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<br>Dear all,
<br>
<br>we are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for the issue #14 of the
<br>Journal of Peer Production
<br>,
<br>"Infrastructuring the Commons Today, when STS meet ICT". The deadline for
<br>abstract submission is *March 15, 2019.*
<br>
<br>Please, find below the details.
<br>
<br>*EDITORS*
<br>Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
<br>Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University
<br>Peter Lyle, Aarhus University
<br>Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
<br>
<br>*SUMMARY*
<br>Peer production and collaborative forms of technological design – such as
<br>those based on commons-oriented approaches – have at their core a critical
<br>stance towards the technoscientific landscape, an approach shared with
<br>Science and Technology Studies (STS) as a theoretical archipelago that has
<br>produced a significant wealth of knowledge that points out the social
<br>constructive and performative character of technoscience.
<br>In recent time, the increasing prominence of critical approaches – e.g.
<br>feminist and postcolonial STS – and the intersections with surrounding
<br>fields – e.g. participatory design, information science, and critical
<br>technical practice – have stressed the politically engaged character of
<br>STS, emphasizing its “activist interest” (Sismondo, 2008). Such growing
<br>interest in collaborative modes of practicing STS has suggested the
<br>emergence of a “collaborative turn” in STS (Farías, 2017). Such novel
<br>approaches allow researchers and practitioners to understand and experience
<br>STS as a “practice” as well as a theoretical perspective, an approach
<br>that
<br>can be fruitful and inspiring also to investigate, design, and advocate for
<br>commons-based and oriented forms of production and experiences.
<br>This special issue focuses on such collaborative orientation of STS by
<br>exploring its interplay with the field of Information and Communication
<br>Technology (ICT) when focusing on the commons and peer production. This
<br>relationship entails diverse forms of meeting such as the disciplinary
<br>intersection of STS with design studies and information science; the
<br>epistemological meeting between STS and critical perspectives; the making
<br>of new alliances between researchers, activists and local population; the
<br>convergence of institutional interests and research practices to promote
<br>alternative sociotechnical infrastructures based on the commons. At the
<br>same time such hybrid collaborations pose novel and interesting challenges
<br>such as the institutional constraints in the form of disciplinary
<br>boundaries that persist in today’s academia and the demand to engage in
<br>unconventional ways of publishing that are mostly disregarded by current
<br>evaluation practices.
<br>This call seeks interdisciplinary contributions that explore the politics
<br>in and of the relationship between STS and ICT, from experiences of local
<br>and commons activism to large-scale examples of alternative sociotechnical
<br>infrastructures. Topics relevant for this call may include:
<br>ICT, labor, and precariousness
<br>Hacktivism, community networks, and alternative Internet
<br>Datification and alternative data politics
<br>Post-colonial and anti-colonial computing
<br>Feminist interventions in ICT
<br>Commons, peer production, and platform cooperativism
<br>Interplay between publics, researchers, and institutions e.g. citizen
<br>science
<br>Interventionist methodologies
<br>
<br>This special issue aims at promoting interdisciplinary encounters in order
<br>to foster the politically engaged, commons-oriented, STS agenda in the
<br>relationship with ICT.
<br>
<br>*IMPORTANT DATES*
<br>15 March 2019: Submission of a 250-500 words abstract
<br>30 March 2019: Notification of relevance
<br>1 July 2019: Submission of full papers
<br>15 October 2019: Reviews to authors
<br>15 December 2019: Submission of revised papers
<br>March 2020: Foreseen publication
<br>
<br>*SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*
<br>Abstracts should be of 250-500 words, while peer reviewed papers should be
<br>no more than 8,000 words.
<br>These should be sent directly to the editors at
<br>*infrastructuringcommons@peerproduction.net
<br>*
<br>All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed according to Journal of Peer
<br>Production guidelines. See http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/
<br>for details.
<br>
<br>Here is the link to the call:
<br>http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issue-14-infrastructuring-the-commons-tod
<br>ay-when-sts-meets-ict/
<br>
<br>Best wishes,
<br>Mariacristina
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