Prof. Dr. Valérie Schafer
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| Faculty or Centre | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | ||||
| Department | Contemporary European History | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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| Campus Office | MSH, E04 25-410 | ||||
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| Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 4915 | ||||
Valérie Schafer has been a Professor in Contemporary European History at the C²DH (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History) at the University of Luxembourg since February 2018. She previously worked at the CNRS in France and is still an Associate Researcher at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS – CNRS UPR 2000).
She specialises in the history of computing, telecommunications and data networks. Her main research interests are the history of the Internet and the Web, the history of European digital cultures and infrastructures, and born-digital heritage (especially Web archives).
Professor Schafer is the Head of the Contemporary European History (EHI) research area at the C²DH. She is also Vice-Chair of the ECREA Communication History Section, the chair of the Management Committee of the “Tensions of Europe” network, and General Secretary of the Society for the History of Media (SPHM). She was involved in the projects Esch 2022 at the C²DH, she participated to OPERAS-P (H2020, 2019-2021) as a task leader on innovative models of governance, she is involved in the SNF Project Web History, in the DFG-FNR funded project Popkult (2021-2024) and she was one of the co-PI of the WARCnet project (supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark | Humanities (grant number 9055-00005B)). She was also the PI of the AWAC2 cohort (Analysing Web Archives of the COVID Crisis through the IIPC Novel Coronavirus dataset, 2021-22) which was engaged in collaborative activities with the Archives Unleashed Project and benefited from its support and mentorship. She led the BUZZ-F project, a research project supported by the BnF DataLab at the French National Library in 2022. She is the principal investigator of the HIVI project, a project running from March 2021 to February 2024, which is supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (C20/SC/14758148) and dedicated to the history of online virality. She is part of the steering committee meeting for the BeCoS project (Become a Computer Scientist) of the Scienteens Lab, supported by an FNR PSP-Flagship. She is co-head with Benjamin Thierry of the working group Digital Heritages and Memories" within the GDR 2091 "Internet, AI and Society" (CNRS, Centre Internet et société). She is on the editorial board of the journals Le Temps des Médias, Flux, Journal of Digital History and Cahiers François Viète and is a co-founder and co-editor of the journal Internet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Taylor & Francis). She is also a member of the Scientific Board of the Orange Group and of Afnic, the French domain name management company, she is part of the advisory group of HEXA-X and she was a Mercator Fellow at the university of Siegen in 2021 (Teilprojekt A01 and A02 in the project Medien der Kooperation).
Her most recent published or co-edited books include: En construction, La fabrique française d’Internet et du Web (Ina Éditions, 2018), Penser l’histoire des médias (CNRS Éditions, 2019) and Qu’est-ce qu’une archive du Web? (OpenEditions, 2019).
Last updated on: Tuesday, 11 April 2023
2023
Harlem Shake à la BnF … À la recherche d’un phénomène viral dans les archives du Web; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2023, April 05)
Pourquoi les femmes ont quitté l'informatique et pourquoi ce n’est pas une fatalité…Presentation (2023, April 27)
Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society ed. by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick (review)in Technology and Culture (2023), 64(2), 611-613
Continuer à faire réseau : le regard d’une chercheuse sur le projet Respadon (conclusion de la journée).Scientific Conference (2023, March 13)
Internet histories second early career researcher award; ; ;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2023), 6(4),
2022
Between marginal and mainstream. Communities and ecosystems at stake;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2022)
Unlocking web archives through metadata, seed lists and derived data;
