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FYI Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Latest article: *https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/faxing-is-old-tech-so... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/faxing-is-old-tech-so-why-is-it-also-growing-in-popularity/2019/03/08/d01c638a-2f0b-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html>* *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press) is the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <citams-request@list.citams.org> Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:00 AM Subject: CITAMS Digest, Vol 133, Issue 5 To: <citams@list.citams.org> Send CITAMS mailing list submissions to citams@list.citams.org Today's Topics: 1. Stories of Digital Radicals: Call for Submissions (Lingel, Jessa) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:41:17 +0000 From: "Lingel, Jessa" <jessa.lingel@asc.upenn.edu> To: "citams@list.citams.org" <citams@list.citams.org> Subject: [CITAMS] Stories of Digital Radicals: Call for Submissions Message-ID: < SN6PR10MB30697EA4B00B793CF0265A6ADACB0@SN6PR10MB3069.namprd10.prod.outlook.com
(CDCS) at the University of Pennsylvania invites submissions of stories of digital radicals from around the world. A digital radical is a person with a radical relationship to digital technologies. This relationship could be reflected in an attitude or belief, a daily practice, a political act or commitment, a way of life, and more. As to what is radical about the relationship, we will leave it for you to decide. It could be about forms of disengagement from social media, or ways of deploying them for social and political causes. We welcome stories about both well-known public
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The newly formed Center on Digital Culture and Society< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.asc.upenn.edu_research_research-2Dcenters_center-2Ddigital-2Dculture-2Dand-2Dsociety&d=DwICAg&c=u6LDEWzohnDQ01ySGnxMzg&r=9GL_9k-F4gN3d4sFXD0srLhELbgyPmJxH_bXJdamBLY&m=6vjOf2_1Pc1QMcG2cGERFOzgcZSKX-ZDBYiRBtqQvtU&s=XQ11lOJ-NtS4XPHr8NJRMQXeqe3BhYJ4_zoUNwbxYhE&e= figures and ordinary individuals around us. They may be people you know directly, or people you know through the media or your research. The stories may be biographical or autobiographical. The important thing is that you have a story to tell about the individual, and your story illustrates a vision for what you think of as a radical approach to digital technologies. The current conditions of social media and technological developments demand radical new visions and new politics. Stories of individuals are becoming a rarity in our digital age. Contemporary society is saturated with data, metrics, and quantification. Our personal traces on the web are harvested and turned into data to serve commercial, political, and other purposes beyond our control. Individual experiences are reduced to numbers. Against this background, we call for sto We welcome submissions at any time. Submissions may be between 2,000 and 8,000 words, prepared in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style. Essays will be published on a regular basis in an online magazine called The Digital Radical, which will be hosted on a CDCS website currently under design. To be considered for the first issue, please send your submission before October 15, 2019. A reading committee will select ones for publication. We will provide the authors of all selected essays with a modest honorarium. Selected authors may also be invited to speak at the inaugural symposium on Digital Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania on April 3, 2020. An anthology of "Stories of Digital Radicals" may be published in the future. Please email all submissions in Word format with your contact information to: cdcs@asc.upenn.edu<mailto:cdcs@asc.upenn.edu> Jessa Lingel {assist. prof. | Annenberg School for Communication< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.asc.upenn.edu_people_faculty_jessa-2Dlingel-2Dphd&d=DwICAg&c=u6LDEWzohnDQ01ySGnxMzg&r=9GL_9k-F4gN3d4sFXD0srLhELbgyPmJxH_bXJdamBLY&m=6vjOf2_1Pc1QMcG2cGERFOzgcZSKX-ZDBYiRBtqQvtU&s=WaWDYZKdjRR1ITTutCrZEhI7UKFvlUg9HLzCQoZHMjY&e=
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For SIGCIS members in the Boston area - the MIT Museum will be hosting the team that has restored one of the surviving Apollo Guidance Computers as part of our Lunar Day activities tomorrow (July 20). There will be 3 hour-long demonstrations (11 am; 2 pm; and 7 pm) and the team will be available most of the day to answer questions. Some of you may have been following this on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7). There will be many Instrumentation Lab “alumni” in attendance as well. For more information about the museum’s events see: http://mitmuseum.mit.edu/LunarDay. (For 21+ the evening program—Moon Shots—features special spirits along with talks, demos, and more but it has a fee attached: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/program/moon-shots) Debbie Douglas PS: There will be many other great programs especially at the JFK Library, Museum of Science and Draper Laboratory (which created a website that has put thousands of photos, videos and more online: https://wehackthemoon.com/. (Check out the resources section: https://wehackthemoon.com/resources) Deborah G. Douglas, PhD • Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology, MIT Museum; Research Associate, Program in Science, Technology, and Society • Room N51-209 • 265 Massachusetts Avenue • Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 • ddouglas@mit.edu<mailto:ddouglas@mit.edu> • 617-253-1766 telephone • 617-253-8994 facsimile • http://mitmuseum.mit.edu • http://museum.mit.edu/150
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Jonathan Coopersmith