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SIGCIS 2022 CFP: UNDER CONSTRUCTION | Due June 1
by Laine Nooney 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Dear SIGCIS Community, The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to *announce the CFP for our 2022 SIGCIS Conference, **UNDER CONSTRUCTION*. Our keynote for the event is Lilly Irani <https://quote.ucsd.edu/lirani/>, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. The SIGCIS Conference will take place *November 13th, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, *on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. *Abstracts are due June 1.* Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here <https://bit.ly/388L3Zk>, or at our conference website: meetings.sigcis.org. Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you at SIGCIS! -Laine Nooney, Morgan G. Ames, Stephanie Dick, and Xiaochang Li -------------------------------------------------------------- *UNDER CONSTRUCTION* *New Orleans, LA, US | November 13, 2022* The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their annual conference meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: June 1, 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Lilly Irani Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies University of California, San Diego THEME A shovel strikes dirt in one country, and the Internet goes out in another. Data centers are cooled by local water supplies, fiber-optic cable follows the sightlines left by railroads and telegraph, global hardware semiconductor supplies depend on the labor of rare earth mineral miners: somehow computing always needs more. The past ten years, in particular, have exhibited a perilous turn in the political economy of computing, as software became service, programming became agile, and storage became cloud. This new regime is driven by an accelerated mode of iterative software development that increasingly relies on post-sales bug fixes, security patches, and performance upgrades, producing a litany of products and services whose endless failures aid some and threaten others. From the communities subject to such “innovation” to the shadow workers paid to “be” artificial intelligence to the coders pushing ambient updates by the millions, risk hums through it all. Computation today is locked in a state of perpetual beta testing, forever promising “improved” features—just don’t ask when it will end, and don’t ask who’s doing the work. In the meantime, these new standards of practice generate new labor and resource demands, new forms of risk, and new challenges for accountability and intervention alike. Yet the patched and partial nature of computing isn’t new. Computing is infrastructure, requiring its own forms of construction and maintenance throughout its history, whether tearing up roads, detangling spaghetti code, or hastily soldering circuits. These are metaphors for history too: what better encapsulates the sentiment of doing history, than the feeling that it will never be done? For historians of information and computing itself, such anxieties are particularly acute due to the objects under examination: constant upgrades, absent documentation, planned obsolescence, the failure of historic hardware. For every line of code we save, hundreds, thousands, disappear. As we work to make sense of our contemporary conditions, how does the undone quality of history affect our ability to tell it? The 2022 SIGCIS Conference, convening in-person in New Orleans on November 13 following the SHOT Annual Meeting, invites scholars, museum and archive professionals, journalists, IT practitioners, artists, and independent researchers across the disciplinary spectrum to submit abstracts related to the historical conditions of computing. We are especially interested in (but not limited to) work that relates to the theme of construction, maintenance, and labor, broadly and imaginatively construed. Areas of engagement may include: - Maintenance and infrastructure in the history of computing and information tech - Historically-oriented approaches to the platform and gig economies - Computing as a site of labor struggle - Networks, borders, boundaries - Computational models of resistance: obfuscation, open-source, hacking, going “off grid” - Government’s historic role in the construction of computing industries and infrastructure - Communitarian and utopian applications of computing - Updates, upgrades, failures, and bugs - Modding, re-using, recycling, afterlives - Archival and curatorial practices and methods - Oral history, memory, forgetting - The limits of historical representation SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions from: the histories of technology, computing, information, and science; science and technology studies; oral history and archival studies; critical studies of big data and machine learning; studies of women, gender, and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity, and postcoloniality; film, media, and game studies; software and code studies; network and internet histories; music, sound studies, and art history; and all other applicable domains. The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://bit.ly/3Nswik2 SUBMISSION FORMATS SIGCIS welcomes proposals for individual 15-20 minute papers, 3-4 paper panel proposals, and non-traditional proposals such as roundtables, software demonstrations, art and music performances, hands-on workshops, etc. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Submissions are due June 1, 2022 via Google form: <https://forms.gle/C8ixar9s3JsCXq8d9>https://forms.gle/sLRowEDz6QitKCfv9. Submissions require: - 300-350 word abstract, summary, or prospectus (as appropriate for the submission type). Full panel proposals should additionally include 200-250 word abstracts for each paper that will be part of the panel. - 100-150 word bios for each participant If you are submitting a co-presented paper, pre-constituted panel, or other submission involving multiple participants, please only have one person submit for the group; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: xiaochang.li(a)stanford.edu. COSTS/REGISTRATION While last year’s online conference was pay-what-you-can, hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS As a new initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We understand that for some, participation is more contingent on childcare or elder care, and as such we are opening up these grants to provide that form of support as well. There is no separate application form, though depending on the volume of requests and available resources we may need to contact you for further information before making a decision. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT annual meeting, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Laine Nooney, New York University (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Morgan Ames, University of California, Berkeley Stephanie Dick, Simon Fraser University Xiaochang Li, Stanford University ---- Laine Nooney <http://www.lainenooney.com/> MCC <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/> @ NYU <http://www.nyu.edu/> Assistant Professor -Need to make an appt? Click, don't email: https://bit.ly/2GIHuK0 -Probably typed by voice recognition, so please cherish typos

