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Data (Re)Makes the World schedule & registration
by Aaron Mendon-Plasek 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Dear colleagues and friends, I am pleased to announce Data (Re)Makes the World <https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/data-remakes-world>, a conference hosted by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School on March 31st & April 1st, 2023. The conference schedule is provided below. You can register to attend the conference in person or online till March 30th via the conference webpage. Questions? Please email me. Hope you can join us! Best, Aaron *Data (Re)Makes the World* <https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/data-remakes-world> *March 31 & April 1, 2023* *Information Society Project, Yale Law School* *Day 1: Friday, March 31, 2023* *Breakfast & Registration, 8:30 am – 9:00 am* *Opening Remarks, 8:45 am – 9:00 am* Conference Convener: Aaron Mendon-Plasek, Yale Law *Panel 1: Justice, 9:00 am – 10:40 am* Chair: Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University Andrew Meade McGee, Smithsonian Institution, “Quantifying a Rights Revolution Fifty Years On: Predictive Modeling, Algorithmic Rulemaking, and the 1973 Databank Debates Over Mainframe Computers in Urban Policy and Social Welfare Policy” Simone Zhang, Norte Dame, “The Asymmetrical Effects of Pretrial Risk Assessment Algorithms in the Courtroom” Katrina Geddes, New York University, “Will you have autonomy in the Metaverse?” A. Feder Cooper (Cornell), Madiha Zahrah Choski (Cornell Tech), Solon Barocas (Cornell), Christopher De Sa (Cornell), James Grimmelmann (Cornell Law & Cornell Tech), Siddhartha Sen (Microsoft), “On Machine Learning Uncertainty, Arbitrariness, and Due Process” *Coffee Break, 10:40 am – 11:00 am* *Panel 2: Trusting Sources, 11:00 am – 12:40 pm* Chair: Matthew Jones, Columbia University Gabriel Grill, University of Michigan, “Constructing Certainty in Machine Learning: On the performativity of testing and its hold on the Future” Kadija Ferryman & Odia Kane, John Hopkins, “Identifying and Interrogating Algorithmic Accounts in Medical AI” Kushang Mishra, IIIT Bangalore, “Data-driven ‘precision’ vs Farmer’s guesswork: How Data is (Re)Making Agriculture in India” Alexander Campolo (Duham U) & Katia Schwerzmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), “From ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’: Data as Example in Machine Learning” *Lunch, 12:40 pm – 1:40 pm* *Panel 3: Calculated Environments, 1:40 pm – 3:20 pm [Parallel Session 1 of 2]* Chair: TBA James Clinton Francis (Columbia Law), Adeline Chum (Columbia), & Guangyu Wu (Columbia), “Clucked Up: Active Machine Learning of Aerial Imagery and the Undercounting-Underfunding Problem in North Carolina’s Poultry Industry” Matt P. Lukacz, Harvard, “Environmental Technocracy or Science-Based Policy? Critiques of Quantification in Political Ecology and the History of Debates About Algorithmic Decision Making in Conservation Biology” Theodora Dryer, New York University, “Colorado River Water Policy and ADS Regulation” *Panel 4: Computed Worlds, 1:40 pm – 3:20 pm [Parallel Session 2 of 2]* Chair: TBA Pariroo Rattan, Harvard University, “Dueling Economists and Discriminating Models: Causal Regression Analysis in 21st Century American Courts” Ekaterina Babintseva, Purdue University, “Rules for Creative Thinking: Algorithms, Heuristics, and Soviet Cybernetic Psychology” Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University, “Everything old is new again: credit rating and alternative data” Catherine Powell, Fordham Law, “Race, Place, and Cyberspace” *Coffee Break, 3:20 pm – 3:40 pm* *Panel 5: Data Work, 3:40 pm – 5:20 pm* Chair: TBA Karen Levy, Cornell University, “Rules, Loopholes, and Autonomous Systems” Ira Anjali Anwar, University of Michigan, “Seeing Like a Gig Company: Algorithmic Classification and the (Re)Valuation of Labor” Devin Kennedy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Factory Work and Database Management: Industrial Origins of the Computer Database, 1958-67” Jordan Ali and Gili Vidan, Cornell University, “The Economization of Play: Collapsing Value and Liberatory Promises on the Axie Infinity Platform” *Day 2: Saturday, April 1, 2023* *Breakfast, 9:00 am – 9:30 am* *Panel 6: Enacting Futures, 9:30 am – 11:10 am* Chair: Valère Ndior, Université de Bretagne occidentale Angelina Wang (Princeton), Sayash Kapoor (Princeton), Solon Barocas (Cornell), Arvind Narayanan (Princeton), “Against Predictive Optimization: On the Legitimacy of Decision-Making Algorithms that Optimize Predictive Accuracy” Jonnie Penn, University of Cambridge, “Decomputerization as Détente” Burcu Baykurt, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, “Extracting Value” Hannah Zeavin, Indiana University, “Screening Mother, Coding Baby: Predictive Control, Incarcerated Mothers, and Attachment Theory in the Prison” *Coffee Break & Lunch Pickup, 11:10 am – 11:30 am* *Panel 7: Mediating Identities, 11:30 am – 1:10 pm [lunch panel]* Chair: Lisa Messeri, Yale University Pieter Vanden Broeck & David Stark, Columbia University, “Class, Code and Control: Algorithmic Management in the Classroom” Amina Abdu (UMichigan), Lauren Chambers (Berkeley), Abigail Jacobs (UMichigan), Deirdre Mulligan (Berkeley), “The Limits of (Algorithmic) Transparency: Lessons Learned from the US Census’ Implementation of Differential Privacy” Alicia Boyd, New York University, “Should they? Gender Recognition, Privacy, and Accelerometers” Nina Toft Djanegara, Stanford University, “Face the Nation” *Closing Remarks, 1:10 pm – 1:20 pm*

