May 2019 - Members - lists.sigcis.org

DEADLINE EXTENSION-Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits
by Benjamin Gross 15 May '19

15 May '19

Dear colleagues, I am writing to announce that the nomination deadline for the Society for the History of Technology's Dibner Award has been extended until June 1, 2019. As a reminder, the Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits was established in 1985, through the generosity of Bern Dibner, to recognize excellence in museums and museum exhibits that interpret the history of technology, industry, and engineering to the general public. Winning exhibits, in addition to being well designed and produced, should raise pertinent historical issues. Artifacts and images should be used in a manner that interests, teaches, and stimulates both the general public and historians. The award consists of a plaque and up to $1,000 to cover expenses for a member of the design team to accept the award at the SHOT awards banquet. Exhibits are eligible for this award if they have been open to the public for no more than 24 months before the deadline for nominations on June 1, 2019. The Society especially encourages nominations from local and regional historical societies. Virtual exhibits are not eligible for the award. Further information about the prize, including nomination forms, a list of past recipients, and the members of the Dibner Award Committee can be found on the SHOT website<https://www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awards-prizes-and-grants/the-d…>. Please note that if you are nominating your own exhibition, you should only fill in the first two sections of the nomination form. If you are nominating an exhibition from another organization with which you have no conflicts of interest, then please complete all three parts. Should any questions arise while completing the nomination form, please feel free to contact me or any other member of the Dibner Committee. Sincerely, -Ben Gross Benjamin Gross, PhD Vice President for Research and Scholarship Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology 5109 Cherry Street Kansas City, Missouri 64110 816.926.8718 grossb(a)lindahall.org<mailto:grossb@lindahall.org> www.lindahall.org<http://www.lindahall.org/>

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The Untold History of AI
by allisonmarsh＠yahoo.com 08 May '19

08 May '19

Hello SIGCIS: I thought you might be interested in IEEE Spectrum's 6-part series on the untold history of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/AI+history. -Allison

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New history of voluntary standard setting, including coverage of internet and web standard setting in IETF and W3C
by JoAnne Yates 08 May '19

08 May '19

Hi, SIGCIS members- I'm happy to announce that my new book, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880 (co-authored with my husband, Craig N. Murphy), is now available through Johns Hopkins University Press. This book focuses on the engineers and organizations who create the voluntary standards we depend on to make our world work, starting in the late 19th century and coming up to the present. Two chapters of it are devoted to internet and web standardizing in IETF and W3C, including a detailed case history of one W3C Working Group. In writing about IETF I draw extensively on the work of two members of this community, Janet Abbate and Andrew Russell. Thanks to both of you for your excellent work in this area. The book is available from JHUP at a 20% discount if you go to https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/engineering-rules and enter the promotional code HTWN at checkout. Best, JoAnne Yates Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management MIT Sloan School of Management

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FW: New draft: Internet Histories, Volume 3, Issue 2, March - June 2019 is now available online
by Asger Harlung 08 May '19

