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/41076Noel 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 and abstracts to Noel Packard;
npac825@aucklanduni.ac.nz