[Air-L] Call for essays: 'Pre-Internet Networked Operations' issue for American Behavioral Scientist

[Noel Packard]

Dear Colleagues,

Please share this CALL for essays for an issue of *American Behavioral
Scientist* entitled 'Pre-Internet Networked Operations'
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 1 OCTOBER, 2025

Essays invited for a survey of 1960s -1970s network experiments such as:
*COINTELPRO *(US); *CHAOS* (US); *Phoenix* (Vietnam); *Condor* (South
America); *ORDEN* (El Salvador); *Jakarta *(Indonesia); *OBAN* (Brazil)
that networked societies prior to the Internet. *These experimental
networks shared characteristics of a two-part program that promoted
austerity programs while aiding police in neutralizing dissidents. *Discussions
about these two-part experimental and Operations Research (OR) informed
networks is invited particularly in regard to how evident or non-evident
the communications were that supported these operations; the staffing and
hardware; how networks were used; and, how they contributed to social and
financial inequality and political polarization in the populations they
monitored. The survey aims to be an unclassified, one-of-a-kind,
historical-comparative, resource for media scholars, media users, social
scientists and everyone who depends on the Internet.


See CFP List link to view details, timeline and abstract portal:

https://www.cfplist.com/CFP/40855


Abstracts requested for an issue of *American Behavioral Scientist* issue
entitled:

"Pre-Internet Networked Operations" and guest edited by:

Noel Packard Ph.D. Media, Film and Television, University of Auckland, N.Z.

and

Dr. Bradley Simpson, professor of history at University of Connecticut and
author of *Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and
U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968.*

*DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 1 OCTOBER 2025*
Feel free to send questions to Noel Packard;
 npac825 at aucklanduni.ac.nz

Thank you.
Kind regards,
Noel Packard PhD