2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop

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

28/S-029 (CERN)

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Wednesday 5 February

14:00 → 17:00 Registration (badge and check in)

17:00 → 17:15 Workshop Kick Off (Local Organizers and ECREA Communication History Section Management Team)

17:15 → 18:45 Roundtable: In the footsteps of the early Web

Thursday 6 February

09:00 → 10:15 Paper Networks: News, Infrastructures, and Communities in History

09:00 Network Disappearance: Changing Valuation of Newspaper Carriers as News Networks

Speakers: Fredrik Stiernstedt, Anne Kaun

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

Speaker: Peggy Cassidy

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

Speaker: Emil Eiby Seidenfaden

09:36 The Carnation Revolution between censorship and freedom: Journalistic Networks in Dictatorial and Democratic Regimes.

Speakers: 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

Speakers: 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 The Past is Emergent: Transformation and Continuities in Networking

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

Speaker: Jerome Bourdon

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

Speakers: 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

Speaker: Julie Momméja

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

Speaker: Elif Grant

09:48 The transformation of networks through mobility and the inclusion of cities as a territory of social practices

Speakers: Eduardo Campos Pellanda, Mágda Rodrigues da Cunha

10:00 Communication and networks before the digital age

Speaker: Christine Davidsson Sandal

10:12 Discussion: The Past is Emergent: Transformation and Continuities in Networking

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:00 (Pre)Histories of the Web

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

Speaker: Carlos A. Scolari

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

Speaker: Valérie Schafer

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

Speaker: Niels Brügger

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

Speakers: Vânia Maia, Jacinto Godinho

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

Speaker: Ashwin Nagappa

11:45 Discussion (Pre)Histories of the Web

10:45 → 12:00 Colonial and anti-colonial communication networks: origins, entanglements and continuities

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

Speaker: Wendy Willems

10:57 The Digital Imperium

Speaker: Lee Grieveson

11:09 Networks of Domination and Violence: Colonial Communication and Power

Speaker: Burçe Çelik

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

Speaker: Nelson Costa Ribeiro

11:33 British Imperial Broadcasting Networks, 1939-1989

Speaker: Simon J. Potter

11:45 Discussion: Colonial and anti-colonial communication networks

12:00 → 13:00 Stand up Lunch

13:00 → 14:15 Localizing Imaginaries, Rhetoric, and Metaphors of Networks (1960s - 2020s)

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

Speaker: Anya Shchetvina

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

Speaker: Susan Aasman

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

Speaker: Jesper Verhoef

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

Speaker: Nathalie Fridzema

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

Speaker: Natalia Stanusch

14:00 Discussion: Localizing Imaginaries, Rhetoric, and Metaphors of Networks

13:00 → 14:15 Visible and Invisible Networks, Visible and Invisible Societies

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

Speaker: Anne-Katrin Weber

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

Speaker: Javier Jurado

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

Speaker: Torbjörn Rolandsson

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

Speaker: David Andersson

13:48 (Hidden) Ties between Media and Politics? How networks of politicians and journalists evolved from the analog to the digital

Speakers: Alessandra Colaceci, Christian Wasner, Thomas Birkner

14:00 Discussion: Visible and Invisible Networks, Visible and Invisible Societies

14:15 → 14:30 Coffee break

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

14:30 Nautical charts are not networks

Speaker: Lars Lundgren

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

Speaker: Rachel Hill

14:54 The pan-arab satellite network, 1990-2015: narratives and affects

Speaker: Marwan M. Kraidy

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

Speaker: Francisco Nunes

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

Speaker: Marie Cronqvist

15:30 Discussion: On the Earth, In the Sky: Transportation, Satellite, and Alarming Networks

14:30 → 15:45 Telecommunication’s Networks: Making, Dismantling, Maintaining Nervous Systems

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

Speaker: Egor Efremov

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

Speaker: Chris Silver

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

Speaker: Matt Parker

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

Speaker: Julia Velkova

15:30 Discussion: Telecommunication’s Networks: Making, Dismantling, Maintaining Nervous Systems

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 17:00 Business Meeting

17:00 → 18:30 Keynote speech Nicole Starosielski chaired by Andreas Fickers

18:30 → 19:30 Archeological Walking Tour “Where the Web Was Found

Friday 7 February

09:00 → 10:15 Social Networks (Whatever it Means): Origins and Changes in Networks’ Cultures

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

Speaker: Kevin Driscoll

09:12 Historicizing Gaming Cultures as Networked Cultures

Speakers: Erik Koenen, Christian Schwarzenegger

09:24 Skyblog stories

Speaker: Emmanuelle Bermès

09:36 The glocal genesis of Facebook tracking, 2010-2025

Speakers: Rasmus Helles, Klaus Bruhn Jensen

09:48 Understanding the Social Network of WeChat

Speaker: Yinan Sun

10:00 Discussion: Social Networks (Whatever it Means): Origins and Changes in Networks’ Cultures

09:00 → 10:15 The Materialities of Wireless and Wired Networks: Transmitters, Imaginaries, Connections

09:00 Reclaiming Wires: Antecedents to networked communication

Speaker: Chris Scheidler

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

Speaker: Vincent Kuitenbrouwer

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

Speaker: Anne MacLennan

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

Speaker: Jamie Medhurst

09:48 A History of Bluetooth

Speaker: Inga Schuppener

10:00 Discussion: The Materialities of Wireless and Wired Networks: Transmitters, Imaginaries, Connections

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:00 Computer Networks: Histories, Imaginaries, Thinking

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

Speaker: Steve Jankowski

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

Speaker: Mirjam Mayer

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

Speaker: Michał Owczarek

11:21 Network Thought Before the Web: From Metaphor to Archetype

Speaker: Leah A. Lievrouw

11:33 The end of the network hope?

Speaker: Paolo Bory

11:45 Discussion: Computer Networks: Histories, Imaginaries, Thinking

10:45 → 12:00 “Seeing” Research Networks. Indexes and Communication Networks for (Astro)physicists

10:45 Science Citation Index: Mapping the Networks of Science

Speaker: Lai Ma

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

Speaker: Xavier Nueno

11:09 The Physics Preprints Exchange Network

Speaker: Phillip H. Roth

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

Speaker: Monica Marra

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

Speaker: Rita Luís

11:45 Discussion: “Seeing” Research Networks. Indexes and Communication Networks for (Astro)physicists

12:15 → 12:30 Final Remarks

12:30 → 13:30 Stand up lunch break

13:30 → 15:30 Visit of CERN facilities