Dear SIGCIS members, I am looking for studies in the reception history of computing, ca. 1940-1960, that are based on evidence from widely available demotic sources, chiefly newspapers and magazines, in N America and Europe. I'm wanting to understand the social and political conditions ordinary people (including academics when they were at home) encountered day to day that would have conditioned their reactions and inclinations. Within academia those I'm focused on would not be the insiders, rather their curious or indifferent or back-turned sceptical colleagues. Many thanks for any references or hints of where to look. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, King's College London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist www.mccarty.org.uk