Scientific Conference (2022, June 01)
Préservation et distorsion : l’espace-temps des réseaux socio-numériques et du web archivé; ;
in Revue d'Histoire Culturelle (2022), (5),
Internet histories second early career researcher award; ; ;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2022)
« Never gonna give you up ». Historiciser la viralité numérique;
in Revue d'histoire culturelle du XVIIIe-XXIe siècles (2022), 5
That escalated quickly: ‘the many challenges of historicising online virality’;
Presentation (2022, March 28)
Roundtable : (Digital) Cultural Heritage at risk. Lessons learned for future preservation strategiesPresentation (2022, November 23)
“Challenge accepted”. The many sources to catch the history of virality and memesScientific Conference (2022, October 20)
Special ECREA panel : Rethinking digital sources — making web archives useful for future scholarsScientific Conference (2022, October 20)
Let’s talk about web archiving … three institutions, many possibilitiesScientific Conference (2022, October 18)
Retrieve me if you can... Women and COVID through Web archivesScientific Conference (2022, October 18)
A discussion on international interdisciplinary collaborations. Working at the European levelPresentation (2022, October 06)
Combiner lecture proche et distante: l’exemple de la viralité en lignePresentation (2022, September 13)
Panels at "Rethinking and Rebuilding Grand Narratives in the History of Computing"Presentation (2022, July 04)
Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage: Fake News & viralité avant Internet. Les lapins du Père- Lachaise et autres légendes médiatiquesin Temps des Medias: Revue d'Histoire (2022), 38
Préserve-moi ! Des journaux intimes à ceux de confinement dans les archives du Webin Temps des Medias: Revue d'Histoire (2022)
Web archives of the COVID-crisis : challenges related to short-term and long-term readabilityScientific Conference (2022, June 29)
Digital Personal Memories: The Archiving of the Self and Public Historyin Noiret, Serge; Zaagsma, Gerben; Tebeau, Mark (Eds.) Handbook of Digital Public History (2022)
Closing Keynote: Networks, governance and design. A journey through some historical case studiesPresentation (2022, March 18)
DIGITAL HUMANITIES – A SCIENCE UNTO ITSELF? A CONVERSATION WITH VALÉRIE SCHAFERSpeeches/Talks (2022)
The Memes Challenges. Virality, Mediatic Dimensions and Heritagization Presentation (2022, February 17)
Viralité;
in Walter, Jacques (Ed.) Publictionnaire. Dictionnaire encyclopédique et critique des publics (2022)
Keep calm and stay focused. Historicising and intertwining scales and temporalities of online virality;
Presentation (2022, June 22)
“Spread or die”. Online Virality as a Transmedia Phenomenon;
Scientific Conference (2022, February 03)
French National Paths Within a Global Computing Market;
in Van Lente, Dick (Ed.) Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing (2022)
2021
Digital Roots. Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age; ; ;
Book published by De Gruyter (2021)
From WG2 Datathon to AWAC2. Exploring IIPC special COVID collection thanks to the Archive Unleashed Project;
Scientific Conference (2021, November 03)
Les archives du Web luxembourgeois. Histoire, enjeux et perspectives; ;
in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), 73
Global Governance. A Short History of Debates Born with the Telegraph and Popularized by the Internet;
in Musiani, Francesca; Schafer, Valerie (Eds.) Global Governance. A Short History of Debates Born with the Telegraph and Popularized by the Internet (2021, September)
Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age: Global Governance;
Scientific Conference (2021, July 02)
The Past Web as Heritage: Practices, Challenges and Uses of Web ArchivesScientific Conference (2021, October 20)
Intertwining distant reading of web archives and oral histories of the COVID crisisScientific Conference (2021, September 22)
Web Archives of the COVID Crisis: Digital Voices, Preservation and LossPresentation (2021, September 16)
Web archiving of the COVID crisis in Europe : Close reading's challengesScientific Conference (2021, July 02)
Global Governance. A Short History of Debates Born with the Telegraph ...Presentation (2021, March 04)
Le développement du numérique nous rend-il de plus en plus proches ?Conference given outside the academic context (2021)
