[Air-L] internet infrastructures?

Thu Nov 23 11:06:26 PST 2017

Dear colleagues many thanks for this inspiring conversation! 
I just take the chance to share with you a reminder on the conference Computer  Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives that will take place at USI -Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland  14-15 December 2017. The event will be open to public. 

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The association Geschichte und Informatik, the Institute of Media and Journalism & China Media Observatory at USI Università della Svizzera italiana, and infoclio.ch are proud to announce the program for the International Conference *Computer Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives*

The conference aims to develop new frameworks and a space of discussion  on the historical role of computer networks; 28 speakers coming from  13 countries will present and discuss the multiple trajectories of  computer networks histories worldwide. There is no conference-fee and the event is open to the public.

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) & Hu Yong (Peking University)

Conference website: www.cnh.usi.ch
Programme: http://www.cnh.usi.ch/programme
CFP: http://www.cnh.usi.ch/call
Conference email address: nethistories at gmail.com

*Conference Programme*
*14th December 2017 USI - Università della Svizzera italiana*

8:00 / 9:00 Registration / Introduction speech

9:00 / 10:00 Keynote Speaker - Hu Yong, Peking University

10:30 / 12:00 Panel 1 / Focus on China - Chair: Hu Yong, Peking University Bo An, Yale University Infrastructure, amateurism, and radical Networking: FidoNet in China (1995-1998)

Liu Jinhe, Tsinghua University
Regime evolution of China's regulation on transborder flow of data：From 1994 to 2017

Clément Renaud, École Polytechnique de Lausanne Grégory Bahde, Université Jean Monnet St Etienne From Davos to Beijing : the historical trajectory of the concept of sovereignty in Internet territories

12:00 / 13:00 Lunch

13:00 / 14:30 Panel 2 / The legacy of the 1980s’ - Chair: Enrico Natale, Infoclio.ch Camille Paloque-Berges, CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam Beyond the protocol wars: 1980s user cultures in Dutch inter-net nodes

Valérie Schafer, ISCC – Institut des Sciences de la Communication Benjamin Thierry, Université Paris Sorbonne The Internet and the Web as a “Super Minitel”

Kevin Driscoll, University of Virginia
Thou shalt love thy BBS: a framework for the moderation of online communities

15:00 / 16:30 Panel 3 / European Histories - Chair: Christiane Sibille, Geschichte und Informatik Mato Brautovic, University of Dubrovnik Origins and development of Internet in Croatia: times of transition from communism to democracy and war for independence

Félix Tréguer, ISCC - Institut des Sciences de la Communication Dominique Trudel, Concordia University From internet access provider to political advocacy: the history of the French data network

Luciano Lenzini, Fabio Gadducci, Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa On the Italian pioneering network projects: issues and challenges

17:00 / 18:30 Visit at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)

20:00 Conference Dinner

*15th December 2017 – USI - Università della Svizzera italiana*

9:00 / 10:00
Keynote Speaker - Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa The network and the historian: opportunities, challenges, surprises, disobedience

10:30 / 12:00 Panel 4 / Infrastructures – Chair: Simone Natale, Loughborough Univ.
Christian Henrich-Franke, University of Siegen Computer networks on copper cables

Paolo Magaudda, University of Padova
The rising of Tor and the history of a network “in the dark”

Sebastian Gieβmann, University of Siegen Networking with/out computing? Remarks on the longue durée of networking practices

12:00 / 13:00 Lunch

13:00/14:30 Panel 5 / A taste of BRICS’ histories - Chair: Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa Sophie Toupin, McGill University Hacking Apartheid

Marcelo Savio de Carvalho, IBM Brazil
Henrique Luiz Kukierman, Federal University of Rio The dawn of the internet in Brazil

Manushi, Indian Institute of Mass Communication Towards Digital India: Internet in India

15:00 / 16:30 Panel 6 / Networking Memories - Chair: Marco Colombetti, USI Raúl Carnota, FCEN Argentina Lucas de Almeida Pereira, UNESP Brazil
SHIALC: History and memory of computer science in Latin America

