Dear list members,
A friendly reminder of an upcoming deadline for the applications to the
4S/EASST 2020 conference in Prague, 18-21.08!
An abstract of 250 words to be submitted by the 29.02 via
https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
P124. No Time to Not Know. Bottom-up Expertise, Grass-root Authorities,
and Agency in the Age of Digital Knowledge
Keywords: knowledge, expertise, authority, internet, information and
communication technologies
Recent developments and the widespread adoption of various ICTs across
societies, predominantly the Internet, have significantly contributed to
both sustaining and augmenting the visibility of various forms of knowledge
as well as various forms of knowledge production practices. The Web engages
millions of users world-wide every day, and they all take part in its
co-creation, making the Internet a bricolage of their agency and
creativity. Whatever their social and cultural capital, everyone
contributes, even just "by sharing anything to anyone" – to paraphrase
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. As a result, the Web is polyphonic,
ever-changing, and extremely diverse, offering contemporary information
consumers (seemingly) fast and easy access to a somewhat infinite number of
information coming from countless sources. The Internet caries a promise of
empowerment, presupposing that more information means more (situated)
agency, that can challenge and reconfigure traditional areas and
historically hegemonic knowledge hierarchies.
This panel aims to inquire into how the Internet influences the status quo.
We ask, how do users navigate the Web for knowledge in various contexts?
Does the Internet make them feel more empowered? How do they “do their
research”, self-educate, become bottom-up “experts” or
“authorities”? With
an aim to answer the above questions, we invite papers that provide
empirical insights into knowledge-related practices in relation to ICTs,
touching upon the relationship between knowledge and agency, focusing on
issues such as:
- knowledge seeking, production, and exchange,
- bottom-up expertise,
- collaboration, knowledge activism,
- online truth-making and trust-building.
Conference: EASST + 4S Joint Conference, 18-21 August 2020, Prague.
Convened by: Ane Kathrine Lolholm Gammelby (Aarhus University), Magdalena
H. Góralska (Kozminski University & University in Warsaw)
Contact: ak@cc.au.dk, mgoralska@kozminski.edu.pl,
Submission instructions:
https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
Best wishes,
Ane & Magdalena
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