Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary

Category: Publication

Our objective is to conduct a collective inventorisation of both well-established and emerging concepts and keywords that researchers identify as interesting for the study of how the internet has been historically imagined. Extending work done through Matter of Imagination—a newsletter, blog, and open-format working group based in Berlin and Groningen—the Collaborative Glossary invites researchers to think with and through the keywords that one can use to study the meaning-making that surrounds the internet. We invite proposals from established and early-career scholars working in STS, Media and Communication Studies, Web History, and related fields. Contributions may be grounded in empirical work, theoretical frameworks, or methodological reflections, and may come from any disciplinary or regional perspective. The Glossary will be published by the Institute of Network Cultures, supported by European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, and will be a digital Open Access digital publication (a zine with ISBN), licensed via Creative Commons and distributed non-commercially. We take inspiration from experimental and creative works like Keywords of the Datafied State, A New AI Lexicon, The Glossary of Decentralised Technosocial Systems, Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information: An Index, Critical Data Studies Collaborative Glossary. We envision the Glossary to be both used as a compact and mobile artifact that via circulation could enhance cross-dissemination of the ongoing work on these topics between different countries, research schools and collectives. It also could be used as a prompt for teaching and classroom discussion.

Initiator(s):
Anya Shchetvina , Nathalie Fridzema

Deadline: 15.09.2025
Publication-Type: Other publication

https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp

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