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SIGCIS 2022 | carbon computing
by Theodora J Dryer 27 May '22

27 May '22

Dear SIGCIS community, This is a late-stage call for SIGCIS participants. Would anybody like to be part of a roundtable with me on ‘computing beyond carbon’ at the SIGCIS meeting? Initial description below. I am excited to get to re/connect with folks who are working on *any* dimension or interpretation of this general topic. If you are interested in this topic, please do reach out. Some of my own research is still in the seedling stage so no need to have a perfect thesis (if those exist). Thank you, Theo 🌱 computing beyond carbon A roundtable discussing the relationships between computing, computational resource control, and carbon power. Rooted in over two centuries of technologies built for carbon control, today’s Net Zero campaigns represent a dangerous preoccupation with data manipulations, carbon trading, and carbon control technologies that can distract from justice-centered climate futures. Digital carbon trading is a growing enterprise, which functions at the nexus of digital waste (including carbon emissions) and financial computing. This roundtable includes participants working on the relationships between carbon and computing across historical and geographical contexts. -- Theodora Dryer, PhD she/her https://www.theodoradryer.com/ Water Justice + Technology <https://ainowinstitute.org/water-justice-technology.html> @AI Now Institute and @CIEJ Big Data Stream <https://logicmag.io/kids/big-data-stream/>@Logic Magazine

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Unhinged old newspaper reports lead to interesting ARPANET "first message" question / Werner Herzog
by Ceruzzi, Paul 20 May '22

20 May '22

I'm starting a new thread since this may be considered as off-topic by some of you. I would like to recommend the film "Lo and Behold" directed by Werner Herzog. It's a movie; it's Herzog, so cut me some slack. It is a lot of fun to watch, and he does interview people who claim to have been present at the creation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Lo_and_Behold%2C_Reveries_of…]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World> Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World> Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Werner Herzog.In it, Herzog ponders the existential impact of the Internet, robotics, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and more on human life. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and was sponsored by the company NetScout. The film contains interviews with Bob Kahn ... en.wikipedia.org I know the film has not been considered on the same level as "Aguirre the Wrath of God," but that's a high bar to jump over. Paul Ceruzzi

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Unhinged old newspaper reports lead to interesting ARPANET "first message" question
by thomas.haigh＠gmail.com 20 May '22

