Phillip H. Roth (2025). Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Early Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.12812

Phillip H. Roth (2025). Reorganizing the Postwar Scientific Record: Vannevar Bush’s Vision of “Memex.” Making Media Futures: Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations. Eds. Phillip H. Roth, Ana María Guzmán Olmos, Alin Olteanu, Stefan Böschen (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture). London: Routledge. 154–175

Conference Presentations

“Formalizing Informal Communication: The Origins of the Preprints Exchange System in High-Energy Physics in the 1960s,” The Tenth Norwegian Conference on the History of Science Science and Communication, University of Bergen, 5–7 November 2025.

“Migrating Bibliographical Data across the Ocean in Mid-20^th Century Particle Physics,” annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Technologies of Migration – Migrating Technologies, University of Luxembourg, 9–11 October 2025.

“Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN,” HaPoC Data Sharing Group, online, 25 September 2025.

“Preprint Culture: A Case in the Mediatization of Scientific Communication,” research seminar, Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, 28 February 2025.

“The Physics Preprints Exchange Network,” 2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop Communication Networks Before and After the Web, CERN, Geneva, 5–7 February 2025.

“Preprint Culture. The History of a Communication Format in Late-Modern Science,” graduate seminar The Social Life of Paper, New York University, 25 March 2024.

“Preprint Culture. Towards the History and Sociology of a Communication Format in Late-Modern Science”, I²SOS-Kolloquium, University of Bielefeld, 21 November 2023.

“Preprints, PDFs, and Technologies of Idealization in Scientific Publishing”, annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Affordances and Interfaces, online, 26.–29. June 2023. 

“Preprint Culture. Toward the History of an Information Genre in Late-Modern Science”, c:o/re Lunch Talks, Käte Hamburger Center Aachen: Cultures of Research (c:o/re), 21. June 2023.

“How Formats Imagine Publics in Science. On the Materiality of Scientific Communication”, conference of the RRC – Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research & c:o/re Nowhere(to)land, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn, 14.–16. June 2023. 

“Media Technologies and Material Configurations of Scientific Communication” (with Alin Olteanu), International meeting of the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S)/Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE) Reunion – Recuperation – Reconfiguration, Cholula Mexico, 7.–10. December 2022. 

“Towards a Plurality of Scientific Communication. Working out Media, Infrastructure and Scientific Life”, Workshop des Seminario de Tegnologías Filosóficas (FFyL, UNAM) & c:o/re Varieties of Science: Patterns of Knowledge, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, 5.–6. December 2022. 

“Scientific Communication in the Software Age. Sorting out Materiality, Community and Infrastructure”, c:o/re Workshop New Horizons in the Social Study of Science and Software, Käte Hamburger Kolleg Center: Cultures of Research (c:o/re), 8.–9. November 2022.