Author: Starr Roxanne Hiltz & Murray Turoff (1978) Published: MIT Press
A visionary book when first published in the late 1970s, The Network Nation has become the defining document and standard reference for the field of computer-mediated communication. It anticipated many of the social dynamics of online communities decades before the internet became mainstream — exploring how human groups organize, communicate, and govern themselves through networked technologies.
A foundational precursor to the Network Nations concept, this work laid theoretical groundwork for understanding how digital networks could support new forms of political and social organization.
Link: MIT Press