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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
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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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