[ecrea] EASST 2018 Conference - CfP: “STS meet ICT: politics and the collaborative turn in STS”

We invite you to submit
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a paper proposal
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to our open panel – /STS meet ICT: politics and the collaborative turn 
in STS/ – at the EASST (European Association for the Study of Science 
and Technology)  2018
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Conference <https://easst2018.easst.net/home> , 25-28th July, 2018, 
Lancaster, UK.

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

Maurizio Teli
​ (​
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
​)​ -
​(maurizio.teli /at/ m-iti.org) <mailto:(maurizio.teli /at/ m-iti.org)>
Chris Csikszentmihalyi
​ (​
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
​) - (csik /at/ m-iti.org) <mailto:(csik /at/ m-iti.org)>

Peter Lyle
​ (​
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
​) - (peter.lyle /at/ m-iti.org) <mailto:(peter.lyle /at/ m-iti.org)>


*(C23) STS meet ICT: politics and the collaborative turn in STS
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*Short abstract
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This panel wants to focus on the collaborative and committed orientation 
of STS (Science and Technology Studies) by exploring its interplay with 
the broad field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This 
relationship entails different forms of meeting: disciplinary, 
epistemological, institutional, and local alliances.

*Long abstract
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The increasing prominence of critical approaches - e.g. feminist and 
postcolonial STS - and the intersections with surrounding fields - e.g. 
participatory design, information science, and critical technical 
practice - have stressed the politically engaged character of STS 
(Science and Technology Studies), emphasizing its "activist interest" 
(Sismondo, 2008). Such growing interest in collaborative modes of 
practicing STS has suggested the emergence of a "collaborative turn" in 
STS (Farías, 2017).
This panel wants to focus on such collaborative orientation of STS by 
exploring its interplay with the field of Information and Communication 
Technology (ICT). This relationship entails diverse forms of meeting 
such as the disciplinary intersection of STS with design studies and 
information science; the epistemological meeting between STS and 
critical perspectives; the making of new alliances between researchers, 
activists and local population; the convergence of institutional 
interests and research practices to promote alternative sociotechnical 
infrastructures.
This panel seeks interdisciplinary contributions that explore the 
politics /in/ and /of/ the relationship between STS and ICT, from 
experiences of local and community activism to large-scale examples of 
alternative sociotechnical infrastructures. Topics relevant for this 
panel may include:

- ICT, labor, and precariousness
- Hacktivism, community networks, and alternative Internet
- Post-colonial and anti-colonial computing
- Feminist interventions in ICT
- Commons, peer production, and platform cooperativism
- Interplay between publics, researchers, and institutions

This panel aims at fostering interdisciplinary encounters, in the light 
of potential shared publication opportunities, likes journal special 
issues or edited books, in order to foster the politically engaged STS 
agenda in the relationship with ICT.

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Paper proposals should be submitted through the
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panel website
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​https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6275 
<https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6275>


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Submissions
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should include <https://easst2018.easst.net/call-for-papers>:
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a paper title,
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name/s and email address/es of author/s, a short abstract of fewer than 300
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characters, a long abstract of fewer than 250 words

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Deadline for submission:
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*February
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14, 2018* (23:59 CEU)



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