what sources do you use for a "history of the Internet"?
Hello all, I have run into this problem, yet again, and am still looking for a solution. I'm writing a (very brief) history of the Internet for an article. I have the following sources, which a) seem outdated and b) not sufficiently scholarly. Leiner, B. et al. 1997. ""The Past and Future History of the Internet." Communications of the ACM, February 1997. Berners-Lee, Tim. 1998, "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History", Retrieved July 9, 2009, 2009 ( http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html). World Wide Web Consortium. 2007, "A Little History of the World Wide Web", Retrieved February 19, 2007 (http://www.w3.org/History.html). Can anyone point me in the direction of either more recent or more scholarly sources? I wrestle with using Wikipedia (as many have discussed on this list in the past). I would prefer, at the very least, a pre-press paper from a scholar. Any help much appreciated. s. -- ~~~~~ Sam Ladner, PhD Sociologist Toronto
Dear Sam Maybe not exactly what you asked for, but ... Berners-Lee, T. (2000). *Weaving the Web<http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=471> *. New York: HarperCollins. Copeland, B. J. (2006). “The Modern History of Computing<http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=332>”. In *The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy**, Summer 2006 Edition*. Retrieved July 10, 2006 from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2006/entries/computing-history Hafner, K. & Lyon, M. (1996). *Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet <http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=771>*. New York: Touchstone. Himanen, P. (2001). *The hacker ethic and the spirit of the information age*. Random House Inc. New York, NY, USA Levy, S. (1984). *Hackers. Heroes of the computer revolution<http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=59> *. Champaign: Project Gutenberg. Raymond, E. S. (1999). *The Cathedral & the Bazaar<http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=149> *. (revised edition: original edition 1999). Sebastopol: O’Reilly. Zakon, R. H. (2006). *Hobbes Internet Timeline<http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=757> *. Version 8.2. North Conway: Zakon.org. Retrieved October 07, 2007 from http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Ben Peters (http://www.columbia.edu/~bjp2108/blog/index.html<http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ebjp2108/blog/index.html>) is doing research on this topic. He might be a good one to ask (Ben, are you reading this?). All the best, Ismael Peña-López ICTlogy.net Public Policies for Development and ICT4D School of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia
Ismael & AoIRs, Thanks for your interesting web site with multiple references. I see from your web site that one of your areas of research is the "digital divide." What papers, links, and references, and in particular, books, would you, and others, recommend for study about the digital divide? Thanks. Regards, Scott Scott MacLeod http://scottmacleod.com http://worlduniversity.wikia.com (Presentation at the Second Life Community Conference in San Francisco, on Thursday, August 13, about World University and School).
Hi Scott, My previous message with the 7 references I gave can be directly accessed by browsing the "History" category on my bibliographic manager: http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/types_categories.php?idcat=42 If you're asking for digital divide, I'd suggest browsing the "Digital Divide", "ICT4D" or "e-Readiness" categories: http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/types_categories.php?idcat=23 http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/types_categories.php?idcat=4 http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/types_categories.php?idcat=21 or directly go to the page where all the categories/tags are listed and pick your own choice: http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/types_categories_list.php If you think there's too many info in there, just write me off-list and I can give you better advice depending or your needs/interests (or do it on-list if everyone agrees). :) Ismael Peña-López ICTlogy.net Public Policies for Development and ICT4D School of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:11 PM, <scott@scottmacleod.com> wrote:
Ismael & AoIRs,
Thanks for your interesting web site with multiple references.
I see from your web site that one of your areas of research is the "digital divide."
What papers, links, and references, and in particular, books, would you, and others, recommend for study about the digital divide? Thanks.
Regards, Scott
Scott MacLeod http://scottmacleod.com http://worlduniversity.wikia.com (Presentation at the Second Life Community Conference in San Francisco, on Thursday, August 13, about World University and School).
Mack C. Shelley, Lisa Thrane, and Stuart W. Shulman, “Lost in Cyberspace: Barriers to Bridging the Digital Divide in e-Politics,” International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management Vol. 4, No. 3 (2006), 228-243. Mack C. Shelley, Lisa E. Thrane, and Stuart W. Shulman, “Generational Differences in Informational Technology Use and Political Involvement,” International Journal of Electronic Government Research Vol. 2, No. 1 (2006), 36-53. Sally Beisser, Stuart Shulman, and Teresa Larson, “Closing the Digital Divide with Service Learning,” Academic Exchange Quarterly Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2005), 31-35. Sally Beisser, Stuart Shulman and Teresa Larson, “Empowerment through Service-Learning: Teaching Technology to Senior Citizens,” The Innovation Journal Vol. 10, No. 1 (2005), 1-13. Lisa E. Thrane, Mack C. Shelley, and Stuart W. Shulman, Sally Beisser, Teresa Larson, “e-Political Empowerment: Age Effects or Attitudinal Barriers?” Journal of E-Government Vol. 1, No. 4 (2004), 21-37. Mack Shelley, Lisa Thrane, Stuart Shulman, Evette Lang, Sally Beisser, Teresa Larson, and James Mutiti, “Digital Citizenship: Parameters of the Digital Divide,” Social Science Computer Review, 22, 2 (2004), 256-269.
