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Message posted on 30/11/2023

CfA EASST/4S Panel "Developing Co-Laborative Methods for Digital Transformations"

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Dear colleagues,


We warmly invite you to submit a paper to our panel Developing 
Co-Laborative Methods for Digital Transformations 
at the upcoming 
EASST/4S conference in Amsterdam.

Please submit your abstracts by February 12 here 
.


We look forward to an engaging discussion!


Dennis Eckhardt (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Libuše Hannah Vepřek (University of Tübingen)

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Developing Co-Laborative Methods for Digital Transformations


Short abstract

This panel explores co-laborations between STS scholars and computer 
scientists, practitioners, and engineers at the forefront of digital 
change. It focuses on new modes of integrating STS sensibilities with 
solution-oriented methods to shape digital transformation through mutual 
learning.



Long abstract

With digital technologies changing various dimensions of everyday life, 
from healthcare and dwelling to communication and governance, computer 
scientists, programmers, IT-scholars, engineers, and cryptographers are 
playing a key role in shaping these very transformations and, thus, the 
worlds we inhabit. They do so by, for example, developing AI-based 
solutions for enterprises and “smart” households, digitalizing 
administrative processes in hospitals or creating solutions to mitigate 
the risks introduced by digital technologies as in the example of cyber 
security. For STS scholars to engage in making and doing digital 
transformations in sensitive and critical ways, we must co-laborate with 
those currently at the forefront of change.


Drawing on Jörg Niewöhner and colleagues’ notion of co-laborationwhich 
describes cross-disciplinary approaches focusing on joint epistemic work 
with the goal of deepening reflexivity (Niewöhner 2016; 2019; Bieler et 
al. 2021), this panel explores concepts and experiences in working 
together with scientists and practitioners shaping the “technosphere” 
(Ihde 1975) of everyday life. Instead of focusing on critique and 
working in asynchronous cycles of development, we concentrate on 
approaches that aim to jointly shape transformations with integrated 
methods: We aim to discuss ongoing co-laborative methodological 
engagements between STS scholars and computer scientists, engineers and 
cryptographers that leverage both STS sensibilities, reflexivity, and 
criticism, as well as practice- and solution-oriented approaches. This 
panel invites discussions on questions like how we can emphasize and 
further develop mutual learning processes, how STS can go beyond mere 
critique of the Wissenschaften and what can we learn from computer 
science methods to actively engage in and make digital transformations 
co-laboratively.


We are welcoming both traditional paper presentations and experimental 
contributions reflecting on experiences in co-developing digital 
transformation in interdisciplinary fields and discussing new approaches 
and co-laborative methods such as new modes of writing together, 
participatory modeling, critical hacking, or cryptographic fieldnoting.


Submit your abstract using the following link: 
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/paper-form/14081 


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Libuše Hannah Vepřek, M.A., M.Sc.
Pronomen / Pronouns: sie, ihr / she, her

Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft
Universität Tübingen
Burgsteige 11
72070 Tübingen
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