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<br>7th STS Italia Conference
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<br>JUNE 14-16, 2018 – University of Padova
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<br>TECHNOSCIENCE FROM BELOW
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<br>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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<br>Social learning and technoscience from below: uses of digital devices
<br>and knowledge construction
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<br>Deadline for abstract submission: February 15, 2018
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<br>Convenors:
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<br>Mariacristina Sciannamblo, - Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute,
<br>cristina.sciannamblo@m-iti.org
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<br>Assunta Viteritti, Sapienza - University of
<br>Rome,assunta.viteritti@uniroma1.it
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<br>Letizia Zampino, Sapienza - University of Rome,
<br>letizia.zampino@uniroma1.it
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<br>The track aims to explore the forms of technoscientific learning and
<br>co-construction within datafication processes, namely the production and
<br>transformation of aspects of social and private life into data through
<br>the uses of digital monitoring technologies. Such uses create forms of
<br>engagement and participation that entail reconfigurations between formal
<br>and informal, expert and non-expert knowledges, distributed between
<br>human and non-human actors. These devices enable and suggest different
<br>uses and, therefore, they produce information aggregate made up of big
<br>data and metadata, which populate virtual database in the digital data
<br>economy. The range and variety of these technologies (digital
<br>application, wearable technologies, sensors, nanotechnologies) enable
<br>the recording and collection of data, thus the self-tracking and
<br>processing of experiences in many spheres: health, fitness, reproductive
<br>and sexual activity, education, social politics, organizations,
<br>institutions, environmental health, urban and domestic life, social
<br>wellbeing. The aim of this track is to investigate such issues through
<br>empirical and theoretical contributions which shed light not only on the
<br>ways whereby tracking and self-tracking digital devices are designed and
<br>developed through the assemblage of different scientific knowledges, but
<br>also on how different uses from below engender a reconfiguration of
<br>knowledge and expertise.
<br>Topics of interest for this track include, but are not limited to:
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<br>• the production of digital data for personal use through digital
<br>devices as a practice of formal and informal learning;
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<br>• personal data management, control and privacy;
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<br>• the relationship and reconfiguration between the uses inscribed or
<br>suggested in the design of digital objects and the actual uses;
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<br>• processes of reappropriation from below of the knowledge inscribed in
<br>the devices by user and activist networks;
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<br>• reproduction, negotiation and reconfiguration of practices, beliefs
<br>and values related to gender relations and body through the use of
<br>personal digital devices.
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<br>ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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<br>Abstracts should be submitted by February 15, 2018 to the conference
<br>email address: 7thstsitaliaconf@gmail.com and to the emails of
<br>convenors' selected track.
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<br>Submission should include:
<br>1. Author’s name and surname, institution and email address
<br>2. Title
<br>3. Abstract’s text (no more than 300 words)
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