[Air-L] Internet Historiography

[Denise N. Rall]

Ah -

Campbell-Kelly, M., & Aspray, W. (1996). Computer: A history of the information machine. New York: Basic Books. 2nd edition 2004.

Is pretty clear about the industrial-military precedents.

Likewise 

Abbate, Janet. (2000). Inventing the internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.


In particular, technological advances during WWII were then harnessed to commercial enterprises (see histories of IBM)

My own modest contribution in this area:
Rall,
Denise N. 2006. “The ‘house that Dick built’: Constructing the team that built the bomb”
Research Note: Social Studies of Science 36: 943-957.

 Cheers, Denise

Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Arts & Social Sciences
Chair of Textiles stream, Secretary-in-Waiting, Popular Culture Australia-New Zealand
Currently in Lismore, NSW, Australia
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________________________________
 From: Kevin Driscoll <kedrisco at usc.edu>
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; rawbird at gmail.com 
Sent: Friday, 17 May 2013 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet Historiography
 

Hi Adam,

On Thu, 16 May 2013 17:29:26 +0100, Adam Fish <rawbird at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anybody know of articles or books analysing 1) the political historiography
> of the internet. Who has criticized the historiography of the internet as
> being written for political gain?

These are really interesting questions. Back in 1998, Roy Rosenzweig
wrote a round up of recently published histories of the internet
(including Hafner & Lyon, Norberg & O'Neill, and
 Edwards.) Not only is
it an excellent integrative review but I found it helpful for
reconstructing the stakes of telling different stories about the
internet at that particular moment.

Rosenzweig, Roy. "Wizards, bureaucrats, warriors, and hackers: Writing
the history of the Internet." The American Historical Review 103, no.
5 (1998): 1530-1552.

You might also look into the various documents produced by the FCC
regarding the National Broadband Plan:
http://www.broadband.gov/

I'm tracing some similar ground in my diss research right now. Looking
forward to hearing more about what you turn up.

Kevin Driscoll
PhD candidate
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
University of Southern California
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