On-line Social Networks

The first three articles are historic articles that give the background of the Web, the term "social network" was not used in this context until after 2000.

As We May Think - Vannevar Bush - Atlantic Monthly, 1945 - This is the article that is credited with the idea of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Bush sent his protege, Fred Terman, out to Palo Alto to run Stanford. Terman staked Hewlett and Packard and was credited with creating the situation that created Silicon Valley.

Project Xandu/Hypertext - Ted Nelson - Nelson was a strong advocate of hypertext and Project Xandu was the first hypertext system.

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework - Doug Engelbart - Engelbart created the mouse, the Graphical User Interface and was working on hypertext the same time as Ted Nelson.

The rest of the articles are about doing social network research on on-line social networks.

 

Computer Networks as Social Networks Barry Wellman - Science 9/14/2001	Barry Wellman is both a major contributor to SNA in general and on-line network research.
Facetted Id/entity - Managing representation in a digital world Danah Boyd	Questions of on-line identity.
Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure Within Organizations Joshua R. Taylor, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman - HP Labs
Fragmentation of identity through structural holes in email contacts Danah Boyd, Jeff Potter, Fernanda Viegas

 

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