{"product_id":"netizens-isbn-9780818677069","title":"Netizens","description":"Netizens, one of the first books detailing the Internet, looks at the creation and development of this participatory global computer network. The authors conducted online research to find out what makes the Internet \"tick\". This research results in an informative examination of the pioneering vision and actions that have helped make the Net possible. The book is a detailed description of the Net's construction and a step-by-step view of the past, present, and future of the Internet, the Usenet and the WWW.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book gives you the needed perspective to understand how the Net can impact the present and the turbulent future. These questions are answered: What is the vision that inspired or guided these people at each step? What was the technical or social problem or need that they were trying to solve? What can be done to help nourish the future extension and development of the Net? How can the Net be made available to a broader set of people?  Foreword.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Preface.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE PRESENT: WHAT HAS BEEN CREATED AND HOW.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Net and Netizens: The Effect the Net Has on People's Lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Evolution of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The World of Usenet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART II: THE PAST:WHERE HAS IT ALL COME FROM.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Vision of Interactive Computing and the Future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Cybernetics, Time-sharing Human-Computer Symbiosis and Online Communities: Creating a Supercommunity of Online Communities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Behind the Net: The Untold Story of the ARPANET and Computer Science.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The Birth and Development of the ARPANET.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. On the Early History and Impact of Unix: Tools to Build the Tools for a New Millennium.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. On the Early Days of Usenet: The Roots of the Cooperative Online Culture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART III: AND THE FUTURE?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. The NTIA Conference on the Future of the Net: Creating a Prototype for Democratic Decision-Making Process.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. \"Imminent Death of the Net Predicted!\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. The Effect of the Net on the Professional News Media: The Usenet Collective\/Man-Computer News Symbiosis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. The Net and the Future of Politics: The Ascendancy of the Commons.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. Exploring New York City's Online Community: A Snapshot of nyc.general.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART IV: CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD DEVELOPING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16. The Expanding Commonwealth of Learning: Printing and the Net.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17. 'Arte': An Economic Perspective: The Role of \"Arte\" in the Production of Social Wealth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18. The Computer as a Democratizer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Acronyms.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e References.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index.  Michael Hauben has participated in online communities since the early 1980s. He has worked at the University of Detroit\/Mercy and Columbia University helping people use and understand computers. He is a graduate of Columbia University with a BA in Computer Science. Through his pioneering interactive online research, Michael coined and introduced the tern \"Netizen\" into popular use. He is now a graduate student at Teachers College of Columbia University studying computer mediated communication. Having given the Amateur Computerist newsletter its name, he continues to contribute articles on a regular basis. He has appeared in documentaries about the internet on TV Tokyo, and has been frequently consulted to comment on the growing importance of this new democratic medium. He has given talks in the United States, Japan and Canada about the social significance and history of the internet. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. He enjoys listening and dancing to electronic music, working with children and helping people to communicate. Michael is the host of the Netizens Cyberstop World Wide Web page.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ronda Hauben has her BA from Queens College and her MA from Tufts University. She has taught at Stillman College in Alabama and Wheelock College in Massachusetts. Most recently she taught introductory Unix, email and internet classes at Columbia University. Part of the online community since 1988, she has helped to pioneer online research, and her work has benefited from the comments and contributions of the online community. In January 1994, some of this work was collected in the online anthology \"The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet\". Articles she has written have appeared in the Amateur Computerist, the Linux Journal, the Proceedings of Telecommunities '95, Internet Secrets, READNE, and other publications. She has presented talks to community, university and professional audiences. Her papers have been presented internationally at conferences in Canada and in Ireland, as well as in the USA. She lives in New York City and enjoys participating in Usenet, studying history and going to the theater.  \u003cb\u003eNetizens\u003c\/b\u003e looks at the creation and development of the participatory global computer network: The Internet. Michael and Ronda Hauben conducted research online to find out what makes the internet \"tick\" resulting in this fascinating examination of the pioneering vision and actions that have helped make the Net possible. \u003cb\u003eNetizens\u003c\/b\u003e is a detailed description of the Net's construction and a step-by-step view of the past, present, and future of Usenet and the Internet.  \u003cp\u003eThe book gives you the needed perspective to understand how the Net can impact the present and the future of our society.\u003cbr\u003e Netizens answers these questions:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat is the vision that inspired or guided these people at each step?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat was the technical or social problem or need that they were trying to solve?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat can be done to help nourish the future extension and development of the Net?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow can the Net be made available to a broader set of people?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNetizens\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious look at the social aspects of computer networking. It examines the present and the turbulent future, and especially it explores the technical and social roots of the Net.—\u003cb\u003eThomas Truscott, co-developer of Usenet\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhile working on my own history of the Net, I watched the Haubens' documentation of Net development evolve and grow as they posted it to the Net itself. Now, with a hardcopy version of their work out, the authors have given us a valuable shelf reference to complement their online work.—\u003cb\u003eKatie Hafner, coauthor of Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInspired by the writings of Thomas Paine and Jean Jacques Rousseau, Michael and Ronda Hauben sketch an=out a provocative declaration of Netizen rights in their appendix to this engrossing, well-researched, and very useful book. The Haubens reserve the term Netizen for positive contributors to the Net, the good citizens whose heroic precursors from the 1960s are reicly chronicled in a flowing historical and sociological account that is not to be missed.—\u003cb\u003eMartin Greenberger, Director of the Center for Digital Media, UCLA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989680603365,"sku":"NP9780818677069","price":80.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780818677069.jpg?v=1761785079","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/netizens-isbn-9780818677069","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}