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Fwd: Join us on April 4 for Following the Computer Industry through the State - A CBI Virtual Lecture
by Jeffrey Yost 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

*Dear Colleagues,* *Please join us for what is now the 3rd in our annual Tomash Fellow virtual lectures, where the current Tomash Fellow presents from their dissertation research. Our current, 2022-2023 academic year Tomash Fellow Sam Schirvar, ABD from Penn's History and Sociology of Science, will present on his important and insightful research on the social (African American and Native American) history of Control Data Corporation, its programs and manufacturing. Information and the link to register is below. It is 3pm Central on April 4th. Again, I hope you will join us on April 4th for this engaging lecture!* *Best, Jeff* The event will begin at 3 p.m. CST. <https://us18.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcse.umn.edu%2F&xid…> <https://us18.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcse.umn.edu%2Fcbi&…> *A CBI Tomash (Virtual) Lecture on Control Data's late 20th century ventures* Join CBI on Tuesday, April 4 at 3 p.m. CST as our 2022-2023 Tomash Fellow Sam Schirvar, University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science ABD presents his paper *"Following the Computer Industry through the State."* *This virtual event is free and open to the public but registration is required. * Register <https://us18.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fumn.zoom.us%2Fmeet…> *Brief Abstract: *William C. Norris, founder and CEO of Control Data Corporation, was notorious in the business world. From assembly plants in the so-called "inner city," to a mobile health clinic on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, to computer programming and assembly at the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater—many of Control Data's ventures in the late twentieth century appeared to be unconventional. While the business community alleged that these programs were a distraction that hurt Control Data's bottom line, Norris insisted that the supercomputer firm could do good — and make a profit. Read the full abstract. <https://us18.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcse.umn.edu%2Fcbi%…> *About the Tomash Fellowship* Each year the Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship is awarded to a standout ABD graduate student for doctoral dissertation research in the History of Computing, Information, and Culture. [image: Website] <https://us18.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcse.umn.edu%2Fcbi&…> [image: Email] <cbi(a)umn.edu> *Copyright © 2023 Charles Babbage Institute, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. *Our mailing address is:* Charles Babbage Institute 222 - 21st Avenue South 211 Andersen Library Minneapolis, MN 55455 Add us to your address book <https://umn.us18.list-manage.com/vcard?u=80984d777802d03dadcf962a8&id=8d35c…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://umn.us18.list-manage.com/profile?u=80984d777802d03dadcf962a8&id=8d3…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://umn.us18.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=80984d777802d03dadcf962a8&id…> . [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/email-referral/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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SHOT session seeking submissions soonest: “It will happen here”: Fears of new technologies and efforts to shape their evolution
by Jonathan Coopersmith 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Dear SIGCIS members, Would you like to join this session proposal? In the spirit of Kranzberg’s First Law, “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral,” this session examines discussions and attempted governance of emerging technologies that promised great benefits – and potentially equally great dangers. While the current attention to AI <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opinion/yuval-harari-ai-chatgpt.html> is the most prominent current example, drones over public spaces <https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/nfl-fears-nefarious-dron…>, biohacking <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7004414/>, and Big Data <https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/ib-knowledge/finance/why-big-dat…> are other areas where future policy might benefit from better understanding and analysis of earlier iterations of those and other technologies. This session is looking for papers examining how proponents, critics, think tanks, non-profits, technical societies, governments and citizens responded to concerns about the negative potential of new technologies. Did these concerns shape the evolution of the technology and its control and regulation? Were the concerns justified? What types of arguments and evidence did