From melissa.gregg at sydney.edu.au Mon Jan 16 00:39:53 2012 From: melissa.gregg at sydney.edu.au (Melissa Gregg) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:39:53 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP: Radical Histories in Digital Culture (deadline extended to January 31, 2012) In-Reply-To: <4B0BC2F1-40A0-44B4-87D6-5EC2FFE4728C@gmail.com> Message-ID: Maybe this is interesting to some? --- Call for Proposals Issue 117: Radical Histories in Digital Culture Deadline extended to January 31, 2012 The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue that will explore the political and historical implications of the accelerated proliferation of digital culture in the first decade of the 21st century. We are now in the midst of a dramatic cultural and political change as digital culture in the form of personal communication devices, online social networking sites, instant mass messaging, multiuser video games, and numerous other digital media forms, reshape the way we communicate and interact with each other. Just as the modern industrial era reshaped the nature of human and political subjectivity, the digital information era is reshaping social movements, how we view ourselves in relation to the social and political, and rewiring where, how, and with whom we engage in political action. This issue of RHR will examine the impact of digital culture on political life at the local, national, and transnational level, such as the ?Twitter Revolution? in Iran, social networking and the Arab Spring, and the popular use of digital communication tools in ?Occupy Wall Street?. It will explore the strengths and weaknesses, and popular perceptions, of digital media in struggles for justice through a series of interlocking themes including but not limited to: 1. The mobilization of local, national, and transnational social movements through the use of social network sites, tweets, texting, and other forms of networked and instantaneous communication forms. 2. The rhetoric of digital ?equality? and unequal access to digital culture: class, race, region, and gender, and access to social media and digital communication technologies. 3. The impact of digital culture on collective memory, conceptions of the historical, historical research methods, and the writing of history. 4. The role of history in digital humanities: archival practices, collecting history online, historical text mining, and digital storytelling. 5. New and emerging communication gatekeepers, stealth campaigning, corporate/state deception or propaganda, online surveillance or information mining, and the state?s manipulation of networked information in war/conflict situations. 6. Oppositional consciousness and a reshaping of civic involvement and political participation in a digital world. 7. Individualism, social networking, and the emergence of a neoliberal subjectivity in cyberspace. 8. ?Serious? video games and social change; multiuser online games and the countering of complex social/political challenges. 9. Art, culture jamming, and a contestation of visual culture by artists or artist groups working in the digital arena. 10. Digital technology and journalism/photojournalism: from the proliferation of alternative news sources to the impact of cell phone photos and video as documentation. 11. Digital culture and the law: the policing of cyberspace; digital media as legal evidence. 12. Radical software, open-source initiatives, and efforts to liberate software, hardware, or digital media infrastructure from corporate/state governance. 13. Radical pedagogies for the digital age. At this time we are requesting abstracts that are no longer than 400 words; these are due by January 31, 2012 and should be submitted electronically as an attachment, to contactrhr at gmail.com with ?Issue 117 submission? in the subject line. By February 29, 2012, authors of approved abstracts will be asked to submit their full articles for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is July 1, 2012. An invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee publication. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document along with the text. If chosen for publication, you will need to send high-resolution image files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), and secure written permission to reprint all images. For preliminary e-mail inquiries, please include ?Issue 117? in the subject line. Those articles or other materials selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 117 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall 2013. Abstract Deadline: due January 31, 2012 **************************************************************** ACS List signoff instructions, and other important stuff: http://listserv.uta.fi/archives/acs.html **************************************************************** ------ End of Forwarded Message From carusi.annamaria at gmail.com Tue Jan 24 19:28:59 2012 From: carusi.annamaria at gmail.com (Annamaria Carusi) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:28:59 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: 4S/ EASST Open Panel Announcement Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS: Joint meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) 2012: October 17-20, 2012, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark *Mediated Practice: Insights from STS, Critical Theory and Media Theory * * * * * Panel organisers: Anne Beaulieu (STS) Annamaria Carusi (Critical Theory / STS) Aud Sissel Hoel (Visual and Media Studies) Sarah de Rijcke (STS) Work in STS, media theory and critical theory intersects through a focus on mediated practices. Furthermore, science and technology studies and humanities based studies of