Hello everyone,
The 2008 4S conference begins in Rotterdam on Wednesday,
August 20th. http://www.4sonline.org/meeting.htm
Following our customary practice I am proposing to organize
an informal and affordable dinner for anyone with an interest in the history of
computing. This would probably be on Thursday night before the panel. If nobody
is going to the official and hugely expensive banquet then we could instead aim
for Friday night. Please email me if you are interested – I will send the
final details ONLY to people who confirm interest to avoid spamming the list. If
you can’t get to email you could also text my cell phone during the
meeting: +1 414 526 6631.
For the third successive year this includes a SIGCIS
organized panel, this one prepared in collaboration with the Software for
Europe Project. I’m please that we were able to get celebrated STS
scholar Trevor Pinch as commentator, which should give our panel a little
visibility in the ever-expanding ocean of concurrent sessions that 4S has
become. It’s an exciting panel, looking at the relationship between
computing practices and national/transnational identities on both sides of the
iron curtain.
Our session is on Friday, 22 Aug from 11.00-12.30 am.
Session 2.2.4: Symbolic Internationalism: Computing,
Users and (Trans)national
Agendas
Organizer: Thomas Haigh
Room: T3-31
Chair: Thomas
Haigh,
University of Wisconsin, thaigh@computer.org
Policy Machines: Shaping European
Computer Users
Corinna Schlombs, University of Pennsylvania,
schlombs@sas.upenn.edu
Transnational Technology: The Unified
System of Computing and its Discursive Practices
Simon Donig, University of Passau,
simon.donig@uni-passau.de
Socialist Internationalism and its Limits
in Czech Computing
Helena Durnova, Brno University of
Technology, durnova@feec.vutbr.cz
The Goodbye Petrovka Plan: Internet Use
and National Identity in Ukraine
Maria Haigh, University of Wisconsin,
mhaigh@uwm.edu
Discussant: Trevor
Pinch,
Cornell University, tjp2@cornell.edu
The conference program is dominated by medical and environmental
themes. IT shows up in a number of contexts, including panels on standards,
online game worlds, and open source and the fashionable world of surveillance studies.
Please reply ASAP if you may be interested in dinner (this
includes the panel participants).
Tom