http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1996/01/23#computer-networks <blockquote><em>We've got computers <br>We're tapping phone lines <br>We know that that ain't allowed</em></blockquote> Cultural, political, economic effects. Enthusiasts. Utopian hopes (+ <a href="teilhard.html">Teilhard de Chardin</a>'s influence on them). Popular and semi-popular views. <a href="commonwealth-of-letters-online.html">Literary</a> and aesthetic qualities. <ul>Recommended (horribly misc.): <li>Phil Agre (ed.), Red Rock Eater mailing-list <li>Vaughan Bell, "Online Information, Extreme Communities and Internet Therapy: Is the Internet Good for Our Mental Health?", <cite>Journal of Mental Health</cite> <strong>16</strong> (2007): 445--457 [<a href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/08/why_there_is_no_such.html">Description by Dr. Bell</a>, <a href="http://arginine.spc.org/vaughan/Bell_2007_JMH_Preprint.pdf">PDF preprint</a>] <li>John Brunner, <cite>The Shockwave Rider</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Janet Abbate, <cite>Inventing the Internet</cite> <li>Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi and Padhraic Smyth, <citE>Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms</cite> <li>Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Vincent W. Freeh, Hawoong Jeong and Jay B. Brockman, "Parasitic Computing," <cite>Nature</cite> <Strong>412</strong> (2001): 894--897 <li>Yochai Benkler, "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109077">cs.CY/0109077</a> <li>Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, <cite>Love Online: Emotions on the Internet</cite> <li>Horacio Castellini and Lilia Romanelli, "Social network from communities of electronic mail", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.CD/0509021">nlin.CD/0509021</a> <li>Mary Chayko, <cite>Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age</cite> <li>Jean-Pierre Eckmann and Elisha Moses, "Curvature of Co-Links Uncovers Hidden Thematic Layers in the World Wide Web," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0110338">cond-mat/0110338</a> <li>Rob Frieden, "Revenge of the Bell Heads: How the Net Heads Lost Control of the Internet," <a href="http://arXiv.org/abs/cs/0109035">cs/0109035</a> <li>Neil Gandal and Carl Shapiro, "The Effect of Native Language on Internet Usage," <a href="http://arXiv.org/abs/cs/0109009">cs.CY/0109009</a> <li>Wendy Grossman, <cite>net.wars</cite> [Full-text <a href="http://www.nyupress.org/netwars/contents/contents.html">free online</a>. Now mostly of historical interest... but I was around for that history.] <li>Hiltz and Turoff, <cite>Network Nation</cite> <li>Holzmann and Pehrson, <cite>Early History of Data Networks</cite> (from 1794!) <li>Bernardo Huberman, <cite>Laws of the Web</cite> <li>Andrea L. Kavanaugh, "Civic Engagement among Early Internet Adopters: Trend or Phase?" <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109087">cs.CY/0109087</a> <li>Kristina Lerman, "Social Browsing and Information Filtering in Social Media", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5697">arxiv:0710.5697</a> <li>Filippo Menczer, "Links tell us about lexical and semantic Web content," <a href="http://arXiv.org/abs/cs/0108004">cs.IR/0108004</a> <li>Steven Miller, <cite>Civilizing Cyberspace: Policy, Power and the Information Superhighway</cite> [Favorable review by Rob Slade someplace] <li>Andrew L. Russell, " Ideological and Policy Origins of the Internet, 1957--1969," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109056">cs.CY/0109056</a> <li>Tair-Rong Sheu and Kathleen Carley, "Monopoly Power on the Web - A Preliminary Investigation of Search Engines," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109054">cs.CY/0109054</a> <li>William Yurcik and David Doss, "Internet Attacks: A Policy Framework for Rules of Engagement," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109078">cs.CY/0109078</a> <li>Massimiliano Zanin, "WWW Spiders: an introduction", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5054">arxiv:0710.5054</a> </ul>