20 May '22

Hello SIGCIS, Longtime members may remember our entanglement (https://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai) a decade ago with one Shiva Ayyadurai, self-proclaimed "inventor of email," former quasi-husband of Fran Drescher, onetime wellness entrepreneur, and more recently a serially failed candidate for office in Massachusetts and expert consultant on election procedures to groups trying to overturn the 2020 election. If you don't remember him then count yourself lucky. Do not on any account visit his Wikipedia page, look at this article https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/shivas-war-one-mans-quest-to-con vince-the-world-that-he-invented-e-mail/, and then go down a rabbit hole that will consume the rest of your day. Todays message turns out to be about something entirely different even though it started out with what seemed to be another aspiring inventor of email. According to some San Antonio newspaper articles from 2009 and 2010 that were recently brought to my attention https://www.mysanantonio.com/community/northwest/news/article/Innovator-desc ribes-first-Internet-e-mail-792556.php and https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/Pioneer-recalls-first-e-mail-8 45391.php, Internet email was invented on Oct 1, 1969 by Ben Barker of BBN. Here's a taste: "One distinctive artifact remains from the first Internet e-mail message of 1969: Xolox and Misan decided to use the @ symbol to locate each other's networks. It's a symbol that's part of every Internet e-mail today." This is of course particularly odd because both Internet email and the @ sign are conventionally attributed to another BBN employee in 1971: Ray Tomlinson. So what's going on here? Well, Ben Barker really was a member of the BBN ARPANET team. He's mentioned in a similar context a 2020 Harvard Magazine article by Harry Lewis (an insider account of the emergence of computer science at Harvard) https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/09/features-a-science-is-born: While working for BBN during his Harvard graduate studies, Barker installed the first IMP at UCLA in September 1969. Thrope, employed full time at BBN after finishing his undergraduate degree, installed the second IMP a month later at SRI (originally the Stanford Research Institute, in Menlo Park). On October 6 Barker sent the first message to Thrope across the network, which at that point consisted of nothing but those two IMPs. From two nodes the internet has grown to tens of billions of computers. Barker does not remember what his message said. The fact that it arrived was miracle enough. At this point my head was spinning, given the conventional Oct 29 date for the first APRANET communication. How could Barker claim to have email running before packets were being exchanged? But notice that here that Lewis's claim is that Barker sent a "message across the network" which makes somewhat more sense, and is an idea could have been garbled by a reporter into "sent an Internet email." The newspaper articles are very confused - for example saying that email in 1970 was routinely possible between computers on the same network, whereas the truth is it was possible only between users on the same computer. Thus I'm inclined to blame the San Antonio reporter for all the silliness about @ signs and emails and assume that what Barker was actually intending to take credit for was sending the first data between two ARPANET nodes, which seems to be what Lewis is describing. That's a much more interesting claim. Were the first ARPANET messages exchanged on Oct 6, 1969 by Barker and Thorpe? Not according to conventional history. I mean, all you have to do it to check Wikipedia. Len Kleinrock has been boasting for decades that the first ARPANET packet was sent from UCLA to SRI on 29 October, 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET The first successful host to host connection on the ARPANET was made between Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and UCLA, by SRI programmer Bill Duvall and UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 pm PST on 29 October 1969 (6:30 UTC on 30 October 1969).[57] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#cite_note-57> Kline connected from UCLA's SDS Sigma 7 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_7> Host computer (in Boelter Hall room 3420) to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_940> Host computer. Kline typed the command "login," but initially the SDS 940 crashed after he typed two characters. About an hour later, after Duvall adjusted parameters on the machine, Kline tried again and successfully logged in. Hence, the first two characters successfully transmitted over the ARPANET were "lo".[58] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#cite_note-58> [59] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#cite_note-59> [60] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#cite_note-60> The first permanent ARPANET link was established on 21 November 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By 5 December 1969, the initial four-node network was established. It seems unlikely that Wikipedia, historians, and the IEEE historic milestone committee (https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969) are all wrong about the Oct 29 date. (Though like many other historians I have some reservations about the whole "UCLA as birthplace the Internet" narrative: BBN's role was far more significant than any of the initial user sites. And if the ARPANET was born when two hosts communicated, how can only one of them be the first node? Aren't they jointly first?) Looking closer though, it may well be that what Lewis was attributing to Barker in the Harvard magazine report something different from the more commonly celebrated milestone of a "host to host connection." If Barker got the UCLA and SRI IMPS to send characters back and forth in early Oct, 1969 it could quite plausibly have taken several weeks for Duvall and Kline to get the timesharing "host" computers in each place to exchange data packets with each other via the IMPs. I can't find any mention of this two stage process in the most obvious places, such as Janet Abbate's book _Inventing the Internet_, but logically speaking the two IMPs must have been talking to each other before the hosts could talk through them, and the obvious way to verify this would have been to manually type a message from one IMP to the other. This would fit with Barker's claim to have "sent a message" to his BBN colleague who was minding the IMP on the other end. BBN/Raytheon seemed to offer a claim like that in this press release, though with a slightly different date: https://www.raytheon.com/sites/default/files/rtnwcm/groups/gallery/documents /digitalasset/rtn_224614.pdf Barker traveled with the IMP to make sure the airline's cargo crew treated it with the respect it deserved and Truett Thach, a technician in BBN's Los Angeles office, met Barker and the IMP as they deplaned. When the IMP got to UCLA, Barker and Thach attached the cables and powered it up. Instantly, the machine picked up just where it had left off in Cambridge. Barker phoned Heart to tell him the good news and that he would be coming home in the morning. Heart asked Barker to hang around for a few days to see if it crashed. It didn't. On October 1, 1969, the second IMP arrived at SRI and the first characters were transmitted over the new network. The ARPANET was born. IMPs number three and four were installed at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah with little fanfare. IMP installations were beginning to seem routine. If my reading is correct and if Barker remembered the date and details right (a big if - some documentation would be nice) then whether he sent the first APANET message is almost a philosophical question: did the network come into being when two host computers first communicated over an ARPANET link, or earlier when two IMPs began to push characters back and forth over a leased line. Most people would say the former, but it's not unreasonable for Barker to want to highlight the latter. The answer may also vary depending on perspective, specifically whether you were an IMP hardware guy, like Barker, or a network user like Kleinrock. Every time a question came up that required deep ARPANET knowledge I used to email Dave Walden, who was one of the original BBN team and had a deep interest in computer history. He died recently, and I am missing him greatly. So I am throwing this question to SIGCIS instead: can anyone confirm that IMP to IMP communication took place between SRI and UCLA several weeks prior to the better known milestone of host to host communication? Or otherwise explain what is going on here? Best wishes, Tom

