[Commlist] CFP Asian Internet Histories

*‘Asian Internet Histories’ - Call for papers (abstracts due 21 Feb, 2020)*

*Special issue of the journal /Internet Histories: Digital Technology, 
Culture & Society/*

*//*

The future is history, as the great wisdom in many Asian cultures has 
long taught people the importance of looking backward in time for 
lessons, models, inspirations, and visions for the present and the 
future. This special issue provides a timely opportunity to showcase and 
reflect upon Asian Internet histories – both in their own right, but 
also as part of the wider emerging and maturing field of Internet 
histories and Internet and digital technology research.

With its great diversity of places, society, languages, cultures, 
infrastructures, and economy, the Asian region contains roughly half of 
the world’s Internet users. Since the mid-twentieth century at least, 
the region prefigured and then incubated a wide range of forms of 
Internet technologies and associated digital cultures. Some of these 
Internet histories have been formulated, but many aspects of Asian 
Internet remain to be researched, documented and represented, theorized 
and enacted, considered, and debates.

Accordingly, we welcome papers on a wide range of aspects of the 
histories of Asian Internets and digital cultures, including but not 
limited to:

  * Theories, concepts, and methods;
  * histories of particular Internet technologies or cultures in Asian
    location;
  * co-evolution of Asian languages, scripts, and Internet technology;
  * histories of Internet and digital technology policy and governance
    in Asia;
  * historiographies of Asian Internet or digital technology;
  * histories of mobile Internet and mobile apps in Asia;
  * studies of distinctively ‘Asian’ Internet technologies, formats, and
    cultures;
  * the long histories of Asian Internets and digital cultures;
  * new histories of Asian Internet;
  * Internet histories of particular groups, cultures, and social
    identities in Asia;
  * Asian Internet and social imaginaries.
  * Inter-Asian Internet and digital histories;
  * Asia as method and methods for/in Asia for Internet histories,
    including digital and computational methods;
  * analysis of the implications of Asian Internet histories for
    international and global discussions of Internet histories, forms,
    and futures.

We especially welcome papers that explore neglected or new aspects of 
Internet in Asia, or studies of understudied countries, areas, and 
cultures in the region.

Please send a 300-500 word abstract for consideration by 21 February 
2020 to the special issue editors:

  * Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University
    ((gerard.goggin /at/ ntu.edu.sg) <mailto:(gerard.goggin /at/ ntu.edu.sg)>);
  * Haiqing Yu, RMIT, Melbourne ((haiqing.yu /at/ rmit.edu.au)
    <mailto:(haiqing.yu /at/ rmit.edu.au)>);
  * Kwangsuk Lee, Seoul National University of Science & Technology
    ((kslee /at/ seoultech.ac.kr) <mailto:(kslee /at/ seoultech.ac.kr)>)

Following notification of acceptance of abstract, full papers of 
6000-8000 words will be due by Friday 3 July 2020 (with final revised 
papers, if accepted, due by 1 November 2020).

//

For more information on the Internet Histories journal, and its style 
requirements, see: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/current


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------