Books and recommended reading
This is by no means an exhaustive bibliography, nor a bibliography for my thesis. If you’re interested in some of the topics I write about on this blog, it’s just a list of books you might like that I have found useful, inspiring, and sometimes polemic over the last few years. The ones in bold are my favourites.
Arvidsson, A. (2005) Brands. A Critical Perspective. Journal of Consumer Culture Vol5 (2) pp235 -257. Sage.
Arvidsson, A. (2006) Brands. Meanings & value in media culture. Routledge. London & New York.
Barthes, R (1957). Mythologies. (19th edition /2000) Vintage UK.
Bourdieu, P (1986) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste Routledge.
Castells, M (1996) The Rise of The Network Society. Blackwells
Chandler, D (1994) Semiotics for Beginners. Online UK
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
Chouliaraki, Lilie & Fairclough N. (1999) Discourse in Late Modernity. Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis. Edinburgh University Press
Compaine, B (2001) Re-Examining the Digital Divide. MIT Press [online]
Giddens, A (1991) Modernity and self identity: Self and Society in the late modern age. Cambridge Polity.
Hall, S & Held, D & McGrew (eds) (1992) Modernity & Its Futures: Understanding Modernity. Societies an Introduction Book 4. Polity Press in association with The Open University.
Hall, S (1997) Representation. Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Sage in association with The Open University Press.
Howells, R (2003) Visual Culture Blackwells US. Especially chapters 4 Ideology & 5 Semiotics.
Heath, J (2001) The Structure of Hip Consumerism. Philosophy & Social Criticism Vol27 no 6 pp1-17 Sage London UK.
Heath, J & Potter A. (2005) The Rebel Sell. How Counterculture became consumer Culture. Capstone
Hebdige, D (1979) Subculture the meaning of Style. (1st edition 2003 reprint) Routledge London & New York.
Kress, G & Van Leeuwen, T (2001) Multi-modal discourse analysis. Hodder Arnold
Kubicek, H et al (1997) The Social Shaping of Super Highways: European and American roads to the Information Society. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag St Martins Press. Chapter 1
Leadbeater, C & Oakley (1999) The Independents: Britain’s cultural entrepreneurs. Demos, ICA UK.
Leadbeater, C (2006) We- Think. The Power of Mass Creativity. Profile UK. Online
http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx
Lee, Martyn, J.(2000) The Consumer Society Reader Blackwell
Locke, C (1999) The Cluetrain Manifesto. Online
http://www.cluetrain.com/book/introduction.html [last accessed 21.03.08]
Lury, C (1996) Consumer Culture Blackwell
Lury, C. (2004) Brands: The logos of The Global Economy. Routledge
Lyon, D. (1988) The Information Society. Polity Press.
Maffesoli Michel (1996) Translated by Don Smith, The Time of Tribes. The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society Theory Culture & Society series, Sage
Marx, K (1867) Capital Vol. The process of production of Capital. London Lawrence and Wishart. Reprinted 1954
Rainbow, P (1991) The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault’s Thought. 14th edition Penguin.
Reich, R, B. (1991) The Work of Nations. Simon & Schuster
Toffler, A (1980) The Third Wave. Pan books in association with Collins.
Turow, J (1997) Breaking Up America University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Webster, F & Robins K. (1998) The Iron Cage of The Information Society. In Information Communication & Society.Vol 1 Spring Routledge
Webster, F. (2004) Theories of The Information Society.2nd Edition. Routledge
Webster, F (2005) Making Sense of The Information Age: Sociology and Cultural Studies. Information Communication & Society. Vol 8 (4) Routledge p439-458