media and culture (including film, art, literature, music) have common interests in representations, meaning systems, social and institutional aspects of science, media and culture, and the politics and ethics of interventions in these domains. We often draw upon overlapping perspectives and theories, which are however deployed in different ways by scholars of science, and scholars of media and culture. The aim of this panel is to build on precedents (Thacker?s *Biomedia*, van Dijck?s *ImagEnation, *etc.) and to further explore these overlaps and divergences, and the ways in which concepts, ideas approaches and perspectives might travel more effectively across science and technological studies, media studies and cultural studies. We invite papers that show how a notion developed in one field can be used in the other, either via analysis of examples, by adopting a hybrid approach, or by theoretical reflection. Papers for the panel could broach the topics: ? Relations between ideas of medium and technologies in STS and media/critical theory. ? Analyses of visual, textual, and audio objects that use a combined approach from STS and media/critical theory. ? Different ideas of agency (for example, in the context of authors and artists as well as social actors). ? Different understandings of interpretation as an act, practice and process. ? The relation between local and situated meanings on the one hand and general and abstract terms on the other, and issues of circulation of meaning in mediated settings. ? Approaches to contextualised ethics and socio-political responsibility or intervention that draw on STS and media/critical theory. Please submit your abstract electronically via the webpage / link below of the conference, and make sure to suggest that your paper will fit into open panel no 46: *Mediated practices.* http://www.4sonline.org/meeting The deadline for abstract submissions is March 11. For further information and details, feel free to contact any of the organizers: Anne Beaulieu, Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel,or Sarah de Rijcke. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se Mon Jan 30 10:07:37 2012 From: johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se (=?utf-8?B?Sm9oYW4gU8O2ZGVyYmVyZw==?=) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:07:37 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: 4S/EASST panel on bio-hacking, open hardware & hackerspaces Message-ID: <407D780F3E26B94EA7B14343F9986C7C7E7ADBEC@GU-MBX06.ad.gumail.local> Apologies for cross-postings Call for papers ? 4S/EASST Panel: Hacking STS - bio-hacking, open hardware development, and hackerspaces This is an open invitation for session proposals investigating the expansion of hacking to bio-tech, hardware development and the creation of hackerspaces to be held at the 4S / EASST conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, 17-20 October 2012. During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with software and computers. This is now changing as the figure of the hacker, together with the ideas and practices associated with this figure, are spreading to new walks of life. Thus we are reminded of the origin of hacking in hardware development. Some notable examples of how hacking is spreading to new areas include open hardware projects, the flourishing of garage biology, and the creation of hacker/maker-spaces in many cities around the world. The wider importance of this development is suggested by the role played by Japanese hackerspaces in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident. The hackerspaces were instrumental in informing the public, campaigning the government for access to data about contaminated areas, and building easy-to-use equipment for measuring radiation. These activities bring to mind one of the classic case study in the STS canon - the Cumbrian farmers herding sheeps in the shadow of the Sellafield nuclear power plant. Some of the themes discussed in the Sellafield case and in the STS field as a whole, such as lay expertise and radical openness in information management, are actualised anew with the expansion of hacker practices. Still, until now, the figure of the hackers has rarely been made into an object of sustained interest in fields outside software and new media studies. In this panel we would like to gather papers with empirical studies of biohacking, hardware hacking and related practices. We also encourage theoretical pieces discussing what the social sciences might contribute to the study of hacking, and what theoretical challenges the figure of the hacker might pose to the study of scientific and technological innovation. Some questions which might be asked in the light of this development include, but are not restricted to, the politics of hacking, the creation of the collective identity of the hacker, how development projects are managed, how the line between the community and firms is negotiated, the diffusion of hacker practices in corporate innovation models, and the legal implications of these practices. Practical information All submissions must pass through the official submission system at the 4S site. (see http://4sonline.org/meeting for all details on submitting your paper). Deadline for submissions is 18th of March. Session proposals should be limited to 250 words total, and should contain a theme and a rationale for the session, and a brief discussion of its contribution to the STS community. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers of this panel: Johan S?derberg (johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se), Alessandro Delfanti (delfanti at sissa.it), Eric Deibel ?(ericdeibel at yahoo.com)?. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: