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Toward a History of Social Computing: Children, Classrooms, Campuses, and Communities

Author:
Rankin, Joy Lisi
Publication:
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Year:
1970

Modern computing involves not only computation but also communication among many people, along with their cultural norms, values, and expectations. Yet, historians have only begun to address how people made computing ubiquitous. The history of computing should include the myriad human interactions that have shaped and supported our digital, networked world.