[Air-L] Imagining the Internet(s) - A Collaborative Glossary 🌐📘15 SEP

[Fridzema, N.]

TLDR
📣 Call for Contributions: Imagining the Internet(s) - A Collaborative
Glossary
📅 15 September 2025
📒 Open-access zine with Institute of Network Cultures and supported by
EASST| 🔗 https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp
<https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp>
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Hi AoIR community!
I am forwarding a call for a collaborative glossary on internet
imaginaries, bringing together short entries (500–1000 words) that help us
study how the internet has been imagined, shaped, and narrated across time
and place. Concepts used to critically describe and conceptualise these
visions often remain scattered and unconnected across fields and
geographies. Imaginaries or imaginaire, network ideology or technotopia,
net romanticism or cyberculture―there are dozens of sharp concepts and
sticky notions that help understand the role of imagination and discourse
in our hugely digitised, increasingly networked history.

We’re inviting researchers, writers, and critical thinkers to contribute a
keyword, concept, or term. Something that captures a specific way of seeing
or structuring digital life. Entries can reflect theoretical insights,
local histories, metaphors, or half-forgotten frameworks that once held
things together.

*The focus should be on research concepts helpful to study imaginaries, and
not imaginaries themselves (e.g. a pitch on the research notion of
“metaphor” instead of a pitch on a “cyberspace” as a particular metaphor)*.

Please submit a keyword and a ~100 word pitch. The submission should also
include a preliminary bibliography and a short bio.

If you have any further questions, please contact the co-editors, Anya
Shchetvina (anya.shchetvina[at]posteo.net) and Nathalie Fridzema
(n.fridzema[at]rug.nl).
Full call:  https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp
<https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp>

Enjoy the summer ☀️

-- 
*Nathalie Fridzema*

PhD candidate in Dutch early web cultures and digital heritage
Reviews Coordinator TMG Journal for Media History

LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/in/nathalie-fridzema> | Google Scholar
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bSOBiE4AAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=sra> | Staff
page <https://www.rug.nl/staff/n.fridzema/>
University of Groningen, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies

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