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Must the concept of the study of new media seem so thoroughly ordinary? What does it mean to study new media other than to study media that exist now? Prompted by the 10th anniversary of New Media & Society, this article aims to help rethink and elongate the history of new media studies by merging new media studies and media history literatures.The recursive definition and use of the term `new media' are reviewed. New media need to be understood not as emerging digital communication technologies, so much as media with uncertain terms and uses. Moreover, by recognizing that new media studies quickly become history and that most media history is already new media history, this article calls for a use of both literatures to focus on the renewable nature of media in history. It reflects on a complementary attitude toward history meant to help usher in a sounder future of the study of the past.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: The nature of peace / Peter Verbeek and Benjamin A. Peters -- A social-psychological perspective on the proximate causation of peaceful behavior : the needs-based model of reconciliation / Nurit Shnabel -- Inclusion as a pathway to peace : the psychological experiences of exclusion and inclusion in culturally diverse social settings / Sabine Otten, Juliette Schaafsma, and Wiebren S. Jansen -- The peacekeeping and peacemaking role of chimpanzee bystanders / Teresa Romero -- The experiential peacebuilding cycle : grassroots diplomacy, environmental education, and environmental norms / Saleem H. Ali and Todd Walters -- The developmental niche for peace / Darcia Narvaez -- Children's peacekeeping and peacemaking / Cary J. Roseth -- The role of relationships in the emergence of peace / Ellen Furnari -- Reintegration of former child soldiers : communal approaches to healing the wounds and building peace in postconflict societies / Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny -- Keeping the peace or enforcing order : overcoming social tension between police and civilians / Otto Adang, Sara Stronks, Misja van de Klomp, and Gabriel van den Brink -- Constitutions as peace systems and the function of the costa rican and japanese peace constitutions / Benjamin A. Peters -- Exploring the village republic : gandhi's oceanic circles as decentralized peace systems / Joám Evans Pim -- Building peace benefits / Daniel Hyslop and Thomas Morgan -- The evolutionary logic of human peaceful behavior / Douglas P. Fry -- Trans-species peacemaking : our evolutionary heritage / Harry Kunneman -- Natural peace / Peter Verbeek

This essay introduces the first special issue to explore the subject of farm media, which the authors identify as the multiple forms of mediation—representational, infrastructural, and elemental—that reproduce the modern agri-food system. Through this multi-lens framework, media scholars are invited to take the farm seriously as a site of analysis, particularly the recent transformation of agriculture through intensive datafication and its accompanying socio-technical and environmental dimensions. The essay launches these lines of inquiry by reviewing relevant interdisciplinary scholarship, particularly in media studies and critical agrarian studies, and introduces contributor essays exploring the multi-mediation of the farm.

The early Cold War history (1948-1955) of cybernetics, or the study of information control and communication, offers an instructive footnote to 20th century history of media and communication. While also relevant to those interested in the international history of science and computing, this article treats the academic and ideological accommodation of Norbert Wiener's early seminal work on cybernetics into the Soviet academy primarily as an literary act historicized within the circumstances of Cold War politics. The first two articles in the Soviet press (1955) to translate Weiner's work favorably bear many ironies specific to the negotiated compromises of Cold War politics and cybernetics. To name two such ironies with contemporary relevance: the similarity between cooperation and cooptaton in military industrial support of scientific aids to peace and the ambiguity of the accommodationist character of cybernetics as an information system prelude to modern-day computing. Throughout, Peters argues that cybernetics, or communication history more generally, can be best understood through an international lens of analysis.

The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The books twenty-seven case studies draw attention to the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts

Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently under-emphasized in the history of science and its corollary fields. The Planning Moment explores the myriad ways plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book is built around twenty-seven brief case studies that explore the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts, through a range of disciplines: the history of science, science and technology studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, urban studies, and the history of knowledge.If colonialism made certain landscapes, populations, and institutions legible while obscuring others, The Planning Moment reveals the frequently disruptive and violent processes of erasure in imperial planning by examining how "common sense" was produced and how the intransigence of planning persists long after decolonization. In recognizing the resistance and subversion that often met colonial plans, the book makes visible a range of strategies and techniques by which planning was modified and reappropriated, and by which decolonial futures might be imagined.Contributors: Itty Abraham, Benjamin Allen, Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Lino Camprubí, John DiMoia, Mona Fawaz, Lilly Irani, Chihyung Jeon, Robert Kett, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Karen McAllister, Laura Mitchell, Gregg Mitman, Aaron Moore (†), Nada Moumtaz, Tahani Nadim, Anindita Nag, Raúl Necochea López, Tamar Novick, Benjamin Peters, Juno Salazar Parreñas, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, Helen Verran, Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes, Alexandra Widmer, and Alden Young