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call for papers for workshop (Internet Histories 2) &
edited collection (Internet Histories)
deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2008
'Internet Histories 2: Australia and the Asia-Pacific'
Saturday 14 June 2008
Perth, State Library of Western Australia
an ARC Cultural Research Network workshop
convened by Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland
co-sponsored by
Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformations Studies, U. of
Wollongong (CAPSTRANS) & Centre for Social Research in Journalism and
Communications, UNSW
'Internet Histories 2: Australia and the Asia-Pacific' is the second
of two workshops exploring the emerging field of Internet Histories.
Following on from the Vancouver Oct 07 pre-conference workshop of the
Association of Internet Researchers, this event will further
investigate conceptualisation of the problematics of Internet
histories, what the state of the field is, and what specific
challenges exist for cultural research, and media histories.
In particular Internet Histories 2 will focus upon:
· Australian Internet histories;
· Internet histories in the region, notably from leading Asia-Pacific
countries (such as China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia,
Indonesia, and the Philippines);
· what comparative Internet histories tell us about the development
of the Australian Internet - and the possibilities for the paths the
technology might take in the future;
· what are the implication of specific Internet histories for
revising taken-for-granted, general ideas about the Internet?
* what are the challenges of doing Internet histories, and what are
the particular issues for concepts, methods, tools, documentation,
archives, interpretative strategies, and presentation of research
findings?
Accordingly we call for papers that discuss concepts, methods,
themes, and theories associated with Internet histories in Australia
and the Asia-Pacific - as well as issues of archives, records,
historical documentation and interpretation.
'Internet Histories' collection
As well as the call for Internet Histories 2, we also issue a call
for papers for a collection on Internet histories.
Drawing on papers from both Internet histories workshop, but also
from other submissions, we wish to compile a collection that
comprehensively investigates the state of Internet histories.
Accordingly, for this Internet Histories collection, we welcome
submissions that offer perspectives on questions such as (but
certainly not limited to):
· what sorts of Internet histories are currently available, or in
progress - whether national, country-specific, local, subcultural,
community, or transnational and translocal?
· what are the histories and trajectories currently missing and why
do these particular lacunae exist? What histories of the Internet are
being foreclosed, overlooked, or not yet imagined, and what are the
implications of this?
· who is currently writing, reading, collecting, valorising, or even
enshrining Internet histories?
· what are the dominant accounts of Internet history, or dominant
assumptions regarding these?
· what histories do we have of Latin American, African, Oceanic, or
Asian Internet, for instance, compared to European or North American
Internet?
· what challenges does doing Internet history pose? what is specific
about Internet history compared to histories of media,
communications, or other technologies, or broad social or cultural
histories?
· how do our understandings of Internet and mobile technologies and
cultures vary depending on the kinds of quite specific histories that
condition these?
· how do a researcher's own culture and patterns of use determine the
kinds of questions s/he may raise concerning the history of 'the
Internet'?
For either the Internet Histories 2 workshop or the Internet
Histories collection, please send 150 word abstracts to both
convenors by 1 February 2008: Gerard Goggin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
and Mark McLelland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Please indicate whether you
wish your submission considered for the workshop, or collection, or
both. Further details can be found on the project website: http://
www.capstrans.edu.au/about/projects/internet-histories.html
About the convenors/editors:
Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communications and deputy
director of the new Centre for Social Research in Journalism and
Communications at the University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He is author and editor of a number
of books on mobiles and Internet, including ‘Mobile Technologies:
From Telecommunications to Media’ (2008), ‘Cell Phone
Culture’ (2006), ‘Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia’ (2004),
and ‘Digital Disability’ (2003).
Mark McLelland lectures in the Sociology Program in the School of
Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of
Wollongong, Australia. He is the author or editor of six books
relating to Japanese cultural history, minority social groups and new
media. These include ‘Japanese Cybercultures’ (2003) and ‘Queer Japan
from the Pacific War to the Internet Age’ (2005).
Gerard and Mark are the editors of the forthcoming collection,
‘Internationalizing Internet Studies’(Routledge, 2008).
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Gerard Goggin
Professor of Digital Communication
& Deputy Director
Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communication
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 NSW Australia
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
w: +61 2 9385 8532
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