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