http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/ http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/Netizens%20An%20Anthology%2... http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/Netizens%20An%20Anthology%2... http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/Netizens%20An%20Anthology%2... http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/Netizens%20An%20Anthology%2... http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/Appendix.pdf http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/Greetings_from_around_the_w... http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/presentation_1.doc http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/presentation_2.doc http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Book_Anniversary/presentation_3.doc http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/ Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet On The 15th Anniversary of the Print Edition ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9, 361 pages, May 1997, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press Netizens: An Anthology Michael Hauben Table of Contents Foreword: By Tom Truscott Preface: What is a Netizen? Introduction: Participatory Networks Part I - The Present: What Has Been Created and How? Chapter 1 - The Net and the Netizens: The Impact the Net has on People's Lives Chapter 2 - The Evolution of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET Chapter 3 - The Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet Chapter 4 - The World of Usenet Part II - The Past: Where Has It All Come From? Chapter 5 - The Vision of Interactive Computing and the Future Chapter 6 - Cybernetics, Time-sharing, Human-Computer Symbiosis and On-line Communities: Creating a Super-community of On-line Communities Chapter 7 - Behind the Net: Computer Science and the Untold Story of the ARPANET Chapter 8 - The Birth and Development of the ARPANET Chapter 9 - On the Early History and Impact of UNIX: Tools to Build the Tools for a New Millennium Chapter 10 - On the Early Days of Usenet: The Roots of the Cooperative Online Culture Part III - And the Future? Chapter 11 - The NTIA Conference on the Future of the Net Creating a Prototype for a Democratic Decision Making Process Chapter 12 - "Imminent Death of the Net Predicted!" Chapter 13 - The Effect of the Net on the Professional News Media: The Usenet News Collective and Man-Computer News Symbiosis Chapter 14 - The Net and the Future of Politics: The Ascendancy of the Commons Chapter 15 - Exploring New York City's On-Line Community: A Snapshot of NYC.General Part IV - Contributions Toward Developing a Theoretical Framework Chapter 16 - The Expanding Commonwealth of Learning: Printing and the Net Chapter 17 - `Arte': An Economic Perspective Chapter 18 - The Computer as Democratizer Bibliography Glossary of Acronyms Appendix Proposed draft Declaration of the Rights of Netizens Appendix Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Netizens We Netizens have begun to put together a Declaration of the Rights of Netizens and are requesting from other Netizens contributions, ideas, and suggestions of what rights should be included. Following are some beginning ideas. The Declaration of the Rights of Netizens: ------------------------------------------ In recognition that the net represents a revolution in human communications that was built by a cooperative non-commercial process, the following Declaration of the Rights of the Netizen is presented for Netizen comment. As Netizens are those who take responsibility and care for the Net, the following are proposed to be their rights: o Universal access at no or low cost o Freedom of Electronic Expression to promote the exchange of knowledge without fear of reprisal o Uncensored Expression o Access to Broad Distribution o Universal and Equal access to knowledge and information o Consideration of one's ideas on their merits o No limitation to access to read, to post and to otherwise contribute o Equal quality of connection o Equal time of connection o No Official Spokesperson o Uphold the public grassroots purpose and participation o Volunteer Contribution - no personal profit from the contribution freely given by others o Protection of the public purpose from those who would use it for their private and money making purposes The Net is not a Service, it is a Right. It is only valuable when it is collective and universal. Volunteer effort protects the intellectual and technological common-wealth that is being created. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE NET and NETIZENS. Inspiration from: RFC 3 (1969), Thomas Paine, Declaration of Independence (1776), Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), NSF Acceptable Use Policy, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the current cry for democracy worldwide.