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

Fri Jul 07 11:09:19 GMT 2023





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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