2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop

from Wednesday 5 February 2025 (09:00) to Friday 7 February 2025 (18:00)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Feb 2025
6 Feb 2025
7 Feb 2025
AM
09:00
Paper Networks: News, Infrastructures, and Communities in History (until 10:15) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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 Carnation Revolution between censorship and freedom: Journalistic Networks in Dictatorial and Democratic Regimes. - Carla Baptista Jacinto Godinho  
09:36 Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the Austrian news media landscape since 1848: Insights from the Austrian News Media Infrastructure project - Josef Seethaler Michael Alexander Julian Wenger Gabriele Melischek Eva Tamara Asboth Andreas Schulz-Tomancok  
09:48 Epistolary networks: reconsidering the history of communication technologies. - Jerome Bourdon  
09:00
Telecommunication’s Networks: Making, Dismantling, Maintaining Nervous Systems (until 10:15) (28/S-029)
09:00 Manufacturing Switzerland. The first telegraph network as a workshop for the 1848's Constitution - Riccardo Ferrigato (USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana)  
09:15 The vast nerve system’: journalism, telegraphy, and empire at the Glasgow Herald (1873-1883). - Chris Silver  
09:30 Telegraph Towns: A Cultural Ecology of Transoceanic Wireless Landscapes - Matt Parker  
09:45 The poles that never died: a material history of dismantling the landline communication network in Sweden - Julia Velkova  
10:45
(Pre)Histories of the Web (until 12:00) (28/S-029)
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) - Jacinto Godinho Vânia Maia  
11:33 Decentralised Media and Emergent Cultures in Web History: Narratives from Blockchain Integration to Social Media - Ashwin Nagappa  
10:45
Colonial and anti-colonial communication networks: origins, entanglements and continuities (until 12:00)
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  
09:00
Social Networks (Whatever it Means): Origins and Changes in Networks’ Cultures (until 10:15) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
09:00 Virtual communities by post: The hobbyist computer magazine as a network forum - Kevin Driscoll  
09:12 Historicizing Gaming Cultures as Networked Cultures - Christian Schwarzenegger Erik Koenen  
09:24 Skyblog stories - Emmanuelle Bermès  
09:36 The glocal genesis of Facebook tracking, 2010-2025 - Klaus Bruhn Jensen Rasmus Helles  
09:48 Understanding the Social Network of WeChat - Yinan Sun  
09:00
The Materialities of Wireless and Wired Networks: Transmitters, Imaginaries, Connections (until 10:15) (6/2-004)
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  
10:45
Computer Networks: Histories, Imaginaries, Thinking (until 12:00) (6/2-004)
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  
10:45
“Seeing” Research Networks. Indexes and Communication Networks for (Astro)physicists (until 12:00) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
10:45 Science Citation Index: Mapping the Networks of Science - Lai Ma  
11:00 The War Map of Science. Citation Indexing and the Statistical Order of Knowledge - Xavier Nueno  
11:15 Pioneering experiences in the creation and uptake of Usenet newsgroups for astrophysicists (1983-1994) - Monica Marra  
11:30 The Physics Preprints Exchange Network - Phillip H. Roth  
PM
17:15
Roundtable (until 18:15)
17:15 In the footsteps of the early Web - Pier Giorgio Innocenti (ALICE) Francois Fluckiger Robert Cailliau  
13:00
Localizing Imaginaries, Rhetoric, and Metaphors of Networks (1960s - 2020s) (until 14:15)
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  
13:00
Visible and Invisible Networks, Visible and Invisible Societies (until 14:15) (28/S-029)
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 - Thomas Birkner Christian Wasner Alessandra Colaceci  
14:30
On the Earth, In the Sky: Transportation, Satellite, and Alarming Networks (until 15:45)
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 The Acoustemology of Sirens: A Century of Urban Communication Infrastructures of Fear and Public Sonic Warnings - Marie Cronqvist  
15:18 An Iberian nordvision? Transnational Integration and Protectionism: The Role of Television in Iberian Dictatorships. - Rita Luís  
14:30
The Past is Emergent: Transformation and Continuities in Networking (until 15:45)
14:30 Trolling from the past: the heavy legacy of the world's first vaccine coverage and the anti-vaccine leagues counterpart - Helena Lima Hernâni Zão Oliveira  
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 - Julie Momméja  
14:54 Understanding the Continuity and Transformation of Mobile Media Over Time: Insights into the Dynamics of Communication and Control - Elif Grant  
15:06 The transformation of networks through mobility and the inclusion of cities as a territory of social practices - Mágda Rodrigues da Cunha Eduardo Campos Pellanda  
15:18 Communication and networks before the digital age - Christine Davidsson Sandal  
17:00
Keynote speech Nicole Starosielski, chair Andreas Fickers (until 18:30)