[ecrea] International Conference - Call for papers - Computer Networks Histories 14-15 December 2017 - Lugano Switzerland

*International Conference - Call for papers *

*Computer Networks Histories : local, national and transnational 
perspectives*

*14-15 December 2017 - Lugano Switzerland*

*Aims and scope *

Recently several works in the fields of Internet Studies, Science and 
Technology Studies and Media Studies have stressed the importance of 
early local, national and transnational computer networks histories for 
a deeper understanding of technological and social change in 
contemporary societies.

This 2-days conference has a triple aim.

First, gathering scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplines 
working on theoretical and empirical analysis of computer networks 
histories.

Second, providing a wide perspective on these histories, including case 
studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania and including 
international organizations dealing with the control and management of 
networks: this interdisciplinary and international debate could be 
useful to compare worldwide experiences and to provide new frames on 
this topic.

Third, the conference aims to develop new frameworks and a space of 
discussion on the historical role of computer networks, representing the 
starting point of an international community of scholars.

*Potential topics *may include, but are in no way limited to, the following:

-The origins and development of computer networks under a local, 
national, international or transnational

     perspective;

-Political, economic and cultural representations of computer networks 
in Western or/and Eastern cultures;

-Comparative analysis of early and late networks;

-Physical infrastructures and materiality of computer networks;

-The political economy of national digital infrastructures;

-Histories of the digitalization of analogic networks;

-The history of failed and forgotten computer networks projects;

-The influence of early computer networks on the development of the 
Internet and of the World Wide Web;

-The cultural and social history of computer networks communities (e.g. 
communitarian networks, academic networks, professional networks, civic 
networks).

All the authors are invited to send an abstract of a max *500 words and 
a short bio by February 28, 2017* to *(nethistories /at/ gmail.com)* 
<mailto:(comnethistories /at/ gmail.com)>.

All invited speakers interested in publish their papers in the journal 
revue /Histoire et Informatique/ will be asked to send a paper of *max 
5000 words by October 31 2017*.

*Conference and venue*

The 2-days conference will take place inLugano, Switzerland, hosted by 
the Faculty of Communication Sciences of USI - Università della Svizzera 
italiana**(http://www.usi.ch/). The organizing committee comes from a 
collaboration between the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG) of 
USI and the**Association Histoire & Informatique Suisse of Bern 
(https://www.infoclio.ch/en).

*Travel grants*will be available for participants without access to 
other financial resources (please attach the motivation and an estimate 
of the needed budget to your proposal).

*Keynote speakers *

·Prof. Hu Yong (Peking University’s School of Journalism and Communication)

http://sjc.pku.edu.cn/English.aspx

·Prof. Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa, Department of Communication 
and affiliated fellow at the information Society Project at Yale Law School)

https://goo.gl/w0m8h6

The CFP is also available here 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/medby6mcsqex6gg/CFP_Computer%20Networks%20Histories.pdf?dl=0>:

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