[Commlist] IJoC Publishes a Forum on Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Forum on Sociotechnical
Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases

If change is the only constant, then what drives sociotechnical change? Who
creates change within and through systems of humans and nonhumans? Which
changes echo and repeat? Who suffers or benefits from change? And what
normative ideals guide hopes and fears of change?
 Through empirically grounded, conceptually provocative, and wonderfully
playful essays, this Forum on Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows,
Language, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases, guest edited by Mike Ananny and
Simogne Hudson, considers these questions and more by critically tracing
different places where people and technologies meet.
> From studies of sports stadiums, homelessness counts, jaywalking policing,
travel maps, and chicken farms to venture capitalism, refugee communities,
climate crises, diasporic conflict, and autopen controversies, the forum
offers not only unique case studies of change but also a larger story of how
change emerges from messy but traceable collisions of people, practices,
genealogies, representations, infrastructures, and values.  Intended as 
provocations and starting points, the essays show how
sociotechnical change is everywhere, and how the study of sociotechnical
change can be interdisciplinary, playful, creative, and rigorous.
Though authors come from different institutions and disciplines, they
develop their projects through the University of Southern California's
collective MASTS (Media As SocioTechnical Systems), an interdisciplinary
initiative fostering convivial exploration and collaboration across
historically siloed schools, departments, methods, and traditions. We 
invite you to read these articles that published in the International
Journal of Communication on January 1, 2024. Please log into ijoc.org to
read the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!
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Creating a Language of and for Sociotechnical Change: Interdisciplinary
Sites, Stakes, and Sense of Transformation—Introduction
Mike Ananny, Simogne Hudson

> From AAA TripTik to Google Maps: Maps as Sites of Sociotechnical Change
So Yun Ahn


Disautomated Realities in South Africa: Loadshedding, Poultry Death, and the
Promises of Failure
Ziyaad Bhorat

Digital Nations and the Future of the Climate Crisis Alfonso Hegde

Plasticity: Accounting for Adaptation in Sociotechnical Systems
Renyi Hong

Humanitarian Innovation in Forced Displacement
Alphoncina Lyamuya

Digital Diaspora and Nationhood: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Practices of
Nationhood
Azeb Madebo

"A Fountain Pen Come to Life": The Anxieties of the Autopen
Pegah Moradi, Karen Levy

The Stadium as Sociotechnical Change
Cerianne Robertson, Pratik Nyaupane

Structures of Capital and Sociotehnical Change: The Case of Tech Startups
and Venture Capital
Benjamin Shestakofsky, Caitlin Petre

Counting on Stability: The Social Construction of the Los Angeles Homeless
Count
Will Orr

Pedestrian Mobilities at the Crossroads: The Contestation and Regulation of
Jaywalking
Josh Widera

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Silvio Waisbord, Editor Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Mark Mangoba-Agustin, Webmaster
Mike Ananny and Simogne Hudson, Guest Editors
 Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC
ranks 7th among all Humanities journals and 8th among all Communications
journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access
scholarly publication at the highest level.


Annenberg Press
(annpress /at/ usc.edu)
International Journal of Communication
USC Annenberg Press
Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/
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