Reading List
Reading List
Want to learn more? This list of books, blogs, and websites will enlighten you, and give you even more insight into the digital media revolution. We will update it regularly. Use our Feedback page to send in suggestions.
- BuzzMachine
Media veteran Jeff Jarvis, who most recently worked for Advance.net, looks at new media issues in the context of current events. - PaidContent
Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer have blanket coverage of all the business wheeling and dealing in the digital media world. A groundbreaking business blog. - PressThink
Jay Rosen’s extensive look at how old-school journalism and its institutions are dealing with new media matters. A must-read blog for deep media thinkers. - Global Voices
Harvard’s Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon run a fabulous group effort at aggregating and highlighting the best blog posts from around the globe. - We Media
Groundbreaking research paper by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis explaining the participatory journalism phenomenon. Written in 2003, with an update in 2006. - The Long Tail
Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson’s running commentary based on his article, “The Long Tail,” which will soon become a book. The main idea is that the entertainment economy is moving away from a mass market of big hits to niches that will satisfy small groups of people. - Lost Remote
Follow how technology is changing TV from the inside out with Cory Bergman and his gang of bloggers. - PBS Engage
Blog highlighting the connection between people, technology and culture, which lives on the PBS Engage laboratory for social media experiments. - Engadget
Keep up with the world of electronic gadgets, with the early word on new devices. - Romenesko
The ultimate inside-journalism blog from grizzled veteran Jim Romenesko, with internal memos from big newspapers and blanket coverage of the latest scandal. - I Want Media
Patrick Phillips’ roundup of news relating to newspapers, radio, TV, magazines and the Internet — mainly aimed at people in the media business. - CyberJournalist.net
Jonathan Dube catalogs happenings in the new media journalism universe, including a comprehensive guide to citizen journalism projects. - Pew Internet
Fantastic research on how the Internet is changing society, culture and journalism. - The Project for Excellence in Journalism
A journalism initiative aimed at raising the standards and practices of journalists in America by issuing research reports and publishing books. - “We the Media” by Dan Gillmor
Former San Jose Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor lays out the case for grassroots media, and shows how citizen journalism is transforming the media business and global culture. - “DarkNet” by J.D. Lasica
Bay Area journalist J.D. Lasica tells stories of how rapidly changing digital media technologies are changing and challenging the entertainment business.
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