(I'm not suggesting that anyone has to go out and buy anything but if you really wanted to the following titles would be worth considering since they both cover multiple aspects of the course).

Frank Webster - Theories of the Information Society

William H. Dutton - Information and Communication Technologies: Vision and Realities

Merritt Roe Smith & Leo Marx (Eds.) - Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

Hugh Mackey {Ed} - Consumption & Everyday Life

William H. Dutton - Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age

Levinson, Paul. - Digital McLuhan : a guide to the information millennium

McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980. - Understanding media : the extensions of man

McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980. - Essential McLuhan / edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone

Marchand, Philip, 1946-. - Marshall McLuhan : the medium and the messenger

Winston, Brian. - Media technology and society : a history : from the telegraph to the Internet

Winston, Brian. - Technologies of seeing : photography, cinematography and television

Bijker, Wiebe E. - Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs : toward a theory of sociotechnical change

Bijker, Wiebe E, The Social construction of technological systems

Flichy, Patrice. - Dynamics of modern communication : the shaping and impact of new communications technologies

Brian Winston - "How Media are Born" in Questioning the Media edited by Downing et al.

Ed Buscombe - "Sound and Colour" in Movies and Methods Volume II edited by Bill Nichols.

Robert C Allen & Douglas Gomery - Film history: Theory and Practice: Chp 5: "Technological Film History", Chp 5.

Raymond Williams - Television: Technology and cultural form.

Donald A. MacKenzie - Knowing machines : essays on technical change

Donald A MacKenzie - The Social shaping of technology : : how the refrigerator got its hum

Langdon Winner - Autonomous technology

David Held - Introduction to Critical Theory

Adorno and Horkheimer - "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as mass deception" in Mass Communications and Society edited by James Curran et al.

Walter Benjamin - "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical

Ian Craib - Modern Social Theory: From Parsons to Habermas

David Tetzlaff - "Popular culture and social control in late capitalism" in Media, Culture and Society Vol 13 (1991), pp. 9 - 33.

Jurgen Habermas -The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Philip Elliott - "Intellectuals, the 'information society' and the disappearance of the public sphere." in Media, Culture and Society edited by Richard Collins et al.

Nicholas Garnham - Capitalism and Communication, Chapter 7 "The Media and the Public Sphere"

Mark Poster "Cyberdemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere" in David Porter (Ed.) Internet Culture.

Frank Webster - Theories of the Information Society - Chapter 6 "Information Management and Manipulation: Jurgen Habermas and the Decline of the Public Sphere."

Manuel Castells - The Informational City

Manuel Castells - The Information Age (Vols 1 - 3)

Manuel Castells "Information Technology and Global Capitalism in Hutton and Giddens (eds) - On the Edge

Manuel Castells - The Internet galaxy : reflections on the Internet, business, and society

Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault – "Strategies of Power" in The Fontana Post-Modern Reader edited by Walter Truett Anderson

Michel Foucault - Power, Knowledge

Geoff Danaher, Tony Schirato and Jen Webb - Understanding Foucault

David Cousins Hoy (Ed) - Foucault, A Critical Reader

Alec Mchoul & Wendy Grace - A Foucault Primer

Mark Poster - Foucault, Marxism & History

Alvin Toffler – The Third Wave or Future Shock

Daniel Bell - The Coming of the Post- Industrial Society

Bill Gates - The Road Ahead

Nicholas Negroponte - Being Digital

Robins, Kevin. - Times of the technoculture: from the information society to the virtual life.

Rob Kling (Ed) Computerisation and Controversy - Value Conflicts and Social Choices

Jorge Reina Schement and Terry Curtis - Tendencies and tensions of the information age

Robert W. McChesney et al (eds) - Capitalism and the information age: the political economy of the global communication revolution

Schiller, Herbert I - Information inequality : the deepening social crisis in America