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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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Call for application: PhD position on the development of agile methodologies
by Timo Leimbach 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

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Internet Histories double special issue 6 (1-2), Dead and Dying Platforms
by Asger Harlung 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

To whom it may concern The journal Internet Histories Volume 6 Issue 1-2 has been completed and is available online. This is a special double issue "Dead and Dying Platforms" by guest editors Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel. Two articles are Open Access, and one is Free Access for a limited time. The double issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2 Below, please find an overview of contents of this double 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 ----------- Contents: Editorial Situating dead-and-dying platforms: technological failure, infrastructural precarity, and digital decline Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel Interview Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable Muira McCammon, Diami Virgilio, Cody Ogden, Kevin Ackermann, Ethan Zuckerman, Robert Gehl, Saima Akhtar, Sultan Al-Azri, Catherine Knight Steele, Amber M. Hamilton, Anat Ben-David, Sarah Wasserman, Sara Namusoga-Kaale & Joy Lisi Rankin Articles Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end Frances Corry “Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace | Open Access Kate M. Miltner & Ysabel Gerrard The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając & Attila Márton Porn bans, purges, and rebirths: the biopolitics of platform death in queer fandoms Diana Floegel “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving | Open Access Jessica Ogden Forgotten passwords and Long-Gone exes: the life and death of Renren Lianrui Jia “They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village Tamara Kneese The rise and fall of MapQuest Rowan Wilken “Yakety yak: Don’t talk back”: An autopsy of anonymity gone awry Kathryn Montalbano r/WatchRedditDie and the politics of reddit’s bans and quarantines Julia R. DeCook A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude:’ rights, labor, and gender anxieties in a dead men’s rights newsgroup Alexis de Coning The death of GeoCities: seeking destruction and platform eulogies in Web archives Katie Mackinnon | Free Access Book Reviews Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking, and Sorting of the Past by Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2021. Hardcover, pp. 116, ISBN: 978-1-5292-1815-2 Kira Allmann Wikipedia @ 20, stories of an incomplete revolution, edited by joseph reagle and jackie koerner, the MIT press (2020), cambridge, Massachusetts; london, England, U.S. $27.95 Helen Hockx-Yu ________________________________ Fra: Asger Harlung Sendt: 30. august 2022 10:26 Til: nico.carpentier(a)vub.ac.be <nico.carpentier(a)vub.ac.be> Emne: Internet Histories double special issue 6 (1-2), Dead and Dying Platforms To whom it may concern The journal Internet Histories Volume 6 Issue 1-2 has been completed and is available online. This is a special double issue "Dead and Dying Platforms" by guest editors Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel. Two articles are Open Access, and one is Free Access for a limited time. The double issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2 Below, please find an overview of contents of this double 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 ----------- Contents: Editorial Situating dead-and-dying platforms: technological failure, infrastructural precarity, and digital decline Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel Interview Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable Muira McCammon, Diami Virgilio, Cody Ogden, Kevin Ackermann, Ethan Zuckerman, Robert Gehl, Saima Akhtar, Sultan Al-Azri, Catherine Knight Steele, Amber M. Hamilton, Anat Ben-David, Sarah Wasserman, Sara Namusoga-Kaale & Joy Lisi Rankin Articles Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end Frances Corry “Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace | Open Access Kate M. Miltner & Ysabel Gerrard The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając & Attila Márton Porn bans, purges, and rebirths: the biopolitics of platform death in queer fandoms Diana Floegel “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving | Open Access Jessica Ogden Forgotten passwords and Long-Gone exes: the life and death of Renren Lianrui Jia “They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village Tamara Kneese The rise and fall of MapQuest Rowan Wilken “Yakety yak: Don’t talk back”: An autopsy of anonymity gone awry Kathryn Montalbano r/WatchRedditDie and the politics of reddit’s bans and quarantines Julia R. DeCook A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude:’ rights, labor, and gender anxieties in a dead men’s rights newsgroup Alexis de Coning The death of GeoCities: seeking destruction and platform eulogies in Web archives Katie Mackinnon | Free Access Book Reviews Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking, and Sorting of the Past by Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2021. Hardcover, pp. 116, ISBN: 978-1-5292-1815-2 Kira Allmann Wikipedia @ 20, stories of an incomplete revolution, edited by joseph reagle and jackie koerner, the MIT press (2020), cambridge, Massachusetts; london, England, U.S. $27.95 Helen Hockx-Yu ________________________________ Fra: Asger Harlung <asger(a)cc.au.dk> Sendt: 30. august 2022 10:28 Til: dh(a)groupes.renater.fr <dh(a)groupes.renater.fr> Emne: Internet Histories double special issue 6 (1-2), Dead and Dying Platforms To whom it may concern The journal Internet Histories Volume 6 Issue 1-2 has been completed and is available online. This is a special double issue "Dead and Dying Platforms" by guest editors Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel. Two articles are Open Access, and one is Free Access for a limited time. The double issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2 Below, please find an overview of contents of this double 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 ----------- Contents: Editorial Situating dead-and-dying platforms: technological failure, infrastructural precarity, and digital decline Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel Interview Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable Muira McCammon, Diami Virgilio, Cody Ogden, Kevin Ackermann, Ethan Zuckerman, Robert Gehl, Saima Akhtar, Sultan Al-Azri, Catherine Knight Steele, Amber M. Hamilton, Anat Ben-David, Sarah Wasserman, Sara Namusoga-Kaale & Joy Lisi Rankin Articles Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end Frances Corry “Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace | Open Access Kate M. Miltner & Ysabel Gerrard The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając & Attila Márton Porn bans, purges, and rebirths: the biopolitics of platform death in queer fandoms Diana Floegel “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving | Open Access Jessica Ogden Forgotten passwords and Long-Gone exes: the life and death of Renren Lianrui Jia “They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village Tamara Kneese The rise and fall of MapQuest Rowan Wilken “Yakety yak: Don’t talk back”: An autopsy of anonymity gone awry Kathryn Montalbano r/WatchRedditDie and the politics of reddit’s bans and quarantines Julia R. DeCook A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude:’ rights, labor, and gender anxieties in a dead men’s rights newsgroup Alexis de Coning The death of GeoCities: seeking destruction and platform eulogies in Web archives Katie Mackinnon | Free Access Book Reviews Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking, and Sorting of the Past by Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2021. Hardcover, pp. 116, ISBN: 978-1-5292-1815-2 Kira Allmann Wikipedia @ 20, stories of an incomplete revolution, edited by joseph reagle and jackie koerner, the MIT press (2020), cambridge, Massachusetts; london, England, U.S. $27.95 Helen Hockx-Yu ________________________________ Fra: Asger Harlung Sendt: 30. august 2022 10:26 Til: nico.carpentier(a)vub.ac.be <nico.carpentier(a)vub.ac.be> Emne: Internet Histories double special issue 6 (1-2), Dead and Dying Platforms To whom it may concern The journal Internet Histories Volume 6 Issue 1-2 has been completed and is available online. This is a special double issue "Dead and Dying Platforms" by guest editors Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel. Two articles are Open Access, and one is Free Access for a limited time. The double issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2 Below, please find an overview of contents of this double 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 ----------- Contents: Editorial Situating dead-and-dying platforms: technological failure, infrastructural precarity, and digital decline Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel Interview Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable Muira McCammon, Diami Virgilio, Cody Ogden, Kevin Ackermann, Ethan Zuckerman, Robert Gehl, Saima Akhtar, Sultan Al-Azri, Catherine Knight Steele, Amber M. Hamilton, Anat Ben-David, Sarah Wasserman, Sara Namusoga-Kaale & Joy Lisi Rankin Articles Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end Frances Corry “Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace | Open Access Kate M. Miltner & Ysabel Gerrard The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając & Attila Márton Porn bans, purges, and rebirths: the biopolitics of platform death in queer fandoms Diana Floegel “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving | Open Access Jessica Ogden Forgotten passwords and Long-Gone exes: the life and death of Renren Lianrui Jia “They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village Tamara Kneese The rise and fall of MapQuest Rowan Wilken “Yakety yak: Don’t talk back”: An autopsy of anonymity gone awry Kathryn Montalbano r/WatchRedditDie and the politics of reddit’s bans and quarantines Julia R. DeCook A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude:’ rights, labor, and gender anxieties in a dead men’s rights newsgroup Alexis de Coning The death of GeoCities: seeking destruction and platform eulogies in Web archives Katie Mackinnon | Free Access Book Reviews Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking, and Sorting of the Past by Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2021. Hardcover, pp. 116, ISBN: 978-1-5292-1815-2 Kira Allmann Wikipedia @ 20, stories of an incomplete revolution, edited by joseph reagle and jackie koerner, the MIT press (2020), cambridge, Massachusetts; london, England, U.S. $27.95 Helen Hockx-Yu

