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

2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop

from Wednesday 5 February 2025 (09:00) to Friday 7 February 2025 (18:00)

Monday 3 February 2025
Tuesday 4 February 2025
Wednesday 5 February 2025

14:00 Registration (badge and check in)
Registration (badge and check in)
14:00 - 17:00
Room: 28/S-029

17:00 Workshop Kick Off (Local Organizers and ECREA Communication History Section Management Team)
Workshop Kick Off (Local Organizers and ECREA Communication History Section Management Team)
17:00 - 17:15
Room: 28/S-029

17:15 Roundtable: In the footsteps of the early Web
Roundtable: In the footsteps of the early Web
17:15 - 18:45
Room: 28/S-029
Thursday 6 February 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:15
Contributions

09:00 Network Disappearance: Changing Valuation of Newspaper Carriers as News Networks - Fredrik Stiernstedt Anne Kaun

09:12 Network of Fellowship, Debate and Exchange: Amateur Journalism and Nineteen Century American Youth Culture - Peggy Cassidy

09:24 The Danish Press Service in Stockholm 1943-1945. A piece of entangled media history? - Emil Eiby Seidenfaden

09:36 The Carnation Revolution between censorship and freedom: Journalistic Networks in Dictatorial and Democratic Regimes. - Jacinto Godinho Carla Baptista

09:48 Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the Austrian news media landscape since 1848: Insights from the Austrian News Media Infrastructure project - Andreas Schulz-Tomancok Eva Tamara Asboth Gabriele Melischek Julian Wenger Michael Alexander Josef Seethaler

10:00 Discussion: Paper Networks: News, Infrastructures, and Communities in History
09:00 - 10:15
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

09:00 Epistolary networks: reconsidering the history of communication technologies. - Jerome Bourdon

09:12 Trolling from the past: the heavy legacy of the world's first vaccine coverage and the anti-vaccine leagues counterpart - Hernâni Zão Oliveira Helena Lima

09:24 "Opening the doors to cyberspace and discovering this was a hospitable territory": Community Memory, an electronic social network in the pre-digital age - Julie Momméja

09:36 Understanding the Continuity and Transformation of Mobile Media Over Time: Insights into the Dynamics of Communication and Control - Elif Grant

09:48 The transformation of networks through mobility and the inclusion of cities as a territory of social practices - Eduardo Campos Pellanda Mágda Rodrigues da Cunha

10:00 Communication and networks before the digital age - Christine Davidsson Sandal

10:12 Discussion: The Past is Emergent: Transformation and Continuities in Networking
10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45
10:45 - 12:00
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

10:45 HyperCard, or the hypertext for the rest of us. An evolutionary analysis of its life cycle. - Carlos A. Scolari

10:57 CD-ROMs as connectors in the early development of the Web - Valérie Schafer

11:09 Priming for the web: Pre-histories of the Danish web - Niels Brügger

11:21 Portugal's Digital Dawn: Investigative Journalism, Hacker Communities, and the Rise of the Internet (1991-1995) - Vânia Maia Jacinto Godinho

11:33 Decentralised Media and Emergent Cultures in Web History: Narratives from Blockchain Integration to Social Media - Ashwin Nagappa

11:45 Discussion (Pre)Histories of the Web
10:45 - 12:00
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

10:45 From the “Black Atlantic Communication Network” to #BlackLivesMatter: Addressing Short Memory in Digital Media and Communication Studies - Wendy Willems

10:57 The Digital Imperium - Lee Grieveson

11:09 Networks of Domination and Violence: Colonial Communication and Power - Burçe Çelik

11:21 Creating a Network for Colonial Propaganda: The Angolan Broadcasting Plan, 1961-1974 - Nelson Costa Ribeiro

11:33 British Imperial Broadcasting Networks, 1939-1989 - Simon J. Potter

11:45 Discussion: Colonial and anti-colonial communication networks
12:00 Stand up Lunch
Stand up Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: 28/S-029
13:00
13:00 - 14:15
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

13:00 Networks Against the Internet: a History of Concept Through the Lens of Countermovement Rhetoric - Anya Shchetvina

13:12 The never-ending promise of video as an alternative media network - Susan Aasman

13:24 Imagining Revolutionary Connections: the Fax as Proto-Internet - Jesper Verhoef

13:36 From Digital Cities to Networked Societies: Vernacular Socio-technical Imaginaries of the Public Web between 1994 and 2004 - Nathalie Fridzema

13:48 Networked Mediality: (Re)assembling the Imaginaries of Black-Boxed Technologies from the Stars to the Data Points - Natalia Stanusch

14:00 Discussion: Localizing Imaginaries, Rhetoric, and Metaphors of Networks
13:00 - 14:15
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

13:00 Narrating Eurovision’s first Decade on Swiss TV: Making Visible Transnational Network Infrastructures - Anne-Katrin Weber

13:12 Continuity in Transition: The Evolution of Spanish Television Networks from Franco to Democracy (1959-1989) - Javier Jurado

