[Air-L] literature on (social) history of the Internet

englishn englishn at umkc.edu
Sun Aug 2 16:33:13 PDT 2015


Hi....
All great suggestions...  all great reads too....
:)

But wasn't the originally inquiry about a "social" history of the Internet...  rather than technical...?
:S

NE.....
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Nicole English, PhD
Sociology/Psychology
EnglishN at umkc.edu
Faculty, PACE
University of Missouri-- Kansas City (UMKC)
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I´d suggest this:

- The new new thing by Michael Lewis

- The hacker crackdown by Bruce Sterling

- Weaving the web by Tim Berners-Lee

Best,

Alejandro Tortolini
University of San Andrés

2015-08-02 19:18 GMT-03:00 Draper, Nora <Nora.Draper at unh.edu>:

> I would recommend Stephanie Ricker Schulte¹s ³Cached: Decoding the
> Internet in Global Popular Culture. Here is the link to a book review
> published in IJoc:
> http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/2579/1056
>
> Also, Fred Turner¹s ³From Counter Culture to Cyber Culture: Stewart Brand,
> the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.² A review of
> the book from the NYT can be found here:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html?pagewanted=all
>
> Nora
>
> Nora A. Draper
> Assistant Professor of Communication
> University of New Hampshire
> 20 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8/2/15, 6:09 PM, "Air-L on behalf of Nathaniel Poor"
> <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of natpoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I¹d suggest Abbate¹s ³Inventing the Internet².
> >
> >https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-internet
> >
> >From the MIT Press page:
> >Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental
> >network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of
> >networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the
> >Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that
> >allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the
> >social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use.
> >The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and
> >conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and
> >military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate
> >students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and
> >network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs
> >formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense
> >Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the
> >Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how
> >academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how
> >the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed
> >with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their
> >own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World
> >Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of
> >decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the
> >Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has
> >been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design
> >and in organizational culture.
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Aug 2, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Polina Kolozaridi
> >><poli.kolozaridi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the
> >> Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just
> >>history
> >> of the Internet).
> >>
> >> Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it?
> >>
> >> gratefully,
> >> Polina Kolozaridi
> >> *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow*
> >> *researcher, PhD candidate*
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