[ecrea] Call for papers : Participating in Innovation, Innovating in Participation

We are inviting abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference
on innovation that will be held on 3-4 December 2015 in Paris. The theme
of the conference is “Participating in Innovation, Innovating
in Participation”.

More information on the conference can be found below, and in the
attached call for papers. The deadline for submitting abstracts (max.
1000 words) is June 21.

Feel free to circulate the call.

*Conference theme*


The call for new forms of participation has become common in the public
sphere, promising renewed forms of public engagement, more efficient
industrial processes, and more democratic decision-making processes.
Technologicalinnovation is a particular case when considering current
discourses of participation. It is both problematised as needing more
developed or open forms of participation, and proposed as a mean for
experimenting with original participatory formats, for example, in:
crowdfunding, citizen science, amateur reviewing/rating, online
communities for public debates, consumer participation in
(participatory) product design.

• How should the call for new forms of participation in
technological innovation be understood, in terms of both public policy
and the private sector?

• How are social and economic organisations thereby shaped?

• What does this mean for new processes of innovation?

The second i3 conference “Participating in innovation, innovating
in participation” aims to launch and deepen interdisciplinary discussion
on the forms and effects of modes
of participation in technological innovation. The principal issues that
the conference will address are as follows:


*1. Practices and sociotechnical devices*

Sociotechnical devices are crucial resources for supporting involvement
andparticipation as interactional accomplishments. These devices
comprise participatory instruments such as public dialogue mechanisms,
web platforms through which users interact with the content they are
interested in, or user-oriented experiments undertaken by private companies.

• On what bases can these sociotechnical devices be analysed?

• What kinds of infrastructures do they rely on?

• How do these infrastructures become stabilised?

Sociotechnical devices are inscribed in networks of professionals as
well as in institutional landscapes: how can the ecologies they are
embedded in, and partly shape, be accounted for? For example, how can
one analyse the situations where devices of participation are economic
entities circulating in markets, or emerge as topics of public or
private expertise?

Analysis of sociotechnical devices can focus on the micro-processes
whereby participants make sense of their engagement, possibly in
relation with other multiple activities.

• How can we provide a fine-grained description of the activities
whereby individuals are made participants, and act as such?


*2. Economic value of contributions*

The outcomes of participatory initiatives may create economic value. For
example, the contributions of users on travel, art or food-related
websites have economic value for the companies being commented upon, as
well as for the web-platform that gathers the users’ opinions.

Case studies of ways for creating value from the voluntary or
involuntary contributions of users, including in the forms of digital
marks they leave, are especially encouraged.

• What economic or business models sustain these initiatives?

• How do these models shape particular modes of user participation?

Analysis of examples could aim at understanding the political and
economic dimensions of contemporary practices such as digital labour,
crowdfunding, the use of lay expertise or citizen science by
private companies or public bodies.

*3. Participation as social ordering*

Participation can be analysed as a social ordering process, since it
allocates roles and responsibilities, makes it possible for some to have
their voices heard but not others, and stabilises particular
public problems at the expense of others.

• How can the inequalities shaped by participatory mechanisms in
technologicalinnovation be accounted for?

• How can we characterise, at micro or macro levels, the hierarchical
constructs that participation results in?

These questions may be examined through the analysis of governance
practices within emerging communities of practice, and also through the
description of the gradual stabilisation of dominant forms of participation.


*Keynote speakers*

Liam Bannon, UFRJ / University of Limerick / University of Aarhus

Trevor Pinch, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University


*Scientific committee*

Romain Badouard (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Flore Barcellini (CNAM),
Jean-Samuel Beuscart (Orange), Anni Borzeix (Ecole Polytechnique),
Pierre-Jean Benghozi (Ecole Polytechnique), Eva Boxenbaum (Mines
ParisTech), Dominique Cardon (EHESS), Jason Chilvers (U. of East
Anglia), Françoise Détienne (Télécom ParisTech), Christian Licoppe
(Telecom ParisTech), Dominique Pasquier (Telecom ParisTech), Cécile
Méadel (Mines ParisTech), Sezin Topçu (EHESS), Jan-Peter Voß (T.U. Berlin).


*Important dates*

• The conference will take place on 3-4 December 2015 at Mines ParisTech
(60 bd Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris, France).

• For paper proposals, please submit a title and an extended abstracts
(max. 1000 words) by *21 June 2015*. Authors are invited by submit their
title and abstract to the address: *(i3conference2015 /at/ mines-telecom.fr)*
<mailto:(i3conference2015 /at/ mines-telecom.fr)>.

• Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 September 2015

• Full papers corresponding to selected communications presented at the
conference will be solicited for publication after the conference itself.


*About i3*

The Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation (i3) is a research and
teaching centre dedicated to economic, human and social sciences.
Created in 2012, by Mines ParisTech and Telecom ParisTech,
two engineering schools of the Institut Mines-Télécom, with the
additional involvement of the École Polytechnique i3 became a research
laboratory funded by the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS). I3 conducts a broad range of interdisciplinary
research relating to innovation, and has 180 permanent members of staff
working in economics, management science, sociology,
psychology, ergonomics and information and communication sciences.


*Contact and further information*

Email: (i3conference2015 /at/ mines-telecom.fr)
<mailto:(i3conference2015 /at/ mines-telecom.fr)>


Best regards,


The conference co-chairs

Michael Baker

Valérie Beaudouin

Nathalie Raulet-Croset

Brice Laurent.

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