[WebCultures] Call for papers for the Internet histories journal : Arpanet (1969-2019)

[Camille Paloque-Berges]

 Dear all,

please find below a call for papers issued by the new* Internet histories*
journal. The central theme, revisiting Arpanet's history today, might be of
interest to the webcultures's participants.

Best regards,
Valérie Schafer and Camille Paloque-Berges

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*Call For Papers: ARPANET (1969-2019)*

*Camille Paloque-Berges & Valérie Schafer (ed.) *



*Special issue of Internet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and
Society.*


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.


* Submissions*

The proposals are to be submitted to

camillepaloqueberges at gmail.com

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.


*Calendar*

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, inter-disciplinary 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=ai
msScope&journalCode=rint20


Instructions for Authors are available at

http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=inst
ructions&journalCode=rint20#Word_limits


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

camillepaloqueberges at gmail.com

valerieschafer at wanadoo.fr <valerie.schafer at cnrs.fr>




















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Institutional email address : camille.paloque_berges at cnam.fr
*Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), Conservatoire
national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France
*Associate researcher at the Digital Paths cluster of CNRS' Institute for
Communication Sciences (ISCC)



-- 
Institutional email address : camille.paloque_berges at cnam.fr
*Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), Conservatoire
national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France
*Associate researcher at the Digital Paths cluster of CNRS' Institute for
Communication Sciences (ISCC)



-- 
Institutional email address : camille.paloque_berges at cnam.fr
*Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), Conservatoire
national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France
*Associate researcher at the Digital Paths cluster of CNRS' Institute for
Communication Sciences (ISCC)
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