Reading List for Winter 2000 HNRS 65---The Impact of the Internet on Society

This page contains a reading list for HNRS 65, the Impact of the Internet on Society. It is divided into two parts. The first part is a list of reading materials suggested for each class or for the course in general. The second part is a list of candidate books for the reading requirement in the class.

Reading Materials for Classes

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Book List

  • Inventing the Internet. Janet Abbate, MIT Press, 1999.
  • The Sun, The Genone, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions Freeman J. Dyson, Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • @ Large, David H. Freeman and Charles C. Mann, Simon and Schuster, 1997.
  • The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry, Gordon Graham, Routledge, 1999.
  • How the Internet Works: Millenium Edition, Preston Gralla, Que Publishers, 1999.
  • Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon, Touchstone Books, 1998.
  • Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet, Stephen Segaller, TV Books, 1998.
  • The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage, Berkley Books, 1998.
  • The Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll, Doubleday, 1989.
  • Cyberspace: The Human Dimension, David B. Whittle, W.H. Freeman and Co., 1997.