Hi, So here are some recommendations: Amazing piece on Usenet and early battles that led to establishment of a free speech ethic is "If I Want It, It's OK": Usenet and the (Outer) Limits of Free Speech http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/019722496129350 Early history of the Internet that juxtaposes 4 books on the internet to come up with some more convincing arguments about the internet than each book = http://www.pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/ahrcwreview.pdf Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet Roy Rosenzweig Kevin Driscoll has also done some great work on early networking http://kevindriscoll.info/ And there is an 8 part documentary on the BBS by Jason Scott that is quite good http://bbsdocumentary.com/ Big fan of Bruce Sterling's chapter on the BBS and hackers in the Hacker Crackdown as well. Maxigas is working on a huge history of IRC (but I don't think he has yet to publish anything and yes, he publishes with only his first name). Lucas Grave's piece on blogs is quite good https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=zYci-J... The Affordances of Blogging A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects <http://jci.sagepub.com/content/31/4/331.short> Finally Julian Dibbells piece on Muds, and a rape in cyberspace = classic. All best, Gabriella On 2016-10-19 12:22 PM, 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/ 514-398-8572