Pre-Internet Networked Operations for American Behavioral Scientist
Pre-Internet Networked Operations for American Behavioral Scientist
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 1 JANUARY 2025!
We are inviting essays for a survey of 1960-70s military operations including but not limited to, COINTELPRO (US); CHAOS (US); Phoenix (Vietnam); Condor (in South America); ORDEN (El Salvador); Jakarta (Indonesia) and OBAN (Brazil) for a theme issue of _American Behavioral Scientist_entitled, "Pre-Internet Networked Operations". These operations networked societies prior to the advent of the Internet. Potential areas of focus include: the communication equipment that supported these operations, from how evident or non-evident they were; to their staffing and hardware; the use and purpose of the operations; the operations' contributions to social and financial inequality and political polarization in the populations they monitored; and works that pertain to the theoretical or methodological approaches applied to the findings. This may represent the first time these networked operations have been described and compared in one source, which will be a helpful, singular, historical-comparative, resource for media scholars, media users and social scientists worldwide.
We are especially interested in information on the following: what role interactive computers and non-evident, wireless networks (e.g., radios, satellite communications, sonar, radar, microwave networks along the railroads, microwave towers, listening posts, teletype machines) played in the program; who used the networks and for what purpose; how visible these communication systems were to the civilian population; and whether civilians knew they were being surveilled; and in general terms, how did the program contrbute to local financial inequality and political polarization.
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Article abstracts are invited for a theme issue of American Behavioral Scientist entitled:"Pre-Internet Networked Operations" guest edited by Noel Packard PhDORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6589-3362
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Dr. Bradley Simpson, Associate Professor of History and Asian and Asian American Studies at University of Connecticut and author of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of History and Asian and Asian American Studies Institute in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is an international expert on U.S. foreign policy and Indonesia. He is also a founding director of a project at the non-profit National Security Archive to declassify U.S. government documents concerning Indonesia and East Timor during the reign of General Suharto.
Please submit abstracts in English of no more than 200 words, and a brief bio by 1 January 2025 to Noel Packard at: npac825@aucklanduni.ac.nz. or through the CFP abstract portal.
Tentative Timeline:
January 1, 2025: Deadline for submission of abstracts.
March 1, 2025: Deadline for submission of draft essays.
April-June Target date for 2025: American Behavioral Scientist publishes issue entitled "Pre-Internet Networked Operations"
For more information, please send questions and abstracts to:
Noel Packard
Email: npac825@aucklanduni.ac.nz