Dear Colleagues,
Please share this CALL for essays for an issue of American Behavioral Scientist entitled 'Survey of a Cluster of Pre-Internet Networks'
Essays invited for a survey of 1960s -1970s network experiments such as: COINTELPRO (US); CHAOS (US); Phoenix (Vietnam); Condor (South America); ORDEN (El Salvador); Jakarta (Indonesia); OBAN (Brazil) that networked societies prior to the Internet. These experimental networks shared characteristics of a two-part program that promoted austerity programs while aiding police in neutralizing dissidents. Discussions about these two-part experimental and Operations Research (OR) informed networks is invited particularly in regard to how evident or non-evident the communications were that supported these operations; the staffing and hardware; how networks were used; and, how they contributed to social and financial inequality and political polarization in the populations they monitored. The survey aims to be an unclassified, one-of-a-kind, historical-comparative, resource for media scholars, media users, social scientists and everyone who depends on the Internet.
See CFP List link to view details, timeline and abstract portal:
https://www.cfplist.com/CFP/40855
Abstracts requested for an issue of American Behavioral Scientist issue entitled:
"Survey of a Cluster of Pre-Internet Networks" and guest edited by:
Noel Packard Ph.D. Media, Film and Television, University of Auckland, N.Z.
and
Dr. Bradley Simpson, professor of history at University of Connecticut and author of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 1 OCTOBER 2025
Feel free to send questions to Noel Packard.
npac825@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Noel Packard PhD
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Noel Packard
University of Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand
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