2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop

Name: 2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop
Start: 2025-02-05T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-02-07T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

5 Feb 2025, 09:00 → 7 Feb 2025, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

CERN

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WELCOME TO THE HOMEPAGE OF THE 2025 ECREA COMMUNICATION HISTORY WORKSHOP

Communication Networks Before and After the Web: Historical and Long-term Perspective

The 2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop is part of a series of events organized by the ECREA Communication History Section. These workshops take place every two years in a different European city, gathering scholars from around the world whose research explores the historical dimension of media and communication.

The 2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop was held from February 5 to 7, 2025, at CERN—the birthplace of the Web and a pivotal institution for the spread of the Internet in Europe. The event aimed to explore communication networks before and after the development of the World Wide Web.

The workshop hosted a prestigious lineup of keynote speakers, including Nicole Starosielsky (University of California), Robert Cailliau, François Flückiger, and Pier Giorgio Innocenti, offering unique insights into the evolution of communication infrastructures and their broader implications.

Adress:

CERN

Esplanade des Particules

1217 Meyrin

Switzerland

Access: Building 55

Conference Rooms:

Wednesday:

-Room 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

Thursday:

-Room 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

-Room 28/S-029

Friday:

-Room 6/2-004

-Room 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin

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James Gillies

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Wednesday 5 February
- 17:15 → 18:15
  Roundtable
  - 17:15
    
    In the footsteps of the early Web 1h
    
    Speakers: Robert Cailliau, Francois Fluckiger, Pier Giorgio Innocenti (ALICE)
Thursday 6 February
- 09:00 → 10:15
  Paper Networks: News, Infrastructures, and Communities in History 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
  
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  CERN
  
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  - 09:00
    
    Network Disappearance: Changing Valuation of Newspaper Carriers as News Networks 12m
    
    Speakers: Fredrik Stiernstedt, Anne Kaun
  - 09:12
    
    Network of Fellowship, Debate and Exchange: Amateur Journalism and Nineteen Century American Youth Culture 12m
    
    Speaker: Peggy Cassidy
  - 09:24
    
    The Carnation Revolution between censorship and freedom: Journalistic Networks in Dictatorial and Democratic Regimes. 12m
    
    Speakers: Jacinto Godinho, Carla Baptista
  - 09:36
    
    Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the Austrian news media landscape since 1848: Insights from the Austrian News Media Infrastructure project 12m
    
    Speakers: Andreas Schulz-Tomancok, Eva Tamara Asboth, Gabriele Melischek, Julian Wenger, Michael Alexander, Josef Seethaler
  - 09:48
    
    Epistolary networks: reconsidering the history of communication technologies. 12m
    
    Speaker: Jerome Bourdon
- 09:00 → 10:15
  Telecommunication’s Networks: Making, Dismantling, Maintaining Nervous Systems 28/S-029
  
  28/S-029
  
  CERN
  
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  - 09:00
    
    Manufacturing Switzerland. The first telegraph network as a workshop for the 1848's Constitution 15m
    
    Speaker: Riccardo Ferrigato (USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana)
  - 09:15
    
    The vast nerve system’: journalism, telegraphy, and empire at the Glasgow Herald (1873-1883). 15m
    
    Speaker: Chris Silver
  - 09:30
    
    Telegraph Towns: A Cultural Ecology of Transoceanic Wireless Landscapes 15m
    
    Speaker: Matt Parker
  - 09:45
    
    The poles that never died: a material history of dismantling the landline communication network in Sweden 15m
    
    Speaker: Julia Velkova
- 10:45 → 12:00
  (Pre)Histories of the Web 28/S-029
  
  28/S-029
  
  CERN
  
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  - 10:45
    
    HyperCard, or the hypertext for the rest of us. An evolutionary analysis of its life cycle. 12m
    
    Speaker: Carlos A. Scolari
  - 10:57
    
    CD-ROMs as connectors in the early development of the Web 12m
    
    Speaker: Valérie Schafer
  - 11:09
    
    Priming for the web: Pre-histories of the Danish web 12m
    
    Speaker: Niels Brügger
  - 11:21
    
    Portugal's Digital Dawn: Investigative Journalism, Hacker Communities, and the Rise of the Internet (1991-1995) 12m
    
