[ecrea] CFP: Internet histories and computational methods

*Call for papers*

*Internet histories and computational methods*

Special issue of /Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and 
Society/

(editors of special issue: Niels Brügger & Ian Milligan)

The internet is a born-digital medium, but for a number of years many 
histories of the internet have used traditional non-computational 
methods such as document analysis and interviews. However, recent 
studies of the archived web have benefited from the born-digital nature 
of the Web and have fruitfully used computational methods to explore the 
internet’s past.

Although the use of computational methods is not necessary just because 
the object of study itself is digital, with this special issue of 
/Internet Histories/ we would like to map and present some of the 
possibilities and challenges related to the use of computational methods 
within historical studies of the internet and the web.

We welcome articles about any use of computers to study the internet's 
history, from computational methods used to study digitized documents 
such as scanned documents and other similar sources to established and 
emerging computational methods used to study the internet itself, from 
email lists to USENET archives to the archived web and beyond. Articles 
can be either theoretical, methodological or can explore the findings of 
studies.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

·document studies using text mining or similar computational techniques;

·studies using network analysis, image analysis or similar digital methods;

·the importance of collecting and preserving digital sources and the 
interface between collections and computational methods;

·the historical development of computational methods and tools;

·approaches to develop infrastructure to enable the study of 
born-digital documents;

·commercial vs. academic approaches to computational methods;

·computational methods used to study email lists, web archives, social 
media, and more;

·the interplay between internet histories and digital humanities;

·the use of social media as a historical source;

·surprise us! — computational methods may have been used to write 
histories of the internet in ways we could not even imagine...

*Submissions*

We ask for abstracts of a maximum of 700 words to be emailed to Niels 
Brügger ((nb /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(nb /at/ cc.au.dk)>) and Ian Milligan 
((i2millig /at/ uwaterloo.ca) <mailto:(i2millig /at/ uwaterloo.ca)>) no *later than 7 
December 2018*. Authors of accepted abstracts are invited to submit an 
article, and notification about acceptance will be sent by 23 December 
2018. Please note that acceptance of abstract does not imply final 
publication as all articles have to go through the journal's usual 
review process.

*Time schedule*

·7 Dec 2018: due date for abstracts

·23 December: notification of acceptance

·April 2019: accepted articles to be submitted

·May-July: review process and revisions

More information on /Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and 
Society/ can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rint20



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