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

[Honghong Tinn]

Hi Paul,

I hope the list (about computing in Asia, Brazil, Europe) below can be useful.

Tinn, Honghong. "Cold War Politics: Taiwanese Computing in the 1950s
and 1960s,” Think Piece column, IEEE Annals of the History of
Computing 32, no. 1 (2010): 92-95

Tinn, Honghong. “From DIY Computers to Illegal Copies: The Controversy
over Tinkering with Microcomputers in Taiwan, 1980-1984.” IEEE Annals
of the History of Computing 33, no.2 (2011): 75-88.

Choi, Hyungsub. “Technology Importation, Corporate Strategies, and the
Rise of the Japanese Semiconductor Industry in the 1950s.” Comparative
Technology Transfer and Society 6, no.2 (2008): 103-26.

Bassett, Ross Knox. “Aligning India in the Cold War Era: Indian
Technical Elites, the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and
Computing in India and the United States.” Technology and Culture 50,
no. 4 (2009): 783-810.

Schlombs, Corinna.  “Toward International Computing History.” IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing 28 no.1 (2006): 107-8.

Schlombs, Corinna. "Engineering International Expansion: IBM and
Remington Rand in European Computer Markets." IEEE Annals of the
History of Computing 30 no. 4 (2008): 42-58

da Costa Marques, Ivan. “Cloning Computers: From Rights of Possession
to Rights of Creation.” Science as Culture 14, no.2 (2005): 139- 60.

Chigusa Kita and Hyungsub Choi were/are editing a special issue on the
history of computing in Asia for IEEE Annals of the History of
Computing, but I am not sure if it is out. Lilly Nguyen
(http://www.deuxlits.com/) is working on Vietnam and Ling-Fei Lin is
working on laptop manufacturing in China and Taiwan. I believe they
have presented in many conferences and might have some texts that can
be assigned for a course.

Best,
Honghong

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:34 AM, mariann unterluggauer
<mariann at nomatic.org> wrote:
> dear paul,
> in regard to your european collection this might also bring some inside:
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> oecd general report, gaps in technology, 1968:  http://netaffair.org/documents/1968-oecd-report-gaps-in-technology.pdf
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> nelson blachman, the state of digital computer technology in europe, 1961, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=366573.366596
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> iiasa conference on computer communication networks, 1974: http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/cgi-bin/pub/pubsrchKK?SWID:CP75007&O,n
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> itu-t anniversary brochure: http://netaffair.org/documents/50-years-itu.pdf
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> many things to add … maybe more at http://netaffair.org/more/  (hmpf, the site needs an update, urgently)
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> all the best,
> mariann
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> On Dec 9, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne at umich.edu> wrote:
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>> Dear colleagues,
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>> 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,
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>> Paul
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>> ___________________________
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>> Paul N. Edwards
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