    Speakers: Vânia Maia, Jacinto Godinho
  - 11:33
    
    Decentralised Media and Emergent Cultures in Web History: Narratives from Blockchain Integration to Social Media 12m
    
    Speaker: Ashwin Nagappa
- 10:45 → 12:00
  Colonial and anti-colonial communication networks: origins, entanglements and continuities 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
  
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  - 10:45
    
    From the “Black Atlantic Communication Network” to #BlackLivesMatter: Addressing Short Memory in Digital Media and Communication Studies 12m
    
    Speaker: Wendy Willems
  - 10:57
    
    The Digital Imperium 12m
    
    Speaker: Lee Grieveson
  - 11:09
    
    Networks of Domination and Violence: Colonial Communication and Power 12m
    
    Speaker: Burçe Çelik
  - 11:21
    
    Creating a Network for Colonial Propaganda: The Angolan Broadcasting Plan, 1961-1974 12m
    
    Speaker: Nelson Costa Ribeiro
  - 11:33
    
    British Imperial Broadcasting Networks, 1939-1989 12m
    
    Speaker: Simon J. Potter
- 13:00 → 14:15
  Localizing Imaginaries, Rhetoric, and Metaphors of Networks (1960s - 2020s) 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
  
  31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
  
  CERN
  
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  - 13:00
    
    Networks Against the Internet: a History of Concept Through the Lens of Countermovement Rhetoric 12m
    
    Speaker: Anya Shchetvina
  - 13:12
    
    The never-ending promise of video as an alternative media network 12m
    
    Speaker: Susan Aasman
  - 13:24
    
    Imagining Revolutionary Connections: the Fax as Proto-Internet 12m
    
    Speaker: Jesper Verhoef
  - 13:36
    
    From Digital Cities to Networked Societies: Vernacular Socio-technical Imaginaries of the Public Web between 1994 and 2004 12m
    
    Speaker: Nathalie Fridzema
  - 13:48
    
    Networked Mediality: (Re)assembling the Imaginaries of Black-Boxed Technologies from the Stars to the Data Points 12m
    
    Speaker: Natalia Stanusch
- 13:00 → 14:15
  Visible and Invisible Networks, Visible and Invisible Societies 28/S-029
  
  28/S-029
  
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  - 13:00
    
    Narrating Eurovision’s first Decade on Swiss TV: Making Visible Transnational Network Infrastructures 12m
    
    Speaker: Anne-Katrin Weber
  - 13:12
    
    Continuity in Transition: The Evolution of Spanish Television Networks from Franco to Democracy (1959-1989) 12m
    
    Speaker: Javier Jurado
  - 13:24
    
    Rewired: Imaginaries of technologically networked crime and police work in HBO’s The Wire 12m
    
    Speaker: Torbjörn Rolandsson
  - 13:36
    
    Raw Punk: Glocality, Creative Processes, Inner Logics and Networks 12m
    
    Speaker: David Andersson
  - 13:48
    
    (Hidden) Ties between Media and Politics? How networks of politicians and journalists evolved from the analog to the digital 12m
    
    Speakers: Alessandra Colaceci, Christian Wasner, Thomas Birkner
- 14:30 → 15:45
  On the Earth, In the Sky: Transportation, Satellite, and Alarming Networks 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
  
  31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
  
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  - 14:30
    
    Nautical charts are not networks 12m
    
    Speaker: Lars Lundgren
  - 14:42
    
    Produced A Demand for an Island: Military Satellite Communications, Ground Bases and Empire. 12m
    
    Speaker: Rachel Hill
  - 14:54
    
    The pan-arab satellite network, 1990-2015: narratives and affects 12m
    
    Speaker: Marwan M. Kraidy
  - 15:06
    
    The Acoustemology of Sirens: A Century of Urban Communication Infrastructures of Fear and Public Sonic Warnings 12m
    
    Speaker: Marie Cronqvist
  - 15:18
    
    An Iberian nordvision? Transnational Integration and Protectionism: The Role of Television in Iberian Dictatorships. 12m
    
    Speaker: Rita Luís
- 14:30 → 15:45
  The Past is Emergent: Transformation and Continuities in Networking 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
  