13:24 Rewired: Imaginaries of technologically networked crime and police work in HBO’s The Wire - Torbjörn Rolandsson

13:36 Raw Punk: Glocality, Creative Processes, Inner Logics and Networks - David Andersson

13:48 (Hidden) Ties between Media and Politics? How networks of politicians and journalists evolved from the analog to the digital - Alessandra Colaceci Christian Wasner Thomas Birkner

14:00 Discussion: Visible and Invisible Networks, Visible and Invisible Societies
14:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:15 - 14:30
Room: 28/S-029
14:30
14:30 - 15:45
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

14:30 Nautical charts are not networks - Lars Lundgren

14:42 Produced A Demand for an Island: Military Satellite Communications, Ground Bases and Empire. - Rachel Hill

14:54 The pan-arab satellite network, 1990-2015: narratives and affects - Marwan M. Kraidy

15:06 Synchronizing catastrophe – the Doomsday Clock and the postwar history of a world at risk - Francisco Nunes

15:18 The Acoustemology of Sirens: A Century of Urban Communication Infrastructures of Fear and Public Sonic Warnings - Marie Cronqvist

15:30 Discussion: On the Earth, In the Sky: Transportation, Satellite, and Alarming Networks
14:30 - 15:45
Contributions

14:42 Codes and Ciphers in the Wires: Early Notions of Privacy in Telecommunications - Egor Efremov

14:54 The vast nerve system’: journalism, telegraphy, and empire at the Glasgow Herald (1873-1883). - Chris Silver

15:06 Telegraph Towns: A Cultural Ecology of Transoceanic Wireless Landscapes - Matt Parker

15:18 The poles that never died: a material history of dismantling the landline communication network in Sweden - Julia Velkova

15:30 Discussion: Telecommunication’s Networks: Making, Dismantling, Maintaining Nervous Systems
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: 28/S-029

16:15

16:15 - 17:00
Room: 28/S-029

17:00

17:00 - 18:30
Room: 28/S-029

18:30

18:30 - 19:30
Room: 28/S-029
Friday 7 February 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:15
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

09:00 Virtual communities by post: The hobbyist computer magazine as a network forum - Kevin Driscoll

09:12 Historicizing Gaming Cultures as Networked Cultures - Erik Koenen Christian Schwarzenegger

09:24 Skyblog stories - Emmanuelle Bermès

09:36 The glocal genesis of Facebook tracking, 2010-2025 - Rasmus Helles Klaus Bruhn Jensen

09:48 Understanding the Social Network of WeChat - Yinan Sun

10:00 Discussion: Social Networks (Whatever it Means): Origins and Changes in Networks’ Cultures
09:00 - 10:15
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

09:00 Reclaiming Wires: Antecedents to networked communication - Chris Scheidler

09:12 Towers of Prestige: Dutch Radio Transmitters and Public Relations - Vincent Kuitenbrouwer

09:24 Forging Networks: Imagining national, international, and local radio spaces in early Canadian radio - Anne MacLennan

09:36 The cultural and political significance of broadcasting transmitters in Wales - Jamie Medhurst

09:48 A History of Bluetooth - Inga Schuppener

10:00 Discussion: The Materialities of Wireless and Wired Networks: Transmitters, Imaginaries, Connections
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: 28/S-029
10:45
10:45 - 12:00
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

10:45 Can three computers agree? Computer scientists and the political imagination of 1980s distributed computing. - Steve Jankowski

10:57 Computers as Infrastructure. On the new Digital Environment in the Swiss Federal Administration, c. 1990 - Mirjam Mayer

11:09 BBSes and Fidonet: connecting computer users before social media. - Michał Owczarek

11:21 Network Thought Before the Web: From Metaphor to Archetype - Leah A. Lievrouw

11:33 The end of the network hope? - Paolo Bory

11:45 Discussion: Computer Networks: Histories, Imaginaries, Thinking
10:45 - 12:00
Room: 28/S-029
Contributions

10:45 Science Citation Index: Mapping the Networks of Science - Lai Ma

10:57 Automating the Index. The ISI Atlas of Science and the Statistical Order of Knowledge - Xavier Nueno

11:09 The Physics Preprints Exchange Network - Phillip H. Roth

11:21 Pioneering experiences in the creation and uptake of Usenet newsgroups for astrophysicists (1983-1994) - Monica Marra

11:33 An Iberian nordvision? Transnational Integration and Protectionism: The Role of Television in Iberian Dictatorships. - Rita Luís

11:45 Discussion: “Seeing” Research Networks. Indexes and Communication Networks for (Astro)physicists
12:15 Final Remarks
Final Remarks
12:15 - 12:30
Room: 28/S-029

12:30 Stand up lunch break
Stand up lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 28/S-029

13:30 Visit of CERN facilities
Visit of CERN facilities
13:30 - 15:30
Room: 28/S-029

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