Ah - Campbell-Kelly, M., & Aspray, W. (1996). Computer: A history of the information machine. New York: Basic Books. 2nd edition 2004. Is pretty clear about the industrial-military precedents. Likewise Abbate, Janet. (2000). Inventing the internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. In particular, technological advances during WWII were then harnessed to commercial enterprises (see histories of IBM) My own modest contribution in this area: Rall, Denise N. 2006. “The ‘house that Dick built’: Constructing the team that built the bomb” Research Note: Social Studies of Science 36: 943-957. Cheers, Denise Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Arts & Social Sciences Chair of Textiles stream, Secretary-in-Waiting, Popular Culture Australia-New Zealand Currently in Lismore, NSW, Australia Phones - Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 Fax +(61)(0)2 6624 5380 ________________________________ From: Kevin Driscoll <kedrisco@usc.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; rawbird@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 17 May 2013 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet Historiography Hi Adam, On Thu, 16 May 2013 17:29:26 +0100, Adam Fish <rawbird@gmail.com> wrote:
Anybody know of articles or books analysing 1) the political historiography of the internet. Who has criticized the historiography of the internet as being written for political gain?
These are really interesting questions. Back in 1998, Roy Rosenzweig wrote a round up of recently published histories of the internet (including Hafner & Lyon, Norberg & O'Neill, and Edwards.) Not only is it an excellent integrative review but I found it helpful for reconstructing the stakes of telling different stories about the internet at that particular moment. Rosenzweig, Roy. "Wizards, bureaucrats, warriors, and hackers: Writing the history of the Internet." The American Historical Review 103, no. 5 (1998): 1530-1552. You might also look into the various documents produced by the FCC regarding the National Broadband Plan: http://www.broadband.gov/ I'm tracing some similar ground in my diss research right now. Looking forward to hearing more about what you turn up. Kevin Driscoll PhD candidate Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/