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SIGCIS Book Auction - call for donations
by Andrew Russell 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Dear SIGCIS, We’re excited to convene in person again in New Orleans, for the SHOT Annual Meeting (Nov 10-13) and SIGCIS Conference (Sunday, November 13). One tradition we’re reviving is the SIGCIS Book Auction, which is an important way for us to raise funds to support travel for graduate students to attend SHOT and SIGCIS. The SIGCIS Book Auction will take place on Friday, November 11, at the SIGCIS lunch. (You can register for the lunch when you complete your SHOT registration.) The most important element in the SIGCIS Book Auction is… books! This is where we depend on your kind donations. If you have new (or ‘classic’) books that you think would be compelling for SIGCIS members, you can donate them to the auction in 2 different ways: 1. Come to New Orleans, and bring your books! 2. Can’t make the trip? Mail the book to me (or someone else in the SIGCIS orbit), and we’ll bring it to the Auction. In either case, if you’d like to donate a book, please respond to me with the title of the book(s) you plan to donate—this will help me keep track of things, avoid duplicate/triplicates, etc. We’d appreciate it if you can respond no later than October 15, 2022. Thank you! Andy Russell SIGCIS Co-Chair — — — — — — — — — — — Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D. Dean, College of Arts & Sciences SUNY Polytechnic Institute Donovan Hall - 2123B 100 Seymour Road Utica, NY 13502 t. 315-792-7317 w. https://sunypoly.edu/ e. arussell(a)arussell.org<mailto:arussell@arussell.org>

