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                The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections
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<br>A three-day conference, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June
<br>19-21, 2019. The third biennial RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the
<br>Study of Archived Web Materials) conference. Organized by the University of
<br>Amsterdam.
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<br>*** Keynote speakers ***
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<br>Megan Ankerson, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, University of
<br>Michigan
<br>Wendy Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair, Simon Fraser University
<br>Florian Cramer, Professor of Applied Research, Rotterdam University of
<br>Applied Sciences
<br>Olia Lialina, Professor of New Media, Merz Akademie
<br>Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the
<br>Department of Communication, Stanford University
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<br>*** Special event ***
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<br>The conference will host a lecture-performance by Geert Lovink (Institute
<br>of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and guests on the history
<br>and preservation of Amsterdam’s early internet culture.
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<br>*** Call for contributions ***
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<br>As the first generation of web users goes grey, it's clear that the
<br>internet they remember is no longer around. The early web is now simply
<br>another object of nostalgia. Tech anniversaries are a dime a dozen, while
<br>once cool digital aesthetics have made several ironic comebacks. All of
<br>this reinforces a sense that we've left behind a digital history that was
<br>as clunky and slow as it was idealistic and naïve.
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<br>How can we rethink this relationship to the web's past and the past web?
<br>This question is crucial today as the open web continues to lose ground to
<br>platforms and apps. How can this history be reconstructed and re-evaluated,
<br>and how are web archives and web histories impacted by technological
<br>change? What do traditional problems of preservation and historiography
<br>look like at scale? And what stories capture the diverse transformations
<br>and continuities that mark nearly 30 years of web history?
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<br>There is of course no single web history, materially or conceptually
<br>speaking. There is instead a politics of archives, technologies and
<br>discourses that needs to be uncovered. How can we expand our view of web
<br>history beyond Silicon Valley and celebrated cases? And how can we reveal
<br>the technological, social and economic contexts that have shaped not just
<br>the present web, but how we access its past? What role do archives play in
<br>uncovering the histories of the web, platforms and apps, as well as their
<br>production and usage contexts?
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<br>This conference aims to bring together scholars, archivists and artists
<br>interested in preserving, portraying and otherwise engaging with the web
<br>that was. In addition to paper submissions, we invite proposals for
<br>audiovisual installations, posters, software demos, or other media that
<br>connects to the conference themes.
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<br>Submissions in the form of an abstract may relate to, but are not limited
<br>by, the following topics:
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<br>* Web and internet histories
<br>* Historicizing the web and digital culture
<br>* Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and critiquing periodizations
<br>* Past futures and paths not taken
<br>* Platformization and the changing structure of the web
<br>* Social imaginaries of the early web
<br>* Archives and access
<br>* Research methods for studying the archived web
<br>* Methods for platform and app histories
<br>* Ethics of (studying) web archives
<br>* Technicity of web archives
<br>* Software histories
<br>* Archived audiences and histories of internet use
<br>* Identity, intersectionality and web history
<br>* Digital activism and web history
<br>* Histories of net criticism
<br>* Media industries and their online histories
<br>* Web histories elsewhere: forgotten and marginalized web cultures
<br>* Realtime, time travel and other web temporalities
<br>* Future histories and the archive of tomorrow
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<br>*** Submissions ***
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<br>Submissions are welcomed from all fields and disciplines, and we would
<br>particularly encourage postgraduate students and early career researchers
<br>to participate.
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<br>* Individual papers of 20 minutes length (750-word abstract and a short
<br>author bio of 100-150 words).
<br>* Panel sessions consisting of three individual papers, introduced by a
<br>chair (750-word abstract for each paper, a brief description of 300 words
<br>of the purpose of the panel, and a short author bio of 100-150 words for
<br>each speaker).
<br>* Posters, demonstrations, and audio/video/interactive installations (short
<br>abstract of no more than 300 words, a list of A/V or other requirements,
<br>and a short author bio of 100-150 words)
<br>* Workshops (a 500-word rationale for the workshop, including discussion of
<br>why the topic lends itself to a workshop format, and a short author bio of
<br>100-150 words for the workshop organiser(s)).
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<br>Deadline for submission is 19 October 2018.
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<br>Acceptance will be on the basis of double-blind peer review.
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<br>*** Timetable ***
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<br>May 2018 - dates out
<br>June 2018 - first call for papers
<br>July 2018 - second call for papers
<br>August 2018 - third call for papers
<br>September 2018 - final call for papers and submissions open
<br>19 October 2018 - submission of abstracts
<br>December 2018 - notification of acceptance
<br>19-21 June 2019 - conference
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<br>*** Organizing Committee ***
<br>
<br>Anne Helmond, University of Amsterdam, NL
<br>Michael Stevenson, University of Amsterdam, NL
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<br>In collaboration with the RESAW Conference Committee:
<br>Niels Brügger, Aarhus University, DK (organiser 2015)
<br>Jane Winters, University of London, UK (organiser 2017)
<br>Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg, LU (coming organiser 2021)
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<br>*** Program Committee ***
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<br>Susan Aasman, University of Groningen, NL
<br>Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam, NL
<br>Megan Ankerson, University of Michigan, USA
<br>Anat Ben-David, The Open University of Israel, IL
<br>Josephine Bosma, independent art critic and theorist, NL
<br>Sally Chambers, Ghent University, BE
<br>Frédéric Clavert, C2DH Luxembourg
<br>Annet Dekker, University of Amsterdam, NL
<br>Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, UK
<br>Sophie Gebeil, Aix-Marseille University, FR
<br>Robert W. Gehl, University of Utah, USA
<br>Daniel Gomes, arquivo.pt, PT
<br>Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, NL
<br>Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo, CA
<br>Francesca Musiani, CNRS, FR
<br>Claude Mussou, Ina, FR
<br>Janne Nielsen, Aarhus University, DK
<br>Camille Paloque-Berges, CNAM, FR
<br>Thomas Poell, University of Amsterdam, NL
<br>Bernhard Rieder, University of Amsterdam, NL
<br>Marta Severo, University of Paris Nanterre, FR
<br>Kees Teszelszky, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Royal Library, NL
<br>Fred Turner, Stanford University, USA
<br>Peter Webster, Webster Research & Consulting, UK
<br>Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, DE
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<br>*** Sponsors ***
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<br>The conference is financed in part by the Netherlands Organisation for
<br>Scientific Research (NWO) as part of the research program Innovational
<br>Research Incentives Scheme Veni in connection with the projects “The Web
<br>that Was” (275-45-006) and “App ecosystems: A critical history of apps”
<br>(275-45-009).
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<br>*** Contact ***
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<br>Website: https://www.thewebthatwas.net
<br>Email: organizers@thewebthatwas.net
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<br>Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture
<br>University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT  Amsterdam | The
<br>Netherlands
<br>http://www.uva.nl/profile/a.helmond | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ |
<br>@silvertje
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<br>Highlighted publication:
<br>
<br>Helmond, Anne. 2015. “The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data
<br>Platform Ready.” Social Media + Society 1 (2).
<br>doi:10.1177/2056305115603080.
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