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, February 5, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Friday, February 7, 2025 (6:00 PM)
CERN (31/3-004)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Feb 5, 2025

Feb 6, 2025

Feb 7, 2025

9:00 AM	Paper Networks: News, Infrastructures, and Communities in History (until 10:15 AM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
9:00 AM	Network Disappearance: Changing Valuation of Newspaper Carriers as News Networks - Fredrik Stiernstedt Anne Kaun
9:12 AM	Network of Fellowship, Debate and Exchange: Amateur Journalism and Nineteen Century American Youth Culture - Peggy Cassidy
9:24 AM	The Carnation Revolution between censorship and freedom: Journalistic Networks in Dictatorial and Democratic Regimes. - Carla Baptista Jacinto Godinho
9:36 AM	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
9:48 AM	Epistolary networks: reconsidering the history of communication technologies. - Jerome Bourdon
9:00 AM	Telecommunication’s Networks: Making, Dismantling, Maintaining Nervous Systems (until 10:15 AM) (28/S-029)
9:00 AM	Manufacturing Switzerland. The first telegraph network as a workshop for the 1848's Constitution - Riccardo Ferrigato (USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana)
9:15 AM	The vast nerve system’: journalism, telegraphy, and empire at the Glasgow Herald (1873-1883). - Chris Silver
9:30 AM	Telegraph Towns: A Cultural Ecology of Transoceanic Wireless Landscapes - Matt Parker
9:45 AM	The poles that never died: a material history of dismantling the landline communication network in Sweden - Julia Velkova
10:45 AM	(Pre)Histories of the Web (until 12:00 PM) (28/S-029)
10:45 AM	HyperCard, or the hypertext for the rest of us. An evolutionary analysis of its life cycle. - Carlos A. Scolari
10:57 AM	CD-ROMs as connectors in the early development of the Web - Valérie Schafer
11:09 AM	Priming for the web: Pre-histories of the Danish web - Niels Brügger
11:21 AM	Portugal's Digital Dawn: Investigative Journalism, Hacker Communities, and the Rise of the Internet (1991-1995) - Jacinto Godinho Vânia Maia
11:33 AM	Decentralised Media and Emergent Cultures in Web History: Narratives from Blockchain Integration to Social Media - Ashwin Nagappa
10:45 AM	Colonial and anti-colonial communication networks: origins, entanglements and continuities (until 12:00 PM)
10:45 AM	From the “Black Atlantic Communication Network” to #BlackLivesMatter: Addressing Short Memory in Digital Media and Communication Studies - Wendy Willems
10:57 AM	The Digital Imperium - Lee Grieveson
11:09 AM	Networks of Domination and Violence: Colonial Communication and Power - Burçe Çelik
11:21 AM	Creating a Network for Colonial Propaganda: The Angolan Broadcasting Plan, 1961-1974 - Nelson Costa Ribeiro
11:33 AM	British Imperial Broadcasting Networks, 1939-1989 - Simon J. Potter

9:00 AM	Social Networks (Whatever it Means): Origins and Changes in Networks’ Cultures (until 10:15 AM) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
9:00 AM	Virtual communities by post: The hobbyist computer magazine as a network forum - Kevin Driscoll
9:12 AM	Historicizing Gaming Cultures as Networked Cultures - Christian Schwarzenegger Erik Koenen
9:24 AM	Skyblog stories - Emmanuelle Bermès
9:36 AM	The glocal genesis of Facebook tracking, 2010-2025 - Klaus Bruhn Jensen Rasmus Helles
9:48 AM	Understanding the Social Network of WeChat - Yinan Sun
9:00 AM	The Materialities of Wireless and Wired Networks: Transmitters, Imaginaries, Connections (until 10:15 AM) (6/2-004)
9:00 AM	Reclaiming Wires: Antecedents to networked communication - Chris Scheidler
9:12 AM	Towers of Prestige: Dutch Radio Transmitters and Public Relations - Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
9:24 AM	Forging Networks: Imagining national, international, and local radio spaces in early Canadian radio - Anne MacLennan
9:36 AM	The cultural and political significance of broadcasting transmitters in Wales - Jamie Medhurst
9:48 AM	A History of Bluetooth - Inga Schuppener
10:45 AM	Computer Networks: Histories, Imaginaries, Thinking (until 12:00 PM) (6/2-004)
10:45 AM	Can three computers agree? Computer scientists and the political imagination of 1980s distributed computing. - Steve Jankowski
10:57 AM	Computers as Infrastructure. On the new Digital Environment in the Swiss Federal Administration, c. 1990 - Mirjam Mayer
11:09 AM	BBSes and Fidonet: connecting computer users before social media. - Michał Owczarek
11:21 AM	Network Thought Before the Web: From Metaphor to Archetype - Leah A. Lievrouw
11:33 AM	The end of the network hope? - Paolo Bory
10:45 AM	“Seeing” Research Networks. Indexes and Communication Networks for (Astro)physicists (until 12:00 PM) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
10:45 AM	Science Citation Index: Mapping the Networks of Science - Lai Ma
11:00 AM	The War Map of Science. Citation Indexing and the Statistical Order of Knowledge - Xavier Nueno
11:15 AM	Pioneering experiences in the creation and uptake of Usenet newsgroups for astrophysicists (1983-1994) - Monica Marra
11:30 AM	The Physics Preprints Exchange Network - Phillip H. Roth

