[Air-L] 'MEN Invented the Internet'?

[Thomas Jones]

The issue you address is a matter of the branding of the term "Geeks".

Fine, Ill concede... "NERDS Invented the Internet"

:)

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I personally think the term "geek" doesn't mean much. You could as well say
"GEEKS invented the inner combustion engine" or "GEEKS invented the
photography". It doesn't give any new information. Shouldn't news be about
news?

Inventing as such is a bit overrated anyway. It's the *process* of a number
of great minds and coincidences that produce these "inventions".

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Meelis Ojasild
Advertising & Publicity Studies



On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Thomas Jones <tajone02 at syr.edu> wrote:

> I disagree with the title of the article.
>
> It should read: 'GEEKS Invented the Internet'  (Along with the US Army,
> and AT&T for the most part)
>
> Three very good books on the invention of the Internet are:
>
> Where Wizzards Stay Up Late
> Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World
> The Master Switch
>
>
> Thomas Jones | Graduate Student | School of Information Studies
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] 'MEN Invented the Internet'?
>
> The thing that bothered me third-most about that lede, after its
> flagrant inaccuracy and sexism, is that the issue of who invented the
> Internet is irrelevant to the article's content. Venture capitalists
> don't invent anything--they tend to leave that to the folks on the
> payroll. So that makes the lede inaccurate, sexist, and a red herring--a
> trifecta of terribleness. ~DEEN
>
> PS. You may be interested in the recent edited volume "Race After the
> Internet" (eds. Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White), which contains an
> entire section on "The History of Race and Information."
>
> On 6/5/2012 1:28 PM, Conley, Tara wrote:
> > Hi list members,
> >
> > In case you haven't already seen David Streitfeld's controversial NYTimes
> > piece this weekend, here it
> > is<
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/technology/lawsuit-against-kleiner-perkins-is-shaking-silicon-valley.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimes
> >.
> > The controversy stems from his lede, "MEN invented the Internet'. You may
> > also be interested in the response from tech journalist Xeni
> > Jardin<http://boingboing.net/2012/06/03/nyt-men-invented-the-inter.html>
> > .
> >
> > I also wrote a response piece about the controversy from an historical
> > perspective for Ms.
> > Magazine<
> http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/06/04/the-women-and-people-of-color-who-invented-the-internet/
> >
> >   today.
> >
> > Interesting to think about the history of the Internet in terms of gender
> > and 'race' consciousness, no?
> >
> > Also, if any list members could recommend further reading on Internet
> > history (including computing) that includes discussions about gender,
> > 'race', and so forth, I'd appreciate it!
> >
> > Tara
> >
>
>
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