Benjamin Peters


is author of “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet” (MIT Press, 2016), winner of the 2017 Vucinich Book Prize, among others, and editor of “Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture” (Princeton University Press, 2016). He is Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa and an associated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Yong Hu


is the author of “Internet: The King Who Rules” (1997), the first book introducing the Internet to Chinese readers, and “The Rising Cacophony: Personal Expression and Public Discussion in the Internet Age” (2008), documenting major transformations in the Chinese cyberspace. He is professor at Peking University’s School of Journalism and Communication, a member of the Steering Committee of Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), and also a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Social Media, 2013–2016. In 2017 Hu was nominated for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award. In 2018, he was included in the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.

Benedetta Campanile


PhD in History of Science, is head of the Multimedia Lab of Scientific Museology and of the Lab of Computer Epistemology at the Interuniversity research center “History of Science Seminar”, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. Campanile's research deals with IT applications for cultural heritage. She has published scientific papers and books on the history of scientific institutions, the history of information technology, and on communication and dissemination of science.

Henrique Luiz Cukierman


is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with affiliations in the Graduate Programs in Systems Engineering and Computer Science Department, in the Graduate Program in the History of Sciences, Techniques, and Epistemologies, and in the undergraduate Department of Computer and Information Engineering and Information of the Polytechnic School. He is the author of “Yes, We Have Pasteur: Manguinhos, Oswaldo Cruz and the History of Science in Brazil” (2007). He has held visiting positions at Stanford University (2001–2002), the Deutsches Museum (2009–2010), and the Universität Konstanz (2009–2010) and is an Alexander von Humbolt Foundation Fellow.

Marcelo Savio Carvalho


is an Information Technology Architect from IBM Brazil and former Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). He has a B. Sc. in Mathematics at UERJ and M. Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). M. Sávio, a former Bulletin Board System user since the mid-80s, started his career as a systems programmer at UFRJ in 1988, where he had the opportunity to participate in the first experiments of network access in the following year, with BITNET. In 1992, he was selected as technical support volunteer at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro, where he had the chance to accompany the deployment of the first generally available Internet connection In Brazil. In addition, in the early 90s, he participated as a testing user in the first pilot project from an Internet Service Provider of commercial access in the country.

Christian Henrich-Franke


is an academic researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Media of Cooperation’ at the University of Siegen. He has published widely on international cooperation, economic integration and political integration. His most recent books include Globale Welt: Europäische Geschichte 1970–2015; 70 Jahre Bundesrepublik Deutschland; (with G. Ambrosius), Integration of Infrastructures in Europe in Comparison (2016); (with G. Ambrosius and C. Neutsch, eds.), Föderalismus in historisch-komparativer Perspektive: Föderale Systeme: Kaiserreich – Donaumonarchie – Europäische Union (2015).

Sophie Toupin


is a PhD candidate at the Art History and Communication Studies Department at McGill University in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. This research was partly funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Sophie can be contacted at McGill University, 853 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC, H3A 0G5, Canada.

Dominique Trudel


is associate professor at Audencia Business School in Nantes, France, and a former post-doctoral researcher at ISCC-CRNS Paris-Sorbonne. His research focuses on the intellectual history of communication research and the history of media technologies. He has a PhD in communication from the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Félix Tréguer


is associate researcher at CNRS Center for Internet and Society and post-doctoral researcher at CERI Sciences Po. His research examines internet-related power struggles and, more generally, communication technologies, at the intersection between political history and law as well as media and technology studies. He has a PhD in political studies from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).

Kevin Driscoll


is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. His research explores popular culture, political communication, and networked personal computing. He is co-author of «Minitel: Welcome to the Internet» with Julien Mailland from Indiana University.

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