08 May '19

The journal Internet Histories is pleased to announce that Volume 3, Issue 2, March – June 2019 has been completed, and is available online. Two articles in this issue are offered as Open Access: Helmond, Nieborg & van der Vlist is Open Access, and the article by Jessica Lingel is Open Access until the end of May. Below, please find an overview of contents of this issue. Please also consider submitting an article to the journal, more information about submission can be found here http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rint20&page=…. Kind regards on behalf of the Internet Histories editorial team, Asger Harlung, Editorial Assistant, Internet Histories Internet Histories, Volume 3, Issue 2, March - June 2019<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/3/2> is now available online. This new issue contains the following articles: Articles The Italian network hopes: Rise and fall of the Socrate and Iperbole projects in the mid-1990s<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSecureKeyLogin?uuid=06eb5cc1-0aa1-46cd…> Paolo Bory Pages: 105-122 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1596407 Facebook’s evolution: development of a platform-as-infrastructure<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSecureKeyLogin?uuid=06eb5cc1-0aa1-46cd…> | Open Access Anne Helmond, David B. Nieborg & Fernando N. van der Vlist Pages: 123-146 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1593667 A cultural lineage of streaming<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSecureKeyLogin?uuid=06eb5cc1-0aa1-46cd…> Benjamin Burroughs Pages: 147-161 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1576425 Socio-technical transformations in secondary markets: a comparison of craigslist and VarageSale<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSecureKeyLogin?uuid=06eb5cc1-0aa1-46cd…> | Open Access until end of May. Jessa Lingel Pages: 162-179 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2018.1478267 Web archaeology in The Netherlands: the selection and harvest of the Dutch web incunables of provider Euronet (1994–2000)<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSecureKeyLogin?uuid=06eb5cc1-0aa1-46cd…> Kees Teszelszky Pages: 180-194 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1603951 Book Review Broad band, the untold story of the women who made the internet<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSecureKeyLogin?uuid=06eb5cc1-0aa1-46cd…> by Claire L. Evans, New York, Portfolio/Penguin, 2018, $27.00 Helen Hockx-Yu Pages: 195-198 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1598078 —————————————————————————————— NEW JOURNAL: Internet Histories—Digital Technology, Culture and Society, issue (2(3-4)) OUT NOW, http://tandfonline.com/loi/rint20<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftandfonline.com%2Floi%2Frint20&h…> LATEST PUBLICATIONS (selection) The historical web and digital humanities (eds. N. Brügger, D. Laursen). London/New York: Routledge. 2019, 194 p. https://www.routledge.com/The-Historical-Web-and-Digital-Humanities/Brugger… The SAGE Handbook of Web History (eds. N. Brügger, I. Milligan). London: SAGE. 2018, 672 p. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-web-history/book252251 The Archived Web: Doing History in the Digital Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2018, 185 p. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/archived-web Web Archiving. In P. Moy (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199756841-0213 A brief outline of temporalities of the web: Online and in web archives. In V. Schafer (ed.), Temps et temporalités du web (pp. 57-74). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest. 2018. Web history and social media. In J. Burgess, A. Marwick, T. Poell (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Media (pp. 196-212). London: Sage. 2018. Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web (Ed. N. Brügger). New York : Peter Lang, 2017. 257 p. Read more: https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/80641?rskey=tRbcn4&result=4 The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present (eds. N. Brügger, R. Schroeder). London: UCL Press, 2017 Download FREE copy: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/the-web-as-history Probing a nation’s web domain: A new approach to web history and a new kind of historical source. In G. Goggin, M. McLelland (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (pp. 61-73). New York/Abingdon: Routledge 2017. Digital Humanities in the 21st Century: Digital Material as a Driving Force, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 10(3), 2016 Read article: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/3/000256/000256.html A brief history of Facebook as a media text: The development of an empty structure, First Monday, 20(5), 2015 Read article: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5423 NIELS BRÜGGER, Professor, PhD Head of the Centre for Internet Studies, and of NetLab Department of Media and Journalism Studies School of Communication and Culture Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14, building 5335, room 239 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb(a)cc.au.dk<mailto:nb@dac.au.dk> Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger Orcid.org/0000-0003-1787-1980<http://Orcid.org/0000-0003-1787-1980> Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.dk/citations?hl=en&user=EEdaLscAAAAJ&view_op=list_wo…> The Centre for Internet Studies, http://cfi.au.dk NetLab, http://netlab.dk RESAW, a Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Material, http://resaw.eu

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CFP--CBI Symposium: "Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT"
by Jeffrey Yost 07 May '19

