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[ecrea] Call for abstracts - Social learning and technoscience from below: uses of digital devices and knowledge construction

Mon Dec 18 17:02:07 GMT 2017




*7th STS Italia Conference*

*JUNE 14-16, 2018 – University of Padova*

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/TECHNOSCIENCE FROM BELOW/

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS <https://www.frombelow-stsitaliaconf.org/call-for-abstracts>

*/Social learning and technoscience from below: uses of digital devices and knowledge construction/*

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_Deadline for abstract submission: February 10, 2018_

Convenors:

/Mariacristina Sciannamblo/, - Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, (cristina.sciannamblo /at/ m-iti.org) <mailto:(cristina.sciannamblo /at/ m-iti.org)>

/Assunta Viteritti,/Sapienza - University of Rome,(assunta.viteritti /at/ uniroma1.it) <mailto:(assunta.viteritti /at/ uniroma1.it)>

/Letizia Zampino/, Sapienza - University of Rome, (letizia.zampino /at/ uniroma1.it) <mailto:(letizia.zampino /at/ uniroma1.it)>

The track aims to explore the forms of technoscientific learning and co-construction within datafication processes, namely the production and transformation of aspects of social and private life into data through the uses of digital monitoring technologies. Such uses create forms of engagement and participation that entail reconfigurations between formal and informal, expert and non-expert knowledges, distributed between human and non-human actors. These devices enable and suggest different uses and, therefore, they produce information aggregate made up of big data and metadata, which populate virtual database in the digital data economy. The range and variety of these technologies (digital application, wearable technologies, sensors, nanotechnologies) enable the recording and collection of data, thus the self-tracking and processing of experiences in many spheres: health, fitness, reproductive and sexual activity, education, social politics, organizations, institutions, environmental health, urban and domestic life, social wellbeing. The aim of this track is to investigate such issues through empirical and theoretical contributions which shed light not only on the ways whereby tracking and self-tracking digital devices are designed and developed through the assemblage of different scientific knowledges, but also on how different uses from below engender a  reconfiguration of knowledge and expertise.

Topics of interest for this track include, but are not limited to:

• the production of digital data for personal use through digital devices  as a practice of formal and informal learning;

• personal data management, control and privacy;

• the relationship and reconfiguration between the uses inscribed or suggested in the design of digital objects and the actual uses;

• processes of reappropriation from below of the knowledge inscribed  in the devices by user and activist networks;

• reproduction, negotiation and reconfiguration of practices, beliefs and values related to gender relations and body through the use of personal digital devices.


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_ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION_*
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*Abstracts should be submitted by _February 10, 2018_ to the conference email address: (7thstsitaliaconf /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(7thstsitaliaconf /at/ gmail.com)>.*_
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_Submission should include:_
1. Author’s name and surname, institution and email address
2. Title
3. Abstract’s text (no more than 300 words)


_Info on the conference_:7th STS Italia Conference - TECHNOSCIENCE FROM BELOW <https://www.frombelow-stsitaliaconf.org/>



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