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

Andrew Russell arussell at arussell.org
Mon Aug 29 05:43:27 PDT 2016 

Really fun thread…

I’m not sure about “iconic," but the image of the 7-layer margarita glass by John Aschenbrenner from IBM dates from 1979.  

I find it interesting in part because it’s from the OSI context, and, as far as I can tell, predates any of the TCP/IP community’s hourglass diagrams.

Here’s a link:  https://tnc15.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/locked-in-tour-europe/

Larger image: https://tnc15.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/john-day-fun-blog-3-john-aschenbrenner_s-first-draft-of-the-hour-glass-model-as-it-appeared-in-n117.jpg

Cheers,

Andy


> On Aug 29, 2016, at 1:06 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
> 
> The hourglass model, ascribed to Steve Deering.
> 
> https://www.ofcourseimright.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/hourglass.jpg
> 
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Paul Henman <p.henman at uq.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Turing machine
>> Babbage's universal engine
>> Turing test
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> Paul Henman
>> Associate Professor of Social Policy and Sociology
>> Head of Sociology
>> Program Director, BSocSci
>> School of Social Science
>> University of Queensland  QLD  4072
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
>> Ball
>> Sent: Sunday, 28 August 2016 7:08 AM
>> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
>> Cc: AoIR-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] [REQUEST] What are internet research's iconic
>> diagrams?
>> 
>> There is some confusion in your request, at least for me. Initially, you
>> refer to "iconic" Internet graphics but the examples you provide refer to
>> models of communication. For instance, the Shannon-Weaver model refers only
>> to data and says little or nothing about the complexity of semantically and
>> symbolically based communication networks.
>> 
>> The links below are to graphics expressive of "iconic," online
>> relationships and, in the final example, expands that to biological
>> ecosystems as more representative of the real complexity in these
>> relationships.
>> 
>> 
>> CAIDA produces great graphics of the Internet. Here's a link to one:
>> 
>> https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=
>> images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi3nJKpvOLOAhXFGB4KHcr9B
>> koQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caida.org%2F&bvm=bv.131286987,d.dmo&psig=
>> AFQjCNE1wOiYRBxTjZJ5-l1LuBd_j6ZHOw&ust=1472417327887840
>> 
>> 
>> Here's a graphic of the dark web or anonymous Internet from Tor:
>> 
>> http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/?page=tor
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On p. 4 of this paper,* Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation*,
>> by Bessi, Zollo and Vicario is a graphic of Internet conspiracy theories...
>> 
>> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.
>> 1371/journal.pone.0134641.PDF
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Here's a visual of the complexity of food webs by David Lavigne. Not an
>> "Internet" application, but a visual that captures the underlying,
>> biological ecosystem of food. Would the Internet be as complex?
>> 
>> http://image.slidesharecdn.com/louie-ecosystemsocialmedia-20091013-
>> 091020160825-phpapp02/95/an-ecosystem-approach-to-social-
>> media-zaazs-21-slides-8-728.jpg?cb=1256058791
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> One more I just thought of: the Shannon-Weaver model of communication:
>>> http://communicationtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/
>>> 06/shannon_weaver_model.jpg
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D.
>>> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
>>> http://alexleavitt.com
>>> Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Livingstone,S
>>> <S.Livingstone at lse.ac.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding
>>>> 
>>>> Lasswell's who said what to whom etc
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 27 Aug 2016, at 21:26, 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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