Additional Resources#
Interested in learning more about computer networks and the Internet? The sections below include links to a variety of content on…
Conceptual and technical foundations
Markup languages and HTML
Cultural histories of the internet
Identity and power in online spaces
Conceptual and technical foundations#
Article 19 and Catnip, How the Internet Really Works: An Illustrated Guide to Protocols, Privacy, Censorship, and Governance (No Starch Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781718500297). Link to access through ND Libraries.
Tim Berners-Lee, “Information Management: A Proposal”, 1990.
J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor, “The Computer as a Communication Device,” Science and Technology, April 1968.
V. Cerf and R. Kahn, “A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 637-648, May 1974.
Markup languages and HTML#
James H. Coombs, Allen H. Renear, Steven J. DeRose. (November 1987). “Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing”. Communications of the ACM 30 (11): 933–947.
Tim Bray. (April 2003). “On Semantics and Markup, Taxonomy of Markup”. www.tbray.org/ongoing.
W3C, “Extensible Markup Language (XML)” (16 August 2006)
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, “HTML Living Standard” (September 2020)
Angela M. Haas, “Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Tradition of Multimedia Theory and Practice,” Studies in American Indian Literatures 19: 4 (2007).
Cultural histories of the internet#
Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262511150). Link to access through ND Libraries.
Paolo Bory, The Internet Myth: From the Internet Imaginary to Network Ideologies (University of Westminster Press, 2020). Link to access through ND Libraries.
Timelines
Barry Leiner, et al, “Brief History of the Internet” Internet Society (1997)
Gil Press, “A Very Short History of the Internet and the Web” Forbes (2 January 2015)
Identity and power in online spaces#
Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press, 2019). Link to access through ND Libraries.
Safiya Umoja Noble and Brendesha M. Tynes, eds., The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online (Peter Lang, 2016). Link to access through ND Libraries.
Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White, eds, Race After the Internet (Routledge, 2013). Link to access through ND Libraries.
Marisa Elena Duarte, Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country (University of Washington Press, 2017). Link to access through ND Libraries.