participants use? Any guidance for current discussions? If you are interested, please let me know ASAP – the session proposal deadline is April 1. Initially, just a title and a few sentences will do. By March 31, a 150-250 word abstract and any suggested improvements to the session overview and title. Stay sane, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor (retired) Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) "A Chief Skunk Looks Back," <https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/a-chief-skunk-looks-back/> (interview with Sherm Mullin) *Aerospace America* March 2023 It's taking longer to vote - especially if you are Black or Hispanic <https://theconversation.com/its-taking-more-time-to-cast-a-ballot-in-us-ele…> , theconversation.com Preserving space archives: https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/ *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press)

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SHOT open session: Researching gender in the history of the Internet and the Web
by Janet Abbate 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Dear SIGCIS folks, We are proposing an unconventional session (roundtable) on "Researching gender in the history of the Internet and the Web.” An edited version of the roundtable may become part of a special issue (in progress) of the journal Internet Histories on Gender and Internet/Web History. The roundtable aims to discuss research experiences, methods, sources, corpora, and challenges such as: * Discussing the meaning of the Internet for women and the historical transformations of the relationship between women and the Internet, including structural/cultural obstacles and varying national patterns * Approaching the construction of gender, including its intersectionality with race, on the Internet, including feminism on the web, gender activism and social movements; masculine cultures and the Internet/Web, etc. * Filling gaps in the knowledge of women’s expertise as Internet builders, managers, hackers, influencers, bloggers, content moderators, coders, etc. * Finding relevant sources to better grasp gender and imaginaries of the Internet, such as taking full advantage of oral histories * Mapping and discussing innovative methods to retrace gendered controversies and anti-woman movements online (e.g., trolling, gamergate, #metoo, etc.) * Understanding how the Internet has exploited relational/affective labor * Working on silences and invisibility * Communicating on these findings and disseminating them beyond audiences that are already interested and convinced. To participate, send a CV and short description of the topics you are particularly interested in addressing and your interest and experience in these areas. Junior scholars with work in progress are especially encouraged to participate. Please submit it to valerie.schafer(a)uni.lu <mailto:valerie.schafer@uni.lu> by March, 26, 2023. You can find the open panels here: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2023-shot-annual-meeting… Dr. Janet Abbate Professor, Science, Technology and Society Virginia Tech Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program Author, Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender

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SHOT open session: Researching gender in the history of the Internet and the Web
by Janet Abbate 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Dear SIGCIS folks, We are proposing an unconventional session (roundtable) on "Researching gender in the history of the Internet and the Web.” An edited version of the roundtable may become part of a special issue (in progress) of the journal Internet Histories on Gender and Internet/Web History. The roundtable aims to discuss research experiences, methods, sources, corpora, and challenges such as: * Discussing the meaning of the Internet for women and the historical transformations of the relationship between women and the Internet, including structural/cultural obstacles and varying national patterns * Approaching the construction of gender, including its intersectionality with race, on the Internet, including feminism on the web, gender activism and social movements; masculine cultures and the Internet/Web, etc. * Filling gaps in the knowledge of women’s expertise as Internet builders, managers, hackers, influencers, bloggers, content moderators, coders, etc. * Finding relevant sources to better grasp gender and imaginaries of the Internet, such as taking full advantage of oral histories * Mapping and discussing innovative methods to retrace gendered controversies and anti-woman movements online (e.g., trolling, gamergate, #metoo, etc.) * Understanding how the Internet has exploited relational/affective labor * Working on silences and invisibility * Communicating on these findings and disseminating them beyond audiences that are already interested and convinced. To participate, send a CV and short description of the topics you are particularly interested in addressing and your interest and experience in these areas. Junior scholars with work in progress are especially encouraged to participate. Please submit it to valerie.schafer(a)uni.lu by March, 26, 2023. You can find the open panels here: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2023-shot-annual-meeting… Dr. Janet Abbate Professor, Science, Technology and Society Virginia Tech Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program Author, Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender

