In the spirit of Nick Hornby/'The Polysyllabic Spree' and also to help me feel I'm not just wasting my time on the train home from work, I'm going to list some of the stuff I've read in the last few weeks/months.
The idea is to goad myself into taking some decent notes on them and, by doing that, struggle towards organising my ideas a bit (and to make myself read more, and with more purpose).
So, stuff I've read since end of summer:
'The Hungry Years' by William Leith
'Bait and Switch' by Barbara Ehrenreich
'Never Had It So Good' and 'White Heat', both by Dominic Sandbrook
'Cultural Chaos' by Brian McNair
'Information Age Journalism' by Vincent Campbell
'Online News' by Stuart Allan
A chunk of 'The Internet Galaxy' by Manuel Castells
The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
Zines by Stephen Duncombe
'Labyrinths' by Jorge Luis Borges
A chunk of Press Gang by Roy Greenslade
A chunk of Arthur Marwick's social history of post-WW2 Britain
Half of 'Hello, I'm Special' by Hal Niedzviecki
Most of 'You Are Here' by Katharine Harmon
'Convergence Culture' by Henry Jenkins
Half of 'Blink' by Malcolm Gladwell
'From Counterculture to Cyberculture' by Fred Turner
'Freakonomics' by Levitt/Dubner
First third of 'The Undercover Economist' by Tim Harford
First chapter of 'The Economics of Attention' by Richard Lanham
'The Media and Power' by James Curran (I think that's what it's called).
Culture and Consensus by Robert Hewison (again, I think that's the title - will check in a bit)
There's probably some more. And you can add the stuff I read in the BChristmas break (Sennett, Johnson, Hornby) but it's not much really, is it? Also, it's a bit all over the place, not exactly focused. Also, there's no fiction (apart from Borges). The book I really want to read, and haven't, since summer, not sure why, is George Saunders' collection of stories/novella, 'In Persuasion Nation/The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil'. Not sure why.



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