[Air-L] Theories of computer networks

[David Golumbia]

i write quite a bit about the expansion of computer networks across the
globe in* The Cultural Logic of
Computation<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674032926?tag=uncomputing-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0674032926&adid=0DT0DYF31F91C0A7BTP7&>
*(Harvard 2009), esp. in the introduction and in Chapters 6 and 7, where I
too rely quite a bit on Beniger, Galloway, and Mattelart among others.

David

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2010/9/6 Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca>

> Yes, Beniger is a classic.
> And don't forget Alexander Galloway, Protocol (2002)
>
> Andrew Herman, Ph. D.
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> >>> Eran Fisher <eranfisher at gmail.com> 09/06/10 1:54 AM >>>
> a classical reading in this vein:
> Beniger, James. 1986. The control revolution: Technological and economic
> origins of the
> information society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
>
> this might also be helpful:
> Mattelart, Armand. 2003. The information society: An introduction. Thousand
> Oaks,
> CA: Sage.
>
> cheers, Eran
> --
>
> Eran Fisher, PhD
>
> Postdoctoral Fellow
>
> Kreitman School for Advanced Graduate Studies
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> Ben Gurion University, Israel
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> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Holly Kruse <holly.kruse at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I'm curious: what are recommended sources for social and cultural
> theories
> > of computer networks?: specifically, social theories having to do with
> the
> > technology's expansion across space.  I'm need to make a fairly explicit
> > analogy between the social implications of the historical
> > development/organization and colonization of space of computer networks
> and
> > another, older communication technology.  I don't need to make analogies
> to
> > other older communication technologies (writing, print, telegraph,
> > telephone, radio, TV, etc. – or phonograph, on which I've written.  I
> pretty
> > familiar with that literature).  For purposes of this project, I just
> need
> > sources on computer networks.  I probably need to re-read Castells,
> because
> > it's been a while.  Anything else?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Holly
> >
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> > Department of Communications
> > Rogers State University
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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