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New Book: “Cyber and the City”
by Ashley Sweetman 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Hi SIGCIS friends and peers, If you’ll excuse the self-promotion, I wanted to let everyone know about the publication of my first book: “Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age.” It has been published by Springer in its History of Computing series, and is largely based upon my PhD thesis which I wrote in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. In a line, “Cyber and the City” uses newly-released and previously unseen documents from the archives of the banks themselves (Barclays, Lloyds, Bank of England etc), to explore the history and origins of computer security in the UK financial sector, through the individual institutions and the payment infrastructure they created (SWIFT, CHAPS, etc). I’ve shared the blurb below in case it is of interest, and hope you all have a lovely week. Best, Ashley https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07933-7 *Blurb* Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by financial institutions today. Ever since the major London banks purchased their first computers in the early 1960s, they have had to balance their dependence on those machines with the need to secure their operations and retain the trust of their customers. Technological change in the second half of the 20th century prompted UK banks to reevaluate their function as trusted protectors of wealth. In the City of London, historically the capital's business and commerce hub, the huge clearing banks employed newly commercialised computers―the processing power of which could transform the highly clerical clearing and settlement process. What unfolded over the following three decades was a relentless modernisation drive. Revolutionising and permanently altering the speed and scale at which the UK’s financial sector functioned, this rapid modernisation thrust computer (hardware and software) security into the consciousness of bank executives and clients alike. Focusing on the period 1960 to 1990, this book uses newly released and previously unexplored archival material to trace the origins of cyber security in the UK financial sector. Topics and features: - Describes how institutions managed the evolving challenge of computer security in the second half of the 20th century - Demonstrates continuity in banks' views of security through the prism of confidentiality, integrity and availability, and the concept of resilience - Presents case studies of bank collaboration on computer security through creation of payment systems like SWIFT and CHAPS - Outlines the shift from focusing on physical security measures to technical network-protection measures - Explores the relationship between banks and the UK Government as bank operations became dependent on computer and network technology — *Dr Ashley Sweetman* @ashleysweetman “Cyber and the City” https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07933-7 -- *Ashley Sweetman* +447975543330 @ashleysweetman

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New Book: “Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age”
by Ashley Sweetman 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Hi SIGCIS friends and peers, If you’ll excuse the self-promotion, I wanted to let everyone know about the publication of my first book: “Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age.” It has been published by Springer in its History of Computing series, and is largely based upon my PhD thesis which I wrote in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. In a line, “Cyber and the City” uses newly-released and previously unseen documents from the archives of the banks themselves (Barclays, Lloyds, Bank of England etc), to explore the history and origins of computer security in the UK financial sector, through the individual institutions and the payment infrastructure they created (SWIFT, CHAPS, etc). I’ve shared the blurb below in case it is of interest, and hope you all have a lovely week. Best, Ashley https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07933-7 *Blurb* Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by financial institutions today. Ever since the major London banks purchased their first computers in the early 1960s, they have had to balance their dependence on those machines with the need to secure their operations and retain the trust of their customers. Technological change in the second half of the 20th century prompted UK banks to reevaluate their function as trusted protectors of wealth. In the City of London, historically the capital's business and commerce hub, the huge clearing banks employed newly commercialised computers―the processing power of which could transform the highly clerical clearing and settlement process. What unfolded over the following three decades was a relentless modernisation drive. Revolutionising and permanently altering the speed and scale at which the UK’s financial sector functioned, this rapid modernisation thrust computer (hardware and software) security into the consciousness of bank executives and clients alike. Focusing on the period 1960 to 1990, this book uses newly released and previously unexplored archival material to trace the origins of cyber security in the UK financial sector. Topics and features: - Describes how institutions managed the evolving challenge of computer security in the second half of the 20th century - Demonstrates continuity in banks' views of security through the prism of confidentiality, integrity and availability, and the concept of resilience - Presents case studies of bank collaboration on computer security through creation of payment systems like SWIFT and CHAPS - Outlines the shift from focusing on physical security measures to technical network-protection measures - Explores the relationship between banks and the UK Government as bank operations became dependent on computer and network technology — *Dr Ashley Sweetman* @ashleysweetman “Cyber and the City” https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07933-7 -- *Ashley Sweetman* +447975543330 @ashleysweetman

