[Air-L] Theories of computer networks

[David Golumbia]

Thanks, Andrew!  Recently I've been working on a new ms. called "The Future
of New Media," which is kind of more of the same except maybe along more of
a time-media axis rather than a politics-and-space axis, if that makes any
sense. OK, it's about *Dollhouse*.

David

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

> David
>
> Your book looks great!  What kind of writing/research are your doing now?
>
> Andrew Herman, Ph. D.
> Associate Professor and Chairperson
> Department of Communication Studies
> Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory
> Wilfrid Laurier University
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> >>> David Golumbia <dgolumbia at gmail.com> 09/06/10 10:19 AM >>>
> 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.
> > Associate Professor and Chairperson
> > Department of Communication Studies
> > Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory
> > Wilfrid Laurier University
> > Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
> > CANADA
> > 519 884-1970 x3693
> >
> > >>> 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
> > Department of Communication Studies
> > Ben Gurion University, Israel
> >
> >
> > -----
> > *New book*: Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Spirit of
> > Networks (Palgrave, 2010)
> > www.amazon.com/Media-New-Capitalism-Digital-Age/dp/0230616070
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > > ----
> > > Holly Kruse
> > > Department of Communications
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> > > 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd.
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> > > 918-343-7879
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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