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== Literature on (social) history of the Internet==
A reading list compiled by Polina Kolozaridi from recommendations from members of the [http://aoir.org/ Association of Internet Researchers]

* Abbate, J. (2000). Inventing the internet. MIT press.

* Abbate, J. (2001). Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet.*Business History Review*, *75*(01), 147-176.

* Anderson, J. Q. (2005). Imagining the Internet: Personalities, predictions, perspectives. Rowman & Littlefield.

* Barbrook R, Cameron A (1997) [http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/theory-californianideology-main.html The Californian Ideology]. Hypermedia Research Centre, University of Westminster. 

* Berners-Lee, T., Fischetti, M., & Foreword By-Dertouzos, M. L. (2000). [https://vk.com/doc185399367_297636844 Weaving the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor]. HarperInformation. 

* Briggs, A., & Burke, P. (2010). [https://books.google.ru/books?id=h-kPKFfbMhEC&printsec=frontcover&hl=ru&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Social history of the media: From Gutenberg to the Internet]. Polity.

* Brunton, F. (2013). *Spam: a shadow history of the Internet*. Mit Press.

* Chu, B. (2014). Stephanie Ricker Schulte, [http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/2579/1056 Cached Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture]

* Driscoll, K. (2012).[http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol1/iss1/4 From Punched Cards to “Big Data”: A Social History of Database Populism]. communication +1, 

* Driscoll, Kevin. [http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/444362/rec/2 Hobbyist Inter-Networking and the Popular Internet Imaginary: Forgotten Histories of Networked Personal Computing, 1978-1998].Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2014.

* Flichy, P. (2004). The imaginary internet: how Utopian fantasy shaped the making of a new information infrastructure. *Business and Economic History*, *2*, 1-1.

* Flichy, P. (2007). The internet imaginaire. Mit Press.

* Guice, J. (1998). Looking backward and forward at the Internet. *The Information Society*, *14*(3), 201-211.

* Hafner, K., & Lyon, M. (1998). [ftp://ftp.fixme.ch/free_for_all/Ebook/IT%20eBooks/Entertainment/Fiction/Origins%20of%20the%20Internet,%20Where%20the%20Wizards%20Stay%20Up%20Late.pdf Where wizards stay up late: The origins of the Internet]*. Simon and Schuster.

* Hauben, M., & Hauben, R. (1997). [http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120 Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet]. Los Alamitos, Calif.

* Horner, J. R. (2010). Book Review: Patrice Flichy The Internet Imaginaire, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2007; 255 pp.: 109780262062619, US $29.95 (hbk). *New Media & Society*, *12*(2), 331-334.

* Levy, S. (2001). *Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution* (Vol. 4). New York: Penguin Books.

* Lewis, M. (1999). *The new new thing: a Silicon Valley story*. WW Norton & Company.

* Mansell, R. (2012). *Imagining the Internet: Communication, innovation, and governance*. Oxford University Press.

* Mosco V (2004) The Digital Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

* Shahin, J. (2006). A European history of the Internet. *Science and Public Policy*,*33*(9), 681-693.

* Sterling, B. (2014). *The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier*. Bookpubber.

* Thomas, G., & Wyatt, S. (1999). Shaping cyberspace—Interpreting and transforming the Internet. *Research Policy*, *28*(7), 681-698.

* Turner, F. (2010). *From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism*. University Of Chicago Press.

* Woolgar S (2002) Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality. New York: Oxford University Press

Added by Scott MacLeod:

* Manuel Castells, "The Rise of the Network Society,” 2 nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, chapter 1: "The Information Technology Revolution,” pp.28-76

* Janet Abbate "Inventing the Internet,” Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, pages 1-6, 44-81, and 181-220.

* Eric S. Raymond "The cathedral & the bazaar. Musings on Linux and opensource by an accidental revolutionary," Sebastopol, Ca: O'Reilly, 1999, pages 7 - 78.

* Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia "Net-Surfers don't ride alone: virtual communities as communities," on Barry Wellman (editor) "Networks in the global village,” Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, pp. 331-366

=== Repositories and other media ===

* [http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi SIGCIS Syllabus Repository], 
* [http://www.sigcis.org/resources SIGCIS History Resources], 
* [https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary BBS documentary] by Jason Scott (proprietor of textfiles.com) that focuses on early dial-up systems, mainly in North America:
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130831184519/http://ir14.aoir.org/preconference-workshops/preconference-workshop-appropriating-the-internet-alternative-comparative-histories/ Appropriating the Internet: Alternative & Comparative Histories] R14, Denver, CO, USA, 2013
* [http://tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/current Internet Histories] Current edition of scholarly journal (Taylor & Francis Online)

==Articles==
*[https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol] Tim Gihring - Aug 16 2016
* [https://aeon.co/essays/how-nuclear-fears-helped-inspire-creation-of-the-internet Web of war] 'How the hair-trigger nuclear age and fears of Armageddon inspired visionary cold warriors to invent the internet' Sharon Weinberger, AEON 09 March, 2017
* [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-the-1960s-telegraph-poles-were-equipped-with-nuclear-bomb-alarms In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms] ...and how that led Paul Baran at RAND to "to propose a network of distributed communication—an idea that evolved into the military’s revolutionary ARPANET and matured to become the internet."  Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura, Jan 11, 2017

==Videos==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QUrkRtC2Js The History of Internet Governance] By Wolfgang Kleinwächter. EuroSSIG briefing 2015.

* [http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9734 A History of the Internet – Dave Farber] ISOC-NY Chapterthon keynote - Nov 25 2017