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Call for Abstracts - 1st International SD Conference - TRACK F.2. Maker and Self-tracking cultures across democratization learning processes
*** <br>apologies for cross-posting*** <br> <br>Dear all, <br> <br>Let you know that it's online the call for abstracts for the 1st International <br>SD Conference. <br> <br> <br>TRACK F.2. <br>Maker and Self-tracking cultures <br>across democratization learning processes <br>[http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-abstracts/] <br> <br>Deadline for abstract submission: March 20, 2019 <br> <br>Convenors: <br>Emanuele Toscano (University G. Marconi, e.toscano@unimarconi. it) <br>Assunta Viteritti (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, <br>assunta.viteritti@uniroma1.it) <br>Letizia Zampino (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, <br>letizia.zampino@uniroma1.it) <br> <br>Keywords <br>Technology, Community, Self-trackers, Quantified Self movement, Democracy. <br> <br>The development of digital technologies is raising new ways of <br>participatory democracy and knowledge production from below. Digitization <br>process is producing several community practicers - developers, users, makers <br>- with different competences and knowledges. It’s important put attention <br>on digital cultures in order to investigate, from one hand, subjectification <br>forms in the daily uses of Apps, wearable technologies, sensors etc., and, <br>from the other hand, the development of DIY (do it yourself) culture, based <br>on disintermediation, sharing, other’s recognition, mutual sustain and <br>help. The aim of this track is to investigate such issues through empirical <br>and theoretical contributions regarding phenomena like the Makers movement <br>and the Quantified Self movement (QSm), that could embed post <br>democratic regressive forms. Particularly, makers movement and the local <br>Fabrication Laboratories (FabLabs) are encouraging the creation of learning <br>spaces in which there is a strong focus on learning-through-doing. Indeed, <br>the simplification of assembling and programming processes allow making and <br>tinkering practices to be easily accessible to a wider public with always <br>less costs, contributing in the spreading of democratizing and design <br>processes, but also in the sharing, reusing, debating cultures. On the other <br>hand, the daily uses of digital technologies facilitate the creation of new <br>forms of self-knowledge through numerical data. Therefore, everyday practices <br>and activities - calories, heart rates, mood shifts, steps, sleep hours, <br>reproductive health, chronic disease, as well as quality of air, state of <br>traffic, and so - are transformed through these devices into data, developing <br>statistical analyses and graphical representations. The QSm connects <br>self-trackers that tinker with objects like smartphones, apps, wearable <br>technology. Today, digital devices are protagonist in every field of social <br>life with the emerge of different forms of embodiment and knowledges. For <br>these reasons, topics of interest for this track include, but are not <br>limited to, the analysis of individual and collective practices that enact <br>democratization processes from below in the knowledge co-construction. <br> <br>Abstracts submission <br>Authors submit proposals using the abstract-template form available on line <br>both at: <br>• Submission platform <br>[http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/openconf/openconf.php] <br>• Info on the <br>conference: http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-abstracts/ <br>[http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-abstracts/ ] <br> <br>Please feel free to circulate this announcement widely. <br> <br> <br> <br>-- <br> <br>Letizia Zampino <br> <br>Visiting PhD Researcher <br>Department of People and Organisation - SBM <br>Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences <br>Queen Mary, University of London <br>327 Mile End Road <br>London E1 4NS <br>-- <br>PhD Reseacher in Applied Social Sciences <br>University of Rome «La Sapienza» – Department of Social Sciences and <br>Economics <br>Via Salaria 113, 00198, Rome (Italy) <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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