The Sociology of the Internet

• Artifacts have Politics
  
• Politics of the Internet
  
• Packet Switching - a technical digression
  
• Circuit switching (the telephone company)
  
• So, the internet is made up of constantly changing, ephemeral, objects and interactions
  
• This kind of structure reflects current social trends
  
• The old Titanic
  
• The new Titanic
  
• The internet grew out of this kind of culture, and
  
• How do people react on encountering this bizarre bazaar?
  
• And, some have made their peace with this
  
• And what are those terms?
  
• Relationships between Institutions and Individuals are changing
  
• Cantor Fitzgerald
  
• The Internet can move ideas from the bottom up
  
• Email is a new way to communicate
  
• Email is a new kind of formality
  
• Community Software
  
• Intellectual Property on the Internet
  
• Barlow: Information is a life form
  
• Society's ideas of what is moral change with time
  
• The internet can embody both oral and written traditions
  
• In science...
  
• Consider a (motivated) information consumer
  
• Trust develops in a context
  
• Journal Publishers have provided trustworthy context
  
• The new way to publish...
  
• In summary, to use the internet most effectively...
  

(This group of documents can be accessed as a single file at Relaxation.html in this directory.)