SFB 1187 ›Medien der Kooperation‹ an der Universität Siegen

A02 - The Culture of Telecommunication Standardisation in the Tensions of the Digital and Neoliberal ‘Double Revolution’ since the 1980s

A02

 

Principal Investigators:

PD Dr. Christian Henrich-Franke 

Researchers:

Laura Elsner

 

The project analyses a central requirement for social and technical cooperation: the standardisation of telecommunication infrastructures. It places the interdependencies between technical development and institutional change at the scientific centre of the project. As an example it zooms in the standardisation of ISDN during the digital and neoliberal 'double-revolution' (digitalisation of technology and liberalisation of markets) since the 1980s. The project starts from the hypotheses that cultures of standardisation, which had evolved since the 19th century, shape the defining of 'digital cooperation's capability' because of technical and institutional path dependencies.

 

A02

 

Publications

Featured

This article seeks to explore continuities in the governance of cross-border infrastructures from the interwar to the post-war period. It argues that transnational expert communities and cultures of standardisation emerged, which the infrastructure experts were keen to protect and persist. The article compares transport and communication to isolate common patterns and differences.

Henrich-Franke, C. (2018). Comparing Cultures of Expert Regulation: Governing Cross-Border Infrastructures. Contemporary European History, 27(2), 280–300.

 

Forthcoming

 

2019

Elsner, L., Henrich-Franke, C., Neutsch, C., & Thiemeyer, G. (2019). Infrastrukturelle Grundlagen des europäischen Wirtschaftsraums: Akteure der Integration – Akteure der Desintegration. In G. Schulz & M. Spoerer (Eds.), Integration und Desintegration Europas (pp. 73–98). Stuttgart.
Henrich-Franke, C. (2019). Globale Welt 1970-2015. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Henrich-Franke, C. (2019). Historical infrastructure research – a (sub-)discipline in the making? In M. Korn, W. Reißmann, T. Röhl, & D. Sittler (Eds.), Infrastructuring Publics (pp. 49–68). Berlin.

 

2018

Henrich-Franke, C. (2018). Comparing Cultures of Expert Regulation: Governing Cross-Border Infrastructures. Contemporary European History, 27(2), 280–300.
Henrich-Franke, C. (2018). Engineering Expertise and the Regulation of International Telecommunications in Europe from the 1950s to the 1970s. In A. Schneiker, C. Henrich-Franke, R. Kaiser, & C. Lahusen (Eds.), Transnational Expertise. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag.
Henrich-Franke, C., & Laborie, L. (2018). European Union for and by Communication Networks: Continuities and Discontinuities during the Second World War. Comparativ, 28(1), 82–100.

 

2017

Henrich-Franke, C. (2017). And Postal Services? ... The Universal Postal Union and the Digitalization of Communication. Media in Action, 1, 131–145.
Henrich-Franke, C. (2017). ‘Epistemic Communities’ of Radio Regulators: Gametes of a Europeanization of National Foreign Radio Policies. In G. Clemens (Ed.), The Quest for Europeanization (pp. 237–248). Stuttgart: Steiner.

 

2016

Ambrosius, G., & Henrich-Franke, C. (2016). Integration of Infrastructures in Europe in Historical Comparison. Basel: Springer International Publishing.

 

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