Query re. readings on global history of computing
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. 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. 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. 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. Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material) 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 Best, Paul ___________________________ 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) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing) University of Michigan School of Information 4437 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu
Dear Paul Edwards, Probably these two references could be of interest for your project: Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms Gerard Goggin,Mark McLelland Establishing the Internet in Costa Rica: Co-optation and the Closure of Technological Controversies Ignacio Siles http://isiles.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Siles_TIS_2012_web.pdf Best regards, Valérie Schafer Le 9 déc. 2014 à 22:04, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> a écrit :
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material)
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
Best,
Paul
___________________________
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)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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Dear Paul, from our Hacking Europe book three chapters suit the purpose of being on internet outside US/UK, readible by students and readily excerptable: Bruno Jakic on 'Galaxy and the new wave; Yugoslav computer culture in the 1980s' (suits also well as a baisis for further research on OTPOR and the internet during Yugoslav wars). Kai Denker on the German Chaos Computer Club 'Heroes yet Criminals' and most relevant of all the article by Caroline Nevejan and Alec Badenoch on DDS, the digital city 'How Amsterdam invented the internet: European networks of significance' Kind regards, Gerard ________________________________ Van: members-bounces@sigcis.org [members-bounces@sigcis.org] namens Valérie Schafer [valerieschafer@wanadoo.fr] Verzonden: dinsdag 9 december 2014 22:47 Aan: Paul N. Edwards CC: members Onderwerp: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Query re. readings on global history of computing Dear Paul Edwards, Probably these two references could be of interest for your project: Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms Gerard Goggin,Mark McLelland Establishing the Internet in Costa Rica: Co-optation and the Closure of Technological Controversies Ignacio Siles http://isiles.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Siles_TIS_2012_web.pdf Best regards, Valérie Schafer Le 9 déc. 2014 à 22:04, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu<mailto:pne@umich.edu>> a écrit : 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. 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. 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. 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. Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material) 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 Best, Paul ___________________________ Paul N. Edwards Professor of Information<http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History<http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/>, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming<http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate<http://five.sentenc.es/> (and better than nothing) University of Michigan School of Information<http://www.si.umich.edu/> 4437 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu<http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/> _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org<mailto:members@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://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
Hi Paul, What a great list and exercise! 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. http://isp.yale.edu/access-knowledge/books For the more historical, here are a few more, in addition to Peter Collopy's helpful bibliography on cybernetics <https://collopy.net/projects/bibliography.html>: (England) Pickering, Andrew. 2010. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (France) Segal, Jérôme. 2003. *Le Zéro Et Le Un: Histoire De La Notion Scientifique D’information Au 20e Siécle*. France: Editions Syllepse. (Chile) Medina, Eden. 2011. *Cybernetic Revolutionaries : Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile*. Cambridge: MIT Press. (Comparative) David Mindell <http://mit.edu/mindell/www/>, Jérôme Segal <http://jerome-segal.de/>, and Slava Gerovitch <http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/>, “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 <http://www.worldcat.org/title/science-and-ideology-a-comparative-history/oclc/49395331>, edited by Mark Walker (Routledge, 2003). 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 On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material)
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*
Best,
Paul
___________________________
Paul N. Edwards Professor of Information <http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/>, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate <http://five.sentenc.es/> (and better than nothing)
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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 ** Christina Dunbar-Hester Author of Low Power to the People, MIT Press On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Ben Peters <bjpeters@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Paul,
What a great list and exercise!
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.
http://isp.yale.edu/access-knowledge/books
For the more historical, here are a few more, in addition to Peter Collopy's helpful bibliography on cybernetics:
(England) Pickering, Andrew. 2010. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(France) Segal, Jérôme. 2003. Le Zéro Et Le Un: Histoire De La Notion Scientifique D’information Au 20e Siécle. France: Editions Syllepse.
(Chile) Medina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries : Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. Cambridge: MIT Press.
(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).
