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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Konrad Zuse's 1936 patent - German text?
by Brian Randell 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Hi Mark: I have a copy of the original 1936 Zuse patent application that I had translated into English for my Origins book. (It took some finding - some of my Zemanek documents had strayed into the middle of the Zuse documents, and so had obscured them! :-) It is a type-written document, on the letterhead of Zuse’s patent attorney Dr.-Ing. Bruno Wolf, Berlin Charlottenberg 5, Kantstrasse 85, dated 9.4.36 (i.e. 9 April 1936). It is some twenty or so pages in length. However I should warn you that some of the pages are barely legible (though could probably be deciphered by someone who knows German - which I don’t). I could scan this document for you if you wish. (I have about two inches thick of documents about Zuse’s work, including a number of patents and patent applications, some pre-war, immediately some post-war, together with several typescripts from him. My plan is that this material will be added to the archive of my files held in the Special Collections section of Newcastle University Library. This already holds all the extensive correspondence that I was involved in while compiling Origins.) Cheers Brian On 24 Jan 2017, at 10:58, Mark Priestley <m.priestley(a)gmail.com<mailto:m.priestley@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear list, Zuse's 1936 patent "Method for Automatic Execution of Calculations with the Aid of Computers" is reprinted in Brian Randell's "Origins of Digital Computers" collections. Does anyone know if/where I can get hold of the German original? Thanks in advance. Mark _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://sigcis.org>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 FAX = +44 191 208 8232 URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/brianrandell.html

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[CfA EASST/4S Prague] Other Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds
by Yoehan Oh 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Dear list members, Apologies for cross-posting. Please take into consideration submitting your abstract to the open panel session at the EASST/4S conference in Prague, August 2020, "Other Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds." The upcoming EASST/4S conference 2020, the joint conference of the annual European Science and Technology Studies (STS) conference and the worldwide major annual STS conference, will be held in Prague, August 18-21, 2020 (official website: https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/) If you have any question, feel free to contact me (ohy(a)rpi.edu) If you might, hopefully, find this interesting to others in your networks, please share it with them. Key dates and the CfA are as the following: KEY DATES 29 February 2020: Deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2020: Notification of acceptance of all abstracts TITLE *Other Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds *(*Open panel 131*) ABSTRACT Some scholars in digital humanities and critical internet and digital technologies studies have asked for bringing critical concerns about race, gender, postcoloniality, and other inequal power structures to their field (Nakamura 2013; Noble et al. 2016; McPherson 2013; Posner 2016; Risam 2018; Benjamin 2019). One way to address those concerns is illuminating technically-inventive subjectivities, by appreciating and thus empowering them through conceptualizations they deserve. STSers have conceptualized them and their artifacts as “Black vernacular technological creativity,” “techno-vernacular creativity,” (Fouché 2006; Gaskins 2019), “innovation from below” (Williams 2018), “ethnocomputing,” (Petrillo 1994; Tedre et-al. 2006; Eglash 1999), “postcolonial computing,” (Irani et-al. 2010; cf. Burrell 2012), and “black software” (McIlwain 2019); historians of computing have studied information architectures, hardware, and software in the Middle East, Latin America, East Asia, Midwestern U.S., and (post-)communist contexts (Bowker 1994; Medina 2011; Tinn 2018; Rankin 2018; Švelch 2018; Biagioli et-al. 2019). To further these conceptualizations, this panel will focus on less resourceful worlds’ captures of knowledge technologies, predominated by a few resourceful countries’ R&D communities like U.S., Canada, some Western Europe countries, China, and Japan: Knowledge discovery by data, Data engineering, Semantic technologies, and Search engines, etc (Collins 1987; Forsythe 1993). Questions to be addressed are: How indigenous, aboriginal, vernacular, decolonial, de-ColdWar, or less capitalistically/settler-colonially exploitative the knowledge engineering practices at scales by technical actors in the underrecognized/emerging worlds can be? Which speculative, experimental, or empirical cases can we dig into as the Indigenous “Knowledge engineering” Systems (Watson-Verran et al. 1995; Brereton et-al. 2015; Chamunorwa et-al. 2018)? KEYWORDS: knowledge engineering, knowledge technologies, technological agency, indigenous knowledge systems, emerging worlds THREE CATEGOREIS: Big Data; Information, Computing and Media Technology; Postcolonial/Decolonial STS CONVENORS: Yoehan Oh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Wish you a happy new year. Best, Yoehan REFERENCES * Acker, Amelia, and Joan Donovan. 