Book Reviews
Authors: Raveh Anat Ringel , Lunceford Brett , Peterson Valerie V. , O’Connell Roxanne , Adams Catherine , Strate Lance , Erion Gerald J. , Blechman Robert K. , Russo Michael A. , Harp Jerry , Lollar Karen , Fallon Peter K. , Lippert Paul , Mann Bob , Harp Jerry , Soukup S. J. Paul A. , Tywoniak Ed 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Understanding the human condition in the computational age/review of Sherry Turkle’s books

The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Sherry Turkle (1984)
New York: Harper Collins, 388 pp.,
ISBN: 9780246125682, h/bk, $115.52, p/bk, $3.90, Kindle, $19.24

Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, Sherry Turkle (1997)
New York: Touchstone, 352 pp.,
ISBN: 9780684833484, p/bk, $14.07, Kindle, $9.99

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Sherry Turkle (2011)
New York: Basic Books, 400 pp.,
ISBN: 9780465093656, h/bk, $3.84, p/bk, $12.23, Kindle, $11.99

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age, Sherry Turkle (2015)
New York: Penguin Press, 448 pp.,
ISBN: 9780143109792, h/bk, $9.94, p/bk, $13.08, Kindle, $1.99

Drugs & Media: New Perspectives on Communication, Consumption, and Consciousness, Robert C. MacDougall (ed.) (2011)
New York: Continuum, 368 pp.,
ISBN: 9781441134929, p/bk, $42.95

Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body, Brett Lunceford (2012)
New York: Lexington Books, 190 pp.,
ISBN: 9780739167090, h/bk, $88.00, ISBN: 9780739177020, e/bk, $83.50

Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to ‘Star Wars’, Camille Paglia (2012)
New York: Vintage Books, 202 pp.,
ISBN: 9780307278029, h/bk, $17.53, p/bk, $15.16, ePub, $12.99

On Reflection: An Essay on Technology, Education, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-First Century, Ellen Rose (2013)
Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 170 pp.,
ISBN: 9781551305189, h/bk, $39.95

Emergence and Empire: Innis, Complexity, and the Trajectory of History, John Bonnett (2013)
Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 384 pp.,
ISBN: 9780773542037, p/bk, $34.95

The Digital Evolution of an American Identity, C. Waite (2013)
New York: Routledge, 144 pp.,
ISBN: 9780415897617, h/bk, $124.00, ISBN: 9781138914681, p/bk, $35.96

Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship, Andrey Miroshnichenko (2013)
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, 159 pp,
ASIN: B00HLT7H0E, ebook, $3.89

Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs, Brett T. Robinson (2013)
Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 135 pp.,
ISBN: 9781602588219, p/bk, $12.95

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy, B. W. Powe (2014)
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 368 pp.,
ISBN: 9781442616165, p/bk, $26.21

Decoding Dust, B. W. Powe (2016)
Seattle, WA: NeoPoiesis Press, 162 pp.,
ISBN: 9780990356585, p/bk, $16.95

A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics, Martin H. Levinson (2014)
New York: Institute of General Semantics, 53 pp.,
ISBN: 9780986076497, p/bk, $9.95, Kindle version, $9.99

The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces, Stephen Orgel (2015)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 171 pp., illustrated,
ISBN: 9780198737568, h/bk, $36.68, ISBN: 9780198737551, p/bk, $24.50, ePub, $23.28

The New Science of Communication: Reconsidering McLuhan’s Message for Our Modern Moment, Anthony M. Wachs (2015)
Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 222 pp.,
ISBN: 9780820704876, p/bk, $25.00

Human Replay: A Theory of the Evolution of Media, Paul Levinson (2017)
New York: Connected Editions, 299 pp.,
ISBN: 9781561780624, p/bk, $19.99, Kindle edition, $9.99
(Reprint of Levinson, Paul, 1979, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University)

Wasting Time on the Internet, Kenneth Goldsmith (2016)
New York: Harper Perennial, 256 pp.,
ISBN: 9780062416476, p/bk, $14.99

Mapping Media Ecology: Introduction to the Field, Dennis D. Cali (2017)
New York, Bern, Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford and Warsaw: Peter Lang, 256 pp.,
ISBN: 9781433127632, p/bk, $52.95, ISBN: 9781433137822, ePub, $52.95

Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition, Lance Strate (2017)
New York: Peter Lang, 258 pp.,
ISBN: 9781433131219, p/bk, $52.95