Dear all,
<br>We are pleased to announce that the deadline for submissions for the
<br>1st International SD Conference have been extended to *March 10, 2019!*
<br>
<br>TRACK F.2.
<br>*Maker and Self-tracking cultures *
<br>*across democratization learning processes *
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<br>_Deadline for abstract submission: *March 10, *_*_2019_*
<br>_Please find attached the call._
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<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)
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<br>Keywords
<br>Technology, Community, Self-trackers, Quantified Self movement, Democracy.
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<br>The development of digital technologies is raising new ways of
<br>participatory democracy and knowledge production from below.
<br>Digitization process is producing several community practicers -
<br>developers, users, makers - with different competences and knowledges.
<br>It’s important put attention on digital cultures in order to
<br>investigate, from one hand, subjectification forms in the daily uses of
<br>Apps, wearable technologies, sensors etc., and, from the other hand, the
<br>development of DIY (do it yourself) culture, based on disintermediation,
<br>sharing, other’s recognition, mutual sustain and help. The aim of this
<br>track is to investigate such issues through empirical and theoretical
<br>contributions regarding phenomena like the Makers movement and the
<br>Quantified Self movement (QSm), that could embed post democratic
<br>regressive forms. Particularly, makers movement and the local
<br>Fabrication Laboratories (FabLabs) are encouraging the creation of
<br>learning spaces in which there is a strong focus on
<br>learning-through-doing. Indeed, the simplification of assembling and
<br>programming processes allow making and tinkering practices to be easily
<br>accessible to a wider public with always less costs, contributing in the
<br>spreading of democratizing and design processes, but also in the
<br>sharing, reusing, debating cultures. On the other hand, the daily uses
<br>of digital technologies facilitate the creation of new forms of
<br>self-knowledge through numerical data. Therefore, everyday practices and
<br>activities - calories, heart rates, mood shifts, steps, sleep hours,
<br>reproductive health, chronic disease, as well as quality of air, state
<br>of traffic, and so - are transformed through these devices into data,
<br>developing statistical analyses and graphical representations. The QSm
<br>connects self-trackers that tinker with objects like smartphones, apps,
<br>wearable technology. Today, digital devices are protagonist in every
<br>field of social life with the emerge of different forms of embodiment
<br>and knowledges. For these reasons, topics of interest for this track
<br>include, but are not limited to, the analysis of individual and
<br>collective practices that enact democratization processes from below in
<br>the knowledge co-construction.
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<br>*Abstracts submission*
<br>Authors submit proposals using the abstract-template form available on
<br>line both at:
<br>• *Submission platform*
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<br>• Info on the conference:
<br>http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-abstracts/
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<br>/Please feel free to circulate this announcement widely./
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<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)
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