2019. "Data craft: a theory/methods package for critical internet studies." *Information, Communication & Society *22(11): 1590-1609. * Aouragh, Miriyam, and Paula Chakravartty. 2016. "Infrastructures of empire: towards a critical geopolitics of media and information studies." *Media, Culture & Society *38(4): 559-575. * Benjamin, Ruha. 2019. *Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code. *John Wiley & Sons. * Biagioli, Mario, and Vincent Antonin Lépinay, eds. 2019. *From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times. *Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. * Bowker, Geoffrey C. 1994. *Science on the Run: Information management and industrial geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940. *MIT press. * Brereton, Margot, Paul Roe, Ronald Schroeter, and A. Lee Hong. 2015. "Indigenous knowledge technologies: Moving from knowledge capture to engagement, reciprocity and use." In *At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design, *edited by Nicola Bidwell and Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, 239-258. Informing Science. * Burrell, Jenna. 2012. *Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet cafés of urban Ghana. *MIT Press. * Chamunorwa, Michael Bosomefi, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, and Tariq Zaman. 2018. "An Intermediary Database Node in the Namibian Communities Indigenous Knowledge Management System." In *Digitisation of Culture: Namibian and International Perspectives, *edited by Dharm Singh Jat, Jürgen Sieck, Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Anicia Peters, and Shawulu Nggada, 99-117. Singapore: Springer, * Collins, Harry M. 1987. "Expert systems and the science of knowledge." In *The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology, *edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, Trevor Pinch, 329-348. MIT Press. * Ebner, Susanne. 2019. “Hierarchies of Knowledge: Usage of a Chinese Media App in Rural Tamil Nadu” presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, U.S. * Eglash, Ron. 1999. *African fractals: Modern computing and indigenous design. *Rutgers University Press. * Forsythe, Diana E. 1993. "Engineering knowledge: The construction of knowledge in artificial intelligence." *Social studies of science *23(3): 445-477. * Fouché, Rayvon. 2006. "Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud: African Americans, American artifactual culture, and black vernacular technological creativity." *American Quarterly *58(3): 639-661. * Gaskins, Nettrice R. 2019. “Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South.” In *Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, *edited by Ruha Benjamin, 252-274. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. * Irani, Lilly, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita Philip, and Rebecca E. Grinter. 2010. "Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development." In *Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, *ACM. 1311-1320. * Kita, Chigusa, and Hyungsub Choi. 2016. "History of computing in East Asia." *IEEE Annals of the History of Computing *38(2): 8-10. * McIlwain, Charlton. 2019. *Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter. *Oxford University Press, USA. * McPherson, Tara. 2013. “US operating systems at mid-century: The intertwining of race and UNIX.” In *Race after the Internet, edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White, *27-43. Routledge. * Medina, Eden. 2011. *Cybernetic revolutionaries: Technology and politics in Allende's Chile. *MIT Press. * Nakamura, Lisa, and Peter Chow-White, eds. 2013. *Race after the Internet. *Routledge. * Noble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. *Algorithms of Oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. *NYU Press. * Noble, Safiya Umoja, and Brendesha M. Tynes. 2016. *The intersectional internet: Race, sex, class, and culture online. *Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. * Petrillo, Anthony. 1994. “Ethnocomputers in Nigerian Computer Education.” Paper presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematical Association of Nigeria (March 1994). * Philip, Kavita, Lilly Irani, and Paul Dourish. 2012. "Postcolonial computing: A tactical survey." *Science, Technology, & Human Values *37(1): 3-29. * Posner, Miriam. 2016. “What’s Next: The Radical Unrealised Potential of Digital Humanities.” In *Debates in the digital humanities 2016, *edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 32-41. University of Minnesota Press. * Risam, Roopika. 