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JoPP#10 update
by Mathieu ONeil 09 May '17

09 May '17

Hi all A quick update on where we (Zack and I) are re. JoPP#10 Work and peer production. The issue was scheduled for release in March/April but there have been and continue to be delays owing to circumstances outside our control. We are aiming for a late April/early May release. Four out of five peer reviewed papers have been copy-edited and revised by eds. We are about to send these out to reviewers for signals and comments. It would be greatly appreciated if these could be expedited asap. cheers, Mathieu

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CfP: The Political Economy of Hacking - Accelerate, Augment of Abolish the Markets? NSU 26/7-2/8, Latvia
by Johan Söderberg 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

[cid:[email protected]] The Political Economy of Hacking – Accelerate, Augment, or Abolish the Markets? Circle 6: Appropriating Technology for Societal Change 26th of July - 2nd of August, Saulkrasti, Latvia Deadline for applications: 1st of May Theme of the symposium Technology disrupt markets. It is open to debate, however, what this implies for the future of the market economy. Some hackers and activists look forward to the day when technological progress has abolished the need for market exchanges. For instance, self-acclaimed pirates strive to make intellectual property unenforceable with file sharing protocols. Hobby-engineers develop self-reproducing 3D printers under the slogan: “wealth-without-money”. The digital currency Faircoin has been launched as a more equitable alternative to the existing monetary system. Peer production, exemplified in free software development, is showcased as a non-coercive model for organizing work. Towering above these initiatives is basic income as a redistributive principle, arguably better adjusted to the age of full automation. The post-capitalist future envisioned by some hackers and activists contrasts with the “accelerationist” vision. According to the latter viewpoint, it is not markets but monopolies, guild privileges, and state regulations that are unsettled by technological breakthroughs. Virtual reality paves the way for “augmented property”, block-chain technology unlocks new areas of the lifeworld to just-in-time monetary flows, and computerization allows work to be parceled up in ever finer tasks and micropayments. Whose utopia will carry the day – you are invited to take part in the discussion! Relevant themes for presentations may include, but is not limited to, the following questions: · Is peer production still on the agenda after the rise of the “sharing economy”? · Is basic income the answer to automation and jobless growth? · What are the identities of future workers: employees, turkers, makers? · How is wealth distribution affected by platform capitalism? · What new avenues of marketization will be opened-up with block-chain technology? · Can alternative currencies be designed to fix the monetary system? · Historical perspectives on the rise of peer production/platform capitalism/sharing economy · Theoretical perspectives at the intersection of hacking, high-tech markets, and labour Format of the presentation Presentation of work: We wish to facilitate debates and therefore encourage free oral presentation rather than reading from a paper. A presentation should aim for 20-30 min., leaving time for discussions. Text: You can offer to present a text (own writing or a published text) which has been distributed beforehand to the participants. The text should not exceed 25 pages. The presentation must give a short introduction of the argumentation allowing participants to engage in discussion. Submit via email. Deadline, 1st of May, 2017: 1. A written proposal (ca 350 words) with a title, its format its duration. 2. A short bio (ca 100 words). Submit to: johan.soderberg(a)sts.gu.se<mailto:[email protected]> and gustav.eek(a)fripost.org<mailto:[email protected]> If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting, please email a short bio. Participants with presentations will be given priority. Preliminary program will be announced on 15th of May on www.nordic.university. Late submissions will continued to be considered, until the maximum number of participants is reached. Application process and registration The application process has two steps: (1) Application to coordinators for acceptance of presentation or participation without presentation. (2) After you have been accepted, the next step is registration and payments, which closes on 1st of June. All registration and payment will be done electronically. Note if you apply for participating late, payment must still be completed 1st of June. Keynote speakers at NSU Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iceland. Cecilia Malmström Olsson, freelance dance researcher, writer, lecturer. Cost and accommodation The NSU summer session is held from 26th of July to 2nd of August 2017 in Minhauzena Unda, Saulkrasti (Latvia) For more information about the place, please visit: https://nsu2017.wordpress.com/ Total cost per adult person, including accommodation and full pension, ranges from 200-550 € depending on the accommodation of choice. Grant and scholarship are available under certain conditions. See further on combination of categories and prices here: https://payment.nsuweb.org/ To Doctorate Candidates Despite its name, Nordic Summer School is not a summer school targeting doctorate candidates. It invites participants on all levels of the university as well as from outside academia. That being said, doctorate student is on request awarded 5 credits for participation and presentation at NSU.

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Call for Workshop Papers - Collaborative Economies: From Sharing to Caring
by Maurizio Teli 07 Apr '17

07 Apr '17

Apologies for cross posting Workshop at Communities and Technologies 2017 (http://comtech.communities) Université de Technologie de Troyes, France, 26 (or 27) June 2017 Digital platforms, often labeled as part of the “sharing economy”, are becoming increasingly relevant to both the daily lives of private individuals and to researchers. As these tools are transforming various communities (of interest, place, practice and circumstance) to establish new forms of connection, welfare, labour and service, there emerge fundamental questions around the perils of creation and use. In response to this disruptive trend, this workshop brings together perspectives and cases from researchers and practitioners across various disciplines to interrogate how different forms of collaborative economy might be imagined and created based on the ethics and logic of care, as an answer to these perils. This workshop will serve as an open and active forum for participants - we plan to include up to 20 practitioners, designers, and researchers involved in related fields. We welcome all methodological, practical, and speculative approaches to considering the relations between sharing, caring and the collaborative economy. Key topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Platform cooperativism; Environmental sustainability and ecological concerns (such as Ethnography after Human Exceptionalism, Hacker Farm and Food Connect); Peer-to-peer learning and production (such as Mothership Hackermoms, Coder Dojo and Free Software); Citizen science (e.g. Quantum Moves); Related social, political, cultural, and health domains and implications (including issues around rising precarity, homelessness, self-care and mutual aid); Initiatives calling for digital social innovation and design for change (such as CAPS projects, the DESIS network or the Enabling the Future network); Digital currencies and finance, (e.g. Freecoin). We are aiming to: - create a space for discussion about new and ongoing work in the field, and open up debates about the direction of research and practice across diverse fields related to collaborative economy. - bring together researchers and practitioners in related fields to identify current challenges around the sharing economy and reflect critically on what could be done to resist these trends. - discuss existing cases or examples of communities, technologies, and practices directed at facilitating a sharing caring economy. - reflect critically on questions involved in the design of technologies with and for care, to build more just and livable futures. As a follow up to the workshop, we aim to produce an edited publication (journal special issue), considering some of the workshop contributions in extended form. Discussions have begun with CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. We will include a maximum of 20 participants. Interested participants should submit 800 word position papers to the organisers, outlining the following: A brief biography of each contributor, touching on their current research and/or practice, including any existing work in this area, from old sharing and caring traditions to explorations of the potential futures of this domain; and What would they like to gain from/bring to the workshop. Participants will be selected to ensure overall disciplinary and geo-cultural diversity. The position papers will be sent as PDFs via email to Peter Lyle <peter.lyle at m-iti.org> before 5pm GMT on 24 April 2017. For more details, please check the workshop website: https://collaborativeeconomiesworkshop.wordpress.com/ Workshop Organisers Gabriela Avram, University of Limerick Jaz Choi, Queensland University of Technology Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University Ann Light, University of Sussex Peter Lyle, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute Maurizio Teli, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute

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