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REMINDER: SIGCIS 2022 CFP DUE JUNE 1: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
by Laine Nooney 18 May '22

18 May '22

Here's a friendly reminder about the upcoming deadline for our *2022 SIGCIS Conference, **UNDER CONSTRUCTION*! Our keynote for the event is Lilly Irani <https://quote.ucsd.edu/lirani/>, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. The SIGCIS Conference will take place *November 13th, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, *on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. *Abstracts are due June 1.* Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here <https://bit.ly/388L3Zk>, or at our conference website: meetings.sigcis.org. Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you at SIGCIS! -Laine Nooney, Morgan G. Ames, Stephanie Dick, and Xiaochang Li -------------------------------------------------------------- *UNDER CONSTRUCTION* *New Orleans, LA, US | November 13, 2022* The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their annual conference meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: June 1, 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Lilly Irani Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies University of California, San Diego THEME A shovel strikes dirt in one country, and the Internet goes out in another. Data centers are cooled by local water supplies, fiber-optic cable follows the sightlines left by railroads and telegraph, global hardware semiconductor supplies depend on the labor of rare earth mineral miners: somehow computing always needs more. The past ten years, in particular, have exhibited a perilous turn in the political economy of computing, as software became service, programming became agile, and storage became cloud. This new regime is driven by an accelerated mode of iterative software development that increasingly relies on post-sales bug fixes, security patches, and performance upgrades, producing a litany of products and services whose endless failures aid some and threaten others. From the communities subject to such “innovation” to the shadow workers paid to “be” artificial intelligence to the coders pushing ambient updates by the millions, risk hums through it all. Computation today is locked in a state of perpetual beta testing, forever promising “improved” features—just don’t ask when it will end, and don’t ask who’s doing the work. In the meantime, these new standards of practice generate new labor and resource demands, new forms of risk, and new challenges for accountability and intervention alike. Yet the patched and partial nature of computing isn’t new. Computing is infrastructure, requiring its own forms of construction and maintenance throughout its history, whether tearing up roads, detangling spaghetti code, or hastily soldering circuits. These are metaphors for history too: what better encapsulates the sentiment of doing history, than the feeling that it will never be done? For historians of information and computing itself, such anxieties are particularly acute due to the objects under examination: constant upgrades, absent documentation, planned obsolescence, the failure of historic hardware. For every line of code we save, hundreds, thousands, disappear. As we work to make sense of our contemporary conditions, how does the undone quality of history affect our ability to tell it? The 2022 SIGCIS Conference, convening in-person in New Orleans on November 13 following the SHOT Annual Meeting, invites scholars, museum and archive professionals, journalists, IT practitioners, artists, and independent researchers across the disciplinary spectrum to submit abstracts related to the historical conditions of computing. We are especially interested in (but not limited to) work that relates to the theme of construction, maintenance, and labor, broadly and imaginatively construed. Areas of engagement may include: - Maintenance and infrastructure in the history of computing and information tech - Historically-oriented approaches to the platform and gig economies - Computing as a site of labor struggle - Networks, borders, boundaries - Computational models of resistance: obfuscation, open-source, hacking, going “off grid” - Government’s historic role in the construction of computing industries and infrastructure - Communitarian and utopian applications of computing - Updates, upgrades, failures, and bugs - Modding, re-using, recycling, afterlives - Archival and curatorial practices and methods - Oral history, memory, forgetting - The limits of historical representation SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions from: the histories of technology, computing, information, and science; science and technology studies; oral history and archival studies; critical studies of big data and machine learning; studies of women, gender, and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity, and postcoloniality; film, media, and game studies; software and code studies; network and internet histories; music, sound studies, and art history; and all other applicable domains. The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://bit.ly/3Nswik2 SUBMISSION FORMATS SIGCIS welcomes proposals for individual 15-20 minute papers, 3-4 paper panel proposals, and non-traditional proposals such as roundtables, software demonstrations, art and music performances, hands-on workshops, etc. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Submissions are due June 1, 2022 via Google form: <https://forms.gle/C8ixar9s3JsCXq8d9>https://forms.gle/sLRowEDz6QitKCfv9. Submissions require: - 300-350 word abstract, summary, or prospectus (as appropriate for the submission type). Full panel proposals should additionally include 200-250 word abstracts for each paper that will be part of the panel. - 100-150 word bios for each participant If you are submitting a co-presented paper, pre-constituted panel, or other submission involving multiple participants, please only have one person submit for the group; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: xiaochang.li(a)stanford.edu. COSTS/REGISTRATION While last year’s online conference was pay-what-you-can, hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS As a new initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We understand that for some, participation is more contingent on childcare or elder care, and as such we are opening up these grants to provide that form of support as well. There is no separate application form, though depending on the volume of requests and available resources we may need to contact you for further information before making a decision. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT annual meeting, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Laine Nooney, New York University (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Morgan Ames, University of California, Berkeley Stephanie Dick, Simon Fraser University Xiaochang Li, Stanford University

