Dear colleagues many thanks for this inspiring conversation! I just take the chance to share with you a reminder on the conference Computer Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives that will take place at USI -Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland 14-15 December 2017. The event will be open to public. Best wishes Gianluigi Negro Ph.D – Research Fellow ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Università della Svizzera italiana Faculty of Communication Sciences Institute of Media and Journalism China Media Observatory ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Main Building Office 110.1 (Level 1) Via Buffi 13 6900 Lugano Switzerland +41 58 666 4511 gianluigi.negro@usi.ch http://usi.to/nit @giginegro ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ------------------------------------------------------------ China Media Observatory http://www.chinamediaobs.org @usi_cmo Facebook USI.CMO ------------------------------------------------------------ Editor at http://www.chinoiresie.info Leggi le ultime notizie sull'USI su USI-Flash The association Geschichte und Informatik, the Institute of Media and Journalism & China Media Observatory at USI Università della Svizzera italiana, and infoclio.ch are proud to announce the program for the International Conference *Computer Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives* The conference aims to develop new frameworks and a space of discussion on the historical role of computer networks; 28 speakers coming from 13 countries will present and discuss the multiple trajectories of computer networks histories worldwide. There is no conference-fee and the event is open to the public. Keynote Speakers: Prof. Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) & Hu Yong (Peking University) Conference website: www.cnh.usi.ch Programme: http://www.cnh.usi.ch/programme CFP: http://www.cnh.usi.ch/call Conference email address: nethistories@gmail.com *Conference Programme* *14th December 2017 USI - Università della Svizzera italiana* 8:00 / 9:00 Registration / Introduction speech 9:00 / 10:00 Keynote Speaker - Hu Yong, Peking University 10:30 / 12:00 Panel 1 / Focus on China - Chair: Hu Yong, Peking University Bo An, Yale University Infrastructure, amateurism, and radical Networking: FidoNet in China (1995-1998) Liu Jinhe, Tsinghua University Regime evolution of China's regulation on transborder flow of data：From 1994 to 2017 Clément Renaud, École Polytechnique de Lausanne Grégory Bahde, Université Jean Monnet St Etienne From Davos to Beijing : the historical trajectory of the concept of sovereignty in Internet territories 12:00 / 13:00 Lunch 13:00 / 14:30 Panel 2 / The legacy of the 1980s’ - Chair: Enrico Natale, Infoclio.ch Camille Paloque-Berges, CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam Beyond the protocol wars: 1980s user cultures in Dutch inter-net nodes Valérie Schafer, ISCC – Institut des Sciences de la Communication Benjamin Thierry, Université Paris Sorbonne The Internet and the Web as a “Super Minitel” Kevin Driscoll, University of Virginia Thou shalt love thy BBS: a framework for the moderation of online communities 15:00 / 16:30 Panel 3 / European Histories - Chair: Christiane Sibille, Geschichte und Informatik Mato Brautovic, University of Dubrovnik Origins and development of Internet in Croatia: times of transition from communism to democracy and war for independence Félix Tréguer, ISCC - Institut des Sciences de la Communication Dominique Trudel, Concordia University From internet access provider to political advocacy: the history of the French data network Luciano Lenzini, Fabio Gadducci, Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa On the Italian pioneering network projects: issues and challenges 17:00 / 18:30 Visit at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) 20:00 Conference Dinner *15th December 2017 – USI - Università della Svizzera italiana* 9:00 / 10:00 Keynote Speaker - Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa The network and the historian: opportunities, challenges, surprises, disobedience 10:30 / 12:00 Panel 4 / Infrastructures – Chair: Simone Natale, Loughborough Univ. Christian Henrich-Franke, University of Siegen Computer networks on copper cables Paolo Magaudda, University of Padova The rising of Tor and the history of a network “in the dark” Sebastian Gieβmann, University of Siegen Networking with/out computing? Remarks on the longue durée of networking practices 12:00 / 13:00 Lunch 13:00/14:30 Panel 5 / A taste of BRICS’ histories - Chair: Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa Sophie Toupin, McGill University Hacking Apartheid Marcelo Savio de Carvalho, IBM Brazil Henrique Luiz Kukierman, Federal