 | Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything! by Paul Levinson
Buy new: $28.86 / Used from: $0.18 A clear, concise history of the 'cellphone' and it's development through a largely western perspective.
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 | Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone by Jon Agar
Buy new: $11.65 / Used from: $0.01 An comprehensive and accessible history of the mobile phone, linking developments in various countries to paint a global picture.
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 | M-Learning: Mobile E-Learning by David S. Metcalf
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $21.12 A clear outline of mobile learning potential in the world of work. Models of 'sales', 'services' and 'corporate mLearning ventures are reviewed. Not a theoretical text.
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 | Communication, Technology and Society by Dr Lelia R Green
Buy new: $140.00 / Used from: $125.00 A clear survey of the impact of ICT advances on society and human interaction/communication. Technoculture is a very postmodern, poststructural thing...
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 | Digital Literacy by Paul Gilster
Buy used from: $0.01 Origin text for concept of 'digital literacy' - an excellent review of critical literacy strategies for electronically-mediated information. Somewhat dated by now.
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 | Literacy in the New Media Age (Literacies) by Gunther Kress
Buy new: $29.65 / Used from: $26.36 Theoretical survey of literacy in age of electronically mediated communication. Language as social practice & multiliteracies form the basis for his argument.
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 | Consuming Children: Education-Entertainment-Advertising by Jane Kenway
Buy used from: $9.94 An in depth examination of consumer-media culture and it's increasing relationships with and within educational enviornments. Students depicted as victims, yet empowered ones.
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 | Communication and Cultural Literacy: An Introduction (Australian Cultural Studies) by Tony Schirato
Buy used from: $61.45 A clear and comprehensive overview of how communication is always contextual and culturally determined.
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 | The Seeds of Time by Fredric Jameson
Buy new: $24.30 / Used from: $8.79 Marxist critic describing late capitalism. His description of postmodernity through the lens of architecture is an effective and interesting theoretical ploy.
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 | Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning! by Marc Prensky
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.98 A clear and concise review of the educational potential of 'good' computer/video games for parents and educators. One chapter focuses on the issue of mobile technologies and gaming. Not theoretical.
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 | What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
Buy new: $5.96 / Used from: $1.29 An enthusiastic assessment of the educational potential of video games, even violent ones. Supported well in theory and the New Literacies Studies tradition.
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 | Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $0.01 An optimistic appraisal of the opportunities and possibilities opened up by technological advances.
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 | Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway by Clifford Stoll
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 A pessemistic look at the impact of technology (ICT) and human society.
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 | HyperReality: Paradigm for the Third Millennium by John Tiffin
Buy new: $36.03 / Used from: $24.95 A futuristic meditation on the future direction of our society, dominated by ICT. This is a world where real life and virtual reality blur and become indistinguishable from each other. Possibilities
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