Dear list members,
<br>
<br>A friendly reminder of an upcoming deadline for the applications to the
<br>4S/EASST 2020 conference in Prague, 18-21.08!
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<br>An abstract of 250 words to be submitted by the 29.02 via
<br>https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
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<br>*P124. No Time to Not Know. Bottom-up Expertise, Grass-root Authorities,
<br>and Agency in the Age of Digital Knowledge*
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<br>Keywords: knowledge, expertise, authority, internet, information and
<br>communication technologies
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<br>Recent developments and the widespread adoption of various ICTs across
<br>societies, predominantly the Internet, have significantly contributed to
<br>both sustaining and augmenting the visibility of various forms of knowledge
<br>as well as various forms of knowledge production practices. The Web engages
<br>millions of users world-wide every day, and they all take part in its
<br>co-creation, making the Internet a bricolage of their agency and
<br>creativity. Whatever their social and cultural capital, everyone
<br>contributes, even just "by sharing anything to anyone" – to paraphrase
<br>Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. As a result, the Web is polyphonic,
<br>ever-changing, and extremely diverse, offering contemporary information
<br>consumers (seemingly) fast and easy access to a somewhat infinite number of
<br>information coming from countless sources. The Internet caries a promise of
<br>empowerment, presupposing that more information means more (situated)
<br>agency, that can challenge and reconfigure traditional areas and
<br>historically hegemonic knowledge hierarchies.
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<br>This panel aims to inquire into how the Internet influences the status quo.
<br>We ask, how do users 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 bottom-up “experts” or
<br>“authorities”? With
<br>an aim to answer the above questions, we invite papers that provide
<br>empirical insights into knowledge-related practices in relation to ICTs,
<br>touching upon the relationship between knowledge and agency, focusing on
<br>issues such as:
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<br>- knowledge seeking, production, and exchange,
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<br>- bottom-up expertise,
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<br>- collaboration, knowledge activism,
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<br>- online truth-making and trust-building.
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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/
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<br>Best wishes,
<br>
<br>Ane & Magdalena
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