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• Bernardo Alexander Attias, " Introduction to Communication and Technology."   mirrored here
• Romy Tcherkezian, "The History of Cyberspace"  (final research project for COMS 454, Spring 2001)
• Interface Culture [IC] - Preface

• Getting a Data Network Account at CSUN 
• Web Browsers 
• Beginner's Guide to URLs 
• Internet Style Guide 
• Text Editors 
• CSUN Web Development policies and resources

• CSUN Library Research Page - peruse these sources

QUIZ

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Rec'd Readings
Set

• IC - Chapters 1& 2
• Code - Preface, Chapters 1 & 2

Vannevar Bush, " As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly (July 1945).

(Mirrored here .) 

EFF's Internet Guide 

Ken Freed, Interview with Esther Dyson: "Interacting with People before Technology," 1997

Vannevar Bush: Brief Bio 

Computer Jargon entry for "vannevar" 

Links to Vannevar Bush References

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• IC - Chapters 3, 4 & 5
• Code - Chapters 3 & 4 - *revised 6/10

• Kathrine Kveim, Walter Ong and the WWW, MA dissertation, 1998
• Jeffrey R. Young, "Textuality in Cyberspace:  MUDs and Written Experience," 1994
• Daniel Chandler, " Biases of the Ear and Eye" 1995
• Langham, Don. " The Common Place MOO: Orality and Literacy in Virtual Reality." Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 1, no. 3 (July 1, 1994): 7. 

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• Code - Ch. 6
• Julian Dibbell, " A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society," The Village Voice (21 December 1993) 36-42. Mirrored here

• Timothy Jackson, "Working Cyberspace," Bad Subjects, # 32, April 1997 

• Media & Communication Studies Site on Walter Ong
• Jean Jacobson, overview of Ong's Orality and Literacy
• T.D. Guay, "A Brief Look at McLuhan's Theories"

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• IC - Ch. 6 & Conclusion
• Code - Ch. 5
• Daniel Chandler, " Technological or Media Determinism" 

• McLuhan's Interview with Playboy (1969). Mirrored here 
• Daniel Chandler, " Shaping and Being Shaped: Engaging with Media," Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 3:2 (01 February 1996) 
• Samuel Ebersole, " Media Determinism in Cyberspace" 

• Carl Mitcham, " Timeline of Technology" 
• McLuhan Chronology 
• McLuhan Listserver Archive. 
• Technological Determinism: Special Issue of Computer Mediated Communication Magazine3:2 (1 February 1996). 
• Daniel Chandler, " Technological Determinism." 

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• Code - Ch's 7 & 12
• Habermas' Public Sphere 
• Mark Poster, " The Net as Public Sphere?" Wired 3:11 (November 1995). mirrored here

• William J. Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Boston: The MIT Press, 1995). 
• Michael A. Weinstein and Deena Weinstein, " NetGame: An American Dialogue," CTHEORY 1.12 (11 July 1996). 
• Arthur Kroker and Michael Weinstein, " The Hyper-Texted Body, Or Nietzsche Gets A Modem," CTHEORY 
• Geert Lovink, " The Media Gesture Of Data Dandyism," CTHEORY 

• California Heritage Collection, UC Berkeley
• Center for Digital Storytelling - explore the various spaces here
• Guillermo Gomez-Pena, CyberBario

• Code - Chapters 9, 13 & 14
• Jon Katz, "The Digital Citizen," Wired Special Report, 5.12 (December 1997)
• John Decker, Covington's Homeless, a documentary. 1994
• Take a look at the Jeremy Bentham Webcam 

• "Surveying the Digital Future," UCLA Center for Communication Policy Internet Report, October 25, 2000 (download in .pdf)
• Mimi Ito, " Cybernetic Fantasies: Extended Selfhood in a Virtual Community." 
• Howard Rheingold, " Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net," from The VirtualCommunity: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993). Mirrored here. 
• Chris Chesher, " Colonizing Virtual Reality: Construction of the Discourse of Virtual Reality, 1984-1992," Cultronix 
• Margaret Lynch, " Ethical Issues in Electronic Information Systems" 
• Sherry Turkle, " Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace," The American Prospect 24 (Winter 1996) 50-57. 

• Stephanie Vance, "How to be an Effective Cyber-Lobbyist,"  January 15, 2001
• Public Education Network Advocacy Resources (how to...)
• Heather Corinna, " I Am Not an Exhibitionist: The AmandaCAM Interview," Leisure Suit (6 September 1999). 

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Recommended Readings:

• Ronda Hauben, " The Development of the International Computer Network," in Michael and Ronda Hauben, Netizens :On the History and Impact of the Net (1994). Mirrored here and here. 
• Henry Edward Hardy, " The History of the Net," Master's Thesis, School of Communications, Grand Valley State University (20 Sept 1993). Mirrored here. 

