Week Eight - Cyberspace + the Web
Class Materials:
Abbate, J. (2002). The electrical century: Inventing the Web. Proceedings of the IEEE, 87(11), 1999-2002.
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Brautović, M. (2023). The first propaganda war through computer networks: STEM academia and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Internet histories, 7(2), 179-198.
Brock, A. (2011). Beyond the pale: The Blackbird web browser’s critical reception. New Media & Society, 13(7), 1085-1103.
Ankerson, M. S. (2018). Dot-com design: The rise of a usable, social, commercial web. In Dot-Com Design. New York University Press.
Jones, M. L. (2020). Cookies: a legacy of controversy. Internet Histories, 4(1), 87-104.
RFC “Internet Glossary” (1993)
Coleman, G. “Hacker” in Digital Keywords
Brunton, F. (2015). Spam: A shadow history of the Internet. Mit Press.
Hauben, R., & Hauben, M. (1995). On the early days of Usenet: The roots of the cooperative online culture. Usenet posting: comp. dcom. telecom.
Hafner, K. (1997) The saga of The Well. Wired.
Confessions of a Webback (1997)
Joyce, C. (1997) Race matters in cyberspace, too. Salon.
Brin, S., & Page, L. (1998). The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine. Computer networks and ISDN systems, 30(1-7), 107-117.
Patchwork Girl by Eastgate Systems (will distribute individually, just let me know you want it)
Golumbia, D. (2024). Cyberlibertarianism: The right-wing politics of digital technology. U of Minnesota Press.
Reynolds, C. J., & Hallinan, B. (2021). The haunting of GeoCities and the politics of access control on the early web. new media & society, 23(11), 3268-3289.
David, M. (2017). Sharing: crime against capitalism. John Wiley & Sons.
Daub, A. (2020). What tech calls thinking: An inquiry into the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. FSG Originals.
Agre, P. E. (1994). Surveillance and capture: Two models of privacy. The information society, 10(2), 101-127.
Agre, P. (1997). Computation and human experience. Cambridge University Press.
The dumbing down of programming. Salon. (1998)
Borsook, P. (1999) How the internet ruined San Francisco. Salon.
Borsook, P. (1996) The anarchist. Wired.
VNS Matrix Manifesto
Sadie Plant Zeroes+Ones
Essex Hemphill “On the Shores of Cyberspace” @ 23:00 min
Brutal Myths by Sonya Rapoport
