Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my next book about IBM, *Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. *Unlike my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 (*IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon*) this one is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with employees and their families. Columbia University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its $45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada -- James W. Cortada Senior Research Fellow Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota jcortada@umn.edu 608-274-6382
Congratulations, Jim! It’s on our acquisitions list! -- Erik P. Rau, PhD Director, Library Services Hagley Museum & Library P.O. Box 3630, 298 Buck Road Wilmington, DE 19807 302.658.2400, ext. 344 erau@hagley.org<mailto:erau@hagley.org> www.hagley.org<https://www.hagley.org> www.hagleyheritage.com<https://www.hagleyheritage.com> Sign up for Hagley Library’s monthly newsletter<https://hagley.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e3f033f6a8aff23df4ebe8649&id=fcaf9b03d5> to receive the latest research news, collection updates, upcoming events, and more. You can unsubscribe at any time. On 2023.Oct.18, at 09:51 , James Cortada via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>> wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside the Hagley Network. Do not click on any links or attachments if you do not trust the sender of this message. ________________________________ Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my next book about IBM, Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. Unlike my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 (IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon) this one is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with employees and their families. Columbia University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its $45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada -- James W. Cortada Senior Research Fellow Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota jcortada@umn.edu<mailto:jcortada@umn.edu> 608-274-6382 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
Congratulations, Jim! I will certainly acquire your book while I'm in Washington and NY in November – and read it with great interest. Best, Pierre Pierre Mounier-Kuhn CNRS & Sorbonne Université [ https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn | https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn ] [ https://centrerolandmousnier.cnrs.fr/fiche-personnelle-pierre-mounier-kuhn/ | https://centrerolandmousnier.cnrs.fr/fiche-personnelle-pierre-mounier-kuhn/ ] De: "James Cortada via Members" <members@lists.sigcis.org> À: "sigcis" <members@sigcis.org> Envoyé: Mercredi 18 Octobre 2023 15:51:39 Objet: [SIGCIS-Members] New History of IBM Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my next book about IBM, Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. Unlike my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 ( IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon ) this one is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with employees and their families. Columbia University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its $45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada -- James W. Cortada Senior Research Fellow Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota [ mailto:jcortada@umn.edu | jcortada@umn.edu ] 608-274-6382 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
I was fortunate to read this super compelling and insightful book on IBM's corporate culture early, as I did one of its blurbs. Highly recommended and so grateful for our research fellows at CBI! Congratulations Jim!!! ** * * * * ** *Please connect on: **Bluesky* <https://bsky.app/profile/justcodeculture.bsky.social> *Mastodon <https://mastodon.social/@justcodeculture>* *Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-yost-b714566>* *Threads* <https://www.threads.net/> *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. * Director, Charles Babbage Institute <http://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi>; Research Professor, History Sci/Tech/Med 222 21st Avenue South, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN 55455 *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press * Co-Editor *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."* *Blockchain & Society* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com>* (crit. inq. essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader) *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> *Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick) *Committee Member, National Academy of Engineering Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society* *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>* On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:55 AM Pierre Mounier-Kuhn via Members < members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
Congratulations, Jim! I will certainly acquire your book while I'm in Washington and NY in November – and read it with great interest. Best, Pierre
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------------------------------ *De: *"James Cortada via Members" <members@lists.sigcis.org> *À: *"sigcis" <members@sigcis.org> *Envoyé: *Mercredi 18 Octobre 2023 15:51:39 *Objet: *[SIGCIS-Members] New History of IBM
Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my next book about IBM, *Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. *Unlike my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 (*IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon*) this one is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with employees and their families. Columbia University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its $45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada
-- James W. Cortada Senior Research Fellow Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota jcortada@umn.edu 608-274-6382
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Congratulations, Jim. I look forward to reading your book. On a related note, I see that the IBM facilities in Endicott, long a vacant and depressing site, have now been repurposed as a facility for the manufacture of Lithium-ion batteries. The best news I've heard about the Endicott region in years: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/binghamton/news/2022/08/02/exclusive-look-... Best, Paul Ceruzzi ________________________________ From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of James Cortada via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 9:51 AM To: sigcis <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] New History of IBM External Email - Exercise Caution Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my next book about IBM, Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. Unlike my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 (IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon) this one is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with employees and their families. Columbia University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its $45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada -- James W. Cortada Senior Research Fellow Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota jcortada@umn.edu<mailto:jcortada@umn.edu> 608-274-6382
A very timely note, Paul. I see that IBM's final lease at 1701 North St, Endicott expires *today*, October 31, 2023: https://www.pressconnects.com/story/money/2023/05/02/ibm-leaving-endicott-ny... When I was with IBM, I visited the Endicott site a couple of times for discussions with the team responsible for networking software on the AS/400 series machines. That was just about the nicest, friendliest team I encountered anywhere in IBM. There was great pride in the very elegant OS/400 operating system, which was rather innovative with its virtualized platform-independent design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i). Regards Brian Carpenter On 31-Oct-23 03:15, Ceruzzi, Paul via Members wrote:
Congratulations, Jim. I look forward to reading your book. On a related note, I see that the IBM facilities in Endicott, long a vacant and depressing site, have now been repurposed as a facility for the manufacture of Lithium-ion batteries. The best news I've heard about the Endicott region in years:
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/binghamton/news/2022/08/02/exclusive-look-... <https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/binghamton/news/2022/08/02/exclusive-look-inside-first-lithium-ion-battery-factory>
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Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my next book about IBM, /Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. /Unlike my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 (/IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon/) this one is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with employees and their families. Columbia University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its $45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada
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Dear colleagues, This book will be a must-read for many of us. By the way, would someone know how to contact IBM's Archives in Yorktown Heights? I am about to set sail for NY and Washington, DC, and wish to consult IBM records. Yet this @dress doesn't seem to function: < jamielmartin@us.ibm.com >: host mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com[ [ callto:148.163.158.5 | 148.163.158.5 ] ] said: 550 5.1.1 User Unknown Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn De: "James Cortada via Members" <members@lists.sigcis.org> À: "sigcis" <members@sigcis.org> Envoyé: Mercredi 18 Octobre 2023 15:51:39 Objet: [SIGCIS-Members] New History of IBM Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my next book about IBM, Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. Unlike my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 ( IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon ) this one is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with employees and their families. Columbia University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its $45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada -- James W. Cortada Senior Research Fellow Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota [ mailto:jcortada@umn.edu | jcortada@umn.edu ] 608-274-6382 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
Pierre, Your question set me off on a Google quest, and it seems that something is badly broken in the IBM archives area - so many broken links - I wonder if all the curators have been sent packing. For example, at https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/using/index.html the links to "IBM100", "Multimedia", "Terms and conditions" and even "Helpful links" are broken. Regards Brian Carpenter On 04-Nov-23 05:41, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn via Members wrote:
Dear colleagues, This book will be a must-read for many of us.
By the way, would someone know how to contact IBM's Archives in Yorktown Heights? I am about to set sail for NY and Washington, DC, and wish to consult IBM records. Yet this @dress doesn't seem to function: <jamielmartin@us.ibm.com>: host mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com[148.163.158.5 <callto:148.163.158.5>] said: 550 5.1.1 User Unknown Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
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Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my next book about IBM, /Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. /Unlike my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 (/IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon/) this one is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with employees and their families. Columbia University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its $45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada
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