Benjamin Peters

Autor von How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

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Benjamin Peters is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (2016) 64 Exemplare

Your Computer Is on Fire (2021) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare

Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology) (2016) 18 Exemplare

American Catholicism in the 21st Century: Crossroads, Crisis, or Renewal? (Catholic Theology Society Series) (The… (2018) 2 Exemplare

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A Dream, a Rock, and a Pillar of Fire: Reading 1 Nephi 1 (2017) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare

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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 46, Number 4 (Winter 2013) (2013) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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Geburtstag: 1980
Geschlecht: male
Land (für Karte): USA
Berufe: communication professor
Organisationen: University of Tulsa
Information Society Project, Yale Law School
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of… von Benjamin Peters

A fascinating overview of the failure to launch of the Soviet proto-internet, the All-State Automated System (OGAS). Doomed by the very political-economic bureaucracy it sought to reform, Peters' book is a unique take on technological roads not taken and alternative globalized futures. What might have been save for a pair of empty seats in a 1970 Central Committee meeting...

Peters is a bit repetitive throughout, and some of the early cybernetics discussion was lost on a layman like myself, but if you want an introduction to the Soviet internet that wasn't - and a comparison of market/emergent and hierarchical networking approaches, this really is the only game in town.… (mehr)

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