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HAPOP-5 and PROGRAMme conference: call for participation
by lidemol 18 May '22

18 May '22

Dear all, it is my pleasure to invite you to the fifth international symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming and the final conference of the ANR-funded PROGRAMme project, from 13-15 june 2022, Lille, France. The event is planned as a hybrid event. Registration, except for diner, is free but mandatory. Please note that registration closes on *June 1.* You can register here: https://inscription-evenement.univ-lille.fr/HaPoP_5_2022 The program and Book of Abstracts for HAPOP-5 is available here: https://www.shift-society.org/hapop5/ The program for the PROGRAMme workshop is available here: https://programme.hypotheses.org/spring-workshop-iii-what-is-a-computer-pro… with best wishes, Liesbeth De Mol and Tomas Petricek

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Job: Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK
by James Sumner 13 May '22

13 May '22

Dear SIGCIS My group, the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester in the UK, is seeking a new permanent member of teaching and research staff at Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). We are particularly looking to broaden our Global South coverage, so the role might suit someone who works on information and communications technologies in those regions. CHSTM is strong on contemporary history, and an interest in science and technology studies, science policy, or science communication studies may be an advantage. If you'd like to know more about CHSTM as a working environment, I'd be happy to discuss informally: just drop me an email off-list. Applications close at midnight UK time (UTC+1) on *Friday 10 June 2022.* Full details, including link to detailed person specification, are at https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=22343. Summary below. All best James Lecturer in History of Science, Technology or Medicine (teaching and research) University of Manchester *Salary:* £42,149 to £51,799 per annum, depending on relevant experience Applications are invited for a permanent post as Lecturer in History of Science, Technology or Medicine at the Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester. Keen to broaden our teaching and research portfolio in the global history of science, technology and medicine (STM), we encourage applications from candidates with expertise in colonial, postcolonial or decolonized histories of science, medicine or technology. Candidates will have proven expertise in one of these fields (S, T or M), or a combination, as our Centre is dedicated to the integrated modern history of STM, along with science and health communication. We particularly encourage applications from candidates whose research focuses on such knowledges and practices in regions commonly understood to form part of the Global South, such as Africa, Latin America, South Asia or Southeast Asia. We will also consider applicants working on current or recent STM in other non-western contexts. You will be expected to possess a compelling research vision with strong potential to develop an excellent research portfolio attractive to research funders, with a view to building research leadership in your chosen field. You will possess a competitive publication record in accordance with your career stage, and sustainable plans to publish further peer reviewed academic work. You will have viable plans to apply for research funding and will be fully supported in this by experienced colleagues. You will also be keen to organize seminars and conferences maintaining and further developing your network of research contacts. You will support and enhance our teaching portfolio at undergraduate and postgraduate (MSc and PhD) levels. In addition to provision of innovative lectures and seminars, this will include playing an active role in undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation and project supervision, and taking on pastoral roles as an academic advisor. You will be supported in developing and delivering course units at undergraduate and postgraduate level, based on your area of research expertise. You will have the opportunity to supervise PhD students. As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit. *Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:* Name:Professor Carsten Timmermann, Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine Email: Carsten.timmermann(a)manchester.ac.uk <mailto:Carsten.timmerman@manchester.ac.uk> *General enquiries: *Email: People.recruitment(a)manchester.ac.uk <mailto:People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk> *Technical support: *https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home <https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home> * ***