Guido Koller, Swiss Federal Archives
Of men and register. The foreigner’s central register in Switzerland – An early digital federal administrative network

Benedetta Campanile, University of Bari
Robert Fano, an Italian computer scientist from Project Mac to Internet

16:30 / 17:00 Closing Remarks

-----Original Message-----
From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jason Farman
Sent: venerdì, 17. novembre 2017 19:36
To: Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca>
Cc: Taffel, Sy <S.A.Taffel at massey.ac.nz>; air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] internet infrastructures?

Hi all,
These are great sources thus far! I'll add:

   - *Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries*. Eds.
   Andrew Herman, Jan Hadlaw, and Thom Swiss. (I have a chapter on the
   infrastructures of mobile/locative media in this collection)
   - Lisa Parks, "Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural
   Visibility," *Flow*, no. 8 (2009)
   - Lisa Parks, "Walking Phone Workers," in *Foundations of Mobile Media
   Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field*
   - Nichole Starosielski, *The Undersea Network*
   - Andrew Blum, *Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet*
   - Tung-Hui Hu, *A Prehistory of the Cloud*
   - Ted Kane and Rick Miller, "Cell Structure: Mobile Phones," in *The
   Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles. *Ed. Kazys
   Varnelis

Also, in case it's of interest, I've taught a graduate course titled "Material Culture and Internet Studies," and my syllabus can be found here:
https://amst629i.wordpress.com/
Best,
Jason

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On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca> wrote:

