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Janet Abbate

Philosophy

#9949

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#13581

Historical Rank

#1795

USA Rank

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#7385

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#9127

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#1113

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Janet Abbate's Degrees

PhD History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
Masters History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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Why Is Janet Abbate Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Janet Abbate is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the history of computer science and the Internet, particularly on the participation of women in the field.

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Janet Abbate's Published Works

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Published Works

Inventing the Internet (1999) (664)
Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing (2012) (130)
Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure (1995) (88)
How not to network a nation: The uneasy history of the soviet internet (2017) (69)
Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet (2001) (47)
From ARPANET to Internet: A history of ARPA -sponsored computer networks, 1966--1988 (1995) (45)
What and where is the Internet? (Re)defining Internet histories (2017) (29)
Privatizing the Internet: Competing Visions and Chaotic Events, 1987–1995 (2010) (26)
Women and gender in the history of computing (2003) (20)
Getting small: a short history of the personal computer (1999) (11)
The Pleasure Paradox (2010) (11)
The electrical century: inventing the Web (1999) (9)
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Marie Hicks (review) (2018) (6)
Joy Lisi Rankin. A People’s History of Computing in the United States. (2020) (3)
Cold war and white heat: the origins and meanings of packet switching (2008) (3)
Code Switch: Alternative Visions of Computer Expertise as Empowerment from the 1960s to the 2010s (2018) (3)
Software Crisis or Identity Crisis? Gender, Labor, and Programming Methods (2012) (2)
History of ICT (2007) (2)
Executable Texts: Programs as Communications Devices and Their Use in Shaping High-tech Culture (2007) (1)
How did you first get into computing? (2003) (1)
Hands on the Machine (2001) (1)
The Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard (review) (2003) (1)
"People and Computers" at the Computer Museum (1993) (1)
The Internet Challenge: Conflict and Compromise in Computer Networking (2021) (1)
Breaking Codes and Finding Trajectories: Women at the Dawn of the Digital Age (2012) (0)
Raùl Rojas;, Ulf Hashagen (Editors).The First Computers: History and Architectures. (History of Computing.) xiv + 457 pp., illus., figs., tables, app., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2000. $39.95. (2002) (0)
Book Review: Killer Apps and Technomyths (2013) (0)
Thomas C. Jepsen.My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846–1950. xii + 231 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index.Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. $49.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). (2002) (0)
Review essay: Killer Apps and Technomyths (2013) (0)
Gender in Academic Computing: Alternative Career Paths and Norms (2012) (0)
Coding Is Not Empowerment (2021) (0)
Work and Technology in Higher Education: The Social Construction of Academic Computing ed. by Mark A. Shields (1996) (0)
Seeking the Perfect Programmer: Gender and Skill in Early Data Processing (2012) (0)
Code Switch: Rethinking Computer Expertise as Empowerment (2016) (0)
Anecdotes (2000) (0)
Situated Opportunity: Reimaging Women's Career Paths in Computing (2017) (0)
Appendix: Oral History Interviews Conducted For This Project (2012) (0)
Thanks to reviewers (2018) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2010) (0)
Popularizing the Internet (2018) (0)
Thanks to reviewers (2015) (0)
Contributors (2001) (0)
Finn Brunton.Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet. xxiii + 270 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2013. $27.95 (cloth). (2014) (0)
Hubert L. Dreyfus.On the Internet.(Thinking in Action.)xii + 168 pp., illus., index. Second edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2009. $17.95 (paper). (2010) (0)
CrítiCa de Libros / book reviews (2014) (0)
Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History (review) (2004) (0)
Software’s founding mother (2011) (0)
New Technology for a New Nation: Building an Internet Culture in Estonia (1999) (0)
Female Entrepreneurs: Reimagining Software as a Business (2012) (0)

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Inventing the Internet