More summer reading for you

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Since you'll have a few weeks off soon, I thought you might want some good reading for your beach time. If you're so inclined to continue to pursue research in digital culture with some thought provoking leisure reading, consider these: As you think about Panopticon, read No Place to Hide, by Robert O'Harrow, Jr., will scare the living daylights out of you in regards to our privacy (or the lack thereof). It chronicles the development of the real "big brother" world we live in now. And when you're done with that one, don't miss Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, by Henry Jenkins from MIT. Both of these books will change the way you think of technology and how profoundly digital media are changing the way we live... whether we know it or not!

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