5–7 Feb 2025
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Local organizing committee

CERN Committee

Jens Vigen

Jens Vigen is CERN Scientific Information Service, is Secretary-General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). 

James Gillies

James Gillies was the head of the CERN communications group until January 2016. He is one of CERN's official spokespersons. He co-authored with Robert Cailliau the book "How the Web was Born"


USI Università della Svizzera Italiana, Institute of Media and Journalism:

The committee of Università della Svizzera Italiana contributed to the project: The origins and spread of the World Wide Web. Rediscovering the early years of the Web inside and outside the CERN archive (1989-1995)

Gabriele Balbi

Gabriele Balbi is Full Professor in Media Studies at the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG), Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland). Prof. Balbi's research is focused on media studies with a historical and long-term perspective. His research is at the crossroads of media studies, the history of technology, media archaeology, Science and Technology Studies, the political economy of communication, and cultural studies.

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Deborah Barcella

Deborah Barcella is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG). She applied Marketing approach to examine the WWW collection of CERN focusing on how the Web was marketed and positioned to reach a broad audience.

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Martin Fomasi

Martin Fomasi Martin Fomasi is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG). He applied Science and Technologies Studies apporach to analyse the WWW collection of CERN focusing on relationships between developers and other social group.

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Petra Mazzoni

Petra Mazzoni is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG). Petra Mazzoni main focus her thesis concerns the analysis of the daily use of digital and traditional media at an intergenerational level. She collaborates with various project including the organization of the ECREA Communication History workshop.  

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