[P2P-F] Draft release announcement [was: [jox] Urgent - Inaugural issue of CSPP]

Fri Jun 10 14:59:43 CEST 2011

Alessandro,

thanks for also announcing on the p2p foundation blog,

Michel

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Alessandro Delfanti <delfanti at sissa.it>wrote:

> @Johan, Alessandro: OK, we'll aim for Monday then. I will remove the
>>  contact ref from the CFP. Just to be clear, I will be posting the  CFP as
>> well on the lists I mentioned, right?
>>
>
> ok! i'll go for ecrea, 4S and EASST
>
>
>  @All: Below is a draft announcement, let me know if you think it is  too
>> detailed, or if anything does not sound right...?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Mathieu
>>
>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>
>> CSPP: LAUNCH OF CRITICAL STUDIES IN PEER PRODUCTION JOURNAL
>>
>> [apologies for multiple posts]
>>
>> CSPP
>> We are thrilled to announce the release of the first issue of  Critical
>> Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) a new open access, online  journal that
>> focuses on the implications of peer production for  social change. We
>> understand peer production as a mode of  commons-based and oriented
>> production in which participation is  voluntary and predicated on the
>> self-selection of tasks. Notable  examples are the collaborative development
>> of Free Software projects  and of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. For a
>> general description  of our aims please refer to:
>> http://cspp.oekonux.org/
>>
>> Innovative mechanisms such as discussion of journal policy on  publicly
>> archived lists, community vetting of proposals, signaling  of published
>> articles by referees, and publication of referee  reports will enable
>> Critical Studies in Peer Production to promote  reviewer activity and widen
>> the scope of publishable material,  whilst also protecting the journal's
>> reputational research capital.
>> To learn more about our peer review process see:
>> http://cspp.oekonux.org/journal/peer-review
>>
>> RESEARCH
>> Peer activism
>> The inaugural issue of CSPP begins the exploration of whether peer
>>  production constitutes an alternative to the social order. The  Research
>> section considers peer projects as a form of infra-politics  or
>> 'subactivism' which eschews traditional formats and  mobilisations, with
>> papers  tracking the actions, justifications and  legitimations of
>> participants in two emblematic examples of  commons-based and oriented peer
>> production, Swedish file-sharing and  Wikipedia.
>>
>> The origins and impacts of the Swedish file-sharing movement
>> Jonas Andersson
>> The recent history of Swedish peer-to-peer-based file-sharing forms  part
>> of a wider shift in politics towards a late-modern collective  ethic.
>> Everyday file-sharers operate as ‘occasional activists’, as  pirate
>> institutions not only speak for, but also run and build the  networks. Such
>> institutions cannot be explained by invoking market  logics, online
>> communitarianism, or political motivation alone. The  cyberliberties
>> activism animating these hubs is connected to the  larger framework of
>> balancing utilitarianism, nationalism,  individual autonomy and collectivism
>> in Sweden.
>> http://cspp.oekonux.org/research/peer-activism/rs1.1-swedish-file-sharing
>>
>> The sociology of critique in Wikipedia
>> Mathieu O'Neil
>> Legitimate domination in commons-based peer production projects such  as
>> Wikipedia rests on two main principles: the extraordinary  qualities of
>> charismatic individuals and collectively-formulated  norms and rules.
>> Self-governed authority is in turn based on a  critique of separated power
>> in the realms of expertise and justice.  It thereby constitutes a
>> prefigurative response to widespread  democratic aspirations in
>> technologically advanced societies. But  what are the questions and issues
>> raised by this critique? And how  should we define "critique"?
>>
>> http://cspp.oekonux.org/research/peer-activism/rs-1.2-sociology-of-critique
>>
>> DEBATE
>> Our Debate section aims to foster robust discussions where both  parties
>> fully recognise, understand and question each other's  position. Starting
>> with an evaluation of Actor-Network Theory, we  examine the most productive
>> means of mapping and contesting power,  particularly in anti-authoritarian
>> projects.
>>
>> ANT and power
>> Johan Söderberg, Nathaniel Tkacz, Mathieu O'Neil
>> Söderberg begins by elucidating the philosophical foundations on  which
>> ANT was built, declaring that many of the attractive features  within ANT
>> can be found elsewhere, in a more politically effective  tradition, that of
>> Marxism.  In response, Tkacz argues that the  political insights afforded by
>> ANT are not reducible to the Marxist  tradition, and that ANT is especially
>> well suited to describe how  force flows through peer-production projects -
>> projects which  already perform their own critique of Capital.  In reply,
>> O'Neil  writes that ANT and Foucault's networked conceptions of power do not
>>  account for how domination is reproduced over time or for people's  inner
>> sense of justice, preventing ANT from constituting a credible  alternative.
>> http://cspp.oekonux.org/debate/ant-power
>>
>> Conference reports: Critical Point of View, 3rd Free Culture  Research
>> Conference
>> Johana Nyesito & Nathaniel Tkacz, Leonhard Dobusch & Michelle Thorne
>> Too often academic conferences end up only as another notch on a
>>  publication list; not enough time is spent assessing, and  documenting,
>> what has been learnt in theoretical and organisational  terms. Were goals
>> met? What could have been done differently? In our  Report section Nyesito &
>> Tkacz and Dobusch & Thorne, the organisers  of two conferences which took
>> place in 2010 - Critical Point of View  and the 3rd Free Culture Research
>> Conference – offer self-reflective  appraisals of the discursive and
>> political impact of conference  organisation.
>> http://cspp.oekonux.org/reports
>>
>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>
>>
>>
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>> http://www.oekonux.org/journal
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>>
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