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
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material)
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
Best,
Paul
___________________________
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)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
University of Michigan School of Information 4437 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu
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I sent this to Paul via back channels, but given the liveliness of the thread it might be of interest to others. The volume I recently co-edited, Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America, has two chapters on the One Laptop per Child program. They are "Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery" by Anita Chan (on Peru) and "Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO Laptop in Paraguay." My doctoral student David Nemer recently published a book of photos on computer use in a Brazilian favela. The book is titled Favela Digital: The Other Side of Technology. You can find more about it here: http://favela-digital.com Best wishes, -- Eden Medina Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Adjunct Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington edenm@indiana.edu<mailto:edenm@indiana.edu> www.edenmedina.com<http://www.edenmedina.com> New in 2014: "Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America<http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-imported-magic>" (MIT Press) ________________________________ From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [members-bounces@sigcis.org] on behalf of Ben Peters [bjpeters@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 5:00 PM To: Paul N. Edwards Cc: members Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Query re. readings on global history of computing Hi Paul, What a great list and exercise! 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. http://isp.yale.edu/access-knowledge/books For the more historical, here are a few more, in addition to Peter Collopy's helpful bibliography on cybernetics<https://collopy.net/projects/bibliography.html>: (England) Pickering, Andrew. 2010. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (France) Segal, Jérôme. 2003. Le Zéro Et Le Un: Histoire De La Notion Scientifique D’information Au 20e Siécle. France: Editions Syllepse. (Chile) Medina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries : Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. Cambridge: MIT Press. (Comparative) David Mindell<http://mit.edu/mindell/www/>, Jérôme Segal<http://jerome-segal.de/>, and Slava Gerovitch<http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/>, “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<http://www.worldcat.org/title/science-and-ideology-a-comparative-history/oclc/49395331>, edited by Mark Walker (Routledge, 2003). 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<http://petersbenjamin.wordpress.com> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu<mailto:pne@umich.edu>> wrote: 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. 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. 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. 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. Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material) 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 Best, Paul ___________________________ Paul N. Edwards Professor of Information<http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History<http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/>, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming<http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate<http://five.sentenc.es/> (and better than nothing) University of Michigan School of Information<http://www.si.umich.edu/> 4437 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617<tel:%28734%29%20764-2617> (office) (206) 337-1523<tel:%28206%29%20337-1523> (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu<http://pne.people.si.umich.edu> _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org<mailto:members@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. 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I forgot to add that the chapter "Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO Laptop in Paraguay" is by Morgan Ames. In it she has a really nice framing of computers as "charismatic objects." Best, -- Eden Medina Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Adjunct Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington edenm@indiana.edu<mailto:edenm@indiana.edu> www.edenmedina.com<http://www.edenmedina.com> New in 2014: "Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America<http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-imported-magic>" (MIT Press) ________________________________ From: Medina, Eden Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 8:39 PM To: Ben Peters; Paul N. Edwards Cc: members Subject: RE: [SIGCIS-Members] Query re. readings on global history of computing I sent this to Paul via back channels, but given the liveliness of the thread it might be of interest to others. The volume I recently co-edited, Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America, has two chapters on the One Laptop per Child program. They are "Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery" by Anita Chan (on Peru) and "Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO Laptop in Paraguay." My doctoral student David Nemer recently published a book of photos on computer use in a Brazilian favela. The book is titled Favela Digital: The Other Side of Technology. You can find more about it here: http://favela-digital.com Best wishes, -- Eden Medina Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Adjunct Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington edenm@indiana.edu<mailto:edenm@indiana.edu> www.edenmedina.com<http://www.edenmedina.com> New in 2014: "Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America<http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-imported-magic>" (MIT Press) ________________________________ From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [members-bounces@sigcis.org] on behalf of Ben Peters [bjpeters@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 5:00 PM To: Paul N. Edwards Cc: members Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Query re. readings on global history of computing Hi Paul, What a great list and exercise! 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. http://isp.yale.edu/access-knowledge/books For the more historical, here are a few more, in addition to Peter Collopy's helpful bibliography on cybernetics<https://collopy.net/projects/bibliography.html>: (England) Pickering, Andrew. 2010. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (France) Segal, Jérôme. 2003. Le Zéro Et Le Un: Histoire De La Notion Scientifique D’information Au 20e Siécle. France: Editions Syllepse. (Chile) Medina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries : Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. Cambridge: MIT Press. (Comparative) David Mindell<http://mit.edu/mindell/www/>, Jérôme Segal<http://jerome-segal.de/>, and Slava Gerovitch<http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/>, “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<http://www.worldcat.org/title/science-and-ideology-a-comparative-history/oclc/49395331>, edited by Mark Walker (Routledge, 2003). 