Sun, 10 Feb 2008
The Internet & American Business
It's finally here! The Internet and American Business has arrived via MIT Press. From the jacket blub: "Tracing the impact of the commercialized Internet since 1995 on American business and society, the book describes new business models, new companies and adjustments by established companies, the rise of e-commerce, and community building; it considers dot-com busts and difficulties encountered by traditional industries; and it discusses such newly created problems as copyright violations associated with music file-sharing and the proliferation of Internet pornography."
My contribution is called "Resistance is Futile? Reluctant and Selective Users of the Internet." It explains why a series of industries -- including healthcare and higher education -- have not yet been radically transformed by the Internet.
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Sat, 10 Nov 2007
Computers & Ethics
Nathan Ensmenger, "Computers as Ethical Objects," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 29:3 (2007), 86-88.
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Thu, 10 May 2007
Resistance is Futile
Nathan Ensmenger, "Resistance is Futile? Reluctant and Selective Users of the Internet" in P. Ceruzzi and W. Aspray, The Commercialization of the Internet and Its Impact on American Business (MIT Press, forthcoming)
Download the pdf of the draft version of this paper.
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Sun, 21 Nov 2004
Open Source's Lessons for Historians
Nathan Ensmenger, "Open Source's Lessons for Historians," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:4 (2004), 103-104.
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Toward a Social History of Computing
Nathan Ensmenger, "Power to the people: toward a social history of computing," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1(2004), 95-96.
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003
Letting the Computer Boys Take Over
Nathan Ensmenger. Letting the 'computer boys' take over: Technology and the politics of organizational transformation. International Review of Social History, 48(S11):153-180, 2003.
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Fri, 10 May 2002
Software as Labor Process
In April 2000, the International Conference on the History of Computing hosted a special conference on the history of software. The goal was to set an agenda for future scholarship in the history of information processing. The conference was held at the largest history of computing museum in the world, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, Germany. This paper was one of the five papers commissioned for the conference. It has since been published in in Mapping the History of Computing: Software Issues, U. Hashagen, R. Keil-Slawik, A. Norberg, eds. (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002).
Download the pdf of the draft version of this paper.
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Wed, 21 Mar 2001
The Question of Professionalism
Nathan Ensmenger. The 'question of professionalism' in the computer fields. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 4(23):56-73, 2001.
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