Hello, I received the message below regarding an ICA preconference on "Historiography as Intervention: Communicating Across Geographies, Communities & Divides" from Ben Peters [mailto:bjpeters@gmail.com]. He asks me to tell you that "Inquiries on the pre-conference below should go to Travers Scott, <mailto:dscott3@g.clemson.edu> dscott3@g.clemson.edu." As I was reminded at the SIGCIS workshop over the weekend, a significant convergence is taking place between the historical communities concerned with communications history and the history of computing/IT. This is driven in part by the real-world convergence of the technologies from the 1970s onward, but I suspect that we'll also start to see hitherto neglected parallels emerging in studies of earlier eras as well. The push within the "information school" world to define a hybrid field of "information history" is another interesting chance to make new kinds of connections. In another generation or two it may seem odd to people that we ever thought of communications history and computing history as largely distinct. Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Communication History Interest Group <communicationhistory@communicationhistory.org> Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:35 PM Subject: [commhistlist] Reminder: CFP deadline approaching, ICA preconference To: discussion@communicationhistory.org (Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) Reminder: Submissions due Nov. 15 "Historiography as Intervention: Communicating Across Geographies, Communities & Divides" International Communication Association Preconference Sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group: Phoenix, May 24, 2012 [note corrected date] Historiography can engage in contemporary struggles and change the way we see the world and its possibilities. This ICA preconference aims to instigate intersections and encounters that can provoke collaborative interventions with issues facing our discipline, schools, communities, and countries. Proposals should present historiographic methods and/or historic data, theories or subject matter within a framework of social intervention by providing tools, offering insight or communicating information. Work should be from or of interest to historians and communication scholars. Innovative proposals for transdisciplinary, multimodal or media-based presentations (e.g., interactive digital archives, documentary screenings, database tours) are highly encouraged. Send abstracts of 300 words by November 15, 2011 to D. Travers Scott, dscott3@g.clemson.edu. Authors will be informed of decisions by December 15, 2011. Papers due May 1, 2012. Preconference will be at the conference hotel, the Phoenix Sheraton Downtown. Sponsored by the International Communication Association's Communication History Interest Group. Organized by D. Travers Scott, Clemson University, with Devon Powers, Drexel University. The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription: You are subscribed to the following list: Communication History Discussion List using the following email: bjpeters@gmail.com You may automatically unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL: http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/commhistlist/ <http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/%5Blist%5D/> If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address. Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break this automatic unsubscribe mechanism. You may also change your subscription by visiting this list's main screen: http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/commhistlist <http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/commhistlist

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