Message posted on 11/02/2020
Reminder: EASST-4S CFP: Networks, platforms and the form of the socio-technical
Apologies for cross-posting: <br> <br>CFP: Networks, platforms and the form of the socio-technical <br>EASST-4S Conference Prague 18-21st August 2020. <br> <br>Convenors: <br>Dr Lizzie Richardson (University of Sheffield, UK) & Dr James Ash <br>(Newcastle University, UK) <br> <br>Abstract: <br>The relationship between society and technology has long been approached <br>through networks. Networks have been used variously as a method, as a <br>rhetorical device for understanding the form of social relations and as <br>an analytic of social form. In STS, the study of the materialisations of <br>networks has been a key focus, where the network functions as a metaphor <br>that enables the tracing of material socio-technical relations. As the <br>metaphor of the network has increased in popularity, particularly with the <br>rise of digitalised ICTs, network language and representation have been <br>increasingly used by people to articulate their relationships with one <br>another, such that analysis and phenomenon of networks can become <br>indistinguishable. How do platforms and their social relations sit with <br>this complex history of networks? To date, platforms have mainly been <br>approached as a phenomenon, rather than as a metaphor or an analytic for <br>social form. Yet, formally platforms build upon but also are, in important <br>ways, distinct from networks, most notably through their “programmable <br>space” that can be made to perform differently according to how external <br>networks engage. So just as networks indicate the importance of form for <br>understanding the socio-technical, the platform must also be approached as <br>a device that describes social forms or heuristic for understanding the <br>form of social relations. How can platforms be approached as material and <br>social organisational arrangements beyond the platform as a company? This <br>might incorporate empirical investigation of named platforms, but also <br>includes broader materialisations of the social forms of platforms. <br> <br>Abstract submission: <br>Abstracts can be submitted until 29th February 2020 via 4S/EASSTs website, <br>using your personal login credentials. After you log in, click ‘Submit A <br>New Proposal’, and then ‘Papers For Open Panels’. Scroll down through <br>the list of open where you will find ‘Networks, platforms and the form of <br>the socio-technical’. Abstracts are limited to 250 words. <br> <br>Please contact Lizzie (e.richardson@sheffield.ac.uk) or James ( <br>james.ash@newcastle.ac.uk) if you have any questions. <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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