University of Rio The dawn of the internet in Brazil Manushi, Indian Institute of Mass Communication Towards Digital India: Internet in India 15:00 / 16:30 Panel 6 / Networking Memories - Chair: Marco Colombetti, USI Raúl Carnota, FCEN Argentina Lucas de Almeida Pereira, UNESP Brazil SHIALC: History and memory of computer science in Latin America Guido Koller, Swiss Federal Archives Of men and register. The foreigner’s central register in Switzerland – An early digital federal administrative network Benedetta Campanile, University of Bari Robert Fano, an Italian computer scientist from Project Mac to Internet 16:30 / 17:00 Closing Remarks -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jason Farman Sent: venerdì, 17. novembre 2017 19:36 To: Andrew Herman <aherman@wlu.ca> Cc: Taffel, Sy <S.A.Taffel@massey.ac.nz>; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] internet infrastructures? Hi all, These are great sources thus far! I'll add: - *Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries*. Eds. Andrew Herman, Jan Hadlaw, and Thom Swiss. (I have a chapter on the infrastructures of mobile/locative media in this collection) - Lisa Parks, "Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility," *Flow*, no. 8 (2009) - Lisa Parks, "Walking Phone Workers," in *Foundations of Mobile Media Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field* - Nichole Starosielski, *The Undersea Network* - Andrew Blum, *Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet* - Tung-Hui Hu, *A Prehistory of the Cloud* - Ted Kane and Rick Miller, "Cell Structure: Mobile Phones," in *The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles. *Ed. Kazys Varnelis Also, in case it's of interest, I've taught a graduate course titled "Material Culture and Internet Studies," and my syllabus can be found here: https://amst629i.wordpress.com/ Best, Jason -- Jason Farman, Ph.D. Director, Design Cultures & Creativity Program (On Sabbatical 2017-2018) Associate Professor of American Studies Faculty Member, Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park http://www.jasonfarman.com <http://www.jasonfarman.com> http://twitter.com/farman New Book Out Fall 2018: Waiting for Word <http://waitingforword.com> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman@wlu.ca> wrote:
Excdllent list, Sy :) ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Taffel, Sy < S.A.Taffel@massey.ac.nz> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 4:11 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] internet infrastructures?
Hi Zoe,
You might also want to have a look at:
Mackenzie, A. (2010). Wirelessness: Radical empiricism in network cultures: The MIT Press.
Kitchin, R., & Dodge, M. (2011). Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
Cubitt, S. (2016). Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. Durham: Duke University Press.
Rossiter, N. (2016). Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares: Routledge.
Parikka, J. (2015). A Geology of Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
And the special issue of Cultural Politics on Mediated Geologies from last year edited by Parikka that has pieces by Nicole Starosielski, Rosi Braidotti and Shannon Mattern http://culturalpolitics. dukejournals.org/content/12/3.toc
Best
Sy
Sy Taffel, PhD Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre< http://perc.ac.nz/> College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University Email: s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527
Recently Published: Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene<https://rowman. com/ISBN/9781498535694/Ecological-Entanglements-in-the-Anthropocene>, edited by Nicholas Holm and Sy Taffel, Lexington Books Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology and Plastics<http:// culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/12/3/355.abstract>. Cultural Politics 2016:3, 355-375
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:58:14 +0000
From: Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon@gmail.com<mailto:zoe.sujon@gmail.com>>
To: Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex@mit.edu<mailto:rsalex@mit.edu>>
Cc: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor@gmail.com<mailto:natpoor@gmail.com>>, AIR < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] internet infrastructures?
Message-ID:
<CAFy6q3w3Nvcx+HO3dfAXzEnZgyAgaRAcUzbRAPfKAK1soD2fdw@mail.gmail.com <mailto:CAFy6q3w3Nvcx+HO3dfAXzEnZgyAgaRAcUzbRAPfKAK1soD2fdw@mail.gmail .com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Hello again Aoir,
Just wanted to thank everyone for sharing such useful sources - all of them look really interesting and those I've been able to track down have been very helpful.