• Community Memory - terrific discussion list on the history of cyberspace. 
• Computer History Association of California (CHAC) 
• Video Game History 
• Internet Basics: A Selected Internet Timeline 
• History of IT 
• The Internet's History and Development 
• History of Computer 
• The Media History Project: Promoting the Study of Media History from Petroglyphs to Pixels. 
• A History of the Internet - timeline of the development of the Internet. 
• PBS History of Internet 
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline 

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• Code - Ch's 10, 11 & 12

• David Brin, The Transparent Society.  Perseus Press,1998
• Paul Resnick and Jim Miller, "PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship," Communications of the ACM 39 (1996)
• Federal Trade Commission, "Privacy Online: A Report to Congress" (June 1998)
• Matt Welch, " Transatlantic Brawl" 
• Douglas Thomas, " Why Hackers Hate Microsoft" &  Hacker Stereotypes 
• Dan Farmer, " Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into It," from the author of SATAN. 
• National Research Council, "Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society." 1996 NRC Report to Congress. 
• FBI Documents concerning Encryption. Made available by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. 
• Interview with Phil Zimmerman (PGP)
• Eric Hughes, "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto," 1993

• Shields Up - click on "shields up" icon and test your port security [wintel machines only, alas]
• PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) homepage
• Interview with David Brin, author of The Transparent Society"
• Security News Network (formerly Hacker News)
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 
• Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown (1992) 
• Electronic Privacy Information Center 
• Introduction to Blacknet 
• Timothy C. May, " Blacknet Worries" 
• Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project (monitors hate groups)

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The Changing Nature of Property in the Information Age. The Open Code (Free Software / Open Source) Movement
 

• Code - Chapters 8, 15, 16 & 17
• John Perry Barlow, " The Economy of Ideas," Wired (March 1994). Mirrored here. 
• Courtney Love, " Do the Math" (16 May 2000) 

• Roberto Verzola, " Towards A Political Economy of Information"
• Richard M. Stallman, " The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement." -- Chapters 1 & 2
• Jesse Hirsh, " The Information Institution: Oligopoly, Monopoly, and Power," Anarchives 2:22 (16 December 1995). Mirrored here and here. 
• Peter Lyman, "Digital Documents and the Future of the Academic Community," ARL Conference on Scholarly Communcation and Technology, April 24-27, 1997
• John Heilemann, "The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: The Untold Story of the Microsoft Antitrust Case," Wired 8.11 (November 2000)   text only mirrored here
• Richard M. Stallman, " Why Software Should Not Have Owners" 
• What Is Copyleft? 
• Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism 
• The GNU General Public License 
• Eric S. Raymond, " The Cathedral and the Bazaar" 
• Peter Ludlow, " Does Information Want to be Free?" High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996). 
• Mike Godwin, " When Copying Isn't Theft: How the Government Stumbled in a "Hacker" Case" Internet World (Jan/Feb 1994). 
• Keith White, " The Killer App," The Baffler 7 (1995).
• Jesse Hirsh, " The Central Nervous System," The Anarchives 2:23 (9 January 1996). Mirrored here. 
• Richard A. Lanham, " The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts," excerpted from The Electronic Word (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). 

• Post Industrial Business Principles
• Ram Samudrala, The Free Music Philosophy 
• Bronwyn Fryer, " The Software Police," Wired 3.05 (1995). 
• Software Piracy: What you should know
• Business Software Alliance, The Impact of Piracy on the International Marketplace: Industry Perspective 
• Software Piracy: Detailed Anti-Piracy site from a Computer Ethics Course. 
• Corporate Watch, " Who Owns Cyberspace, and Can They Control It?" 
• Paul Bissex, " Cyberia: Fighting the Chill of the Information Age" 
• Frontpage - Onlinejournalism.com

Final Research Projects posted by 
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wear your party hat!

• Code,  Appendix
• Bill Joy, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,"  Wired 8.04 (April 2000) - mirrored here  
• and responses in "rants & raves," 8.07 (July 2000) - mirrored here

cynbe@muq.org, The Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of Doom: How Linux Smashed Windows 

Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone, eds., Open Sources: Voices from the Free Software Movement (O'Reilly, 1999): The first book "copylefted" under the GNU GPL. 

Free Software Foundation, " Philosophy of the GNU Project"

• Open Source: Software Gets Honest 
• Linux FAQ 
• Amara D. Angelica, " Breaking Windows" TechWeek (10 August 1998). 
• be open: Open Source News
• Halloween Documents

Seeker1, " Talking' Bout My Generation" A Slacker Manifesto