[Air-L] [REQUEST] What are internet research's iconic diagrams?

Michael T Zimmer zimmerm at uwm.edu
Sun Aug 28 08:45:12 PDT 2016


There’s also Tim Berners Lee’s original proposal at CERN to develop what became the WWW.

http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html


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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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> On Aug 28, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Lovaas,Steven <Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.EDU> wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen them mentioned yet, but the bar napkin sketches where Ethernet and BGP got their start ought to be included.
> 
> http://www.networkworld.com/article/2220218/ethernet-switch/napkins--where-ethernet--compaq-and-facebook-s-cool-data-center-got-their-starts.html
> 
> http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-two-napkin-protocol/
> 
> Steve Lovaas
> Colorado State University
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 28, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Christopher J. Richter <crichter at hollins.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> At the level of influence, Jacob Moreno's 1934 Sociograms in Who Shall Survive
>> https://archive.org/details/whoshallsurviven00jlmo 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Aug 27, 2016, at 4:25 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If you were to pick a handful of the most iconic diagrams across internet
>>> research, theory, and history, what would they be?
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to compile as many diagrams as possible. They could also be
>>> graphs, charts, photographs, drawings, etc. They could come from sociology,
>>> anthropology, computer science, physics, etc. They could also relate to
>>> social theories that are particularly prescient for internet studies.
>>> 
>>> For example, I think the diagram of distributed networks in Paul Baran's
>>> 1964 "On Distributed Communications" (
>>> http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM3420.pdf,
>>> diagram on p. 16 of the PDF) is a great example of what I'm looking for.
>>> 
>>> For another example in the theoretical realm, perhaps the "two-step flow"
>>> model from Katz & Lazarfeld's 1955 Personal Influence (
>>> https://www.utwente.nl/cw/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%20Clusters/Mass%20Media/Two_Step_Flow_Theory-1/,
>>> scroll down for the diagram).
>>> 
>>> Does anyone else have pointers to any other iconic diagrams?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D.
>>> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
>>> http://alexleavitt.com
>>> Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>
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