Paul E.: It is unfortunate that the price, and heft, of our book on _The Internet & American Commerce_ may discourage its use for courses. However, MIT Press is making it available as a .pdf download--you have to pay, but it is not as much and may be more comfortable for today's generation of students, who are loathe to purchase old-fashioned books. I don't have the URL, but I think you can find it through MIT Press's web site. The book may also be available as an illegal download from a Chinese web site, but I am not going to go there! Talk about a teachable moment. Best, Paul Ceruzzi ________________________________ From: members-bounces@sigcis.org on behalf of members-request@sigcis.org Sent: Fri 5/8/2009 6:41 PM To: members@sigcis.org Subject: Members Digest, Vol 15, Issue 4 Send Members mailing list submissions to members@sigcis.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to members-request@sigcis.org You can reach the person managing the list at members-owner@sigcis.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Members digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Introducing myself (Geoffrey C. Bowker) 2. Re: Introducing myself (Thomas Haigh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 14:35:49 -0700 From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" <gbowker@scu.edu> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Introducing myself To: Paul Edwards <pne@umich.edu> Cc: members@sigcis.org Message-ID: <4A04A5B5.8030401@scu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hi Paul, Good questions all - I'll be interested in the response. Henry Lowood has some nice stuff at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/lowood.html, though I suspect you know this already. Doug Engelbart's demo is on the web. I could set up a skype session with Regis McKenna, who knows SV backwards. There was a Nova or BBC series which I heard good reports on, but I forget the details. Exciting is hard to come by in general though. Laura de Nardis' excellent new work on internet names will not be accessible enough I fear. There's also The Wealth of Networks, though I'm not too attuned to the analysis - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page. take care, geof Paul Edwards wrote:

All -

I'm getting ready to teach an undergrad course (juniors and seniors) on "History of Computers and the Internet" for the first time in 7 years.

I'm looking for suggestions on three things:

1) A recent book on the history of personal computers that's well-written and exciting for undergrads. I used to use Fire in the Valley, but that's very dated now.

2) On history of the Internet, I've been using Janet Abbate's Inventing the Internet for years. It's a great book but somewhat inaccessible for undergrads, and now a bit dated.

3) Books or articles -- again, exciting for undergrads -- on history of the WWW. Please, not Tim Berners-Lee's awesomely self-centered memoir.

Thanks for any and all.

- Paul ????????????????? Paul N. Edwards, Assoc. Professor of Information

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