Soc.
3280: The Networked Society Handouts and Web Sites
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files in this library are transmitted under the "Fair Use" rulings regarding the 1976 Copyright Act for NON-profit academic, research, and roksworld/general information purposes.
- Winner, L. 1986.
"Do Artifacts
have Politics." from: The whale and the reactor: a search for limits
in an age of high technology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 19-39.
- Sherry Turkle's
home page (director of the MIT
Initiative on Technology and the Self).
- FirstMonday
(an online journal focused on the interent)
- Reingold, Howard.
1993. The Virtual
Community.
- LeFurgy, Bill.
1996. Issues
Concerning Worker Displacement and High Technology: "It's the Knowledge,
Stupid". From: CULTURE IN CYBERSPACE October 21, 1996/Volume 01,
Issue 34.
- Cohen, Patricia. 2010. "In
500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture," NY Times, accessed: January
10, 2011 (local copy)
- Flash
mobs and flash
mobs 2
- "Going viral": Lazy
Sunday
- Centola, Damon. 2010. "The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment." Science. 329 (5996)
- Social Media Experiment. 2013. YouTube. http://youtu.be/5P_0s1TYpJU.
- Smal-World Experiment. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment.
- Sandvig, Christian. 2011. The Oversharer (and Other Social Media Experiments). Social Media Collectiove Research Blog: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/07/29/the-oversharer-and-other-social-media-experiments/.
- Deters, Fenne grosse and Matthias Mehl. 2013. Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking Experiment. http://spp.sagepub.com/content/4/5/579. Declining Loneliness Over TIme: Evidence from American Colleges and High Schools. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. January 1, 2015. 41: 78-89.
Here are old collection
or articles form various sources. I'll be adding more current selection as the
semester goes along.
Articles from the
WWW edition of the New York Times:
(you'll have to
logon to "roksworld" to view these documents--see the syllabus)
- Internet
Access as Tax Exempt Service
- Net
Fund Growing
- Survey
Doubles Estimate of Web Use to 17 Million American Adults (2/17/96)
- Feminism
on the Web
- NY
Times, Cybertimes, Feb. 13, 1997: Hackers Go on TV to Show Perils in ActiveX
- NY
Times, Cybertimes, February 14, 1997: A New Kind of Ban in Boston
- NY
Times, Cybertimes, February 15, 1997: Medical Records Are Headed to the
Internet
- NY
Times, Cybertimes, February 15, 1997:Growing Winter Web Sites Seed Summer
Plant Orders
- NY
Times, Cybertimes, February 17, 1997: New Software Expected to Cut Web
Delays
- NY
Times, Cybertimes, March 7, 1997: On Web, New Threats to Young Are Seen
- Using
the GPS for Industry 9/28/98
- Annoying
or Obscene? 9/28/98
Articles from the
WWW edition of the Associated Press , St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, other news services.
(you'll have to
logon to "roksworld" to view these documents--see the syllabus)
- Snooping
on your neighbor is just a keyboard away (Knight-Rider, in STL-PD, 9/30/98)
- Internet
companies wonder if you are a 'Mouse Potato' (Reuters, in STL-PD, 9/30/98)
- "The
Mouse at 30," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, AP, 12/9/98.
- "Internet's
Birthday," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/30/99
- "Batteries,"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/25/99
- The
Air Conditioner and Change (6/13/99) (Post
Story)
- Internet
Gap (7/9/1999)
- Business
and GPS (9/28/99)
- Computers
and Schools (abstract) (The Information Society Journal, Summer 1999)
- Clone
a Mammmoth? (AP, 10/2/99)
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Last Updated: September 30, 1998