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  - 14:30
    
    Trolling from the past: the heavy legacy of the world's first vaccine coverage and the anti-vaccine leagues counterpart 12m
    
    Speakers: Hernâni Zão Oliveira, Helena Lima
  - 14:42
    
    "Opening the doors to cyberspace and discovering this was a hospitable territory": Community Memory, an electronic social network in the pre-digital age 12m
    
    Speaker: Julie Momméja
  - 14:54
    
    Understanding the Continuity and Transformation of Mobile Media Over Time: Insights into the Dynamics of Communication and Control 12m
    
    Speaker: Elif Grant
  - 15:06
    
    The transformation of networks through mobility and the inclusion of cities as a territory of social practices 12m
    
    Speakers: Eduardo Campos Pellanda, Mágda Rodrigues da Cunha
  - 15:18
    
    Communication and networks before the digital age 12m
    
    Speaker: Christine Davidsson Sandal
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Keynote speech Nicole Starosielski, chair Andreas Fickers 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
  
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Friday 7 February
- 09:00 → 10:15
  Social Networks (Whatever it Means): Origins and Changes in Networks’ Cultures 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
  
  6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
  
  CERN
  
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  - 09:00
    
    Virtual communities by post: The hobbyist computer magazine as a network forum 12m
    
    Speaker: Kevin Driscoll
  - 09:12
    
    Historicizing Gaming Cultures as Networked Cultures 12m
    
    Speakers: Erik Koenen, Christian Schwarzenegger
  - 09:24
    
    Skyblog stories 12m
    
    Speaker: Emmanuelle Bermès
  - 09:36
    
    The glocal genesis of Facebook tracking, 2010-2025 12m
    
    Speakers: Rasmus Helles, Klaus Bruhn Jensen
  - 09:48
    
    Understanding the Social Network of WeChat 12m
    
    Speaker: Yinan Sun
- 09:00 → 10:15
  The Materialities of Wireless and Wired Networks: Transmitters, Imaginaries, Connections 6/2-004
  
  6/2-004
  
  CERN
  
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  - 09:00
    
    Reclaiming Wires: Antecedents to networked communication 12m
    
    Speaker: Chris Scheidler
  - 09:12
    
    Towers of Prestige: Dutch Radio Transmitters and Public Relations 12m
    
    Speaker: Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
  - 09:24
    
    Forging Networks: Imagining national, international, and local radio spaces in early Canadian radio 12m
    
    Speaker: Anne MacLennan
  - 09:36
    
    The cultural and political significance of broadcasting transmitters in Wales 12m
    
    Speaker: Jamie Medhurst
  - 09:48
    
    A History of Bluetooth 12m
    
    Speaker: Inga Schuppener
- 10:45 → 12:00
  Computer Networks: Histories, Imaginaries, Thinking 6/2-004
  
  6/2-004
  
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  - 10:45
    
    Can three computers agree? Computer scientists and the political imagination of 1980s distributed computing. 12m
    
    Speaker: Steve Jankowski
  - 10:57
    
    Computers as Infrastructure. On the new Digital Environment in the Swiss Federal Administration, c. 1990 12m
    
    Speaker: Mirjam Mayer
  - 11:09
    
    BBSes and Fidonet: connecting computer users before social media. 12m
    
    Speaker: Michał Owczarek
  - 11:21
    
    Network Thought Before the Web: From Metaphor to Archetype 12m
    
    Speaker: Leah A. Lievrouw
  - 11:33
    
    The end of the network hope? 12m
    
    Speaker: Paolo Bory
- 10:45 → 12:00
  “Seeing” Research Networks. Indexes and Communication Networks for (Astro)physicists 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
  
  6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
  
  CERN
  
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  - 10:45
    
    Science Citation Index: Mapping the Networks of Science 15m
    
    Speaker: Lai Ma
  - 11:00
    
    The War Map of Science. Citation Indexing and the Statistical Order of Knowledge 15m
    
    Speaker: Xavier Nueno
  - 11:15
    
    Pioneering experiences in the creation and uptake of Usenet newsgroups for astrophysicists (1983-1994) 15m
    
    Speaker: Monica Marra
  - 11:30
    
    The Physics Preprints Exchange Network 15m
    
    Speaker: Phillip H. Roth