So excited to read this--I already have my copy. Congratulations on the publication of this exciting and timely volume, Joy! Best, Mar ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Associate Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mhicks1@iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing www.programmedinequality.com On Nov 14, 2018, at 12:26 PM, Sweeney, Miriam <mesweeney1@ua.edu> wrote: Congratulations, Joy! What a wonderful contribution to the field! Sincerely, Miriam Miriam E. Sweeney Assistant Professor , School of Library and Information Studies The University of Alabama 527 Gorgas Box 870252 Tuscaloosa , AL office 205-348-1522 mesweeney1@ua.edu | https://slis.ua.edu/
On Nov 14, 2018, at 11:18 AM, drjoy <drjoy@joyrankin.com> wrote:
Dear SIGCIS Colleagues,
I wrote a book!
A People's History of Computing in the United States was published by Harvard University Press last month. It's now available as a hardcover, e-book, and audiobook (also accessible via your Audible subscription) on Amazon and elsewhere. (Today it's just $20.04 on Amazon.) I hope you'll read it, assign it, and share it.
Here's my one-sentence summary: During the 1960s and 1970s American students and educators collaboratively created personal computing and social networking on the academic computing networks they built and used; although developed with a vision of computing for the public good, those networks also retrenched the limited gender roles of the Cold War nuclear family.
Thank you for making the space for me to share, revise, and improve this work starting when I was a graduate student. I've greatly appreciated the support of the SIGCIS community, especially over the past year or so.
Sincerely, Joy
Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin www.joyrankin.com @JoyMLRankin
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