5:15 PM	Roundtable (until 6:15 PM)
5:15 PM	In the footsteps of the early Web - Pier Giorgio Innocenti (ALICE) Francois Fluckiger Robert Cailliau

1:00 PM	Localizing Imaginaries, Rhetoric, and Metaphors of Networks (1960s - 2020s) (until 2:15 PM)
1:00 PM	Networks Against the Internet: a History of Concept Through the Lens of Countermovement Rhetoric - Anya Shchetvina
1:12 PM	The never-ending promise of video as an alternative media network - Susan Aasman
1:24 PM	Imagining Revolutionary Connections: the Fax as Proto-Internet - Jesper Verhoef
1:36 PM	From Digital Cities to Networked Societies: Vernacular Socio-technical Imaginaries of the Public Web between 1994 and 2004 - Nathalie Fridzema
1:48 PM	Networked Mediality: (Re)assembling the Imaginaries of Black-Boxed Technologies from the Stars to the Data Points - Natalia Stanusch
1:00 PM	Visible and Invisible Networks, Visible and Invisible Societies (until 2:15 PM) (28/S-029)
1:00 PM	Narrating Eurovision’s first Decade on Swiss TV: Making Visible Transnational Network Infrastructures - Anne-Katrin Weber
1:12 PM	Continuity in Transition: The Evolution of Spanish Television Networks from Franco to Democracy (1959-1989) - Javier Jurado
1:24 PM	Rewired: Imaginaries of technologically networked crime and police work in HBO’s The Wire - Torbjörn Rolandsson
1:36 PM	Raw Punk: Glocality, Creative Processes, Inner Logics and Networks - David Andersson
1:48 PM	(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
2:30 PM	On the Earth, In the Sky: Transportation, Satellite, and Alarming Networks (until 3:45 PM)
2:30 PM	Nautical charts are not networks - Lars Lundgren
2:42 PM	Produced A Demand for an Island: Military Satellite Communications, Ground Bases and Empire. - Rachel Hill
2:54 PM	The pan-arab satellite network, 1990-2015: narratives and affects - Marwan M. Kraidy
3:06 PM	The Acoustemology of Sirens: A Century of Urban Communication Infrastructures of Fear and Public Sonic Warnings - Marie Cronqvist
3:18 PM	An Iberian nordvision? Transnational Integration and Protectionism: The Role of Television in Iberian Dictatorships. - Rita Luís
2:30 PM	The Past is Emergent: Transformation and Continuities in Networking (until 3:45 PM)
2:30 PM	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
2:42 PM	"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
2:54 PM	Understanding the Continuity and Transformation of Mobile Media Over Time: Insights into the Dynamics of Communication and Control - Elif Grant
3:06 PM	The transformation of networks through mobility and the inclusion of cities as a territory of social practices - Mágda Rodrigues da Cunha Eduardo Campos Pellanda
3:18 PM	Communication and networks before the digital age - Christine Davidsson Sandal
5:00 PM	Keynote speech Nicole Starosielski, chair Andreas Fickers (until 6:30 PM)

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