “Imagining the Global Nation: Time and Hegemony”. Economic and Political Weekly. 39. 1 (2004): 72-79.
Ritzer, George. Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Fast food, Credit Cards and Casinos. London: Sage, 2001.
Robertson, Roland. Globalisation: Social Theory and Global Culture London: Sage, 1996. 
Sheffer, Gabriel. ed. Modern Diasporas in International Politics. New York: St. Martin Press, 1986.
Shurmer-Smith, Pamela. India: Globalisation and Change. London: Arnold, 2000. 

I draw my translation theories from many disciplines:
Bassnett, Susan & Andre Lefevere. Translation, History and Culture.
Das, Bijay Kumar. The Horizon of Translation Studies. New Delhi: Atlantic, 1998.
Dingwaney, Anuradha. Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-cultural Texts. Ed. Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier. Bombay: Oxford UP, 1996.
Asad, Talal. “The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology”. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Ed. James Clifford and George Marcus.
Hastrup, Kirsten. A Passage to Anthropology: Between Experience and Theory. London: Routledge, 1999.
Jakobson, Roman. On Linguistic Aspects of Translation. On Translation. Ed. Reuben Brower. Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1959. 232-33.
Koskinen, Kaisa. Beyond Ambivalence: Postmodernity and the Ethics of Translation. Diss. University of Tampere, Tampere, 2000.

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