Jérôme Denis, Le Travail invisible des données. Éléments pour une sociologie des infrastructures scripturales Paris, Presses des Mines, 2018, 206 pagesin Questions de Communication (2021), 38
Florence Descamps, Archiver la mémoire. De l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel Paris, Éd. de l'EHESS, 2019, 241 pagesin Questions de Communication (2021), 38
Workshop : Data as a new resource? Similarities and differences of data vs. material resources; ;
Scientific Conference (2021, June 29)
Digital Roots. Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age; ; ;
in Musiani, Francesca; Schafer, Valerie (Eds.) Chapter Global Governance (2021)
2020
Fading Away... The challenge of sustainability in digital studies; ;
in Digital Humanities Quarterly (2020), 14(3),
Internet histories early career researcher award; ; ;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2020)
Exploring the 20-year evolution of a research community: web-archives as essential sources for historical research; ; ; ;
in Cahiers de la Documentation (2020), 2
Perspectives on web archive studies: Taking stock, new ideas, next steps; ;
Diverse speeches and writings (2020)
Making History Together: Public Participation in Museums; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2020, December 15)
Sous les pavés, l’archive ! Luttes sociales et archives du Webin Temps des Medias: Revue d'Histoire (2020), 35
From Print to Digital, from Document to Data: Digitalisation at the Publications Office of the European Unionin Open Information Science (2020), (4), 204-217
Global technologies, glocal approach: a false paradoxin Esboços: histórias em contextos globais (2020), 27(45), 286-305
The ITU Facing the Emergence of the Internet, 1960s–Early 2000sin Fickers, Andreas; Balbi, Gabriele (Eds.) History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (2020)
Cybermenaces, enjeux et sécurité : entretien avec Stéphane Bortzmeyer et Mohsen Souissi (Afnic)in Flux: Cahiers Scientifiques Internationaux Réseaux et Territoires (2020), 2019/4
Internet histories early career researcher award; ; ;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2020), (3),
Exploring special web archives collections related to COVID-19: The case of BnL;
in WARCnet papers (2020)
The Internet and the EU Market from a historical perspective;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2020), (2),
“The internet and the European market” from a multidisciplinary perspective: a “round-doc” discussion; ; ; ; ;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2020), (2),
Les réseaux en péril : destructions, subversions et sabotages (XIXe-XXIe siècles);
in Flux: Cahiers Scientifiques Internationaux Réseaux et Territoires (2020), 2019/4(4),
Exploring special web archives collections related to COVID-19: The case of INA; ;
in WARCnet Papers (2020)
Networked Governance, Enabling Multistakeholder Cooperation; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2020, June 12)
2019
Chercher sur, autour et avec le numérique;
in Blandin, Claire; Robinet, François; Schafer, Valerie (Eds.) Penser l'histoire des médias (2019)
Edito Varia;
in Flux: Cahiers Scientifiques Internationaux Réseaux et Territoires (2019), 115(1), 82
Arpanet (1969-2019);
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2019), 3(1), 1-14
Facing parallel inventions: the French telecommunications strategies in the digital field (mid-1950s to mid-1990s)Scientific Conference (2019, October 26)
Innovation et coopération dans les réseaux de données (années 1970-1990)Presentation (2019, July 04)
Analysing and reconstructing the Internet and Web of the 1990s. A round tablePresentation (2019, June 19)
Naviguer dans la Toile du passéin Lamassé, Stéphane; Bonnot, Gaetan (Eds.) Dans les dédales du Web. Historiens en territoires numériques. (2019)
Exploring the "French Web" of the 1990sin Brügger, Niels; Laursen, Ditte (Eds.) The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: The Case of National Web Domains (2019)
Femmes et informatique de la seconde guerre mondiale aux années 1980Conference given outside the academic context (2019)
De la Wayback Machine à la bibliothèque : les différentes saveurs des archives du Web …in La gazette des archives (2019), 253(1),
Back to the roots of ARPANET and Internet history with Alexandre Serres; ;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2019)
Paris and Nice terrorist attacks: Exploring Twitter and web archives; ; ; ;
in Media, War and Conflict (2019)
2018
Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Web History;
