Dear all,
One of the EASST Fund awardees this year have recently published a Call
for Contributions for their research zine Imagining the Internet(s):
Collaborative Glossary. They asked EASST to share their call through our
networks. Please see the call below:
[Call for Contributions] Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative
Glossary
In the last decades, Media Studies and STS scholars have shown
particular interest in the imaginaries, ideas, and rhetoric in the
social construction of the internet throughout its history (Flichy,
2007; Natale, 2016; Bory, Benecchi, Balbi, 2016; Bory, 2020; Ernst,
Schröter, 2021; Wyatt, 2021). From early metaphors of cyberspace and
electronic frontier, to founding myths, historical narratives or early
network prototypes―in focus are different ways in which language, visual
rhetoric and other means of imagination help us understand networks and
network society.
However, the concepts used to critically describe and conceptualise
these visions often remain scattered and unconnected across disciplines,
research schools and languages. Imaginaries or imaginaire, network
ideology or technotopia, net romanticism or cyberculture―there are
dozens of sharp concepts and sticky notions that help understand the
role of imagination and discourse in our hugely digitised, increasingly
networked history.
This glossary seeks to bring such research notions together. We invite
scholars to pitch short entries (500–1000 words) that introduce or
comment on an existing research concept relevant to the study of
internet imaginaries. The glossary, supported by EASST, will be
published as an open-access zine by the Institute of Network Cultures
and will build on work by the Matter of Imagination research initiative.
Selected entries should engage with a single keyword—explaining where it
comes from, what it reveals, and why it matters. The focus should be on
research concepts helpful to study imaginaries, and not imaginaries
themselves (e.g. a pitch on the research notion of “metaphor” instead of
a pitch on a “cyberspace” as a particular metaphor).
More info: https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp
Deadline for contributions: 15 September 2025
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