2018. *New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. *Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. * Snow, Jackie. 2018. “We’re in a diversity crisis”: Cofounder of Black in AI on what’s poisoning algorithms in our lives.” *MIT Technology Review *(Feb 14, 2018). * Stöckelová, Tereza, and Jaroslav Klepal. 2018. "Chinese Medicine on the Move into Central Europe: A Contribution to the Debate on Correlativity and Decentering STS." *East Asian Science, Technology and Society. *12(1): 57-79. * Rankin, Joy Lisi. 2018. *A People's History of Computing in the United States. *Harvard University Press. * Stevens, Hallam. 2019. "Digital Infrastructure in the Chinese Register." *Made in China Journal. *4(2): 84-89. * Švelch, Jaroslav. 2018. *Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games. *MIT Press. * Tedre, Matti, Erkki Sutinen, Esko Kähkönen, and Piet Kommers. 2006. "Ethnocomputing: ICT in cultural and social context." *Communications of the ACM *49(1): 126-130. * Tinn, Honghong. 2018. "Modeling Computers and Computer Models: Manufacturing Economic-Planning Projects in Cold War Taiwan, 1959–1968." *Technology and culture *59(5): S66-S99. * Watson-Verran, Helen, and David Turnbull. 1995. "Science and other indigenous knowledge systems." In *Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, *2nd edition, edited by Jasanoff, S., G. E. Markle, J. Peterson, and T. Pinch, 115-139. Sage. * Williams, Logan D. A. 2018. *Eradicating Blindness: Global Health Innovation from South Asia. *Palgrave Macmillan. -- Yoehan Oh Ph.D. Student Department of Science and Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 USA e-mail: ohy(a)rpi.edu ; yoehan.oh(a)gmail.com phone: (518) 368-1257 pronoun: he/him

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HSS/SHOT panel on cybernetics, psychology and anthropology
by Angelica Clayton 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Hello SIGCIS, I haven't used this list before but I figured this might be of interest to some of you! I am a third year PhD student at Yale University's history of science and medicine program and am currently putting together a panel on the intersections between cybernetics, psychology and anthropology for 2020's SHOT/HSS join conference. The panel will focus on second order cybernetics and how it was used by figures such as Gregory Bateson and John Lilly to theorize ideas of mental illness and think about self observation as part of scientific method. We are still looking for panelists (as well as a discussant and chair) so if this might be of interest or your research might fit with the panel's topics, please do reach out! All my best, Angélica Angelica Clayton PhD Student Program in the History of Science and Medicine | Yale University angelica.clayton(a)yale.edu | (206) 434 - 6430

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East Asian perspectives on game studies conference cfp
by Jonathan Coopersmith 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

fyi [DEADLINE EXTENDED] III Complutense Conference on Historical Game Studies: East Asian Perspectives <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__networks.h-2Dnet.org_u…> by Federico Peñate Domínguez Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__networks.h-2Dnet.org_n…>. The byline reflects the original authorship. [*DEADLINE EXTENDED: FEBRUARY 10th, 2020]* Since the twilight of the last century, game studies have emerged to become a legitimate discipline by which to study digital entertainment products as part of the Humanities. Deriving from this phenomenon are historical game studies, which have blossomed in the last decade and help us understand the uses of and discourses about the past in gaming. Most of the works, however, have focused on Western computer games using an analytical approach that also draws from a Western heritage, despite the importance of the Asian market, especially the Japanese one, after the 1983 crash of the American game industry. Furthermore, in recent decades the production of videogames in countries like China, South Korea and Taiwan has been reaching global audiences. Therefore, we have deemed it relevant to focus the 3rd Complutense’s Historical Game Studies Conference on this Asian phenomenon. The 2020 Conference follows an open call for papers system. The organization will evaluate positively those contributions built on original and appropriate theoretical frames and methodological apparatuses (in preference to purely descriptive ones). Proposals should be sent to asiangamesconference(a)gmail.com <joveneshumanistas16(a)gmail.com> and will consist of* a title, an abstract of no more than 400 words, up to 5 key words and a selection of bibliography* in a text document with the name of the contributor. They will be *blind peer reviewed by a scientific committee of five experts.* The accepted languages are *English and Spanish.