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Illustration from the article “The Whys and Wherefores of Distributed Operating Systems” in Unix Review (May 1985)

Selections from the Web:

• Alex Pareene: What Do Democrats Do All Day?

• Andrew Key: Group Work

• Andy Oram: Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language

• Jörg Nowak: Gas and Labor

• Rebecca E. Karl: The Scissors Gap

Archival Videos

• CBS: The Search: Automatic Machines Research (1954)

• Dimension Films: Computers: Tools for People (1982)

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

• Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1 (1776).

Journal Articles and Chapters:

• Alex Csiszar: “Gaming Metrics Before the Game: Citation and the Bureaucratic Virtuoso,” Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research (2020)

• Andrew Barry: “Technological Zones,” European Journal of Social Theory (2006)

• Elihu Katz: “Why Sociology Abandoned Communication,” The American Sociologist (2009)

• Eugene Garfield: “The Unintended and Unanticipated Consequences of Robert K. Merton,” Social Studies of Science (2004)

• Marshall Bowen: “Environmental Perception and Geographic Change in Southwest Sheridan County,” Nebraska History (1970)

• Murray S. Davis: “That’s Interesting! Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1971)

• Richard Johnson: “What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?,” Social Text (1986)