The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid That Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2007. 320 pp., illus. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-262-12294-8

Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording

The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics edited by Melanie Swalwell and Jason Wilson. McFarland Company, Jefferson, NC, U.S.A., 2008. 197 pp., illus.

Gallery Sound

Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice edited by Cathy Lane. CRiSAP, London, U.K., 2008. 205 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-9558273-3-4

Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music

Sonic Mediations: Body Sound Technology edited by Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., 2008. 286 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 1-84718-483-9

Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America

Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks by Alexander Russo. Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC, 2010. 278 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4532-9

Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design

Cyberculture and New Media edited by Francisco J. Ricardo. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009. 312 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-90-420-2518-9

Introduction to Graphic Design: A Guide to Thinking, Process, and Style

Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki. PAJ Publications, New York, U.S.A., 2011. 200 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-155554151-4

High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres and the Object Hereafter

How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2011. 192 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-7646-0; ISBN: 978-0-8166-7647-7

Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the Long 1960s

Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids by Sidney Perkowitz. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2004. 238 pp. Trade. ISBN: 0-309-08987-5

Radio: Essays in Bad Reception by John Mowitt. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2011. 248 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-5202-7049-7; ISBN: 978-05202-7050-3

Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City

Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers: Writers on Comics edited by Sean Howe. Pantheon Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2004. 228 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-375-42256-0.

The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga by Jimmy Maher. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. 344 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01720-6

Sound Art Revisited

YLEM Journal Special Issue: Science Fiction and Its Discontents edited by Loren Means. YLEM, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 2006. Volume 25, Nos. 10 and 12. ISSN: 1507-2031

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2012. 624 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-01-953-8894-7

Anime Explosion: The What? Why? Wow! of Japanese Animation by Patrick Drazen. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2003. 382 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 1-880656-72-8

Missions for Thoughtful Gamers by Andrew Cutting. ETC Press, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., 2011. 204 pp. Trade, free download. ISBN-13: 978-1-257-97970-7

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Ann Finkbeiner. Viking, New York, 2006. 304 pp. Trade. ISBN: 0-670-03489-4

Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel by Paul Scheerbart. Wakefield Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. Originally published in German, 1913. 280 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 976-0-9841155-9-4

Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn. Adbusters Media Foundation, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2006. 416 pp., 420 illus. Cloth. ISBN: 0-9746800-9-5

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds by Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce and T.L. Taylor. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2012. 264 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-691-14950-9; ISBN: 978-0-691-14951-6

The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States by Carla Yanni. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2007. 191 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN 10: 0-8166-4940-5

In the Field: The Art of Field Recording edited by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle. Uniformbooks, Axminister, U.K., 2013. 240 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-9568559-6-1

Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance edited by Judith Rugg and Michèle Sedgwick. Intellect, Bristol, U.K., 2007. 184 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-1-84150-162-8

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