There are a few other sources I've come across today which might also be
helpful:
Bratton, B. 2016. *The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty.* MIT Press Cath, C et al. 2017. Media Development in the Digital Age: Five ways to engage in internet governance, CIMA, https://www.cima.ned.org/wp- content/uploads/2017/03/CIMA-Internet-Governance_150ppi-for-web_REV.pd f
Parks, L; Starosielski, N. 2015.* Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures*. University of Illinois Press
Also, Nathaniel, I was particularly thinking about the technical / physical infrastructures, although very hard to completely separate out from the social, political, judicial, and governance levels. On that note, Shuli Hallak's photos are amazing!
All best wishes,
Zoe
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex@mit.edu <mailto:rsalex@mit.edu>> wrote:
I'm actually researching a related topic and stumbled upon this, which
might be useful:
Christian Sandvig, *the Internet as Infrastructure*, in The Oxford
Handbook of Internet Studies (2013)
Warm wishes,
Alex
-----------------------
Alex Reiss Sorokin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History | Anthropology | Science, Technology, and Society
On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor@gmail.com<mailto: natpoor@gmail.com>> wrote:
My initial thought (that I am sure everyone on the list had) was what
is understanding? Legal? Social? Technical? Hardware? But I think the
suggestions so far are good.
I would add perhaps you might want some pictures ? a friend of mine,
Shuli Hallak, is a professional photographer of infrastructures. Some
of her work focuses on the internet. This way you can have images in
your mind about what in the world we are all talking about in terms of
its actual concrete physicality, not just the more abstract social or
technical concepts. Terms like ?the cloud? are easy to understand (for
the cloud, at least, it signals that you don?t need to understand
whatever it is but it?s out there somewhere ? Mosco has a good recent
book about it, ?To The Cloud?), but what does it look like? Since
vision is such an important part of who we are, this is not a bad idea I don?t think.
Here are the four sub-sections of her website with internet photos.
Also, mouse-over each image if you want for some descriptive text.
Facebook, server farms?.
Subsea cable deployment from a ship. (I think she was on the ship the
entire time for the deployment, several days.)
Fiber deployment in NYC:
Interconnection facilities:
All her photos are pretty cool, the cargo ones (not internet) are
really impressive imho: http://shulihallak.com/cargo/ I believe she
actually rode on board for the entire trip, whatever it was exactly.
How cool is that! She?s amazing.
-Nat
-------------------------------
Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:44 AM, Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon@gmail.com<mailto: zoe.sujon@gmail.com>> wrote:
Good morning AoIR,
I am looking for up-to-date resources for understanding the
infrastructure of the internet, including the role of mobile and
telephone networks in that infrastructure.
As a starting point, I've looked at Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the Internet'
(2000) and Kurose and Ross's 'Computer Networking' (2013). I tend to
focus on the social/cultural aspects of the web, so this is a little
outside my own area of focus, and I fear I may be missing some basics.
Any recommendations gratefully received!
____________________________
Dr Zoetanya Sujon
Senior Lecturer in Media Theory
Secondment in Academic and Educational Development School of Creative
and Liberal Arts
Regent's University London, Regent's Park, Inner Circle, London NW1
4NS
020 3075 6180 | sujonz@regents.ac.uk<mailto:sujonz@regents.ac.uk>
V91qkBM7U02Ve7tJXV85VcAHD1pxP9QIi1a0pohmb22R3CzV9vo2Nyk4_X_
ebhT8ByRUA51o37s.&URL=mailto%3asujonz%40regents.ac.uk>
| @jetsumgerl <https://twitter.com/jetsumgerl?lang=en> | Blog:
V91qkBM7U02Ve7tJXV85VcAHD1pxP9QIi1a0pohmb22R3CzV9vo2Nyk4_X_
ebhT8ByRUA51o37s.&URL=https%3a%2f%2fsujonz.wordpress.com%2f>
--
'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing
Heart' by Charles Bukowski).
_______________________________________________
The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the
Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change
options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/
listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
_______________________________________________
The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the
Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change
options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/
listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
--
'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing Heart' by Charles Bukowski).
*******************
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/