Magazine

Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
ISSN 1076-027X / Volume 5, Number 4 / April 1, 1998

FEATURES

...And Another Look at the Look Back

Karin Geiselhart reviews Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet by Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben

Thoughts on the Coalition of ISPs and the Usenet Blockade

Richard MacKinnon examines the The Usenet Death Penalty (UDP), a blockade or a siege meant to stem antisocial activities originating from the base camps of spammers. Primarily an economic attack, blockades have been used help meatspace governments align their priorities with their neighbors.

The New Technoculture

Leslie Regan Shade reviews Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture by Sadie Plant. Plant rejects one of the popular conceptions of the relationship of women towards computers as technophobic and cautious.

Call for Articles: Book Review Special Issue

Kevin Hunt calls for book reviews for an upcoming special issue.

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