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Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:05 PM<br>Subject: [members] Fwd: [EASST-Eurograd] CFP 4S/ESOCITE - Open Panel 63. Peer production and open collaboration<br>To: <a href="mailto:members@lists.p2pvalue.eu">members@lists.p2pvalue.eu</a><br>
<br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">FYI<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'">"<a href="mailto:eurograd@lists.easst.net" target="_blank">eurograd@lists.easst.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:eurograd@lists.easst.net" target="_blank">eurograd@lists.easst.net</a>><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>[EASST-Eurograd] CFP 4S/ESOCITE - Open Panel 63. Peer production and open collaboration</b><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'">13 February 2014 18:02:41 CET<br>
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</span></div><br><div>Dear researchers,<br><br>We invite you to submit an abstract to our session on the relevance of peer production, open collaboration and hacking to Science and Technology Studies.<br><br>The panel is organised for the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires, 20-23 August 2014.<br>
<br>You are welcome to get in touch with us to discuss abstracts informally.<br><br>Deadline: March 3 2014<br><br>Conference website: <a href="http://www.4sonline.org/meeting" target="_blank">http://www.4sonline.org/meeting</a><br>
<br>----<br><br>63. Peer production and open collaboration: Revisiting closure,<br>stabilisation and black boxing through unfinished artefacts<br><br>maxigas and Eduard Aibar<br><br>This panel seeks to bring together scholars studying peer<br>
production processes through STS lenses and concepts. Peer<br>production is a form of network-based voluntary cooperation<br>aimed at contributing to a commons, epitomised by the Linux<br>kernel and Wikipedia and more recently applied to hardware. Case<br>
studies of peer production projects can inspire new theoretical<br>developments within STS and simultaneously engender insights on<br>emerging socio-technical ensembles.<br><br>Peer producers work a lot to fend off stabilisation, building<br>
functional parts (like loose couplings and Application<br>Programming Interfaces) into technologies and organisations<br>which serve to prevent closure. While these mechanisms for<br>openness do stabilise, the resulting technologies are not<br>
exactly black boxes whose functional composition is rendered<br>inaccessible to gaze, discourse and engineering. They can be<br>understood as “unfinished artefacts”.<br><br>Moreover, shared machine workshops manifest a model which goes<br>
against the received wisdom of trade-offs between “professional”<br>expertise and radically open “amateur” contributions. Such open<br>organisational architectures blend in three functions<br>traditionally separate in modern institutions: education,<br>
research and production. In this context citizen participation<br>in technological issues is mainly achieved by practical<br>interventions into research and development.<br><br>We call for contributors who explore peer production specific<br>
projects from a wide range of STS perspectives. One is how<br>stabilisation, closure and black boxing are themselves socially<br>constructed, deconstructed and reconfigured in this arena.<br>Another is the broader structural implications of peer<br>
production, since it is usually read as an emerging mode of<br>production with disruptive consequences. Finally, since peer<br>production is increasingly used in a wide range of settings<br>(software development, knowledge production, infrastructure<br>
building or farming), the way it is re-enacted and appropriated<br>by new actors can also be of interest to scholars with various theoretical backgrounds.<br><br>Languages: English and Spanish<br><br><a href="http://www.4sonline.org/open_sessions" target="_blank">http://www.4sonline.org/open_sessions</a><br>
<br>--<br>maxigas, kiberpunk<br>FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166<br><a href="http://research.metatron.ai/" target="_blank">http://research.metatron.ai/</a><br><br>"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers!"<br>
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Professor Nigel Gilbert, ScD, FREng, AcSS, Professor of Sociology, <br>University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%291483%20689173" value="+441483689173" target="_blank">+44 (0)1483 689173</a><br>
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<br></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..</b></div><div><br>
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