Hi all —  

This is a Google Form designed to help generate a database of scholarly books in the field of Internet Studies. The purpose of this list is to be a resource for students and faculty who might be looking for books in the field (for their research, for a "book review" assignment for a class, for teaching courses on scholarly monographs as a genre, etc).

In order to simply the process of adding a book to the list, this form uses the Google Books API to take an ISBN and return as a spreadsheet:

* the title
* the author (fixing bug w/ multiple authors, right now it is only important first)
* the description from the publisher
* the publisher
* the year published
* the language published
* the subject(s), defined by LOC ('first' in here now, rest coming soon)
* a link to the google books entry for the book
* (optional) any other comments
* (optional) submitter/nominator email

You can view the results of this spreadsheet at https://bit.ly/InternetBooks.

We realize that "the field of internet studies," "scholarly books" —  even "books," perhaps —  are contested/contestable categories. Our goal is to err on the side of being agglomerative, and to let people search and filter for things relevant to them. In general, books that are published by a university press, on the kinds of topics/questions/controversies that could cognizably be presented at a conference like AoIR (aoir.org), are in the sweet spot for this database.

This form was created by Ethan Nevidomsky, an MIT undergraduate, as part of TAing for Chris Peterson's  CMS.614: Network Cultures class in Spring 2022 (https://bit.ly/NetCult22Pub). If anything breaks with the form, or there is any content that should be removed, or you have any suggestion on how to improve this, you can reach us (and any collaborators who join us) at internet-book-list@mit.edu.