[ecrea] CFP: ARPANET (1969-2019)

CFP: ARPANET (1969-2019)

Special issue of /Internet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and 
Society/ (Camille Paloque-Berges & Valérie Schafer (eds.)). Read more 
here https://web90.hypotheses.org/3755

This call for papers aims at revisiting the history of ARPANET, its 
genesis, development, heritage, memories and the writing of its history 
50 years after the first four nodes came into service.

ARPANET’s story is today part of the Internet’s official heritage, as a 
first crucial step in its development. Seminal research, such as Janet 
Abbate’s Inventing the Internet (1999) or Alexandre Serres’ Aux sources 
d’Internet: l’émergence d’ARPANET (2000) has extensively covered its 
history. However, the 50th anniversary of ARPANET provides an occasion 
to reflect on existing histories, to open the debate to new perspectives 
and approaches.

What have these pioneering researchers provided and what lessons have 
they taught us in terms of studying the history of computer networks? 
When considering ARPANET as a first step towards the Internet: how did 
this determine – and is still determining – our current understanding of 
the Internet and of the ARPANET? What other chronologies and territories 
involving the ARPANET can be advanced? What is left to explore and 
discover in the ARPANET’s history? If the ARPANET is dead today, are its 
heritage and spirit still alive and if so, how?

Suggested topics:

  * The ARPANET’s inspirations: previous concepts, models, theories,
    technologies
  * Development of computer networks from the mid-1960s to the
    mid-1980s: society, culture, politics and economics in the ARPANET’s
    times (from a local, national and international perspective)
  * The place of ARPANET in the history of ARPA/DARPA or funding
    agencies more generally
  * The place of ARPANET within the history of military networks
  * Trajectories of ARPANET’s developments: from experiments to
    achievements, through mistakes and failures
  * ARPANET’s communities: from developers to users
  * ARPANET’s hardware and software within the history of computers and
    computing
  * Famous and less-known protagonists or witnesses of ARPANET
  * Spaces, places, maps, territories, geographies, and geopolitics of
    ARPANET
  * Communicating with, through, and about ARPANET
  * ARPANET as a model: reception and influence on other networks and/or
    in other countries
  * ARPANET’s governance and architecture
  * ARPANET and infrastructures for digital information
  * ARPANET’s cultures: perimeters, specificities, limits …
  * The history of networks shaping collaborative work
  * Writing ARPANET’s history: critical historiography, methodology,
    epistemological issues
  * New discoveries in the history of ARPANET
  * ARPANET’s heritage in the present Internet and digital cultures

Of course, we encourage and welcome other topics and perspectives on 
ARPANET’s history too.

The proposals are to be submitted to

(camillepaloqueberges /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(camillepaloqueberges /at/ gmail.com)>

(valerieschafer /at/ wanadoo.fr) <mailto:(valerieschafer /at/ wanadoo.fr)>

explicitly mentioning CFP ARPANET.

They need to fit in one page, detail an explicit angle of analysis and 
outline, and integrate a short bibliography.

Successful authors will be invited to submit then a full paper through 
the editorial system, which will undergo full peer review and will 
determine acceptance of papers for publication.

Deadline for the submission of proposals: October 15th 2017

Notification of proposal acceptance: November 15th 2017

Submissions of the full paper (6000-8000 words): April 15th 2018

Feedback based on reviews: June 30th 2018

Deadline for Revisions: October 15th 2018

Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society is an 
international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal concerned with 
research on the cultural, social, political and technological histories 
of the internet and associated digital cultures. More information on the 
journal can be found at 
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rint20

Instructions for Authors are available at 
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rint20#Word_limits

Should you have any questions regarding this CfP, please feel free to 
contact us:

(camillepaloqueberges /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(camillepaloqueberges /at/ gmail.com)>

(valerieschafer /at/ wanadoo.fr) <mailto:(valerie.schafer /at/ cnrs.fr)>




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