School doesn’t crank back up until the 17th, but since I just got finished ordering my texts now seems like a good time for the traditional list:

Alphabet to Internet: History of Writing Technologies
Does Technology Drive History? (Smith)
The Gutenberg Elegies (Birkerts)
Imagined Communities, Revised (Anderson)
Orality and Literacy, 2nd Ed. (Ong)
So Many Books (Zaid)
Writing Material (Tribble)

Research and Theory in Internet Studies
Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace (Gurak)
The Wired Neighborhood (Doheny-Farina)
Life On the Screen: Identity In the Age of the Internet (Turkle)
The Future of Ideas (Lessig)
Cyberliteracy (Gurak)
Culture of the Internet (Kiesler)
Communities in Cyberspace (Smith and Kollock)

Some are new to me, and some I read awhile back on my own. It’ll be fun to come back to those and read them in the context of a course.