~/irregex Reading List [2024/09/27]

Books:

• Kevin Driscoll: The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media (2022)

  • This one has been on my to-read list since it came out, but I never got around to reading it. I wish I had. Where most histories of the Internet look at either technical histories of standards and hardware or the experiences of the select groups of users who congregated on Arpanet or Usenet, Driscoll instead focuses on the vibrant social worlds users created on Bulletin Board Systems.

Selections From Around the Web:

• Henry Farrell: Silicon Valley is an Aristocratic Culture

• Julia B. Kieserman: A Strange Kind of Memory

• Lorenzo McClellan: The Omnivorous James C. Scott

• Margaret Killjoy: I Hate Election Years

• Max Read: Drowning in Slop