- Bolter, Jay D. (2019). The Digital Plenitude : The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media. Cambridge, MA & London: The MIT Press.
- Bolter, Jay D. & Grusin, Richard (1999). Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA & London: The MIT Press.
- Couldry, Nick (2016). The Mediated Construction of Reality. Oxford : Polity Press.
- Gillespie, Tarlton, Boczkowski, Pablo J., & Foot, Kirsten A. (eds.) (2014). Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society. Cambridge, MA & London: The MIT Press.
- Heskett, John (2002). Design: A very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
- Jenkins, Henry (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media collide. New York & London: New York University Press.
- Karlsson, Jan CH & Bergman, Ann (2017). Methods for Social Theory. Analytical Tools for Theorizing and Writing. London & New York: Routledge.
- MacKenzie, Donald and Wajcman, Judy (eds) (1999). The social shaping of technology. 2nd ed. Buckingham: Open University Press.
- Manovic, Lev (2002). The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA & London: The MIT Press.
- Storsul, Tanja, Krumsvik, Arne H. (eds) (2013). Media innovations: A multidisciplinary study of change. Gothenburg: NORDICOM.
- van Dijck, José, Poell, Thomas, & de Waal, Martijn (2018). The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connected World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The course literature is digitally available through the university library. In addition to the literature listed above, the course readings consist of book chapters, journal articles and reports that will be shared by the course instructors.