Please, consider applying to our open panel: P *124. *No time to waste.
Bottom-up Expertise, Grass-root Authorities, and Agency in the Age of
Digital Knowledge, at the EASST + 4S Joint Conference, 18-21 August 2020,
Prague, Czechia.
Today, the new media allow us to exchange information and build online
knowledge repositories in unprecedented manners, at unprecedented speeds.
As a result, the internet offers contemporary information consumers access
to a somewhat infinite number of repositories of information coming from
countless sources. This brings a promise of empowerment, presupposing
that more knowledge means more (situated) agency. However, this also
challenges and reconfigures traditional areas and historically hegemonic
knowledge hierarchies. This panel aims to inquire into how the Internet
influences the status quo.
Recent developments and the widespread adoption of ICTs across societies
contribute significantly both to sustaining and augmenting the visibility
of various forms of knowledge as well as various forms of knowledge
production practices. Internet engages individual users as prod-users,
making the Web a bricolage of agency of multiple social actors, with
their unique social and cultural capitals.
Today’s the internet is polyphonic and fast changing, with the historically
highest accessibility rates world-wide. In this panel we ask, how do
information consumers navigate the Web for knowledge in various contexts?
Does the Internet make them feel more empowered? How do they “do their
research”, self-educate, become “experts” or “authorities”?
With an aim to answers the above questions, we invite papers that provide
an empirical insights into knowledge-related practices online. We welcome
case studies that touch upon the relationship between knowledge, agency,
and internet media, focusing, among other topics, on issues such as:
- knowledge production on the Internet,
- bottom-up expertise,
- knowledge exchange,
- collaboration and open collaboration communities,
- Googlization of knowledge,
- trust towards online sources of information.
In the attachment you will find the CfP pdf!
Conference: EASST + 4S Joint Conference, 18-21 August 2020, Prague.
Convened by: Ane Kathrine Lolholm Gammelby (Aarhus University), Magdalena
H. Góralska (Kozminski University & University in Warsaw)
Contact: ak@cc.au.dk, mgoralska@kozminski.edu.pl,
Submission instructions:
https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
Best wishes,
Ane & Magdalena
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Magdalena Góralska
Koźmiński University
University of Warsaw
Oxford Internet Institute
magdalenagoralska.org/
nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/
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