[SIGCIS-Members] Query re. readings on global history of computing

Tue Dec 9 17:07:35 PST 2014

Less historical, but I am wondering if Ulf Mellstrom and Vivian
Lagesen's work on computing in Malaysia may be of interest.

Lagesen, Vivian.  A Cyberfeminist Utopia? : Perceptions of Gender and
Computer Science among Malaysian Women Computer Science Students and
Faculty. Science Technology Human Values 2008 33: 5

Ulf Mellström. The Intersection of Gender, Race and Cultural
Boundaries, or Why is Computer Science in Malaysia Dominated by Women?
 Social Studies of Science 2009; 39; 885

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Christina Dunbar-Hester
Author of Low Power to the People, MIT Press

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Ben Peters <bjpeters at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
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> What a great list and exercise!
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> My list is definitely cybernetic-focused, but I suspect Yale's Access to
> Knowledge book case studies on India, Egypt, and Brazil may have some
> helpful material.
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> http://isp.yale.edu/access-knowledge/books
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> For the more historical, here are a few more, in addition to Peter Collopy's
> helpful bibliography on cybernetics:
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> (England) Pickering, Andrew. 2010. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another
> Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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> (France) Segal, Jérôme. 2003. Le Zéro Et Le Un: Histoire De La Notion
> Scientifique D’information Au 20e Siécle. France: Editions Syllepse.
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> (Chile) Medina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries : Technology and
> Politics in Allende’s Chile. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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> (Comparative) David Mindell, Jérôme Segal, and Slava Gerovitch, “From
> Communications Engineering to Communications Science: Cybernetics and
> Information Theory in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union,” in
> Science and Ideology: A Comparative History, edited by Mark Walker
> (Routledge, 2003).
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> I hope others may someday add my own book, The Soviet Internet, to such a
> list. First I just need to publish it! :) (Look for it late 2015 or early
> 2016 from MIT.)
>
> Ben
>
> petersbenjamin.wordpress.com
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> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne at umich.edu> wrote:
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>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> I’m putting together an upper-level undergrad course on “Computers and the
>> Internet: A Global History,” and I would really appreciate suggestions for
>> my course reading list.
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>> I’m intrigued by the opportunity created by recent scholarship to look at
>> regions of the world usually left out of the traditional US-UK story.
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>> I am looking for well-written, short (or readily excerptable) work that
>> will appeal to an audience of juniors and seniors, some from History and
>> some from the iSchool.
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>> I’m particularly looking for refs on Africa, Asia, and South America. I’m
>> interested in video as well as writing, and accessible primary source
>> collections too. Period is from Babbage to the present.
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>> Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK
>> oriented material)
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>> Campbell-Kelly, Aspray, and Ensmenger, Computer
>> Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries
>> Cortada, Digital Flood
>> Edwards and Hecht, “History and the Technopolitics of Identity: The Case
>> of Apartheid South Africa”
>> Jenkin, "Talking to Vula: The Story of the Secret Underground
>> Communications Network of Operation Vula."
>> Shapard, “Islands in the (Data)Stream: Language, Character Codes, and
>> Electronic Isolation in Japan”
>> Takhteyev, Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City
>> (Brazil)
>> Gerovitch, “‘Mathematical Machines’ of the Cold War: Soviet Computing,
>> American Cybernetics and Ideological Disputes in the Early 1950s.”
>> Gerovitch. “Internyet: Why the Soviet Union Did Not Build a Nationwide
>> Computer Network.”
>> De Lacy, Justine. 1989. "The Sexy Computer.” (on Minitel)
>> McHenry and Goodman, “MIS in Soviet Industrial Enterprises: The Limits of
>> Reform from Above” (1986, CACM)
>> Flamm, “Government and Computers in Japan and Europe,” from Targeting the
>> Computer
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>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> ___________________________
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>> Paul N. Edwards
>> Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan
>> A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global
>> Warming (MIT Press, 2010)
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