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<http://petersbenjamin.wordpress.com> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu<mailto:pne@umich.edu>> wrote: 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. 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. 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. 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. Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material) 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 Best, Paul ___________________________ Paul N. 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thanks for this--great idea, and would love to see the final list. leaping out at me immediately is: - Kavita Philip, Lily Irani, Paul Dourish, "Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey," *Science Technology Human Values* January 2012 vol. 37 no. 1 3-29. http://sth.sagepub.com/content/37/1/3. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material)
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*
Best,
Paul
___________________________
Paul N. Edwards Professor of Information <http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/>, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate <http://five.sentenc.es/> (and better than nothing)
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I highly recommend *Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture* by Stephanie Ricker Schulte. Chapters 3, 4, and 5, I think, are especially pertinent. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material)
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*
Best,
Paul
___________________________
Paul N. Edwards Professor of Information <http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/>, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate <http://five.sentenc.es/> (and better than nothing)
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dear paul, in regard to your european collection this might also bring some inside: oecd general report, gaps in technology, 1968: http://netaffair.org/documents/1968-oecd-report-gaps-in-technology.pdf nelson blachman, the state of digital computer technology in europe, 1961, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=366573.366596 iiasa conference on computer communication networks, 1974: http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/cgi-bin/pub/pubsrchKK?SWID:CP75007&O,n itu-t anniversary brochure: http://netaffair.org/documents/50-years-itu.pdf many things to add … maybe more at http://netaffair.org/more/ (hmpf, the site needs an update, urgently) all the best, mariann On Dec 9, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material)
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
Best,
Paul
___________________________
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)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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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@nomatic.org> wrote:
dear paul, in regard to your european collection this might also bring some inside:
oecd general report, gaps in technology, 1968: http://netaffair.org/documents/1968-oecd-report-gaps-in-technology.pdf
nelson blachman, the state of digital computer technology in europe, 1961, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=366573.366596
iiasa conference on computer communication networks, 1974: http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/cgi-bin/pub/pubsrchKK?SWID:CP75007&O,n
itu-t anniversary brochure: http://netaffair.org/documents/50-years-itu.pdf
many things to add … maybe more at http://netaffair.org/more/ (hmpf, the site needs an update, urgently)
all the best, mariann
On Dec 9, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s most of what’s on my reading list so far (not including US-UK oriented material)
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
Best,
Paul
___________________________
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)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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Dear Paul, What a great idea! I would love to see the final syllabus you put together. Some suggestions I have on Asia: Tinn, H. 2011. From DIY Computers to Illegal Copies: The Controversy over Tinkering with Microcomputers in Taiwan, 1980-1984. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 33(2), 75-88. Wajcman, J. and Lobb, L. 2007. The Gender Relations of Software Work in Vietnam. Gender, Technology, and Development, 11(1). And while not explicitly about computers, Tom Mullaney's work on the Chinese typewriter may be helpful since he relates it to predictive text. Mullaney, T. 2012. The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism. Technology and Culture, 53(4), 777-814. Best, Lilly ----- Lilly U. Nguyen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing University of California, Irvine www.deuxlits.com
On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Lilly Nguyen <lillynguyen@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Paul,
What a great idea! I would love to see the final syllabus you put together.
Folks - I’ll add my thanks to Paul for kicking off a great discussion, and to everyone else for all these suggestions. As a reminder, we have a very impressive list of syllabi in the SIGCIS Syllabus Repository, available from http://sigcis.org/syllabi. Many are for History or STS courses, but some stretch into related fields that fall under the broad SIGCIS rubric of “computers, information, and society.” The Syllabus Repository is only as strong and up-to-date as our members make it, so please consider sending recent syllabi to Jason Gallo, the SIGCIS Vice Chair for Operations (jgallo@ida.org), who will update the Repository. Thank you! Andy Russell SIGCIS Chair
All, the replies to my query have been super-useful. There’s too much good stuff! I went through the entire SIGCIS syllabus repository Andrew mentions, and discovered that most of the syllabi are at least 5 years old, and many are 7-10 years old or more. If you have updated a course, or taught a new one, now would be a great time to update or add. I’ll post my own once I’ve finished it, probably in mid-January. One important new thing in the last 5 years or so is that a large number of useful videos are readily available on Youtube and elsewhere, including what are effectively primary source materials such as this fabulous 6-part US Navy series on mechanical analog fire control computers from 1953. Only a few of the syllabi I looked at seem to incorporate video sources, but for today’s generation of undergrads I think they’re very valuable. The Computer History Museum has built some impressive online exhibits, too, and Wikipedia’s depth and quality have improved quite a bit. Best, Paul On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:47 , Andrew Russell <arussell@stevens.edu> wrote:
On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Lilly Nguyen <lillynguyen@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Paul,
What a great idea! I would love to see the final syllabus you put together.
