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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 revisions

    More 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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