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Honoring Computer Graphics at Utah
by Brian Berg 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Hello, A big celebration is taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday and Friday of this week to celebrate the computer graphics techniques invented by a group of PhD students and others who studied at the Univ. of Utah from the late 60s to the late 70s. An IEEE Milestone <https://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Computer_Graphics_Develo…> will be dedicated on Friday morning, and that will be the big event of this 2-day celebration. The title and citation of the bronze plaque that will be unveiled sums up what will be celebrated: *Development of Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, 1965-1978**In 1965, the University of Utah established a Center of Excellence for computer graphics research with Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) funding. In 1968, two professors founded the pioneering graphics hardware company Evans & Sutherland; by 1978, fundamental rendering and visualization techniques disclosed in doctoral dissertations included the Warnock algorithm, Gouraud shading, the Catmull-Rom spline, and the Blinn-Phong reflection model. Alumni-founded companies include Atari, Silicon Graphics, Adobe, Pixar, and Netscape.* *Overall details of the events:* https://www.price.utah.edu/ieee-milestone-events *An overview of the people being celebrated:* https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/utahs-graphics-pioneers/ *Live Stream Links (and for later viewing)*Thursday, 23 March: *Univ. of Utah CS Dept. 50th Anniv. Celebration* (9am-4pm PDT / 10am-5pm MDT / 16:00-23:00 UTC): https://youtube.com/live/LUFp6sjKbkE?feature=share (concludes with keynote by Ivan Sutherland at 3pm PDT / 4pm MDT / 22:00 UTC) Friday, 24 March: *IEEE Milestone Dedication Event* (9-11am PDT / 10am-Noon MDT / 16:00-18:00 UTC): https://youtube.com/live/VzEaM6QAy-4?feature=share Friday, 24 March: *Graphics Symposium* (12:45-4pm PDT / 1:45-5pm MDT / 19:45-23:00 UTC): https://youtube.com/live/ui3R1Dlmsk0?feature=share See attached for the program for Friday's events. *The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland* The Computer History Museum recently set up a website to celebrate Ivan Sutherland, who will participate in this week's events: https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-remarkable-ivan-sutherland/ Ivan's PhD thesis on Sketchpad <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad> was required reading for those early Utah students: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726907 and note that his Acknowledgements include his thesis supervisor Claude Shannon, and that he was assisted by Marvin Minsky, Steven Coons, and Larry Roberts. Enjoy! _________________________ Brian A. Berg / bberg(a)StanfordAlumni.org Berg Software Design - LinkedIn Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianaberg/> 180 Lithia Way, Suite 201, Ashland, OR 97520 USA 14500 Big Basin Way, Suite J, Saratoga, CA 95070 USA Voice: 408.741.5010 / Cell: 408.568.2505 Consulting: Flash Memory/USB/Storage/Patents visit the Storage Cornucopia: www.bswd.com FMS Technical Chair: www.FlashMemorySummit.com <http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/> IEEE Milestone <http://www.siliconvalleymilestones.com/> Coordinator & Historian - Region 6 <http://www.ieee-region6.org/> IEEE History Committee <https://www.ieee.org/about/history-center/history-committee.html> Member IEEE SCV Section <http://www.ieee.org/scv/> Past Chair / IEEE-CNSV <http://www.californiaconsultants.org/> Board Director IEEE Silicon Valley Tech History Committee <http://www.siliconvalleyhistory.com/> Vice-Chair

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PhD Position: History of Public/Political Cybernetics
by Jacob Ward 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to announce that I have an open, fully-funded PhD position in the history of public and/or political cybernetics. The PhD project will investigate how cybernetics influenced new ideas and practices regarding public and/or political institutions in the post-1945 period. Beyond this, the successful candidate will be free to shape the scope and focus of the project (geographical, chronological, etc.). You can read more about the position here: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/325445/phd-candidate-in-the-history-of-… . The application deadline is April 5th, and the preferred starting date for the position is September 1st. I will be the lead supervisor and the promoter/co-supervisor will be Prof. Cyrus Mody. Please forward this to any interested candidates, who can contact me on my work e-mail ( j.ward(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl) if they have further questions about the position. Apologies for cross-posting, and thank you for reading. Best wishes, Jacob *Jacob Ward * *Assistant Professor (tenured) in History and STS* *Department of History/MUSTS Research Cluster* *Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences* *Maastricht University* j.ward(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/j.ward <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maast…> Visiting address: 2.031, Grote Gracht 80-82, 6211 SZ Maastricht Mailing address: FASoS/History Maastricht University P.O. Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

