internet histories

About the Internet Histories 2 workshop

When: Saturday 14 June 2008
Where: Great Southern Room, fourth floor,
WA State Library, Perth,

Internet Histories 2: Australia and the Asia-Pacific is the second of two workshops exploring the emerging field of Internet Histories.

Following on from the Vancouver Oct 07 pre-conference workshop of the Association of Internet Researchers, this event will further investigate conceptualisation of the problematics of Internet histories, what the state of the field is, and what specific challenges exist for cultural research, and media histories.

In particular Internet Histories 2 will focus upon:

• Australian Internet Histories;
• Internet histories in the region, notably from leading Asia-Pacific countries (such as China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines);
• what comparative Internet histories tell us about the development of the Australian Internet — and the possibilities for the paths the technology might take in the future;
• what are the implication of specific Internet histories for revising taken-for-granted, general ideas about the Internet?
• what are the challenges of doing Internet histories, and what are the particular issues for concepts, methods, tools, documentation, archives, interpretative strategies, and presentation of research findings?

The workshop aims to discuss concepts, methods, themes, and theories associated with Internet histories in Australia and the Asia-Pacific — as well as issues of archives, records, historical documentation and interpretation.

An outcome of the workshop will be an edited volume on Internet Histories.

For further information contact Gerard Goggin: g.goggin@unsw.edu.au or Mark McLelland markmc@uow.edu.au

Internet Histories Program

Internet Histories Abstracts