[Commlist] Blockchain Scenes - New issue of Journal of Digital Social Research

We are delighted to announce that “Blockchain Scenes,” a special issue 
of Journal of Digital Social Research, has just been published.

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*Blockchain Scenes*
/Journal of Digital Social Research/
Guest editors : Nathalie Casemajor and Will Straw
https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/14 
<https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/14>

Over the last fifteen years, the development of blockchain technologies 
has attracted a large volume of professional expertise, capital 
investment and media attention. This burgeoning sector of technology 
practices has coalesced around a few major initiatives (Bitcoin, 
Ethereum), but it is still moving at a fast pace and its configuration 
is evolving. If this sector is marked by a variety of technological 
protocols, financial arrangements and organizational forms, it is also a 
site of social effervescence. Parties, meet-ups, and the sorts of 
informal socializing which gather around events and networks of all 
kinds function to endow the blockchain sector with the characteristics 
of what, in cultural analysis, are often called “scenes”. The aim of 
this special issue is to examine the interest of the notion of scene for 
the analysis of blockchain practices.

_Table of contents_

Nathalie Casemajor, Will Straw
"Blockchain Scenes: A Research Agenda"

Victoria Lemieux, Nigel Dodd
"‘Life World’ on Ledger: A ‘Scenic’ View"

Betty Bozoma Blay Ackah
"Ghana’s blockchain scene on WhatsApp : A space for convergence and 
divergence"

Jiaxi Hou
"Making Ends Meet by Mining on Blockchain: Subalternity, Materiality, 
and Yearnings of Chinese Amateur Crypto-miners

Julie Frizzo-Barker
"Women on the Block: A Technofeminist Discourse Analysis of Blockchain 
Meetups, Conferences, and Hackathons"

Régis Barondeau, Axel Guitton, Shima Masoumi, Pablo Aceiton Campos
"A First Glance at the NFT Quebec Gaming Scene"

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For more information, get in touch with (nathalie.casemajor /at/ inrs.ca) 
<mailto:(nathalie.casemajor /at/ inrs.ca)> or (william.straw /at/ mcgill.ca) 
<mailto:(william.straw /at/ mcgill.ca)>



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