USENET COMMUNITIES AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF INFORMATION

Internet Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 39-54

  Tepper, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85134939579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203948873-10     Document Type: Chapter

References (34)

1. Adam Nash, post to rec.arts.startrek.current, August 3, 1994.
2. Clay Shirky, post to alt.folklore.urban, October 21, 1994.
3. David DeLaney, post to alt.culture.usenet, January 10, 1995.
4. Dave Hatunen, post to alt.folklore.urban, January 28, 1995
5. Ted Frank, post to soc.college, December 23, 1994.
6. Peter van der Linden, post to alt.folklore.urban, October 10, 1994
7. Stephen Zatman, post to alt.folklore.urban, October 6, 1994.
8. Cindy Kandolf, post to alt.folklore.urban, January 10, 1995.
9. Sean Willard, post to alt.folklore.urban, November 29, 1994.
10. The Vanishing Hitchhiker, The Mexican Pet, The Choking Doberman, Curses! Broiled Again!, and The Baby Train (New York: WW. Norton, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, and 1993, respectively).
11. Terry Chan, “Alt.Folklore.Urban Frequently Asked Questions [Part 1 of 4]” (http://www.urbanlegends.com).
12. J.C. Herz, Surfing on the Internet (Boston: Little, Brown, 1995), 34.
13. Steve Caskey in a post to alt.folklore.urban, September 24, 1994.
14. Ray Depew, post to alt.folklore.urban, December 13, 1993 (http://www.urbanlegends.com/afu/snide/1993/newbies/depew).
15. Terry Chan, “Alt.Folklore.Urban Frequently Asked Questions [Part 2 of 4]” (http://www.urbanlegends.com/AFUFAQ.html).
16. Articulate Mandible, post to alt.folklore.urban, February 25, 1995.
17. Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, and Patricia Yaeger, “Introduction, " in Nationalisms and Sexualities (New York and London: Routledge, 1992), 5.
18. Howard Rheingold maintains a WWW page at http://www.well.com/www/hlr/vircom/ index.html on virtual communities and virtual reality.
19. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).
20. Julian Dibbell notes in “A Rape In Cyberspace, " Village Voice (December 21, 1993).
21. Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS), “New Data on the Size of the Internet and the Matrix, " Press Release (October 1994), available at http://www.tic.com/mids/ pressbig.html.
22. Evan Morris, “Computers in the '90s: Internet Lingo for a ‘Newbie, '" Newsday (February 21, 1995), B25.
23. Peter van der Linden, personal email to author, April 3, 1995.
24. Homi K. Bhabha, “DissemiNation, " Nation and Narration (New York and London: Routledge, 1990).
25. Peter van der Linden, The Official Handbook of Practical Jokes and The Second Official Handbook of Practical Jokes (New York: Signet, 1989 and 1991)
26. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1994).
27. Harry M.F. Teasley, post to alt.folklore.urban, March 1, 1995.
28. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (New York and London: Verso, 1991), 6.
29. Andrew Ross, “The New Smartness, " in Gretchen Bender and Timothy Druckrey, eds., Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology, Dia Center for the Arts Discussions in Contemporary Culture, no. 9 (Seattle, WA: The Bay Press, 1994), 331.
30. Neil deMause, “They Paved Paradise and Put Up an Information Superhighway, " Processed World (forthcoming).
31. Ted Frank, post to alt.religion.kibology, December 18, 1994.
32. Len Berlind, post to alt.folklore.urban, January 29, 1995, available at http://www.urbanlegends.com/afu/guides/posting.berlind.
33. Paul Phillips, post to alt.culture.internet, July 15, 1995.
34. Ray Depew, post to Old Hats and Young Hats mailing lists, April 6, 1995.