Computer networks

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.

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

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
• Horacio Castellini and Lilia Romanelli, "Social network from communities of electronic mail", nlin.CD/0509021
• Mary Chayko, Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age
• Jean-Pierre Eckmann and Elisha Moses, "Curvature of Co-Links Uncovers Hidden Thematic Layers in the World Wide Web," cond-mat/0110338
• Rob Frieden, "Revenge of the Bell Heads: How the Net Heads Lost Control of the Internet," cs/0109035
• Neil Gandal and Carl Shapiro, "The Effect of Native Language on Internet Usage," cs.CY/0109009
• 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
• Steven Miller, Civilizing Cyberspace: Policy, Power and the Information Superhighway [Favorable review by Rob Slade someplace]
• Andrew L. Russell, " Ideological and Policy Origins of the Internet, 1957--1969," cs.CY/0109056
• Tair-Rong Sheu and Kathleen Carley, "Monopoly Power on the Web - A Preliminary Investigation of Search Engines," cs.CY/0109054
• William Yurcik and David Doss, "Internet Attacks: A Policy Framework for Rules of Engagement," cs.CY/0109078
• Massimiliano Zanin, "WWW Spiders: an introduction", arxiv:0710.5054