Working Towards Understanding

I'm in the middle of preparing for districts, and amidst the cutting of cards about the United States construction of China as a threat and the role of feminism in regards to nuclear weapons policy, I've been thinking and wondering about what the outside world must really think of us debaters. I went to the doctor on Friday (I have a sinus infection) and when I made a comment about how I coach debate, she said, oh you all talk really fast, and then made some jibberish sounds of quick speaking. I laughed a little, but was also surprised that someone had stopped and taken the chance to watch a video (She'd seen a documentary) about debate who had never had anything to do with it. So, as I move forward, I've comprised a list of the literature I feel is associated with/allows for understanding of the question(s) at hand in regards to the digital impact on the debate community. They are, in no particular order:

Books:

Beal, A. and Strauss, J.
2008, Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online, Sybex.

Burgess, J., Green,J., Jenkins,H., and Hartley,J.
2009, YouTube: Online Videos and Participatory Culture. Polity.

Creeber, G., and Royston M.
2008, Digital Culture: Understanding New Media. Berkshire: Open University Press.

de Zengotita, T.
2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in it. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Goffman, E.
1959, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Anchor Books.

Jenkins, H.
2008, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, NYU Press.

Jenkins, H.
2009, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education For the 21st Century, MIT Press.

Mills, C.W.
1959, The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press.

Meyrowitz, J.
1985, No Sense of Place. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nugent, B.
2007, American Nerd: The Story of My People. Simon and Schuster.

Redden, J.
2000, Snitch Culture. Feral House.

Solove, D.
2004, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age. NYU Press.

Solove, D.
2007. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet. Yale University Press.

Tapscott, D.
2008, Grown Up Digital: How The Net Generation is Changing Your World, McGraw-Hill.

Trend, D.
2001, Reading Digital Culture. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing.

Journal Articles:

Chen, L.
2008, Individual online impression management: self presentation on YouTube™, International Conference of Pacific Rim Management.
http://www.myacme.org/ACMEProceedings09/p26.pdf

Chu, D.
2008, Collective behavior in YouTube: a case study of "Bus Uncle' online videos, Asian Journal of Communication, 19(3), 337-353.

Gilbert, S.
2009, Competitive and slightly unhinged, The Washingtonian, 45(1), 66.

Lin, C.
2009, From media consumption to media production: applications of YouTube™ in
an eighth-grade video documentary project. Journal of Visual Literacy, 28(1), 92-107.

McDonald, K.M.
2001, Demanding expectations: Surviving and thriving as a collegiate debate coach. Argumentation and Advocacy, 38(2), 115-120.

Robinson, L. and Schulz, J.
2009, New avenues for sociological inquiry: evolving forms of ethnographic practice. Sociology, 45(4), 685-699.

Video:

Robbins, D.
2005, Debate Team. Green Lamp Pictures.
http://www.debateteamdocumentary.com/index.html

Whitely, G.
2008, Resolved. One Potato Productions.
http://www.debatemovie.com/

College Sports Television (CSTV)
2005, National Collegiate Debate Championship, CBS.
http://www.cstv.com/cstv/programming/debate/debate1.html

College Sports Televisions (CSTV)
2004, National College Debate Championship, CBS.
http://www.cstv.com/cstv/programming/debate/debate1.html