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EDITORIAL

Kathrin Englert; Lene Faust; Christian Henrich-Franke; Claudia Müller; Cornelius Schubert:

Introducing Media in Action and Media of Cooperation

S. 5-9

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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Erhard Schüttpelz:

Infrastructural Media and Public media

S. 13-61

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THEMATIC FOCUS

Benedikt Neuroth:

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

S. 65-80

Guido Koller:

The Central Register of Foreigners. A Short History of Early Digitisation in the Swiss Federal Administration

S. 81-92

Michael Homberg:

Who is Leading Innovation? German Computer Policies, the ‘American Challenge’ and the Technological Race of the 1960s and 1970s

S. 93-114

Matthias Röhr:

Home Computer on the Line. The West German BBS Scene and the Change of Telecommunications in the 1980s

S. 115-129

Christian Henrich-Franke:

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

S. 131-145

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REPORTS

Michael Lynch:

Media of Cooperation. Ethnomethodology, GPS, and Tacit Knowledge

S. 149-154