Published: 2017-05-26

Editorial

5-9

Introducing Media in Action and Media of Cooperation

Original Research

13-61

Infrastructural Media and Public Media

Erhard Schüttpelz

Thematic Focus

65-80

Data politics. The early phase of digitalisation within the federal government and the debate on computer privacy in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s

Benedikt Neuroth

81-92

The Central Register of Foreigners. A short history of early digitisation in the Swiss federal administration

Guido Koller

93-114

Who is leading innovation? German computer policies, the ‘American Challenge’ and the technological race of the 1960s and 1970s

Michael Homberg

115-129

Home computer on the line. The West German BBS scene and the change of telecommunications in the 1980s

Matthias Röhr

131-145

And Postal Services? The Universal Postal Union and the Digitisation of Communication in the 1980s

Christian Henrich-Franke

Reports

151-154

Media of Cooperation: Ethnomethodology, GPS, and Tacit Knowledge

Michael Lynch