The Inception of the Internet and Its Implications
Abbate, J., & McKim, J. (2001). Inventing the internet. Canadian Journal of Communication,
26(1), 157–159. [Link]
Annotation: A historical account of the inception of the internet by Janet Abbate, a history
professor from the University of Maryland. Instead of focusing on the development of the
technological infrastructure leading to the development of the internet, she focuses on the
social changes occurring around it.
Campbell-Kelly, M., & Garcia-Swartz, D. D. (2013). The history of the internet: The missing
narratives. Journal of Information Technology, 28(1), 18–33.
[Link]
Annotation: This study from the UK explains the origin of the internet as it is today as a
worldwide web of information. It disputes another explanation that the internet emerged from a
seed, stating that information networks were already present and only required one factor which
was the ARPANET’s Transmission Control Protocol.
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2013). Internet history. Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of
Technology, 19–39. [Link]
Annotation: This paper discusses the emergence of the internet as a major step in human
progress on par with heliocentrism and Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection. It discusses
the implications of this progress and the milestones of its inception.
Schlagwein, D., Conboy, K., Feller, J., Leimeister, J. M., & Morgan, L. (2017). “openness” with
and without information technology: A Framework and a brief history. Journal of
Information Technology, 32(4), 297–305. [Link]
Annotation: This study analyzes the relationship between the development of Information
Technology. Specifically, it looks into the openness of Academia. It also looks into the
implications of this.
Yates, J., & Maanen, J. V. (2001). Information Technology and organizational transformation:
History, rhetoric, and preface. SAGE.
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Annotation: This book published in London and New Delhi delves into Information
Technology’s implications for organizational transformation as opposed to how it happened in
the past.
Extra Sources
Hahn, T. B., & Buckland, M. (1998). Historical studies in information science. Hahn, Trudi
Bellardo, & buckland, Michael (eds.). Medford, NJ: Published for the American Society
for Information Science by Information Today, 1998. Annual Review of Information
Science and Technology, 272–295.
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Rayward, W. B. (1996). The history and historiography of information science: Some
reflections. Information Processing & Management, 32(1), 3–17.
[Link]
Resmini, A., & Rosati, L. (2011). A brief history of information architecture. Journal of
Information Architecture, 3(2), 33–46.
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o What process did you go through to come up with your five best sources?
To come up with the best sources, I looked through their introductions, abstracts, as well as their
publishers and where they were published. I compared the content they presented with the
information I was looking for and decided from there.
o Why did the remaining three sources not get chosen?
The remaining three sources were not chosen because they either had information that I already
had or were in a direction that was a little different than the rest of the sources.
o How did you find this process of locating, selecting, evaluating, and annotating sources? Did
you learn anything new while you were doing it?
I learned from this the importance of screening sources and how efficient it can be for academic
writing. Even though I only had a topic in mind, I could already build a narrative from the
chosen sources. In this way, the writing process can be far more efficient than if sources are
looked up as needed.
