Histories of Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies

SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction: Defining ICTs · READINGS: None

Douglas, Susan. “Technological Innovation and Organizational Change: The Navy’s Adoption of Radio, 1899–1919.” In Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience . MIT Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780262691185.

Simpson, Christopher. Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960 . Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780195102925.

Streeter, Thomas. “Blue Skies and Strange Bedfellows: The Discourse of Cable Television.” In Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting . New York University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780814799505.

Marvin, Carolyn. “Community and Class Order.” In When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century . Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780195063417.

Schwartz, Vanessa. “Cinematic Spectatorship before the Apparatus.” In Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life . University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520201125.

Lipartito, Kenneth. “When Women were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890–1920.” The American Historical Review 99, no. 4 (1994): 1075–111.

Isaacson, Walter. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution . Simon & Schuster, 2015. ISBN: 9781476708706.

Hochman, Brian. Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology. University Of Minnesota Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780816681389. (Selections)

Lemov, Rebecca. Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity . Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780300209525.

Gitelman, Lisa. Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents . Duke University Press Books, 2014. ISBN: 9780822356578. (Selections)

Robertson, Craig. Media History and the Archive . Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 9780415593274.

SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Past Sudent Papers that Got Published – How to Relate Classroom Readings to Original Research · READINGS: Published articles by Angela Wu, Tommy Rousse, Rachel Plotnick, Ignacio Siles, Bernard Geoghean, and / or Katie Day Good. (See also prior reading by Dawson.)

SES #: 11 · TOPICS: Paper Workshop · READINGS: None

SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Paper Workshop (cont.) · READINGS: None