Folks -
I’ll add my thanks to Paul for kicking off a great discussion, and to everyone else for all these suggestions.
As a reminder, we have a very impressive list of syllabi in the SIGCIS Syllabus Repository, available from http://sigcis.org/syllabi. Many are for History or STS courses, but some stretch into related fields that fall under the broad SIGCIS rubric of “computers, information, and society.”
The Syllabus Repository is only as strong and up-to-date as our members make it, so please consider sending recent syllabi to Jason Gallo, the SIGCIS Vice Chair for Operations (jgallo@ida.org), who will update the Repository.
Thank you!
Andy Russell SIGCIS Chair
___________________________ 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) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing) University of Michigan School of Information 4437 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu
This resource is hidden away on the SIGCIS website in "History Resources" and may be of service to some: http://rccs.usfca.edu/courselist.asp It is a collection of syllabi on cyberculture. A lot of the links are broken, but there is still a lot of useful information, especially as you move towards the present. If anyone has links to similar tangential resources, I think they could be immensely helpful. Personally, I have found many of the older SIGCIS syllabi lacking in coverage of games, handheld devices like phones, social media, and as Paul has already noted, globalization. I think the cyberculture syllabi cover some of these topics although they are often less historically focused. Sincerely, Nabeel Siddiqui On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Paul N. Edwards <pne@umich.edu> wrote:
All, the replies to my query have been super-useful. There’s too much good stuff!
I went through the entire SIGCIS syllabus repository Andrew mentions, and discovered that *most of the syllabi are at least 5 years old, and many are 7-10 years old or more*. If you have updated a course, or taught a new one, now would be a great time to update or add.
I’ll post my own once I’ve finished it, probably in mid-January.
One important new thing in the last 5 years or so is that a large number of useful videos are readily available on Youtube and elsewhere, including what are effectively primary source materials such as this fabulous 6-part US Navy series on mechanical analog fire control computers <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkTHyfr0pM> from 1953. Only a few of the syllabi I looked at seem to incorporate video sources, but for today’s generation of undergrads I think they’re very valuable.
The Computer History Museum has built some impressive online exhibits, too, and Wikipedia’s depth and quality have improved quite a bit.
Best,
Paul
On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:47 , Andrew Russell <arussell@stevens.edu> wrote:
On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Lilly Nguyen <lillynguyen@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Paul,
What a great idea! I would love to see the final syllabus you put together.
Folks -
I’ll add my thanks to Paul for kicking off a great discussion, and to everyone else for all these suggestions.
As a reminder, we have a very impressive list of syllabi in the SIGCIS Syllabus Repository, available from http://sigcis.org/syllabi. Many are for History or STS courses, but some stretch into related fields that fall under the broad SIGCIS rubric of “computers, information, and society.”
The Syllabus Repository is only as strong and up-to-date as our members make it, so please consider sending recent syllabi to Jason Gallo, the SIGCIS Vice Chair for Operations (jgallo@ida.org), who will update the Repository.
Thank you!
Andy Russell SIGCIS Chair
___________________________
Paul N. Edwards Professor of Information <http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/>, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate <http://five.sentenc.es/> (and better than nothing)
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Andrew Russell -
Ben Peters -
christina dunbar-hester -
David Golumbia -
Honghong Tinn -
Lilly Nguyen -
mariann unterluggauer -
Medina, Eden -
Nabeel Siddiqui -
Paul N. Edwards -
Valérie Schafer