call for contributions “Reassembling the Computer Networks of Eastern and Central Europe: From the Collapse of Soviet Bloc to the Russia-Ukraine War”, Internet Histories Journal April 2024
Topics can include but are not limited to:
- Socio-technical historical accounts of the computer networks and infrastructures in the Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe
- Cybernetic histories and legacies (Soviet and beyond)
- The collapse of the Soviet Union and the privatization or non-privatization of Internet infrastructures
- Telecom and Internet infrastructures in ECE and its dis/entanglement with Soviet legacy
- War-driven technological changes of the Internet infrastructure
- Local histories and precise case studies of the ECE Internet
- Methodological approaches to study ECE Internet and telecom infrastructures
more information here
abstract deadline: 02.04.2024
manuscript deadline: 10.02.2025
editors: Taras Nazaruk, Miglė Bareikytė, Svitlana Matviyenko