* Research topics proposed by the organization are as follows: - *History of videogames and gaming culture in East Asia:* producers and developers, evolution of franchises, chronologically defined audiences, their practices and their evolution… - *Western games consumed in East Asia and vice versa:* impact of historical computer game franchises around the globe, *ports*, localization of historical games in order to adapt their discourses to foreign audiences… - *Representations of foreign history in Asian videogames:* how Asian developers reimagine foreign history (*Operation Europe: Path to Victory* , *Uncharted Waters, Bladestorm, Valkyria Chronicles…*), adaptation of historical elements in contexts of fantasy (*Fate, Granblue Fantasy…*), historical anthropomorfism (*Azur Lane, Girl’s Frontline…*)… - *Representations of Asian history in Asian videogames:* *Sengoku Basara, Samurai Warriors, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Nobunaga’s Ambition, Touken Ranbu…* - *Computer game genres and gender/sexual identities:* historical games marketed to gender-based audiences (*otome *games, *bishoujo* games), sexuality and history in East Asian games (*moé*)… - *Transmedia visual culture:* relationship between historical games and comics (*manga, manhwa, manhua*), animation, film, advertisement… - *Reception dynamics:* fan activities (*cosplay, fanzines, doujinshi, modding, *pilgrimages…), fan cultures around historical videogames… ------------------------------ The deadline for proposals is February 10th, 2020. Authors will be notified of the selection early March. The conference will be held at *Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) mid-late April 2020.* If you have any questions regarding the Conference, please contact us at asiangamesconference(a)gmail.com. We are looking forward to your contributions. Contact Info: Jóvenes Humanistas UCM (academic association at Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. c/ Profesor Aranguren s/n, 20840, Madrid, Spain Contact Email: asiangamesconference(a)gmail.com - Read more or reply <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__networks.h-2Dnet.org_u…> Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Most recent oped: "Will Artemis fail in the halls of Congress?" https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3836/1 Apollo thoughts: https://today.tamu.edu/2019/07/19/would-apollo-11-have-happened-without-rus… *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press) is the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history.

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Reminder: ACM History Fellowship Competition--Deadline Feb 15th, 2020
by Tracy, Kim 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Dear Colleagues, The deadline for this call is rapidly approaching and is February 15, 2020. We look forward to your proposals. Thanks, --Kim From: Kim Tracy <tracy(a)rose-hulman.edu> Date: Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 12:07 PM To: "members(a)lists.sigcis.org" <members(a)lists.sigcis.org> Subject: ACM History Fellowship Competition--Deadline Feb 15th, 2020 Dear Colleagues, The link below provides an announcement to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2020 fellowship competition for research projects on or centrally related to ACM history. The ACM History Committee runs this program, which has resulted in 30 fellowships awarded since the start of this fellowship program in 2009. Many of these awards have gone to scholars (graduate students to senior scholars) in the SHOT and SIGCIS communities. The submission deadline for applications is February 15, 2020. http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship_annou…<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhistory.acm…> Thanks, --Kim Kim W. Tracy Visiting Asst. Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering (pronouns: he, him) ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 5500 Wabash Avenue | Terre Haute, IN 47803-3999 Room: Moench D216 | tracy(a)rose-hulman.edu<mailto:tracy@rose-hulman.edu> Phone: 812.877.8343 | Fax: 812.872.6060 www.rose-hulman.edu<http://www.rose-hulman.edu>

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ICOHTEC Symposium Eindhoven (Netherlands) July 2020
by Richard Vahrenkamp 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Dear all, here is an announcement of ICOHTEC: Dear Colleagues and Friends, A reminder: the deadline of the call for papers of our *47^th Symposium in Eindhoven*, the Netherlands (13-18 July 2020), is *30^th January 2020*; please find the call and links concerning the symposium on our homepage: http://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/eindhoven-2020/ We will organize a Summer School in Eindhoven, scheduled just before the symposium, and we will give travel grants as we did in the last years. Please find announcements for the *Turriano ICOHTEC Prize* 2020 for books – *deadline 1^st February 2020* – here: http://www.icohtec.org/prizes/ Our *48^th Annual Symposium* will be held as a part of the 26^th International Congress of History of Science and Technology in *Prague*, Czech Republic (25 - 31 July 2021). Thus, the deadline of our call for papers has to be already*10^th February _2020_*. Please visit: http://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/prague-2021/ *Thus, it is necessary to submit proposals for both symposia within the next time.* -- ******************************************** Prof. Dr. Richard Vahrenkamp Logistik Consulting Berlin Phone 0177- 628 3325 E-Mail: Vahrenkamp2016(a)gmx.de Web: www.vahrenkamp.org Trendelenburgstr. 16 14057 Berlin *********************************************

