CARGC Symposium: Turning Points: The Long 1990s in Internet History

This is an event organized by CARGC at the Annenberg School for Communication, and CLALS is one of the co-sponsors.

 

Turning Points examines critical moments that shaped the development of media in various parts of the world, circumstances and histories leading to these moments, and their impact on media development in subsequent periods. Steering clear of Anglophone, north-Atlantic media histories, this symposium returns to the ‘long 1990s’, a period defined by major political-economic, social, and cultural transformations across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, we ask: what new histories of the internet emerge into view if we think from the moment of ‘reform’ and ‘economic liberalization’ in varied regional contexts? In what ways would our understanding of Internet histories and digital futures shift if we were to draw insights from media histories, practices, and environments from varied Global South contexts that do not or will not follow an easily comprehensible, linear path toward a seemingly inevitable digital horizon?

 

The conference includes Anita Say Chan, Associate Professor, at the School of Information Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Prof. Say Chan researches science and technology studies in Latin America, applying feminist and decolonial approaches.  She will present, “Of Metrics, Merit & Myth:  The Bell Curve, Cognitive Elites and Techno-Eugenics in the Knowledge Economy” on Tuesday, October 17th at 3:45 PM at the Agora at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, 202 S. 36th Street.

 

Please RSVP HERE.