[Themaintainers] CfP: "Computing Capitalisms" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Special Issue

[lee vinsel]

Hi, everybody.

I am on the IEEE Annals board and just want to say that this special issue
is a great and promising opportunity. Of course, I would *especially* love
to see something on maintenance and business in there, but, you know, I'm
biased . . . Here's the real dream: a history of computerized maintenance
management software! A guy can dream, right?

But even if you don't have something maintenance related, please do
consider pitching your work to this special issue.

Lee

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 8:47 AM Kennedy, Devin <dkennedy at fas.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> Below and attached, please find a call for papers that I thought may be of
> interest to this group, for a special issue of the *IEEE Annals of the
> History of Computing*. Abstracts are due on April 30.
>
> Thank you,
> Devin Kennedy
>
>
> *Computing Capitalisms:*
>
> *History, Business, and Information Technology*
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> *Call for Papers: Special Issue*
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> The *IEEE Annals of the History of Computing* invites submissions for a
> special issue titled “Computing Capitalisms.” Edited by Gerardo Con Diaz
> (University of California, Davis) and Devin Kennedy (Harvard University),
> this special issue will showcase new questions and methods in the business
> history of computing, broadly conceived.
>
> The history of computing has described the firms, industries, and
> businesses that made and were remade by computing practices and
> technologies. Classic works in the business history of computing examined
> how firms invest in and foster new technologies; explored the long-term
> relationships between technology, strategy, and structure in computing and
> telecommunications; and framed business as a key intermediary between
> technical developments and markets. Recent scholarship has opened promising
> new directions in the historical study of business and computing including:
> the labor dimensions of programming, manufacturing, and content moderation;
> race and gender in the economic and social valuation of computing work; the
> material and environmental dependencies of computer industries; computer
> modeling in manufacturing and economic planning; evolving business models
> in computer hardware, software, and services industries; the economic
> effects of digitalization and automation in finance, banking, and consumer
> credit; and the intersection of governments and private industry through
> intellectual property law, data privacy regulation, trade policy, and state
> investments in infrastructure and computing businesses.
>
> This special issue aims to highlight new directions in the business
> history of computing through the theme of *computing capitalisms*. In
> engaging capitalisms, we are suggesting a broad view of business history
> that considers the political, legal, labor, environmental, material, and
> social conditions that surround business and are shaped by it, while adding
> historical perspective to ongoing discussions of contemporary “data”
> “platform” or “surveillance” capitalism. We invite papers that draw on the
> history of computing and allied fields, including STS, labor history, the
> history of capitalism, management studies, gender and race studies, media
> and game studies, and critical data and algorithm studies. We interpret the
> history of computing broadly and invite papers on any historical period and
> with any geographical focus, and especially encourage those that consider
> computing’s global dimensions.
>
>
>
> Some topics of interest include historical consideration of:
>
> ·       Business models in computing businesses, including data vending
>
> ·      Labor, including workers’ movements
>
> ·      Race and gender in computing industries
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> ·       National and international regulation of computing and data
> businesses
>
> ·      Material and environmental dimensions of device manufacturing and
> computer services
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> ·       Management practices and bureaucracy
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> ·      Computer science developments and digital technology business
>
> ·      The use of computing in regulation and economic planning
>
> ·      Institutions for technological and business development
> (‘incubators,’ consulting firms, University spin-offs)
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> ·      Logistics systems and supply chain management
>
> ·      Financial developments and computing (venture capital, ICOs)
>
> ·      Computing in finance, banking, and consumer credit
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>
>
> *Submission Instructions*
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>
>
> If you are interested, please submit an abstract (250 words) and a short
> CV to condiaz at ucdavis.edu and dkennedy at fas.harvard.edu by April 30, 2019.
> Accepted papers will be due for peer review in October 2019. You may also
> contact the editors with any questions, or to discuss potential topics.
>
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