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SHOT Open Session CfP: Crowd Control
by Scott Kushner 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Dear SIGCISsians, I'm proposing an open session for SHOT 2020. I hope you'll consider submitting an abstract, and that you'll feel free to be in touch with any inquiries. See below or visit https://tinyurl.com/shot-crowd-control CROWD CONTROL Organizer: Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island (scottkushner(a)uri.edu) Queues, gates, doorways, turnstiles, stanchions, guards, cages, pens, cells, anterooms, hallways, cameras, bottlenecks, streets, signage, velvet ropes, bouncers, bleachers, fences, barriers, ushers: the methods of crowd control are technological interventions. The ways that crowds have been constituted, apprehended, understood are historically, geographically, and culturally contingent. The discourses that differentiate crowds from (and conflate them with) adjacent categories of analysis, such as audiences, mobs, masses, multitudes, are similarly variable across different contexts. The purposes to which crowd control has been put have also changed over time and space, organizing the flows and stases of bodies in order to impose political, social, cultural, and economic logics specific to and co-constitutive of the contexts in which its various technologies are situated. This SHOT session seeks to develop an understanding of technologies used to control crowds of people over time. Participants will present research on historically-situated technological devices, protocols, systems, and infrastructures that modify built and natural environments in order to contain, channel, direct, arrange, expel, disperse, and otherwise direct the movements and stillnesses of human bodies. The significance of this work to the history of technology lies in concentrating discussion about the ways that technological interventions have shaped the spatial dispositions of groups of human bodies in order to sculpt the experiences of those spaces and of the crowds of people those spaces attract. Proposals engaging with any era and geographic context are welcome. The organizer is interested in placing in conversation scholars and audience members working with and curious about a range of materials and methodologies. Potential participants are therefore invited to imagine the notion of crowd control in adventurous manners. Procedure: Those interested in proposing presentations for potential inclusion in this session should kindly prepare a one-page abstract (500 words maximum) and a one-page short CV (300 words maximum) with current contact information. Please send these materials to Scott Kushner ( scottkushner(a)uri.edu) no later than February 15, 2020. Note: If you will be a first-time SHOT presenter and wish to be considered for the Robinson Prize, please indicate as much in your abstract and send a separate email to this effect to SHOT.Secretariaat(a)tue.nl. (Find information about the Robinson Prize at the SHOT website.) -- Scott Kushner Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Harrington School of Communication and Media University of Rhode Island 312 Davis Hall 10 Lippitt Rd. Kingston, R.I. 02881 +1 (401) 874-5223 scottkushner(a)uri.edu

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Swiss History and Computing Journal - Issues 20 + 21
by Enrico Natale 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

//Sorry for crosspostings// Dear colleagues, allow me to draw your attention to the two latest issues of the swiss Journal « Geschichte und Informatik / Histoire et Informatique ». Both volume are available in open access. Volume 20 (10.2019): Enjeux politiques du web - approches historiques // Das Web als politische Herausforderung - historische Perspektiven (Download volume <https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/public-download/2379>) Valérie Schafer:  Du grand secret à la «défaite de l’Internet». Enjeux, mobilisations et controverses autour du pouvoir des intermédiaires en France dans la décennie 1990  (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1-Schafer.pdf>) Anaïs Theviot:  Interroger les processus de numérisation des partis politiques français. Etude comparative des trajectoires numériques du Parti socialiste et de l’Union pour un Mouvement Populaire  (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2-Theviot.pdf>) Gianluigi Negro:  Limiting, Controlling and Supporting Digital Circulation. The Political and Economic Management of Online Rumours (yaoyan) on the Internet in the People’s Republic of China  (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/3-Negro.pdf>) Anna Jobin, Olivier Glassey, Stéfanie Prezioso, Frederic Kaplan:  La mémoire kaléidoscopique: l’histoire au prisme des algorithmes d’autocomplétion  (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/4-Jobin-Prezioso-Glassey-K…>) Theodore Lekkas and Aristotle Tympas:  “A club for all the Greeks”. Home Micros Computer Clubs between Magazines and Stores (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/5-Lekkas-Tympas.pdf>) Tobias Hodel:  READing Handwritten Documents. Projekt READ und das Staatsarchiv Zürich auf dem Weg zur automatischen Erkennung von handschriftlichen Dokumenten (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/6-Hodel.pdf>) Volume 21 (12.2019): Computer Network Histories. Hidden Streams from the Internet Past (Download volume <https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/27097>) Paolo Bory, Gianluigi Negro, Gabriele Balbi: Introduction: The Tributaries and Distributaries of Computer Network Histories (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GundI-Vol21-0.1-intro.pdf>) Kevin Driscoll: Thou Shalt Love Thy BBS: Distributed Experimentation in Community Moderation (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GundI-Vol21-1-Driscoll.pdf>) Félix Tréguer, Dominique Trudel: From Internet Access Provision to Digital Rights Activism: The History of the French Data Network (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GundI-Vol21-2-Tr%C3%A9guer…>) Sophie Toupin: Hacking Apartheid: Revolutionary Communication and the South African National Liberation Movement (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GundI-Vol21-3-Toupin.pdf>) Christian Henrich-Franke: Computer Networks on Copper Cables: From ‘Promises to the Public’ to ‘Profits for Providers’ (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GundI-Vol21-4-Henrich-Fran…>) Marcelo Savio Carvalho, Henrique Luiz Cukierman: The Dawn of the Internet in Brazil (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GundI-Vol21-5-Savio-Cukier…>) Benedetta Campanile: Robert Fano, an Italian Computer Scientist from Project Mac to the Internet (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GundI-Vol21-6-Campanile.pdf>) Yong Hu, Benjamin Peters: A Conversation on Network Histories (download article <http://blog.ahc-ch.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GundI-Vol21-7-Hu-Peters.pdf>) Enrico Natale infoclio.ch Hirschengraben 11 Postfach 3001 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 Follow infoclio.ch on Twitter <https://twitter.com/infoclio> / Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/infoclio.ch>.

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[CfA EASST/4S Prague] [CfA EASST/4S Prague - Open Panel] Performative Futures: Fighting Reification Inertias through Open Anticipations
by Sergio Urueña López 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Dear list members, Apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper proposal to our Open Panel “Performative Futures: Fighting Reification Inertias through Open Anticipations” to be held in the EASST/4S conference[1] (Prague, August 18th-21st 2020). More information is included below. Please feel free to circulate this call to anyone who might be interested and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or doubts. Thanks! Best regards, Sergio Urueña, Hannot Rodríguez & Andoni Ibarra *** OPEN PANEL - “PERFORMATIVE FUTURES: FIGHTING REIFICATION INERTIAS THROUGH OPEN ANTICIPATIONS” (EASST/4S) ABSTRACT Science and technology practices are crucially shaped by representations of “the future”. Expectations, socio-technical imaginaries and techno-visions are constitutive elements in the de facto epistemic-political governance of research and innovation. Some scholars (e.g., van Lente, 2006; Jasanoff and Kim, 2015; Konrad and Palavicino, 2017; Lösch, 2017) as well as certain research policy frameworks (e.g., technology assessment, anticipatory governance, RRI) have emphasized this performative character of futures by approaching it as an object of responsibility. This intellectual endeavor has been especially fruitful in relation to the visualization and critique of existing reification inertias. That is to say, the frames, regulations, commitments, feelings and so on, orienting and constraining (i.e., reifying, or closing-down) the processes, outcomes and ends of research and innovation practices. This panel aims to explore the theoretical and practical possibilities of developing interventive anticipatory resources capable of instrumentalizing “the future” in more open, inclusive and reflexive ways. Some POTENTIAL QUESTIONS include: * To what extent are anticipatory narratives and practices within research and innovation policy systems open, inclusive and reflexive? * What constraining/enabling roles do socio-technical expectations, imaginaries and techno-visions of “the future” play in research and innovation practices? * What potentials and limits do anticipatory methods (e.g., scenario-building, science-fiction prototyping, technology roadmapping, etc.) display with regard to reflexivity and de-reifying dynamics? * How is/should the epistemic-political quality of open anticipatory practices be enacted and/or assessed? * What role and relevance does anticipatory governance display in relation to more recent policy frameworks such as RRI and “Open Science”? SUBMISSION The panel is open to all disciplines, approaches and methods. We welcome researchers, practitioners and students. If you are interested in participating in our Open Panel, please submit your proposal for an oral presentation (max. 250 words abstract, including the paper’s main arguments, methods and contribution) by logging into the Programme website (https://admin.