{"id":2365,"date":"2024-02-21T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/blog\/people\/valerie-schafer\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:51:24","slug":"valerie-schafer","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/people\/valerie-schafer\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie SCHAFER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"person-template\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-people-person-hero wp-block-unilux-blocks-hero\">\n            <section id=\"hero-page\" class=\"section py-0\">\n            <div class=\"max-w-screen-3xl mx-auto wp-block-unilux-blocks-hero\">\n                <div class=\"hero hero--overflow-none\">\n                    <header class=\"hero__header\">\n                        <div class=\"hero__container\">\n                            <span class=\"hero__title__subject\">\n                                Our People                            <\/span>\n        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href=\"https:\/\/orbilu.uni.lu\/profile?uid=50030545\" target=\"_blank\">Publications on ORBilu<\/a>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section\n    id=\"tabpanel-7489e6bd-48fe-42c7-bed7-e4303c491dc7\"\n    aria-labelledby=\"tab-7489e6bd-48fe-42c7-bed7-e4303c491dc7\"\n    class=\"tab-panel fade hidden is-hidden\"\n>\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper\">\n<p>Val\u00e9rie Schafer has been a Professor in Contemporary European History at the C\u00b2DH (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 \u2013 CNRS UPR 2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She specialises in the history of computing, telecommunications and data&nbsp;networks.&nbsp;Her main research interests are the history of the&nbsp;Internet and the Web, the history&nbsp;of European digital cultures and infrastructures, and born-digital heritage (especially Web archives).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Schafer is Deputy Director of the\u00a0C\u00b2DH since March 2025, she was previously the Head of the Contemporary European History (EHI) research area from 2020 to 2025. She is co-DET of the Master in European Contemporary History (2018\/mid-2026), and was Charg\u00e9e de mission \u00ab Archives de l\u2019University du Luxembourg \u00bb (mid-July 2023\/mid-January 2026). She is an affiliated member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/research-en\/ulide\/\">ULIDE<\/a> (University of Luxembourg Institute of Digital Ethics).\u00a0She is also part of the Management Committee of the \u201cTensions of Europe\u201d network, and General Secretary of the Society for the History of Media (SPHM). She was involved in the projects Esch 2022 at the C\u00b2DH, 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 in the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dhh.uni.lu\/d4h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deep Data Science of Digital History\u201d (D4H)<\/a>, a Doctoral Training Unit funded through the FNR\u2019s PRIDE programme since autumn 2022. 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.archivesunleashed.org\/introducing-archives-unleashed-cohorts-88481cbaa952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Archives Unleashed Project<\/a> 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 was the principal investigator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hivi.uni.lu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HIVI project<\/a>, running from March 2021 to February 2024, which was supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (C20\/SC\/14758148) and dedicated to the history of online virality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is currently co-PI avec the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/research-projects\/digmedia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DIGMEDIA project<\/a> (2024-28) with Sebastian Gie\u00dfman (University of Siegen), funded in part by DFG (SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation) and in part by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) [INTER\/DFG\/23\/17960744\/DIGMEDIA]. The subproject \u201cDigitally Networked Media between Specialization and Universalization\u201d (subproject A01 of the Collaborative Research Center 1187 \u201cMedia of Cooperation\u201d at the University of Siegen) pursues a historical praxeology of digitally networked media that foregrounds specific techno-economic trajectories since 1989. The project historically contextualizes the boom of wireless technologies and reconstructs the media history of wireless technologies with a focus on the Bluetooth standard. It also explores the agencies for marketing-oriented usage research that cropped up on the web from the 1990s onwards. She also leads the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/research-projects\/cd-hist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CD-Hist project<\/a> (supported by FNR for 2024-2026, C23\/SC\/18097856\/CD-Hist), which aims to retrieve the history of CD-ROMs. Despite a plethora of sources and born-digital heritage, CD-ROMs, as both a storage tool in the late 1980s and an entire branch of digital culture in the 1990s, are still lacking a comprehensive history encompassing technical, economic, cultural and social dimensions and embedding this \u201cobject biography\u201d into the longer history of digital storage, interactivity, mediated interactions, consumption and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Val\u00e9rie Schafer is part of the steering committee of the BeCoS project (Become a Computer Scientist) led by the Scienteens Lab, supported by an FNR PSP-Flagship. She is co-head with Benjamin Thierry of the working group &#8220;Patrimine num\u00e9rique&#8221; within the GDR 2091 &#8220;Internet, AI and Society&#8221; (CNRS, Centre Internet et soci\u00e9t\u00e9).&nbsp;She is on the editorial board of the journals <em>Le Temps des M\u00e9dias, Cahiers Fran\u00e7ois Vi\u00e8te<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/journalofdigitalhistory.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Journal of Digital History<\/em><\/a>, <em>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing<\/em> and <em>Flux<\/em> and is a co-founder and co-editor of the journal<em> Internet Histories<\/em> (Taylor &amp; Francis). 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