possible worlds

Most of the readings for the PW course are in the “Possible Worlds” reader which is available in the RMIT bookshop.

Occasionally, you will be required to check out some online resources. The internet is also an excellent source of reference material for this course, so keep checking the “favorite Websites” section of this blog for updates.

I will list a few texts that you may find interesting, but these are not compulsory readings, they are simply additional resources for PW students.

Bertschi, S; and Locke, C. (EDs) (2005)Transaction Publishers, London, U.K. Hoflich, J,R. A Certain Sense of Place: Mobile Communication and Local Orientation, viewed May 26 2006, <http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu/Passageneng14_Hoeflich.pdf>

Levinson, P. (2004) Cellphone: The Story of the World’s Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything!, Palgrave MacMillan, England.

Lunenfeld, P. (ed) (1999): The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass)

Mc Guigan J. (2005) Towards a Sociaology of the Mobile Phone, viewed August 4 2005, <http://socio.ch/mobile/index_mobile.htm>.

Myerson, G. (2001) Heideger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone, Icon Books Ltd, Cambridge, U.K. Pertierra, P. (2005) Mobile Phones, Identity and Discursive Intimacy, viewed May 29 2006, <http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/archives/abstracts/pertierra05.html>

Plant, S. (2002) On the mobile, the effects of mobile telephones on social and individual life, viewed July 15 2005, <http://www.motorola.com/mot/doc/0/234_MotDoc.pdf>. Richardson, I. Mobile Technosoma: some phenomenological reflections on itinerant media devices, viewed June 16 2006, http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue6/issue6_richardson.ht ml

Vincent, J. (2005) Emotional attachment and mobile phones. Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones in Society, Glotz, P; Bertschi, S; and Locke, C. (EDs) (2005)Transaction Publishers, London, U.K.

Wilken, R. From Stabilitas Loci to Mobilitas Loci: Networked Mobility and the Transformation of Place, viewed June 16 2006, <http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue6/issue6_wilken.html >