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

Scott MacLeod helianth at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 08:31:45 PDT 2015


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
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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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