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss20/) with your 4S credentials, selecting “Papers for Open Panels” and clicking in the Open Panel No. 132. _Deadline_: FEBRUARY 29TH, 2020. Vínculos: --------- [1] https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/

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CFP: Open Panel on Universities at 4s/EASST 2020 at Prague 18-21 August
by Sharon Traweek 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Call for Abstracts to participate in Open Panel 97: Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities to be held in Prague, 18-21 August 2020, at the joint conference https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/ of the European Association for Studies of Science & Technology (EASST) https://easst.net/ and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) http://www.4sonline.org/ EASST/4s 2020 Conference theme: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/focus-and-themes/ There are various ways to participate in the 4s/EASST 2020 meeting: Open Panel Papers, Closed Panel Proposals, and Making/Doing Sessions https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/ For example, 217 open panels now are seeking paper submissions. See panel descriptions and search for key words at https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/accepted-open-panels-all-abstracts/ Call for abstracts to participate in Open Panel 97: Locating & Timing Governance in STS and Universities Organizers Knut H. Sørensen (NTNU) and Sharon Traweek (UCLA) For many generations universities have been institutions of higher education and research. Now they are expected to contribute to local and global economies by commercializing research and spurring innovation, while addressing grand social challenges like climate mitigation and social disparities. They also must engage successfully in mass higher education and outreach with a variety of publics. This means that universities now occupy a strategic place in re/shaping society by circulating research and knowledge through teaching and professional expertise. Meanwhile, universities have become subject to increased auditing practices and austerity policies, locally and globally. Many universities turn to experts in branding and commodification for strategies in defining and representing their work as successful. STS provides resources for understanding such dis/continuities in the making and circulation of knowledge while the study of universities in dynamic ecologies is vital to addressing unexamined assumptions in STS about the relationship between research, teaching, and society, as well as the governance of that relationship. We invite papers that address how universities engage with the changing: - fragility and resilience of university cultures. - demands for rapid intellectual, social, and economic contributions to society; - work life and agency of academics - relationship between teaching, research, innovation, and outreach; - use of social media and branding practices by universities; - intersectional issues in knowledge making, teaching, outreach, funding, and society; - political economies of research, teaching, funding, and outreach; - campus infrastructures from software & budgets to buildings & transportation; - increasingly complex webs of relationships among universities glocally through rankings, MOUs, satellite campuses, academic mobilities, etc. The organizers are co-authors of Questing Excellence: Tales of Two Universities (under contract with Routledge). Abstract Requirements: Give your main arguments, methods, and contributions to specific aspects of the panel topic in in 250 words or less. Deadline for abstract submissions is 29 February 2020 Submission information https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/ For more information contact: Knut H Sørensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) knut.sorensen(a)ntnu.no<mailto:knut.sorensen@ntnu.no> https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/knut.sorensen Sharon Traweek, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) traweek(a)history.ucla.edu<mailto:traweek@history.ucla.edu> https://ucla.academia.edu/STraweek http://genderstudies.ss.ucla.edu/faculty/sharon-traweek

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