Digital Technology, Culture and Society Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 2470-1475 eISSN: 2470-1483 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24701475.2019.1704495 Abstract Our goal in this article is to understand the historical sequences as well as consequences of the internet on the development of the academic field of communication. As a field that has one foot in the study of a most basic and necessary human activity, and another foot in the study of innovative technology, has scholarship in the field of communication followed internet developments? Is there a lag between technological develo...
How a Series of Mistakes Hurt Shares of United - The New York Times
The plunge in UAL stock was started by a series of human and machine errors and raised questions about the struggles of some traditional media companies to adapt to the Internet age.
This book will take you on a nostalgic journey as we look back at the people, computers, programming languages and games that have forged the history of the computer.
Inventorying Riding the Meridian – Electronic Literature Lab
I have spent the last week inventorying Riding the Meridian, an important journal founded by Jennifer Ley that published five issues, from 1999-2003, comprising 262 works produced by some of the world’s most notable artists and writers. In the coming weeks the ELL Team will move the information I created into an Excel spreadsheet into…
Bored Developer Creates 'DOS Subsystem For Linux' - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader Bismillah quotes iTnews:
A software engineer in Melbourne is whiling away the city's lockdown by creating a tool that DOS users so far have lacked: an integrated Linux environment similar to what Windows 10 users enjoy...
"I first started out just seeing if I could get Li...
Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. In fact, it spans nearly five decades and involves a varied group of engineers, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, journalists, and activists.
The FTP Site Boneyard : Free Software : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
This collection contains .tar or .zip files of the collections of these sites, which are then browsable using the Internet Archive's archive view functionality. Created in 1971 (and refined in 1985), the File Transfer Protocol allowed Internet or network-connected computers to transfer binary and...
Memex animation - Vannevar Bush's diagrams made real
This is a recording of a Macromedia Director application that was built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bush's 1945 "As we may think" paper in the Atl...
Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oreg…