The Culture of Telecommunication Standardisation in the Tensions of the Digital and Neoliberal ‘Double Revolution’ (A02)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2016 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262513311

The subproject focusses on processes of cooperatively accomplished tools of cooperation by taking up the example of European midrange data processing and computing. It departs from the hypothesis that normative categories of thinking telecommunication standards shaped the digitization of European telecommunication networks. Due to complex path-dependencies it also impacted the end of European production of midrange computers in the 1980s.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Head: Privatdozent Dr. Christian Franke