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<span>Hi all</span></div>
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<span>I'm delighted to paste below the announcement for JoPP#14.</span></div>
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<span>I will repost it to the AIR, CITAMS, ACS, and Fibreculture email lists.</span></div>
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<span>I'm not on any STS lists so if someone could please post there also (and let us know here to avoid multiple posts) that would be great. Anywhere else is good too!<br>
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<span>Congratulations to Mariacristina, Maurizio and the other guest editors and a big thank you to Peter for spending so much time working on the technical issues (more on that later).</span></div>
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<span>cheers</span></div>
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<div><apologies for multiple posts></div>
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<div>The Journal of Peer Production would like to announce the publication of the Special Issue #14 'Infrastructuring the Commons Today, when STS meet ICT'<br>
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<div>Guest editors: Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Sapienza University of Rome), Maurizio Teli (Aalborg University), Peter Lyle (Aarhus University) & Christopher Cs�kszentmih�lyi (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute)<br>
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<div>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. <br>
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<div>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 (Far�as, 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
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<div>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. With the question of infrastructuring the
commons as a background, the issue evokes 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
populations; the convergence of institutional interests and research practices to promote alternative sociotechnical infrastructures.<br>
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<div>The issue is open access and available at this link: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-14-infrastructuring-the-commons-today-when-sts-meets-ict/<br>
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