Computer networks

Last update: 23 Jan 1996 16:12
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We've got computers
We're tapping phone lines
We know that that ain't allowed

Cultural, political, economic effects. Enthusiasts. Utopian hopes (+ Teilhard de Chardin's influence on them). Popular and semi-popular views. Literary and aesthetic qualities.

— In case it wasn't obvious, this notebook hasn't been touched much for many years, and is probably even less valuable than the others, because it's so obsolete; I leave it up here in part to prod myself to come back to the topic and do better. (August 2015)

See also: Computers in Education

Recommended (horribly misc.):
• Phil Agre (ed.), Red Rock Eater mailing-list
• Vaughan Bell, "Online Information, Extreme Communities and Internet Therapy: Is the Internet Good for Our Mental Health?", Journal of Mental Health 16 (2007): 445--457 [Description by Dr. Bell, PDF preprint]
• John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
• Jean-Pierre Eckmann and Elisha Moses, "Curvature of Co-Links Uncovers Hidden Thematic Layers in the World Wide Web," cond-mat/0110338
• Zeynep Tufekci, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

To read:
• Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet
• Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi and Padhraic Smyth, Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms
• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Vincent W. Freeh, Hawoong Jeong and Jay B. Brockman, "Parasitic Computing," Nature 412 (2001): 894--897
• Yochai Benkler, "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm," cs.CY/0109077
• Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, Love Online: Emotions on the Internet
• Finn Brunton, Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
• Horacio Castellini and Lilia Romanelli, "Social network from communities of electronic mail", nlin.CD/0509021
• Rob Frieden, "Revenge of the Bell Heads: How the Net Heads Lost Control of the Internet," cs/0109035
• Wendy Grossman, net.wars [Full-text free online. Now mostly of historical interest... but I was around for that history.]
• Hiltz and Turoff, Network Nation
• Holzmann and Pehrson, Early History of Data Networks (from 1794!)
• Bernardo Huberman, Laws of the Web
• Andrea L. Kavanaugh, "Civic Engagement among Early Internet Adopters: Trend or Phase?" cs.CY/0109087
• Kristina Lerman, "Social Browsing and Information Filtering in Social Media", arxiv:0710.5697
• Filippo Menczer, "Links tell us about lexical and semantic Web content," cs.IR/0108004
• Benjamin Peters, How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
• Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
• Joseph M. Reagle, Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
• Andrew L. Russell, "Ideological and Policy Origins of the Internet, 1957--1969," cs.CY/0109056
• Massimiliano Zanin, "WWW Spiders: an introduction", arxiv:0710.5054

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