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

[Draper, Nora]

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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