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

Fri Sep 11 07:41:21 PDT 2015

Dear colleagues,

thank you so much for your suggestions. Here is the list based mostly on
your ideas and also some reviews and articles I found. They are mostly
about social construction and some of them are historical papers:

  Abbate, J. (2000). *Inventing the internet*. MIT press.

·  Abbate, J. (2001). Government, Business, and the Making of the
Internet.*Business
History Review*, *75*(01), 147-176.

·  Anderson, J. Q. (2005). *Imagining the Internet: Personalities,
predictions, perspectives*. Rowman & Littlefield.

·  Barbrook R, Cameron A (1997) The Californian Ideology. Hypermedia
Research Centre, University of Westminster. Available at:
www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/theory-californianideology-main.html

·  Berners-Lee, T., Fischetti, M., & Foreword By-Dertouzos, M. L.
(2000). *Weaving
the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by
its inventor*. HarperInformation. https://vk.com/doc185399367_297636844

·  Briggs, A., & Burke, P. (2010). *Social history of the media: From
Gutenberg to the Internet*. Polity.
https://books.google.ru/books?id=h-kPKFfbMhEC&printsec=frontcover&hl=ru&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

·  Brunton, F. (2013). *Spam: a shadow history of the Internet*. Mit Press.

·  Chu, B. (2014). Stephanie Ricker Schulte, Cached Decoding the Internet
in Global Popular Cultur
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/2579/1056

·  Driscoll, K. (2012). From Punched Cards to “Big Data”: A Social History
of Database Populism. communication +1, 1. Retrieved from:
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol1/iss1/4

·  Driscoll, Kevin. “Hobbyist Inter-Networking and the Popular Internet
Imaginary: Forgotten Histories of Networked Personal Computing, 1978-1998.”
Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2014.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/444362/rec/2

·  Flichy, P. (2004). The imaginary internet: how Utopian fantasy shaped
the making of a new information infrastructure. *Business and Economic
History*, *2*, 1-1.

·  Flichy, P. (2007). *The internet imaginaire*. Mit Press.
http://www.infoamerica.org/documentos_pdf/flichy4.pdf

·  Guice, J. (1998). Looking backward and forward at the Internet. *The
Information Society*, *14*(3), 201-211.

·  Hafner, K., & Lyon, M. (1998). *Where wizards stay up late: The origins
of the Internet*. Simon and Schuster.
ftp://ftp.fixme.ch/free_for_all/Ebook/IT%20eBooks/Entertainment/Fiction/Origins%20of%20the%20Internet,%20Where%20the%20Wizards%20Stay%20Up%20Late.pdf

·  Hauben, M., & Hauben, R. (1997). Netizens: On the History and Impact of
Usenet 1028 and the Internet. Los Alamitos, Calif.
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120

·  Horner, J. R. (2010). Book Review: Patrice Flichy The Internet
Imaginaire, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2007; 255 pp.: 109780262062619, US
$29.95 (hbk). *New Media & Society*, *12*(2), 331-334.

·  Horner, J. R. (2010). Book Review: Patrice Flichy The Internet
Imaginaire, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2007; 255 pp.: 109780262062619, US
$29.95 (hbk). *New Media & Society*, *12*(2), 331-334.

·  Levy, S. (2001). *Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution* (Vol. 4). New
York: Penguin Books.

·  Lewis, M. (1999). *The new new thing: a Silicon Valley story*. WW Norton
& Company.

·  Mansell, R. (2012). *Imagining the Internet: Communication, innovation,
and governance*. Oxford University Press.

·  Mosco V (2004) The Digital Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

·  Shahin, J. (2006). A European history of the Internet. *Science and
Public Policy*,*33*(9), 681-693.

·  Sterling, B. (2014). *The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the
electronic frontier*. Bookpubber.

·  Thomas, G., & Wyatt, S. (1999). Shaping cyberspace—Interpreting and
transforming the Internet. *Research Policy*, *28*(7), 681-698.

·  Turner, F. (2010). *From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand,
the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism*. University Of
Chicago Press.

·  Woolgar S (2002) Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality. New
York: Oxford University Press

Some repositories and other media:

   - SIGCIS Syllabus Repository, http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi
   - SIGCIS History Resources, http://www.sigcis.org/resources
   - BBS documentary by Jason Scott (proprietor of textfiles.com) that
   focuses on early dial-up systems, mainly in North America:
   https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary
   - "Appropriating the Internet: Alternative & Comparative Histories" R14,
   Denver, CO, USA, 2013
   http://web.archive.org/web/20130831184519/http://ir14.aoir.org/preconference-workshops/preconference-workshop-appropriating-the-internet-alternative-comparative-histories/

kind regards,
Polina

2015-08-05 16:34 GMT+03:00 Kevin Driscoll <driscollkevin at gmail.com>:

> Hello Polina,
>
> Other folks have already suggested some key works so here are just a few
> additional resources that I've found useful.
>
> The latest issue of Information & Culture is a special issue on internet
> histories. The articles are not open access (yet) but the abstracts are on
> the website. Please let me know if you can't find copies of the articles
> you need:
> * http://www.infoculturejournal.org/abstracts
>
> SIGCIS, a special interest group of the Society for the History of
> Technology concerned with the history of computing maintains collections of
> syllabi and other resources on their website:
> * SIGCIS Syllabus Repository, http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi
> * SIGCIS History Resources, http://www.sigcis.org/resources
>
> The BBS documentary is an incredibly thorough series by Jason Scott
> (proprietor of textfiles.com) that focuses on early dial-up systems,
> mainly in North America:
> * https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary
>
> Relevant to the upcoming conference, I also wanted to shout out everyone
> that participated in the internet histories preconference organized by
> Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland at IR14:
>
> "Appropriating the Internet: Alternative & Comparative Histories"
> IR14, Denver, CO, USA, 2013
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20130831184519/http://ir14.aoir.org/preconference-workshops/preconference-workshop-appropriating-the-internet-alternative-comparative-histories/
>
> As for my own drop in the bucket, my dissertation was about the social and
> political implications of various internet histories. You may find the
> introduction useful as a complement to some of other resources:
> * Driscoll, Kevin. “Hobbyist Inter-Networking and the Popular Internet
> Imaginary: Forgotten Histories of Networked Personal Computing, 1978-1998.”
> Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2014.
> http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/444362/rec/2
> .
>
> Best of luck and please do keep us posted. It's always exciting to see
> historical work discussed on AIR-L!
>
> Kevin Driscoll
> http://kevindriscoll.info
>
> (P.S. Apologies if you get two copies of this. It seems that the first one
> didn't go through to the list.)
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 6:01 PM, <air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 01:56:46 +0600
> > From: Polina Kolozaridi <poli.kolozaridi at gmail.com>
> > To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
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> > 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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