Social Media Archeology and Poetics

<b>First person accounts by pioneers in the field classic essays and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.</b> <p/>Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists artists and scholars in shaping the pre-Web social media landscape <i>Social Media Archeology and Poetics</i> documents social media lineage beginning in the 1970s with collaborative ARPANET research Community Memory PLATO Minitel and ARTEX and continuing into the 1980s and beyond with the Electronic Café Art Com Electronic Network Arts Wire The THING and many more. <p/>With first person accounts from pioneers in the field as well as papers by artists scholars and curators <i>Social Media Archeology and Poetics</i> documents how these platforms were vital components of early social networking and important in the development of new media and electronic literature. It describes platforms that allowed artists and musicians to share and publish their work community networking diversity and the creation of footholds for the arts and humanities online. And it invites comparisons of social media in the past and present asking: What can we learn from early social media that will inspire us to envision a greater cultural presence on contemporary social media? <p/><b> Contributors </b><br>Madeline Gonzalez Allen James Blustein Hank Bull Annick Bureaud J. R. Carpenter Paul E. Ceruzzi Anna Couey Amanda McDonald Crowley Steve Dietz Judith Donath Steven Durland Lee Felsenstein Susanne Gerber Ann-Barbara Graff Dene Grigar Stacy Horn Antoinette LaFarge Deena Larsen Gary O. Larson Alan Liu Geert Lovink Richard Lowenberg Judy Malloy Scott McPhee Julianne Nyhan Howard Rheingold Randy Ross Wolfgang Staehle Fred Truck Rob Wittig David R. Woolley