Revised: January 10, 1997

Overviews of the On-Line World

Boehlefeld, S. (1996, April - June). Doing the Right Thing: Ethical Cyberspace Research, The Information Society.

Dyson, E., Gilder, G., Keyworth, G., Toffler, A. (1994, August 22). Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age. Progress and Freedom Foundation.

Moore, R.. (1996, July - Sept.). Cyberspace Inc. and the New Robber Baron Age: An Analysis of PFF's "Magna Carta," The Information Society.

Rheingold, H. (1993). Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net. Chapter three from The Virtual Community. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Winner, L. (1991, Winter). Artifact / ideas and political culture. Whole Earth Review.

What is Community?

Calhoun, C. (1980, January). Community: toward a variable conceptualization for comparative research. Social History.

Curtis, P. (1992). MUDDING: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities. From Schuler, D. (Ed.). Proceedings from DIAC-92 (Berkeley)

Donaghy, K. (1994) 'Enehana Kamepiula: Technology for a Hawaiian Speaking Generation. from Cisler, S. (1994). (Ed.) Ties that Bind: Building Community Networks. Cupertino, CA: Apple Library.

Hiltz, S., and Turoff, M. (1993). Computer Mediated Communication and the Disadvantaged. Chapter 5 from The Network Nation (2nd Ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Leslie, J. (1995, Winter). The High Tech Future of Social Change. Whocares.

Putnam, R. (1993, Spring). The prosperous community - social capital and public life. The American Prospect.

Schuler, D. Chapter 2 from text. "Conviviality and Culture."

Libraries

Floridi, L. (1996, January - March). Internet: Which Future for Organized Knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion? The Information Society.

Lynch, C. The Roles of Libraries in Access to Networked Information: Cautionary Tales from the Era of Broadcasting (from Bishop)

Reich, V., and Weiser, M. (1993). Libraries Are More Than Information: Situational Aspects of Electronic Libraries. Palo Alto, CA: Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Corporation.

Schatz, B. Electronic Libraries and Electronic Librarians: Who Does What in a National Electronic Community? (from Bishop)

Community Networks

Calhoun, C. (1986, December). Computer technology, large-scale social integration, and the local community. Urban Affairs Quarterly.

Cisler, S. (1995). (Ed.) Ties that Bind: Converging Communities. Cupertino, CA: Apple Library. Steve Cisler, Can we keep community networks running?

Farrington, C. and Pine, E. Community Memory: A Case Study in Community Communication. From Schuler, D. (Ed.). Proceedings from DIAC-92 (Berkeley)

Grundner, T. Seizing the Infosphere: An Alternative Vision for National Computer Networking. (from Bishop)

Talbott, S. (1995). The Future Does Not Compute. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates. Chapter 6: Networks and Communities.

"Electronic Democracy"

Gardner, L. and Paul, R. (1993). Developing a hypertext geographic information system for the Norfolk and Suffolk Boards Authority. Hypermedia 5:2.

Love, J., Access to Government Information. (from Bishop)

Putnam, R. (1995, January). Bowling alone: America's declining social capital. Journal of Democracy.

Schuler, D. Chapter 4 from text. "Strong Democracy."

Snellen, I., and Wyatt, S. (1993). Blurred partitions but thicker walls involving citizens in computer supported cooperative work. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1:277-293.

Varley, P. (1991, Nov./Dec.). What is Really Happening in Santa Monica? Technology Review.

Technical Directions

Borenstein, N. (1992). Computational mail as network infrastructure for computer-supported cooperative work. Proceedings of CSCW '92. New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Curtis, P., and Nichols, D. (1993). MUDs Grow Up: Social Virtual Reality in the Real World. Palo Alto, CA: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Masinter, L., and Ostrom, E. (1993) Collaborative information retrieval: gopher from MOO. Proceedings of INET '93. Washington, DC: The Internet Society.

Rossney, R. (1996, June). Metaworlds. Wired.

Weiser, M. (September 1991). "The Computer for the Twenty-First Century," Scientific American, pp. 94-100

Winter Wrap-Up

Barleycorn, J. (pseudonym) (1996) The Declaration of Cyberfoo Independence. From Connor, T. and Downey, J. (1996). Rewired. HarperPerennial.

Boal, I.(1995). A Flow of Monsters: Luddism and Virtual Technologies. from Brook, J. and Boal, I. (1995). Resisting the Virtual Life. San Francisco: City Lights.

Borsook, P. (1996, July/August). Cyberselfish. Mother Jones.

CPSR (1993). Serving the Community: A Public Interest Vision of the National Information Infrastructure. Palo Alto, CA: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Gingrich, N. (psuedonym) (1996). A Modest Proposal. From Connor, T. and Downey, J. (1996). Rewired. HarperPerennial.

Lewis, A. (1963) (Ed.). Of Men and Machines. New York: Dutton. E. M. Forster, The Machine Stops.

Schuler, D. Chapter 11 from text. "Directions and Implications."

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