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Kelcey's article
by Jeffrey Yost 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Hi Melissa, Please use the last msg as I did a couple reads, a second one and found one or two more things. After sending email please tweet and include SHOT which I think is @sochisttech and @sigcis <members(a)sigcis.org> #AfricanAmericanComputing #AfricanAmericanTechnology Also please send me the z shortened URL and I'll tweet separately (as well as retweet CBI's). There will be a lot of interest in this essay. Thanks. Best, Jeff *Please connect: Twitter <https://twitter.com/justcodeculture> ** Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-yost-b714566>** CBI-FB <https://www.facebook.com/babbageinstitute> Blockchain & Society FB <https://www.facebook.com/Decentralizedinternet/>* *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. * Director, Charles Babbage Institute <http://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi>; Research Professor, HSTM 222 21st Avenue South, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN 55455 *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press * Co-Editor *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."* *Blockchain & Society Blog and Site* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com> (Founder/Leader) *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> *Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick) *Committee Member, National Academy of Engineering Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society* *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>*

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Larry Josephson
by Ceruzzi, Paul 27 Aug '22

27 Aug '22

I just learned of the passing of Larry Josephson, whose radio program I used to listen to while growing up in the New York metropolitan region in the 1960s. I won't go into details, only to say that the Wikipedia entry for him does not come close to describing what it was like to listen to WBAI in its heyday. Years later I had a chance to meet him, and when I told him of my scholarly interests, he told me that he was the person who developed the codes for IBM's Job Control Language (JCL). Including the Slash-asterisk /* Now you know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Josephson

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Fw: SHOT Preliminary program
by Ceruzzi, Paul 26 Aug '22

26 Aug '22

2nd attempt ________________________________ From: Ceruzzi, Paul Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 9:24 AM To: members(a)lists.sigcis.org <members(a)lists.sigcis.org> Subject: SHOT Preliminary program The preliminary program for the New Orleans meeting is now on-line: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2022-shot-annual-meeting… [https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg]<https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2022-shot-annual-meeting…> 2022 SHOT Annual Meeting, 10-13 November, New Orleans (Louisiana) - Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)<https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2022-shot-annual-meeting…> Empire, Globalization, and Technological Change SHOT Annual Meeting 2022 New Orleans, 10-13 November 2022. Updated 3 August 2022. Latest conference news www.historyoftechnology.org

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Conference „Flexibility“ and „Agility“, 17.-19.11.2022, Darmstadt
by Schmitt, Martin 26 Aug '22

26 Aug '22

Dear Sigcis, I am happy to inform you about an upcoming conference at TU Darmstadt: Martina Heßler (TU Darmstadt), Martin Krzywdzinski (HSU) and Christopher Neumaier (ZZF) are jointly hosting a conference on “'Flexibility' and 'Agility' – Strategies, Practices, and Ambivalences of a Key Concept since the 1980s” in Darmstadt, Germany on the 17-19 November 2022. Prominent speakers like Richard Sennett explore the concept of flexibility along with the strategies, processes, practices, and ambivalences of flexibilization. Even though the focus of the conference will be on work environments, they will also consider broader social contexts. Find more information on the program and the registration form at conference website: https://www.geschichte.tu-darmstadt.de/flexibility The conference is jointly hosted by: Technical University of Darmstadt, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF), Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (HSU), SPP 2267 “The Digitalization of Working Worlds. Conceptualising and Capturing a Systemic Transformation.“ The conference will be held in English. I am looking forward to see some of you there! Take care and enjoy the summer, Martin Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Post-Doc | digital enthusiast Technische Universität Darmstadt Institut für Geschichte Fachgebiet Technikgeschichte Mail: martin.schmitt(a)tu-darmstadt.de<mailto:martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de> Tel: +49 6151-16-57327 http://www.computerisierung.com<http://www.computerisierung.com/> & Assoziierter Wissenschaftler LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITHISTORISCHE FORSCHUNG | POTSDAM Vice Chair IFIP WG 9.7 „History of computing“ Zuletzt erschienen: Die Digitalisierung der Kreditwirtschaft. Computereinsatz in den Sparkassen der Bundesrepublik und der DDR 1957-1991, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2021, https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835333710-die-digitalisierung-der-kredi…

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