[Air-L] advice on course readings

Christopher Leslie chris.leslie at nyu.edu
Wed Nov 16 10:14:35 PST 2016


Dear Adriana,

I would add that the the Haubens' Netizens: On the History and Impact of
Usenet and the Internet offers good insight into the aspirations of the
users of Usenet.

Chris Leslie

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Julian Kilker <julian.kilker at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In addition to the excellent recommendations by others, may I recommend
> taking a look at my article that examines the socio-technical construction
> of early email? It was published by The Charles Babbage Institute’s
> unfortunately short-lived Iterations journal, and is available here:
> http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/kilker.pdf.
>
> Many of the article’s findings continue to be relevant for internet and
> society courses.
>
> Best regards,
>
> —Julian
>
>
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>
> On 2016-10-19 12:22 PM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org <mailto:
> air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> > Re: [Air-L] advice on course readings
>
> m teaching a graduate seminar for MS and PhD students called “internet and
> society” next spring.
>
> I’m looking for good readings (book chapters and/or journal articles) on
> two subjects:
> - history of asynchronous communication platforms (USENET, BBS, blogs,
> wikis, etc.)
> - history of synchronous communication platforms (MUDs, chat environments,
> etc.)
>
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Christopher S. Leslie, Ph.D.
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