Reading List for PhD in Communication and Culture

[WalterBenjamin]

I will be starting a PhD program in Communication and Culture this September. My major will be in Comm and Cult, and my minor will be in Comm and technology. My dissertation will have to do with creation of memory sites and community narratives.

Anybody has any ideas for the reading list to get up to speed? I've graduated from my MA in 2005. A lot of things happened in the field since then. Recent work as well as ideas on foundational texts I need to review once again will be much appreciated.

Thank you!

[Beater123]

Media and Society

[andylee0427]

Definitely "Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences 4th" (Croteau et al.), because they pack with up-to-date concepts and current situation in a most comprehensible way possible. I studied this myself while at MA program in Communication (eventually I landed on my interest in culture). 

[pietrosan]

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

[James27]

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

Yes, this is a good one.