> Excdllent list, Sy :)
> ________________________________________
> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Taffel, Sy 
> < S.A.Taffel at massey.ac.nz>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 4:11 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] internet infrastructures?
>
> Hi Zoe,
>
>
>
> You might also want to have a look at:
>
>
>
> Mackenzie, A. (2010). Wirelessness: Radical empiricism in network
> cultures: The MIT Press.
>
>
>
> Kitchin, R., & Dodge, M. (2011). Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life.
> Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
>
>
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> Cubitt, S. (2016). Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital 
> Technologies. Durham: Duke University Press.
>
>
>
> Rossiter, N. (2016). Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory 
> of Logistical Nightmares: Routledge.
>
>
>
> Parikka, J. (2015). A Geology of Media. Minneapolis: University of 
> Minnesota Press.
>
>
>
> And the special issue of Cultural Politics on Mediated Geologies from 
> last year edited by Parikka that has pieces by Nicole Starosielski, 
> Rosi Braidotti and Shannon Mattern http://culturalpolitics.
> dukejournals.org/content/12/3.toc
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>
>
> Best
>
> Sy
>
>
> Sy Taffel, PhD
> Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research 
> Centre< http://perc.ac.nz/> College of Humanities and Social Sciences 
> | Massey University
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> Recently Published:
> Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene<https://rowman.
> com/ISBN/9781498535694/Ecological-Entanglements-in-the-Anthropocene>,
> edited by Nicholas Holm and Sy Taffel, Lexington Books Technofossils 
> of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology and Plastics<http:// 
> culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/12/3/355.abstract>. Cultural 
> Politics 2016:3, 355-375
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> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:58:14 +0000
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> From: Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon at gmail.com<mailto:zoe.sujon at gmail.com>>
>
> To: Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex at mit.edu<mailto:rsalex at mit.edu>>
>
> Cc: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com<mailto:natpoor at gmail.com>>, AIR 
> < air-l at listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l at listserv.aoir.org>>
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> Hello again Aoir,
>
>
>
> Just wanted to thank everyone for sharing such useful sources - all of 
> them look really interesting and those I've been able to track down 
> have been very helpful.
>
>
>
> There are a few other sources I've come across today which might also 
> be
>
> helpful:
>
> Bratton, B. 2016. *The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty.* MIT Press 
> Cath, C et al. 2017. Media Development in the Digital Age: Five ways 
> to engage in internet governance, CIMA, https://www.cima.ned.org/wp- 
> content/uploads/2017/03/CIMA-Internet-Governance_150ppi-for-web_REV.pd
> f
>
>
>
> Parks, L; Starosielski, N. 2015.* Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of 
> Media Infrastructures*. University of Illinois Press
>
>
>
> Also, Nathaniel, I was particularly thinking about the technical / 
> physical infrastructures, although very hard to completely separate 
> out from the social, political, judicial, and governance levels.  On 
> that note, Shuli Hallak's photos are amazing!
>
>
>
> All best wishes,
>
> Zoe
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex at mit.edu 
> <mailto:rsalex at mit.edu>> wrote:
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>
>
> > I'm actually researching a related topic and stumbled upon this, 
> > which
>
> > might be useful:
>
> >
>
> > Christian Sandvig, *the Internet as Infrastructure*, in The Oxford
>
> > Handbook of Internet Studies (2013)
>
> >
>
> > Warm wishes,
>
> > Alex
>
> > -----------------------
>
> >
>
> > Alex Reiss Sorokin
>
> > Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
> > History | Anthropology | Science, Technology, and Society
>
> >
>
> > http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/reiss_sorokin.html
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com<mailto:
> natpoor at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> >
>
> > My initial thought (that I am sure everyone on the list had) was 
> > what
>
> > is understanding? Legal? Social? Technical? Hardware? But I think 
> > the
>
> > suggestions so far are good.
>
> >
>
> > I would add perhaps you might want some pictures ? a friend of mine,
>
> > Shuli Hallak, is a professional photographer of infrastructures. 
> > Some
>
> > of her work focuses on the internet. This way you can have images in
>
> > your mind about what in the world we are all talking about in terms 
> > of
>
> > its actual concrete physicality, not just the more abstract social 
> > or
>
> > technical concepts. Terms like ?the cloud? are easy to understand 
> > (for
>
> > the cloud, at least, it signals that you don?t need to understand
>
> > whatever it is but it?s out there somewhere ? Mosco has a good 
> > recent
>
> > book about it, ?To The Cloud?), but what does it look like? Since
>
> > vision is such an important part of who we are, this is not a bad 
> > idea I
> don?t think.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Here are the four sub-sections of her website with internet photos.
>
> > Also, mouse-over each image if you want for some descriptive text.
>
> >
>
> > Facebook, server farms?.
>
> > http://shulihallak.com/fb/
>
> >
>
> > Subsea cable deployment from a ship. (I think she was on the ship 
> > the
>
> > entire time for the deployment, several days.)
>
> > http://shulihallak.com/subsea/
>
> >
>
> > Fiber deployment in NYC:
>
> > http://shulihallak.com/fiber/
>
> >
>
> > Interconnection facilities:
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> > http://shulihallak.com/interconnect/
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> >
>
> >
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> >
>
> > All her photos are pretty cool, the cargo ones (not internet) are
>
> > really impressive imho: http://shulihallak.com/cargo/ I believe she
>
> > actually rode on board for the entire trip, whatever it was exactly.
>
> > How cool is that! She?s amazing.
>
> >
>
> > -Nat
>
> > -------------------------------
>
> > Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
>
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> > http://natpoor.blogspot.com/
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> > http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
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> > http://www.underwood-institute.org/
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> >
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> >
>
> > On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:44 AM, Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon at gmail.com<mailto:
> zoe.sujon at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >
>
> > Good morning AoIR,
>
> >
>
> > I am looking for up-to-date resources for understanding the
>
> > infrastructure of the internet, including the role of mobile and
>
> > telephone networks in that infrastructure.
>
> >
>
> > As a starting point, I've looked at Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the
> Internet'
>
> > (2000) and Kurose and Ross's 'Computer Networking' (2013). I tend to
>
> > focus on the social/cultural aspects of the web, so this is a little
>
> > outside my own area of focus, and I fear I may be missing some basics.
>
> >
>
> > Any recommendations gratefully received!
>
> >
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