While not necessarily scholarly, the Vanity Fair collection of oral histories concerning the internet does provide some primary material that you might find useful. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/07/internet200807 Best, Jennifer On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Sam Ladner <samladner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I have run into this problem, yet again, and am still looking for a solution. I'm writing a (very brief) history of the Internet for an article. I have the following sources, which a) seem outdated and b) not sufficiently scholarly.
Leiner, B. et al. 1997. ""The Past and Future History of the Internet." Communications of the ACM, February 1997. Berners-Lee, Tim. 1998, "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History", Retrieved July 9, 2009, 2009 ( http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html). World Wide Web Consortium. 2007, "A Little History of the World Wide Web", Retrieved February 19, 2007 (http://www.w3.org/History.html).
Can anyone point me in the direction of either more recent or more scholarly sources? I wrestle with using Wikipedia (as many have discussed on this list in the past). I would prefer, at the very least, a pre-press paper from a scholar.
Any help much appreciated. s.
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I would recommend this book: Abbate, J. (2000) Inventing the Internet, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. For a broader history of commuting, I quite like this one: Ceruzzi, P. (2003) A History of Modern Computing, 2nd edition, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. - yuri On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Sam Ladner<samladner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I have run into this problem, yet again, and am still looking for a solution. I'm writing a (very brief) history of the Internet for an article. I have the following sources, which a) seem outdated and b) not sufficiently scholarly.
Leiner, B. et al. 1997. ""The Past and Future History of the Internet." Communications of the ACM, February 1997. Berners-Lee, Tim. 1998, "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History", Retrieved July 9, 2009, 2009 ( http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html). World Wide Web Consortium. 2007, "A Little History of the World Wide Web", Retrieved February 19, 2007 (http://www.w3.org/History.html).
Can anyone point me in the direction of either more recent or more scholarly sources? I wrestle with using Wikipedia (as many have discussed on this list in the past). I would prefer, at the very least, a pre-press paper from a scholar.
Any help much appreciated. s.
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This is sort of cool <http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/> ...peace...richard On 7/20/09 8:28 AM, "Sam Ladner" <samladner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I have run into this problem, yet again, and am still looking for a solution. I'm writing a (very brief) history of the Internet for an article. I have the following sources, which a) seem outdated and b) not sufficiently scholarly.
Leiner, B. et al. 1997. ""The Past and Future History of the Internet." Communications of the ACM, February 1997. Berners-Lee, Tim. 1998, "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History", Retrieved July 9, 2009, 2009 ( http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html). World Wide Web Consortium. 2007, "A Little History of the World Wide Web", Retrieved February 19, 2007 (http://www.w3.org/History.html).
Can anyone point me in the direction of either more recent or more scholarly sources? I wrestle with using Wikipedia (as many have discussed on this list in the past). I would prefer, at the very least, a pre-press paper from a scholar.
Any help much appreciated. s.
-- Richard H. Hall, PhD Professor, Information Science and Technology Missouri University of Science and Technology http://mst.edu/~rhall
Dear AoIR, I've added many of the references and links from this thread to http://webnographers.org http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Videos As a wiki, webnographers.org is open to all of us to post. Best, Scott Scott MacLeod http://scottmacleod.com http://worlduniversity.wikia.com (Presentation at the Second Life Community Conference in San Francisco, on Thursday, August 13, about World University and School).
Thank you to everyone who replied to my request! Your help is much appreciated. Regards, Sam
Hi, Perhaps the Internet history research most important (with hundreds of interviews to internet pioneers over the world): (abstract in english): http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/TDX-1104104-101718/index_cs.html The researcher is Catalan, works in Standord. an is friend of Vinton Cerf, Mockapetris, and dozens of Internet Pioneers that he interviewed for his dosctoral thesis. More info abou he and his research (in progress still): http://www.veabaro.info/default-e.htm -- ------------------------------------------------- Josep Vives Jounou http://josepvives.cat josep.vives@gmail.com http://www.cibersociedad.net jvives@cibersociedad.net ------------------------------------------------- 2009/7/20 Sam Ladner <samladner@gmail.com>
Hello all,
I have run into this problem, yet again, and am still looking for a solution. I'm writing a (very brief) history of the Internet for an article. I have the following sources, which a) seem outdated and b) not sufficiently scholarly.
Leiner, B. et al. 1997. ""The Past and Future History of the Internet." Communications of the ACM, February 1997. Berners-Lee, Tim. 1998, "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History", Retrieved July 9, 2009, 2009 ( http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html). World Wide Web Consortium. 2007, "A Little History of the World Wide Web", Retrieved February 19, 2007 (http://www.w3.org/History.html).
Can anyone point me in the direction of either more recent or more scholarly sources? I wrestle with using Wikipedia (as many have discussed on this list in the past). I would prefer, at the very least, a pre-press paper from a scholar.
Any help much appreciated. s.
-- ~~~~~ Sam Ladner, PhD Sociologist Toronto _______________________________________________ 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
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-- ------------------------------------------------- Josep Vives Jounou http://josepvives.cat josep.vives@gmail.com http://www.cibersociedad.net jvives@cibersociedad.net -------------------------------------------------
participants (8)
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Ismael Peña-López -
Jennifer deWinter -
Josep Vives -
richard hall -
Sam Ladner -
scott＠scottmacleod.com -
Stuart Shulman -
Yuri Takhteyev