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 Julian Kilker, Ph.D. Associate professor, Emerging Media Graduate Coordinator Vice Head, AEJMC Visual Communication Division School of Journalism and Media Studies Greenspun Hall The University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Pkwy. Las Vegas, NV 89074-5007 https://faculty.unlv.edu/jkilker | 702.895.3729 On 2016-10-19 12:22 PM, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org <mailto:air-l-request@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.) -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ <http://gabriellacoleman.org/> 514-398-8572