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<div class="field-item even"><h1 class="title"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><i class="">//Sorry for cross-postings//</i></span></h1><h1 class="title"><font size="4" class="">International Conference - Computer Networks
Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives 14-15 December
2017 Lugano, Switzerland</font></h1><p class=""><strong class=""> Aims and scope </strong></p><p class="">Recently several works in the fields of Internet Studies, Science and
Technology Studies, and Media Studies have stressed the importance of
early local, national and transnational computer networks histories for a
deeper understanding of technological and social change in contemporary
societies. This two-day conference has a triple aim.</p><p class="">First, gathering scholars and researchers from a variety of
disciplines working on theoretical and empirical analysis of computer
network histories.<br class="">
Second, providing a wide perspective on these histories, including case
studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania as well as
international organizations dealing with the control and management of
networks: this interdisciplinary and international debate could be
useful to compare worldwide experiences and to provide new frames on
this topic.<br class="">
Third, the conference aims to develop new frameworks and a space of
discussion on the historical role of computer networks, representing the
starting point of an international community of scholars.</p><p class="">Potential topics may include, but are in no way limited to, the following:</p><p class=""> - The origins and development of computer networks under a local, national, international, or transnational perspective;<br class="">
- Political, economic, and cultural representations of computer networks in Western and Eastern cultures;<br class="">
- Comparative analysis of early and late networks;<br class="">
- Physical infrastructures and materiality of computer networks;<br class="">
- The political economy of national digital infrastructures;<br class="">
- Histories of the digitalization of analogic networks;<br class="">
- The history of failed and forgotten computer networks projects;<br class="">
- The influence of early computer networks on the development of the Internet and of the World Wide Web;<br class="">
- The cultural and social history of computer networks communities
(e.g. communitarian networks, academic networks, professional networks,
civic networks).</p><p class="">All the authors are invited to send an abstract of a max 500 words and a short bio by February 28, 2017 to <span class="mailto"></span><a href="mailto:nethistories@gmail.com" class="mailto">nethistories@gmail.com</a>.
All invited speakers interested in publish their papers in the journal
revue Histoire et Informatique will be asked to send a paper of max 5000
words by October 31, 2017. </p><p class=""><strong class="">Conference venue</strong><br class="">
The two-day conference will take place in Lugano, Switzerland, hosted by
the Faculty of Communication Sciences of USI – Università della
Svizzera italiana. The organizing committee comes from a collaboration
between the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG) of USI and the
Association Histoire & Informatique Suisse of Bern.</p><p class=""><strong class="">Travel grants</strong><br class="">
A limited number of travel grants may be available for participants
without access to other financial resources. To request travel funding,
please add to your proposal the motivation of your request and an
estimate of the needed budget.</p><p class=""><strong class="">Deadlines</strong><br class=""><u class="">
28 February 2017 Deadline for abstract submission</u><br class="">
31 March 2017 Notification of acceptance<br class="">
31 October 2017 Short papers (max 5000 words) to be delivered<br class="">
14-15 December 2017 2-days conference </p><p class="">
<strong class="">Organizers</strong>
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<a href="http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/" rel="nofollow" class="">Association Histoire & Informatique Suisse – Bern </a>
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<a href="http://www.imeg.com.usi.ch/" rel="nofollow" class="">IMeG Institute of Media and Journalism, Università della Svizzera italiana – Lugano </a></p><div class=""><div id="page-wrapper" class=""><div id="page-middle" class=""><div class="default-pad"><div id="content" class=""><article class="event page"><section class="block description" role="complementary"><p class=""> For further information please contact the organizational secretariat
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Prof. <a href="http://search.usi.ch/en/people/9fca22404467d1801cfd4213b9fb7e7e/Balbi-Gabriele" rel="nofollow" class="">Gabriele Balbi</a>
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<a href="http://search.usi.ch/en/people/707f4dc7632673d2a6b44a4281bb5874/bory-paolo" rel="nofollow" class="">Paolo Bory</a>
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<a href="http://search.usi.ch/en/people/2166df9d09fa4387be828efc6a84441d/Negro-Gianluigi" rel="nofollow" class="">Gianluigi Negro</a>
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<footer id="page-footer" role="contentinfo" class=""><p class=""><a href="http://www.chinamediaobs.org/credits" class=""></a></p></footer></div></div><p class=""><strong class=""> Keynote speakers</strong></p><p class=""><strong class="">Hu Yong</strong> is a professor at Peking University’s School
of Journalism and Communication, and a well-known new media critic and
Chinese Internet pioneer. Hu Yong is a founding director for
Communication Association of China (CAC) and China New Media
Communication Association (CNMCA). His publications include Internet:
The King Who Rules, the first book introducing the Internet to Chinese
readers, and The Rising Cacophony: Personal Expression and Public
Discussion in the Internet Age, documenting major transformations in the
Chinese cyberspace.<br class=""><span class="ext"></span><a href="http://sjc.pku.edu.cn/English.aspx" class="ext" target="_blank">http://sjc.pku.edu.cn/English.aspx</a> // Tweet @huyong</p><p class=""><strong class="">Benjamin Peters</strong> is Associate Professor in the
Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated
fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. His
research focuses on the cultural history and social theory of digital
media, with emphases on the former Soviet Union and the West. Professor
Peters has recently published two books: Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary
of Information Society & Culture (Princeton University Press) and
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
(MIT Press) in which he offers an account of the Soviet Union’s failed
attempts to construct their own national computer networks for civilians
during the height of the Cold War tech race.<br class=""><span class="ext"></span><a href="https://petersbenjamin.wordpress.com/" class="ext" target="_blank">https://petersbenjamin.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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