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                Dear colleagues,
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<br>We are pleased to anoounce a call fro abstract for a special issue of 
<br>Tecnoscienza titled “When theory meets practice. Entanglements of ageing 
<br>and technology at the cross-roads of STS and Age Studies”
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<br>(see the call below and in attachment).
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<br>Please spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact the guest editors 
<br>if you have any further questions.
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<br>All the best,
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<br>The editorial team of TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & 
<br>Technology Studies
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<br>CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue
<br>
<br>When theory meets practice.
<br>Entanglements of ageing and technology at the cross-roads of STS and Age 
<br>Studies
<br>
<br>Guest Editors:
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<br>  * Michela Cozza (University of Mälardalen, Västerås, Sweden)
<br>  * Britt Östlund (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
<br>  * Alexander Peine (Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherland)
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<br>Deadline for abstract submissions: December 10th, 2019
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<br>In recent years, ageing and later life have started to be relevant 
<br>topics in STS (Cozza et al. 2017; Peine et al. 2015; Sánchez-Criado et 
<br>al. 2014; Urban 2017). While social and critical gerontologists have 
<br>long debunked biomedical models of ageing to show that ageing “is both a 
<br>bio-demographic reality and a social construction reacting back into 
<br>each other” (Katz 2014: 18), materiality and embodiments of ageing have 
<br>only received limited attention (Latimer and López Gomez 2019). Some 
<br>exceptions can be found in feminist technoscience (Joyce and Mamo 2006; 
<br>McNeil and Roberts 2012) with studies, for example, on vision and 
<br>visuality of technoscience enacting the ageing human body (Åsberg and 
<br>Lykke 2010) or works engaged with biomedicine and patient experience of 
<br>becoming older (Roberts 2006). Such attention on social and material 
<br>aspects of ageing points to where STS scholars have started to engage 
<br>with critical gerontologists and explore the co-constitution of ageing 
<br>and technology (Peine and Neven 2019). Such studies have critiqued, in 
<br>particular, the widespread assumptions among policy makers, 
<br>health-oriented researchers and other practitioners that ageing and 
<br>technologies are separable, and have instead explored the assemblages 
<br>and enactment through which they exist only in relation to each other 
<br>(Joyce et al. 2017; Wanka and Gallistl 2018).
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<br>The entanglement between ageing and technologies can be put into the 
<br>foreground by focusing on design. Design can be defined as “an 
<br>intervention in practice” (Shove 2014: 41) through which designers 
<br>configure materials, ideologies, and competences that affect the 
<br>everyday life. When thinking on the ageing population and the 
<br>unprecedented diffusion of technologies made with older people as the 
<br>target group, the relevance of design emerges straightforwardly (Cozza 
<br>et al. 2018). Some design researchers have urged to open the black box 
<br>of technologies of this kind and analyse the configuring of their social 
<br>and material components by applying STS theories (Cozza et al. 2019; 
<br>Frennert and Östlund 2014; Östlund et al. 2015). The critical 
<br>potential of STS may help to challenge assumptions on technology, 
<br>ageing, and later life and open up to alternative views.
<br>
<br>For this special issue, _we invite to zoom in on technological design, 
<br>implementation, and evaluation as relevant sites for the co-constitution 
<br>of ageing and technology_. In particular, _we __explore the notion of 
<br>“theory”, and __precisely how theories of ageing inform, clash, become 
<br>__interfaced and reassembled at these sites_. Building on Kurt Lewin’s 
<br>(1945) maxim that “there is nothing as practical as a good theory”, we 
<br>look for contributions that explore what happens when theories meet 
<br>practice (for instance, when theories of privacy by design need to be 
<br>cared for in practice, when theories of plug-and-play meet practices of 
<br>bricolage, when theories of aging configure processes of co-creation). 
<br>In short, we seek contributions that explore how theories of ageing and 
<br>older people are constituted in the practices of designing, implementing 
<br>and evaluating technologies. Such technologies may include, but are not 
<br>limited to, active and passive monitoring devices, robotics, smartphones 
<br>and/or tablets, smart home devices, medical technologies, and others.
<br>
<br>This special issue of Tecnoscienza. The Italian Journal of Science & 
<br>Technology Studies invites papers that explore issues related (but not 
<br>limited) to the following themes:
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<br>  *
<br>      o the constitution of ageing from a sociomaterial perspective
<br>      o
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<br>        the design processes from the point of view of scholars at the
<br>        cross-roads of STS and Age Studies
<br>
<br>      o
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<br>        the co-creation of technologies with and for older people
<br>
<br>      o
<br>
<br>        the relationship between technology, ageing, and later life from
<br>        the point of view offeminist technoscience/gender studies
<br>
<br>      o
<br>
<br>        the contribution of post-human theories to the analysis of
<br>        technologies for older people
<br>
<br>      o
<br>
<br>        potentialities and limits of STS theories and/or “interventions”
<br>        in studying design practices having older people as target group
<br>
<br>  *
<br>
<br>    Deadline for abstract submissions: December 10th, 2019
<br>
<br>    Abstracts (in English) with a maximum length of 500 words should be
<br>    sent as email attachments to redazione@tecnoscienza.net and carbon
<br>    copied to the guest editors. Notification of acceptance will be
<br>    communicated by mid-January, 2020. Full papers (in English with a
<br>    maximum length of 8,000 words including notes and references) will
<br>    be due by April 30th, 2020 and will be subject to a double blind
<br>    peer review process.
<br>
<br>    For information and questions, please do not hesitate to contact the
<br>    guest editors:
<br>
<br>  *
<br>      o Michela Cozza, michela.cozza@mdh.se
<br>      o Britt Östlund, brittost@kth.se
<br>      o Alexander Peine, A.Peine@uu.nl
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<br>References
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<br>Cozza, M., De Angeli, A. and Tonolli, L. (2017) Ubiquitous technologies 
<br>for older people, in “Personal and Ubiquitous Computing”, 21 (3), pp. 
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<br>Cozza M., Crevani, L., Hallin, A. and Schaeffer, J. (2018) Future 
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