[JoPP-Public] JoPP #14 CFP

Thu Jan 24 17:35:51 CET 2019

Looks like an excellent issue is ahead!

Just posted to the journal's Twitter account, which now has almost 300
followers: https://twitter.com/Peer_Production

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:52 PM Mathieu O'Neil <mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> This CFP is on the frontpage but has not been posted to the list so here
> goes. Not sure where else it has been circulated yet. I can post to ACS,
> ICTS, Fibreculture.
>
> cheers
>
> Mathieu
>
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> JOPP ISSUE #14: INFRASTRUCTURING THE COMMONS TODAY, WHEN STS MEETS ICT
>
> EDITORS
> Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
> Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University
> Peter Lyle, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
> Christopher Csíkszentmihályi
>
> SUMMARY
> Peer production and collaborative forms of technological design – such as
> those based on commons-oriented approaches – have at their core a critical
> stance towards the technoscientific landscape, an approach shared with
> Science and Technology Studies (STS) as a theoretical archipelago that has
> produced a significant wealth of knowledge that points out the social
> constructive and performative character of technoscience.
>
> In recent time, the increasing prominence of critical approaches – e.g.
> feminist and postcolonial STS – and the intersections with surrounding
> fields – e.g. participatory design, information science, and critical
> technical practice – have stressed the politically engaged character of
> STS, emphasizing its “activist interest” (Sismondo, 2008). Such growing
> interest in collaborative modes of practicing STS has suggested the
> emergence of a “collaborative turn” in STS (Farías, 2017). Such novel
> approaches allow researchers and practitioners to understand and experience
> STS as a “practice” as well as a theoretical perspective, an approach that
> can be fruitful and inspiring also to investigate, design, and advocate for
> commons-based and oriented forms of production and experiences.
>
> This special issue focuses on such collaborative orientation of STS by
> exploring its interplay with the field of Information and Communication
> Technology (ICT) when focusing on the commons and peer production. This
> relationship entails diverse forms of meeting such as the disciplinary
> intersection of STS with design studies and information science; the
> epistemological meeting between STS and critical perspectives; the making
> of new alliances between researchers, activists and local population; the
> convergence of institutional interests and research practices to promote
> alternative sociotechnical infrastructures based on the commons. At the
> same time such hybrid collaborations pose novel and interesting challenges
> such as the institutional constraints in the form of disciplinary
> boundaries that persist in today’s academia and the demand to engage in
> unconventional ways of publishing that are mostly disregarded by current
> evaluation practices.
>
> This call seeks interdisciplinary contributions that explore the politics
> in and of the relationship between STS and ICT, from experiences of local
> and commons activism to large-scale examples of alternative sociotechnical
> infrastructures. Topics relevant for this call may include:
>
>
>    - ICT, labor, and precariousness
>    - Hacktivism, community networks, and alternative Internet
>    - Datification and alternative data politics
>    - Post-colonial and anti-colonial computing
>    - Feminist interventions in ICT
>    - Commons, peer production, and platform cooperativism
>    - Interplay between publics, researchers, and institutions e.g.
>    citizen science
>    - Interventionist methodologies
>
>
> This special issue aims to fostering interdisciplinary encounters in order
> to foster the politically engaged, commons-oriented, STS agenda in the
> relationship with ICT.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
> 15 March 2019: Submission of a 250-500 words abstract
>
> 30 March 2019: Notification of relevance
>
> 1 July 2019: Submission of full papers
>
> 15 October 2019: Reviews to authors
>
> 15 December 2019: Submission of revised papers
>
> March 2020: Foreseen publication
>
> SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
> Abstracts should be of 250-500 words, while peer reviewed papers should be
> no more than 8,000 words.
>
> These should be sent directly to the editors at
> infrastructingcommons at peerproduction.net
>
> All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed according to Journal of Peer
> Production guidelines. See http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/
> for details.
>
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