<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>For some wonderful reference, historical, and foundation material for lectures you should look at The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computers (revised 1993, MIT press) which can still be ordered at a very reasonable price compared to most text books. It provides a lot of material on work done before CMC in many fields that was relevant as well as some ways of thinking about the technology you will not find in most places as well as all the very early work that most students never hear about. The authors were Hiltz and turoff and the original edition was 1978. The 1993 as a new chapter summarizing the next 15 years. the cost benefit analysis done in the book seems to have been forgotten and serves as a very good lecture. So does the early related work in psychology and sociology. The interesting aspect were the predictions in the issue of the Boswash times that began every chapter some of which came true and some which have not yet come true. It sets a nice tone for the students to try making predictions about what might be the next prediction beyond current systems. -- Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff Visiting Scholar Carlos III University, Madrid Spain Nov. 2010 - May 2011