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PhD Position: History of Public/Political Cybernetics
by Ward, Jacob (HISTORY) 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

Dear colleagues, I'm pleased to announce that I have an open PhD position in the history of public and/or political cybernetics. The PhD project will investigate how cybernetics influenced new ideas and practices regarding public and/or political institutions in the post-1945 period. Beyond this, the successful candidate will be free to shape the scope and focus of the project (geographical, chronological, etc.). You can read more about the position here: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/325445/phd-candidate-in-the-history-of-…. The application deadline is April 5th, and the preferred starting date for the position is September 1st. I will be the lead supervisor and the promoter/co-supervisor will be Prof. Cyrus Mody. Please forward this to any interested candidates, who can contact me (j.ward(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:j.ward@maastrichtuniversity.nl>) if they have further questions about the position. Apologies for cross-posting, and thank you for reading. Best wishes, Jacob Jacob Ward Assistant Professor (tenured) in History and STS Department of History/MUSTS Research Cluster Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences j.ward(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl <mailto:j.ward@maastrichtuniversity.nl> https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/j.ward<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maast…> Visiting address: 2.031, Grote Gracht 80-82, 6211 SZ Maastricht Mailing address: FASoS/History Maastricht University P.O. Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

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EVENT: Preserving and Analyzing Digital Texts [Online]
by James A Hodges 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Greetings all, and please excuse the cross-promotion: I'm running a free online event April 21, sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School Preserving and Analyzing Digital Texts Date: 21 April 2023 Time: 3:00-4:30 p.m. ET Location: Zoom Join us for a virtual symposium exploring the materiality and historical value of digital texts, with special attention paid to methods for preservation and analysis. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event. Advance registration is required: https://bit.ly/digitaltextsSJSU Emily Maemura is Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on data practices and the activities of curation, description, characterization, and re-use of archived web data. She is interested in approaches and methods for working with archived web data in the form of large-scale research collections, considering diverse perspectives of the internet as an object and site of study. She previously worked as an academic librarian at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her work has been published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and the International Journal of Digital Humanities. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, with a dissertation exploring the practices of collecting and curating web pages and websites for future use by researchers in the social sciences and humanities. Ryan Cordell’s scholarship seeks to illuminate how technologies of production, reception, circulation, and remediation shape the meanings of texts within historical communities, as well as how the complexities of historical texts pressure modern scholarly infrastructure. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the UIUC iSchool, Ryan Cordell was Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University and a core founding faculty member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. Cordell primarily studies circulation and reprinting in nineteenth-century American newspapers, but his interests extend to the influence of digitization and computation on contemporary reading, writing, and research. He collaborates with colleagues in English, History, and Computer Science on the Viral Texts project, which uses robust data mining tools to discover borrowed texts across large-scale archives of nineteenth-century periodicals. He is also a practicing letterpress printer who explores intersections between historical and contemporary information technologies through the lens of maker culture. Cordell is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School and serves as the Delegate Assembly Representative for the MLA’s Forum on Digital Humanities. Benjamin Charles Germain Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he works with Professor Daniel Weld and is a member of the Lab for Human-AI Interaction. Previously, he was a 2020 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. He is currently pursuing research toward a dissertation