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Multimedia Design Books

With each book or article, you will find a short annotation, references to other texts and links back to Start page.

 

 

Anders, Peter. Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Spaces. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Arnheim, R. Visual Thinking. Berkeley: California UP, 1969.

Arnheim, Rudolf. The Power of the Centre. Berkeley: California UP, 1988

Bain, Steven and Daniel Gray. Looking Good Online: The Ultimate Resource for Creating Effective Web Designs. Triangle Park, NC: Ventana, 1996.

Barfield, Woodrow, and Thomas Caudell. Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Barrett, Edward and Marie Redmond. Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Barry, Ann Marie Seward. Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.

Barthes, Roland.  Image-Music-Text. London: Fontana, 1977.

Bennington, Tammy L. and Geri Gay. Mediated Perceptions: Contributions of Phenomenological Film Theory to Understanding the Interactive Video Experience. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 5 (4) June 2000.

Behringer, Reinhold, Gudrun Klinker, and David W. Mizell. (Eds.) Augmented Reality: Placing Artificial Objects in Real Scenes. Natick: A.K. Peters, 1999.

Bettetini, Gianfranco. The Language and Technique of Film. Trans. David Osmond-Smith. The Hague: Mouton, 1973.

Bergström, Bo. Essentials of Visual Communication  Laurence King Publishing. 2008.

Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

Buchanan, Richard and Victor Margolin. Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1995

Burrows, David. Sound, Speech, and Music. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.

Caron, André, and Letizia Caronia. Moving Cultures: Mobile Communication in Everyday Life. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s U Press, 2007.

Chatman, Seymour. Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film.  Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1990.

Cook, Guy. The Discourse of Advertising. London: Routledge, 1992

Danesi, Marcel. Understanding Media Semiotics. London: Arnold, 2002.

Davis, Boyd and Jeutonne P. Brewer. Electronic Discourse: Linguistic Individuals in Virtual Space. New York: SUNY Press, 1997.

Dix, Alan et. al., Human-Computer Interaction. 3rd  ed.  London: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Dondis, D. A. A Primer of Visual Literacy. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1973.

Gershenfeld, Neil. When Things Start to Think. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.

Gershenfeld, Neil. FAB New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Goldman, Robert and Stephen Papson Sign Wars: The Cluttered Landscape of Advertising. New York: Guilford Press, 1996.

Goldman, Robert, and Stephen Papson. Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1999.

Graham, Lisa. The Principles of Interactive Design. Delmar Publishing, 1999.

Handa, Carolyn. Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.

Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs and Women. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1999.

Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. designed by Ann Burdick. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Heim, Michael. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford U Press, 1993.           

Heim, Michael. Virtual Realism. New York: Oxford U Press, 1998.

Hodge, Robert and Gunther Kress. Social Semiotics. Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 1988.

Jacobson, Robert E., ed. Information Design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: NYU Press, 2006.

Johnson, Mark. The Body in the Mind. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1987.     

Johnson, Steven. Interface Culture. San Francisco: Harper, 1997.

Jones, Steven G. Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. Sage, 1997.

Kahney, Leander. The Cult of iPOD. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2005.

Kostelnick, Charles and David D. Roberts. Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators.  Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Kostelnick, Charles and Michael Hassett. Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions. Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.

Kress, Gunther. Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy. London: Routledge, 1997.

Kress, Gunther and Theo van Leeuwen.  Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge, 1996.

Kroker, Arthur, and Michael A. Weinstein. Data Trash. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1994.

McAlpine, Rachel. Web Word Wizardry. Toronto. Ten Speed Press, 2001.

Lanham, Richard. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1995.

Laurillard, Diana.  Rethinking University Teaching: A Framework for the Effective Use of Educational Technology. London: Routledge, 1993.

Mann, Steve with Hal Niedzviecki. Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer. Doubleday Canada, 2001

Margolin, Victor and Richard Buchanan, eds. The Idea of Design: A Design Issues Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Marks, Laura U. The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses. London: Duke University Press, 2000.

Marks, Laura U. Touch: Sensuous theory and multisensory media. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge, 1999.

Metz. Christian. Film Language: a Semiotics of the Cinema. Trans. Michael Taylor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

O’Donnell, James Joseph. Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998.

Ohta, Yuichi and Hideyuki Tamura. Mixed Reality: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds. Tokyo: Ohmsha, 1999.

Ortony, Andrew. Metaphor and Thought, 2nd ed. Cambridge: UP, 1989.

Pedersen, Isabel. Minimalism and HTML-based Help 1997.

Preece, Jennifer, Yvonne Rogers and Helen Sharp. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Randall, Neil and Isabel Pedersen. Who Exactly is Trying to Help Us? The Ethos of Help Systems in Popular Computer Applications. Sigdoc ’98 Conference Proceedings. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1998, pp. 63-69.

Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Cambridge: Basic Books, 2002.

Sano, Darrel. Designing Large-Scale Web Sites: A Visual Design Methodology. New York: Wiley, 1996.

Sobchack, Vivian. Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. Los Angeles: U of California Press, 2004.     

Schriver, Karen.  Dynamics in Document Design. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Shneiderman, Ben. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction.  3rd ed. Don Mills, Ontario: Addison Wesley, 1998.

Snyder, Ilana, ed. From Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era. London: Routledge, 1998.

Stam, Robert.  New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-structuralism, and Beyond. London: Routledge, 1992.

Stansberry, Domenic. Labyrinths: The Art of Interactive Writing & Design. New York: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998.

Sterling, Bruce. Shaping Things. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

Tarasti, Eero, et al. Basic Concepts of Studies in Musical Signification. In Sebeok, Thomas, A., and Umiker-Sebeok, eds. The Semiotic Web, pp. 405-581. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyer, 1986.

Traux, Barry. Acoustic Communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994.

Tufte, Edward,  Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Touchstone Books, 1997.

Turner, Graeme. Film as Social Practice. London: Routledge, 4th 2006.

Turner, Mark. The Literary Mind: Origins of Thought and Language. Oxford: UP, 1998.

Virilio, Paul. The Information Bomb. Trans. Chris Turner. New York: Verso, 2000.

Virilio, Paul, and Sylvere Lotringer. Crepuscular Dawn. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2002.

           

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