07 May '19

Dear Colleagues, Below is a Call for Papers (deadline Oct. 15th 2019) and registration information for a Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) Symposium/Workshop I am co-leading with Univ. of California-Davis' Gerardo Con Diaz (Friday and Saturday, May 8-9, 2020). We hope many of you will consider proposing a paper (or otherwise attending). We encourage (and would appreciate) your forwarding this to anyone you think might be interested. *Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT* Just Code is a one and a half day CBI symposium/workshop on how code—construed broadly, from software routines to bodies of law and policy—structures and reinforces power relations. It will explore the often invisible ways that individuals and institutions use software, algorithms, and computerized systems to establish, legitimize, and reinforce widespread social, material, commercial, and cultural inequalities and power imbalances. The event will also examine how individuals, unions, political organizations, and other institutions use code to fight for equality and justice. Other major themes include the (pre-)history of code/algorithmic thinking; code as means of concealment or secret communications; codes of conduct in business, governance, and culture related to IT and its institutions (local and global exploitation through imperialism, human rights violations, and environmental degradation); and codes of ethics in information technology. The papers will draw from across the humanities and qualitative social sciences, including disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, geography, and communications. We anticipate that papers (collectively) will examine a wide range of themes in the global business, cultural, social, legal, and environmental history of the political economy of information technology. Papers will be pre-circulated (among presenters) and we have plans to publish revised papers (after editorial and peer review) as an edited volume in the Springer History of Computing Book Series. Proposals should include a two-page curriculum vitae and a 300 to 450 word abstract (as a single PDF) that highlights the key argument(s), connection of the paper to the symposium's topic/themes, and a description of core methods/sources. This should be sent to cbi(a)umn.edu (please have your last name in the file name and use the subject line "Just Code Symposium Proposal"). Deadline for Paper Proposals is Oct. 15, 2019 (notifications will be made within 30 days) Deadline for Submission of Papers (for those offered and accepting a place on the program) is March 31, 2020 (papers will only be pre-circulated to fellow presenters/panelists on the program, not to all registrants). Those offered and accepting a spot on the program will have to commit to participating in the entire workshop, revising their work based on feedback from peers at the event and the organizers/editors, and submitting it for consideration to the planned edited volume. For those offered and accepting a place on the symposium's program (presenters/panelists), CBI will cover the cost of 2 nights lodging at a nearby hotel (walking distance to CBI), lunch, and an event dinner. Early career presenters on the program (graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty) can apply for CBI travel grants of $300 to partially offset their travel costs (done as a reimbursement/partial reimbursement). Please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these travel grants at the bottom of your abstract. The program will commence at 8:30 AM on Friday and conclude at 12:30 PM on Saturday. Registration is automatic for everyone on the program. For those wanting to attend who are not presenting, the symposium's registration is free and open to CBI Friends (and those who become CBI Friends), and to students, academic staff, and faculty of the Univ. of Minnesota. Lunch is provided for all who register. The event dinner is only for those on the program. Information on becoming a CBI Friend is at http://www.cbi.umn.edu/about/friends.html Registration form for those attending but not presenting. The size will be capped, so we encourage registering far in advance. https://forms.gle/KK5n37jhN1Mdnyxp9 The event will be at CBI--Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota ["Just Code" is sponsored in major part by a very generous gift/bequest events endowment to CBI from IT industry veteran Michael J. Samek] Best, Jeff and Con Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D., CBI Director & Research Prof. HSTM, Univ. of Minn. Gerardo Con Diaz, Ph.D., Asst. Prof., Science and Technology Studies, Univ. of Cal.-Davis Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax

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Book Announcement: Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid
by Luke Fernandez 01 May '19

01 May '19

Dear all, This is just a happy announcement that after nearly a decade of research, my spouse and I finally finished our book titled *Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings About Technology From The Telegraph To Twitter* with Harvard University Press. It was just released today (May 1st): https://www.amazon.com/Bored-Lonely-Angry-Stupid-Technology/dp/067498370X This book should engage anyone who is interested in the intersection of technology studies and the history of emotions. There's also more info about the book available here: https://lfernandez.org/book.html Best, Luke Luke Fernandez Faculty, School of Computing Weber State University

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