at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction, with application to cultural heritage and the digital humanities. His Ph.D. research is supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in machine learning. Before beginning his Ph.D., he was the inaugural Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s History Department. Benjamin also writes essays, which have appeared in Current Affairs, Gawker, Real Life, and GoldFlakePaint. James A. Hodges is Assistant Professor in the San José State University School of Information, where he studies digital archives and preservation with a particular focus on the history of computing. His current book project uses digital forensics to uncover the technical legacy of 1960s counterculture in early multimedia software. Prior to joining SJSU, James was Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. He is also a Junior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School as well as Senior Book Reviews Editor for Information & Culture. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2020, and his work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Documentation, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Internet Histories, New Media & Society, and Information Research. -- *JAMES A. HODGES, PH.D. *(he/him/his) Assistant Professor San José State University School of Information http://www.jameshodges.net Senior Book Reviews Editor Information & Culture <https://infoculturejournal.org/> Member, Committee on Publication Ethics <https://publicationethics.org/> (COPE) Junior Fellow, Rare Book School Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography <https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/>

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CFP: "Engineering Events: Technologies of Performance" (SHOT 2023 Open Session—Abstracts 3/20)
by Scott Kushner 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Dear SIGCISians, As Paul Ceruzzi reminded me over the weekend, I'm proposing an open session for the SHOT 2023—and the date is drawing nigh! It may be of interest to scholars working on the computerization of performance infrastructures and other topics related to theater, music, dance, and other forms of performance and exhibition. Feel free to be in touch with any inquiries. See below or visit https://tinyurl.com/shot-performance-tech. Abstracts by March 20 to scottkushner(a)uri.edu. ENGINEERING EVENTS: TECHNOLOGIES OF PERFORMANCE Organizer: Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island (scottkushner(a)uri.edu) Accounting, amplifying, autotuning, broadcasting, concealing, crowd controlling, designing, displaying, fencing, filming, lighting, loading-in, marketing, monitor mixing, rigging, simulcasting, sound engineering, staging, striking, surveilling, ticketing, transporting, wayfinding: performance events are inseparable from technological interventions. These technologies all have their own histories, and each conspires with other technologies, practices, and discourses to form an assemblage of technical operations. This SHOT session will explore the histories of technologies that support and surround performance—music, theater, sport, and other cultural formations where large groups of people watch small groups of people do things. Technologies of performance can dazzle audiences or hide in plain sight, but they all structure the possibilities of entertainment and the social parameters of performing or audiencing. How have technical instruments of performance interacted with familiar social divides such as gender, race, class, and ability? How have technologies shaped who may perform or attend, whose labor is valued or devalued, whose financial or political interests are served or sidelined? The significance of this work to the history of technology lies in concentrating discussion about the ways that technological interventions have shaped the production, consumption, and possibilities of cultural performance. Scholars at various career levels (graduate students through senior scholars, and all throughout the various dimensions of the academic-labor dominion) working on projects at all stages of development (new ideas, works-in-progress, magna opera) may propose papers exploring technologies of performance from the perspective of innovators, implementers, users, performers, audiences, and/or excluded parties. Proposals engaging with any era and geographic context are welcome. Procedure: Those interested in proposing presentations for potential inclusion in this session will kindly prepare one-page abstracts and a one-page CVs with current contact information. Please submit materials to Scott Kushner (scottkushner(a)uri.edu) by March 20, 2023. If you will be a first-time SHOT presenter, do not hold a tenure-stream position, are a graduate student (or no more than two years from receipt of a terminal academic degree), and wish to be considered for the Robinson Prize, please indicate as much in your abstract. (Find information about the Robinson Prize at the Robinson Prize page at the SHOT website: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awards-prizes-and-grants/joan-… ) -- Scott Kushner Associate 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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