[ecrea] CfP: Expanding the frontiers of hacking

Critical Studies in Peer Production
Call for articles for a special issue on

Expanding the frontiers of hacking. Bio-punks, open hardware, and 
hackerspaces

Edited by: Johan Söderberg and Alessandro Delfanti
Call: abstract 500 words
Both theoretical and empirical contributions accepted

During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with
software development. This is now changing as new walks of life are
being explored with a hacker mindset, thus bringing back to memory the
origin of hacking in hardware development. Now as then, the hacker is
characterised by an active approach to technology, undaunted by
hierarchies and established knowledge, and finally a commitment to
sharing information freely. In this special issue of Critical Studies
in Peer Production, we will investigate how these ideas and practices
are spreading. Two cases which have caught much attention in recent
years are open hardware development and garage biology. The creation
of hacker/maker-spaces in many cities around the world has provided an
infrastructure facilitating this development.

We are looking for both empirical and theoretical contributions which
critically engage with this new phenomenon. Every kind of activity
which relates to hacking is potentially of interest. Some theoretical
questions which might be discussed in the light of this development
include, but are not restricted to, the politics of hacking, the role
of lay expertise, how the line between the community and markets is
negotiated, how development projects are managed, and the legal
implications of these practices. We welcome contributions from all the
social sciences, including science & technology studies, design and
art-practices, anthropology, legal studies, etc.

Interested authors should submit an abstract of 500 words by July 10,
2011. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 31. All
papers will be subject to peer review before being published.
Abstracts should be sent to (delfanti /at/ sissa.it)

Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) is a new open access,
online journal that focuses on the implications of peer production for
social change. http://cspp.oekonux.org


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