in Brügger, Niels; Milligan, Ian (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Web History FIRST EDITION (2018)
En construction. La fabrique française d'Internet et du Web dans les années 1990Book published by INA Editions (2018)
Interfacing counterculture and digital cultures: an interview with Geert Lovinkin Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2018)
Does Born-Digital Heritage turn Historians into Digital Historians?Scientific Conference (2018, October 10)
Le patrimoine nativement numérique des attentats en Europe : regards croisésin Gazette des Archives (2018), 250(2), 115-130
When the exception becomes the rule … When the margins become the center …Scientific Conference (2018, August 23)
Digital Social Networks of the Past: Issues, Limits and ChallengesScientific Conference (2018, June)
Les archives du Web, entre science et artisanatin Lécossais, Sarah; Quemener, Nelly (Eds.) En quête d'archives. Bricolages méthodologiques en terrains médiatiques (2018)
Sustainability: problematizing fragility and ephemerality in digital research - Workshop;
Presentation (2018, October 26)
French memories about the ARPANET: a conversation with Michel Élie and Gérard Le Lann;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2018)
The 90s as a turning decade for Internet and the Web;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2018), 2(3/4),
Web History in Context;
in Brügger, Niels; Milligan, Ian (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Web History FIRST EDITION (2018)
2017
Introduction: Internet histories; ; ;
in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2017), 1
From far away to a click away : the French State and public services in the 1990sin Brügger, Niels; Schroeder, Ralph (Eds.) The Web as History (2017)
Les cybercafés dans la France des années 1990, espaces médiatiques et médiatisésin Temps des Medias: Revue d'Histoire (2017), 28
2016
The “Web of pros” in the 1990s: The professional acclimation of the World Wide Web in France;
in New Media and Society (2016), 18(7), 1143-1158
2015
Wikipédia, objet scientifique non identifié, Nanterre, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest; ;
Book published by PUPO (2015)
Quand la communication devient patrimoine;
in Hermès: Cognition, Communication, Politique (2015), 71
Part of a Whole : RENATER, a 20-year-old Network within the Internetin Information & Culture: A Journal of History (2015), 50(2), 217-235
Nos lignes de fractures numériques : un air de déjà-vuin Hermès: Cognition, Communication, Politique (2015), 73
L’ogre et la toile. Le rendez-vous de l’histoire et des archives du web;
in Socio: La Nouvelle Revue des Sciences Sociales (2015), 4
Connecting Women. Women, Gender and ICT in Europe (Nineteenth-Twentieth Century);
Book published by Springer (2015)
2014
Internet : A Political Issue for Europe (1970s – 2010s);
in Bishop, Jonathan (Ed.) Transforming Politics and Policy in the Digital Age (2014)
La place du ‘national’ dans le déploiement de l’Internet : une construction entre local et globalin Cattaruzza, Amaël; Danet, Didier (Eds.) La Cyberdéfense. Quel territoire, quel droit ? (2014)
Information et communication scientifiques à l’heure du numériqueBook published by CNRS Editions (2014)
2013
Dans les coulisses de l’Internet. RENATER, 20 ans de technologie, d’enseignement et de recherche;
Book published by Armand Colin (2013)
2012
‘Make the pig fly !’ : l’Inria, ses chercheurs et Internet des années 1970 aux années 1990;
in Temps des Medias: Revue d'Histoire (2012), (18), 41-53
De Cyclades à Renater. Des réseaux de données pour la recherche et l’enseignement (années 1970-1990)in Histoire de la recherche contemporaine (2012), 1(2), 180-187
Internet et le Web: l’illusion du social, la fin de l’idéal égalitaire?;
in Terminal: Technologie de l'Information, Culture, Société (2012), 111
Des chercheurs en informatique dans les années 1970, entre neutralité et militantisme, utopies et pragmatisme;
in Blum, Françoise (Ed.) Des radios de lutte à Internet. Militantismes médiatiques et numériques (2012)
2011
« Le modèle Internet en question (années 1970-2010) »;
in Flux: Cahiers Scientifiques Internationaux Réseaux et Territoires (2011), 3
2009
2007
Circuits virtuels et datagrammes : une concurrence à plusieurs échellesin Histoire, Economie et Société (2007), 2
2005
Évolution du nombre d'accès directs commerciaux à Transpac (1979 - 1985)in Flux: Cahiers Scientifiques Internationaux Réseaux et Territoires (2005), 4(62), 75-80
