literature on (social) history of the Internet
Dear all, I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just history of the Internet). Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it? gratefully, Polina Kolozaridi *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow* *researcher, PhD candidate*
Hi, Depends on the period and what you are looking for. But I like Hafner's book Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet (1998) http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674 Mathias On 02/08/15 15:56 pm, Polina Kolozaridi wrote:
Dear all,
I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just history of the Internet).
Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it?
gratefully, Polina Kolozaridi *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow* *researcher, PhD candidate* _______________________________________________ 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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Hi.... Again... depending on how far back you want to go... one of my favorites is Stephen Levy's Hackers.... about the MIT Hacker club that evolved out of the model train hobbyists.... :S Many of them also started out as "phreakers".... who built "blue boxes" to make free phone calls... and ultimately, connect with each other.... Another favorite book of mine, (unfortunately, out of print now) was about the "Home Brew Club".... this is where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met.... and started their collaboration.... also Bill Gates and his crew.... :S Hobbyists would meet to build and experiment with different combinations of units and equipment.... trade ideas.... buy and sell.... collaborate and compete.... Once modems became available, a network of computer bulletin boards popped up everywhere.... exchanging ideas, equipment, files, etc.... :S When the Internet did finally open up (around 1992), these networks simply migrated onto the Internet..... Once Mosaic came out as browser (quickly replacing Lynx, which was only a text-based browser), the Web was born.... :) Hope that helps...! :) NE..... =========================== Nicole English, PhD Sociology/Psychology EnglishN@umkc.edu Faculty, PACE University of Missouri-- Kansas City (UMKC) =========================== ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Mathias Klang [mathiasklang@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 3:08 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] literature on (social) history of the Internet Hi, Depends on the period and what you are looking for. But I like Hafner's book Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet (1998) http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674 Mathias On 02/08/15 15:56 pm, Polina Kolozaridi wrote:
Dear all,
I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just history of the Internet).
Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it?
gratefully, Polina Kolozaridi *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow* *researcher, PhD candidate* _______________________________________________ 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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I’d suggest Abbate’s “Inventing the Internet”. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-internet From the MIT Press page: Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.
On Aug 2, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Polina Kolozaridi <poli.kolozaridi@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just history of the Internet).
Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it?
gratefully, Polina Kolozaridi *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow* *researcher, PhD candidate* _______________________________________________ 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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------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
I would recommend Stephanie Ricker Schulte¹s ³Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture. Here is the link to a book review published in IJoc: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/2579/1056 Also, Fred Turner¹s ³From Counter Culture to Cyber Culture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.² A review of the book from the NYT can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html?pagewanted=all Nora Nora A. Draper Assistant Professor of Communication University of New Hampshire 20 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824 On 8/2/15, 6:09 PM, "Air-L on behalf of Nathaniel Poor" <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of natpoor@gmail.com> wrote:
I¹d suggest Abbate¹s ³Inventing the Internet².
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-internet
From the MIT Press page: Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.
On Aug 2, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Polina Kolozaridi <poli.kolozaridi@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just history of the Internet).
Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it?
gratefully, Polina Kolozaridi *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow* *researcher, PhD candidate* _______________________________________________ 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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I´d suggest this: - The new new thing by Michael Lewis - The hacker crackdown by Bruce Sterling - Weaving the web by Tim Berners-Lee Best, Alejandro Tortolini University of San Andrés 2015-08-02 19:18 GMT-03:00 Draper, Nora <Nora.Draper@unh.edu>:
I would recommend Stephanie Ricker Schulte¹s ³Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture. Here is the link to a book review published in IJoc: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/2579/1056
Also, Fred Turner¹s ³From Counter Culture to Cyber Culture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.² A review of the book from the NYT can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html?pagewanted=all
Nora
Nora A. Draper Assistant Professor of Communication University of New Hampshire 20 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824
On 8/2/15, 6:09 PM, "Air-L on behalf of Nathaniel Poor" <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of natpoor@gmail.com> wrote:
I¹d suggest Abbate¹s ³Inventing the Internet².
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-internet
From the MIT Press page: Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.
On Aug 2, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Polina Kolozaridi <poli.kolozaridi@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just history of the Internet).
Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it?
gratefully, Polina Kolozaridi *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow* *researcher, PhD candidate* _______________________________________________ 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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Hi.... All great suggestions... all great reads too.... :) But wasn't the originally inquiry about a "social" history of the Internet... rather than technical...? :S NE..... =========================== Nicole English, PhD Sociology/Psychology EnglishN@umkc.edu Faculty, PACE University of Missouri-- Kansas City (UMKC) =========================== ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Alejandro Tortolini [alemtor@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 5:54 PM To: Draper, Nora Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] literature on (social) history of the Internet I´d suggest this: - The new new thing by Michael Lewis - The hacker crackdown by Bruce Sterling - Weaving the web by Tim Berners-Lee Best, Alejandro Tortolini University of San Andrés 2015-08-02 19:18 GMT-03:00 Draper, Nora <Nora.Draper@unh.edu>:
I would recommend Stephanie Ricker Schulte¹s ³Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture. Here is the link to a book review published in IJoc: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/2579/1056
Also, Fred Turner¹s ³From Counter Culture to Cyber Culture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.² A review of the book from the NYT can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html?pagewanted=all
Nora
Nora A. Draper Assistant Professor of Communication University of New Hampshire 20 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824
On 8/2/15, 6:09 PM, "Air-L on behalf of Nathaniel Poor" <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of natpoor@gmail.com> wrote:
I¹d suggest Abbate¹s ³Inventing the Internet².
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-internet
From the MIT Press page: Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.
On Aug 2, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Polina Kolozaridi <poli.kolozaridi@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I am now writing a part of my dissertation about social history of the Internet and looking for some good sources on this subject (or just history of the Internet).
Could you please suggest me some articles/books about it?
gratefully, Polina Kolozaridi *HSE Higher School of Economics, Moscow* *researcher, PhD candidate* _______________________________________________ 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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