[Air-L] Suggestions for readings on web decentralization?

[panayotis antoniadis]

Hi Emma,

You might be interested in this special issue of the Journal of Peer 
Production on "Alternative Internets": 
http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/ (and 
various references therein)

As noted by a reviewer, "The Internet is also decentralized." :-) (and 
the web also, but it is mostly our responsibility to promote distributed 
self-hosted applications despite their less attractive user interfaces 
and performance)

And this is a nice book, under development, on the history of community 
(wireless) networks: http://www.thenextlayer.org/NetworkCommons

Best,

Panayotis Antoniadis
http://nethood.org/panayotis/




On 02.11.2016 17:50, Emma Stamm wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a first-year PhD student in an interdisciplinary humanities/social
> sciences program. One of my research interests is the history of
> initiatives, ideas and theoretical rationale for decentralizing the
> Internet. To that end, I'm wondering if anybody could point me in the
> direction of readings that address this subject — scholarly articles and
> books are excellent, although more informal sources are welcome, as well.
>
> I am specifically familiar with the possibility of using blockchain
> technology to decentralize/distribute the web, a very current idea. While
> this and other proposed "Web 3.0" developments are interesting to me, right
> now I am specifically focusing on historical predecessors that underscore
> the visionary potential (and possible pitfalls) of the notion of a
> decentralized/distributed web.
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> All the best,
>
> Emma
>
> *Emma Stamm, MS*
> *PhD student, ASPECT Virginia Tech*
> *www.realyou.me <http://www.realyou.me> | @turing_tests*
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