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

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Fri Sep 11 19:56:10 PDT 2015 

​For  reference I have posted ​Polina & Scott's list at
http://isoc-ny.org/wiki/Internet_history

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Scott MacLeod <helianth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Polina and AoIR,
>
> Concerning the social history of the internet, I'd include these specific
> readings to complement the interesting bibliography you're generating:
>
> Manuel Castells, "The Rise of the Network Society,” 2 nd edition, Oxford:
> Blackwell, 2000, chapter 1: "The Information Technology Revolution,” pp.28-
> 76
>
>
>
> Janet Abbate "Inventing the Internet,” Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, pages
> 1-6, 44-81, and 181-220.
>
> Eric S. Raymond "The cathedral & the bazaar. Musings on Linux and open
> source by an accidental revolutionary," Sebastopol, Ca: O'Reilly, 1999,
> pages 7 - 78.
>
> Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia "Net-Surfers don't ride alone: virtual
> communities as communities," on Barry Wellman (editor) "Networks in the
> global village,” Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, pp. 331-366
>
> Best regards,
> Scott
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Polina Kolozaridi <
> poli.kolozaridi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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>
> > > > Subject: [Air-L] literature on (social) history of the Internet
> > > > Message-ID:
> > > >         <
> > > CA+Ae1QBWO3ZFYi_UYYaLeGEGyWfkcu1rPCTfmWORmA61wCV9YQ at mail.gmail.com>
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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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