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October 12, 2018 at 11:14 am #67976Matthew K. Gold (he/him)Participant
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From: Ian Milligan <ianmilligan1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 6:35 AM
Subject: [DHSI] CFP: Internet Histories and Computational Methods
To: DHSI List <institute@lists.uvic.ca>(as usual, apologies for x-postings..)
Call for papers: Internet histories and computational methods
Special issue of Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and
Society (editors of special issue: Niels Brügger & Ian Milligan)The internet is a born-digital medium, but for a number of years many
histories of the internet have used traditional non-computational methods
such as document analysis and interviews. However, recent studies of the
archived web have benefited from the born-digital nature of the Web and
have fruitfully used computational methods to explore the internet’s past.Although the use of computational methods is not necessary just because the
object of study itself is digital, with this special issue of Internet
Histories we would like to map and present some of the possibilities and
challenges related to the use of computational methods within historical
studies of the internet and the web.We welcome articles about any use of computers to study the internet’s
history, from computational methods used to study digitized documents such
as scanned documents and other similar sources to established and emerging
computational methods used to study the internet itself, from email lists
to USENET archives to the archived web and beyond. Articles can be either
theoretical, methodological or can explore the findings of studies.Topics can include, but are not limited to:
– document studies using text mining or similar computational techniques;
– studies using network analysis, image analysis or similar digital
methods;
– the importance of collecting and preserving digital sources and the
interface between collections and computational methods;
– the historical development of computational methods and tools;
– approaches to develop infrastructure to enable the study of
born-digital documents;
– commercial vs. academic approaches to computational methods;
– computational methods used to study email lists, web archives, social
media, and more;
– the interplay between internet histories and digital humanities;
– the use of social media as a historical source;
– surprise us! — computational methods may have been used to write
histories of the internet in ways we could not even imagine…Submissions
We ask for abstracts of a maximum of 700 words to be emailed to Niels
Brügger (nb@cc.au.dk) and Ian Milligan (i2millig@uwaterloo.ca) no later
than 7 December 2018. Authors of accepted abstracts are invited to submit
an article, and notification about acceptance will be sent by 23 December
2018. Please note that acceptance of abstract does not imply final
publication as all articles have to go through the journal’s usual review
process.Time schedule
– 7 Dec 2018: due date for abstracts
– 23 December: notification of acceptance
– April 2019: accepted articles to be submitted
– May-July: review process and revisionsMore information on Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and
Society can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rint20.—
*Ian Milligan*
Associate Professor
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
http://ianmilligan.ca -
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