[Commlist] cfp - issue #14 of the Journal of Peer Production

we are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for the issue #14 of 
the Journal of Peer Production 
<http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issue-14-infrastructuring-the-commons-today-when-sts-meets-ict/>, 
"Infrastructuring the Commons Today, when STS meet ICT". The deadline 
for abstract submission is *March 15, 2019.*

Please, find below the details.

*EDITORS*
Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University
Peter Lyle, Aarhus University
Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute

*SUMMARY*
Peer production and collaborative forms of technological design – such 
as those based on commons-oriented approaches – have at their core a 
critical stance towards the technoscientific landscape, an approach 
shared with Science and Technology Studies (STS) as a theoretical 
archipelago that has produced a significant wealth of knowledge that 
points out the social constructive and performative character of 
technoscience.
In recent time, 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, 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). Such novel 
approaches allow researchers and practitioners to understand and 
experience STS as a “practice” as well as a theoretical perspective, an 
approach that can be fruitful and inspiring also to investigate, design, 
and advocate for commons-based and oriented forms of production and 
experiences.
This special issue focuses on such collaborative orientation of STS by 
exploring its interplay with the field of Information and Communication 
Technology (ICT) when focusing on the commons and peer production. 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 based on 
the commons. At the same time such hybrid collaborations pose novel and 
interesting challenges such as the institutional constraints in the form 
of disciplinary boundaries that persist in today’s academia and the 
demand to engage in unconventional ways of publishing that are mostly 
disregarded by current evaluation practices.
This call seeks interdisciplinary contributions that explore the 
politics in and of the relationship between STS and ICT, from 
experiences of local and commons activism to large-scale examples of 
alternative sociotechnical infrastructures. Topics relevant for this 
call may include:
ICT, labor, and precariousness
Hacktivism, community networks, and alternative Internet
Datification and alternative data politics
Post-colonial and anti-colonial computing
Feminist interventions in ICT
Commons, peer production, and platform cooperativism
Interplay between publics, researchers, and institutions e.g. citizen 
science
Interventionist methodologies

This special issue aims at promoting interdisciplinary encounters in 
order to foster the politically engaged, commons-oriented, STS agenda in 
the relationship with ICT.

*IMPORTANT DATES*
15 March 2019: Submission of a 250-500 words abstract
30 March 2019: Notification of relevance
1 July 2019: Submission of full papers
15 October 2019: Reviews to authors
15 December 2019: Submission of revised papers
March 2020: Foreseen publication

*SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*
Abstracts should be of 250-500 words, while peer reviewed papers should 
be no more than 8,000 words.
These should be sent directly to the editors at 
*(infrastructuringcommons /at/ peerproduction.net) 
<mailto:(infrastructuringcommons /at/ peerproduction.net)>*
All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed according to Journal of Peer 
Production guidelines. See 
http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/ for details.

Here is the link to the call: 
http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issue-14-infrastructuring-the-commons-today-when-sts-meets-ict/




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