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Fwd: Bits & Bytes: News from the Charles Babbage Institute
by Jeffrey Yost 12 May '22

12 May '22

Dear Colleagues, Here is our Spring CBI Bits & Bytes (Newsletter). Best, Jeff Spring 2022 edition of CBI's e-newsletter. View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/339faa1e9ba3/cbi-bits-and-bytes-15611159?e=7e9b315345> <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> *Help us build a brighter tomorrow for the study of computing and culture. * Give today! <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> *Director's Desk* <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> CBI is an interdisciplinary institute for computing and software studies. At times, I am a rather late adopter of technology. 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Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> *News From the Archives* <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> The 2021-2022 school year here at the University of Minnesota has been one of rebuilding and restoring. Finding our stride again in today’s new normal. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Schirvar is Named as 2022-2023 Tomash Fellow <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> We are absolutely delighted to announce that University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science ABD Sam Schriever is CBI’s 2022-2023 Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow. 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2021 Mahoney Prize nominations
by Elizabeth Petrick 10 May '22

10 May '22

Hello everyone, It's time for the 2021 Mahoney Prize for outstanding article in the history of computing and information technology, broadly conceived. Articles published in 2018, 2019, or 2020 will be considered. Self-nominations and nominations of others are both welcome. Please email a copy of the article to members of the prize committee, listed here: https://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize Deadline is May 1, 2021. Best, Liz ------------- Elizabeth Petrick Associate Professor Department of History Rice University http://elizabethpetrick.com/

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The Modem World book launch May 10 at 1 PM ET
by Kevin Driscoll 06 May '22

06 May '22

Hi everyone, I'm psyched to announce that next Tuesday, May 10 at 1 PM ET, the Deliberative Media Lab at UVA is hosting a roundtable discussion of my new book, The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media<https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/modem-world>, with all-star panelists Megan Sapnar Ankerson, Paul Dourish, Thomas Streeter, and Siva Vaidhyanathan. The event will be on Zoom and open to the public so please feel free to share with your students and colleagues. Registration: https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gwYnPMK9Q-CfSvkisuSi2g Yours at 300 baud, Kevin Driscoll https://modem.world ________________________________ From: Siva Vaidhyanathan <deliberativemedialab(a)virginia.edu> Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:39 PM To: Driscoll, Kevin Edward (ked5d) <ked5d(a)virginia.edu> Subject: The Modem World Book Talk Join us online to discuss the new book by Kevin Driscoll. View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/4c259ef3de72/the-modem-world-book-talk?e=baa747d42b> [https://mcusercontent.com/dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e/images/07c89897-6acd-66…] The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media TUESDAY, May 10th at 1pm EST ONLINE! Join us for an author meets critic roundtable featuring: Megan Sapnar Ankerson Communication and Media at the University of Michigan Paul Dourish Department of Infomatics at the University of California, Irvine Tom Streeter Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and author Kevin Driscoll Media Studies at the University of Virginia Register Today!<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478…> [https://mcusercontent.com/dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e/images/592e7aed-7c3b-8d…] >From Yale University Press Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond. From ham radio operators to HIV/AIDS activists, these modem enthusiasts developed novel forms of community moderation, governance, and commercialization. [https://mcusercontent.com/dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e/images/f5748033-5642-61…] The Modem World tells an alternative origin story for social media, centered not in the office parks of Silicon Valley or the meeting rooms of military contractors, but rather on the online communities of hobbyists, activists, and entrepreneurs. Over time, countless social media platforms have appropriated the social and technical innovations of the BBS community. How can these untold stories from the internet’s past inspire more inclusive visions of its future? Register Today!<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478…> Our mailing address is: 514 Brandon Ave. Charlottesville, VA 22902 Deliberative Media Lab UVA Democracy Initiative Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e&id…> or unsubscribe from this list<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478…>. This email was sent to ked5d(a)virginia.edu<mailto:ked5d@virginia.edu> why did I get this?<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/about?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e&id=e…> unsubscribe from this list<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478…> update subscription preferences<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e&id…> Deliberative Media Lab · 514 Brandon Ave · Democracy Initiative · Charlottesville, VA 22903-3312 · USA [Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/email-referral/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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