[Air-l] trolls, histories & sub-Saharan AFrica

Sally Wyatt wyatt at pscw.uva.nl
Thu Mar 21 09:29:37 PST 2002


I've been a lurker on this list for a while, and was on the point of
un-subscribing during the recent trolling incident. Perhaps prompted by
that, I've decided to abandon my lurker status and try to contribute
something.

First - bit short notice, especially for those of you in the US, but next
week there is a conference in Maastricht called 'Global E-quality,
Rethinking ICTs in Africa, Asia and the Latin America', organised by the
Infonomics people (also hosting the AoIR conference later this year). The
conference marks the end of a project about the Internet, development and
education in the regions already mentioned. more details:
http://www.infonomics.nl/globalequality 

Second - Internet histories - Janet Abbate's book is very good, especially
on the ARPAnet years. Castells new book _The Internet Galaxy_ has a chapter
on the history which draws quite extensively on her work.

Other sources:
K Hafner and M Lyon (1996) _Where Wizards stay up late: The origins of the
Internet_ New York: Simon & Schuster - journalistic but a good read

The Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org) maintains lots of relevant
stuff, especially from technical point of view

sorry for self-promotion:
G Thomas & S Wyatt (1999) 'Shaping cyberspace - interpreting and
transforming the Internet' _REsearch Policy_ 28,7: 681-98 - looks at
history of Internet focusing on changing relationship between producers and
users; alternatives to Internet which didn't succeed - why they didn't
whereas Internet did...

Sally


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