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

*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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