[Events] Fwd: [DW] CFP: Democratization of Hacking & Making

[Bill Bushey]

FYI - Anybody have any papers on the growth and change of hacking in
society?

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From: Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:27 PM
Subject: [DW] CFP: Democratization of Hacking & Making
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From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>
Date: Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM
Subject: [Politicsandtechnology] cfp: the Democratization of Hacking &
Making
To: software and culture <softwareandculture at lists.tmttlt.com>,
Post-structuralist theory and radical politics
<POSTSTRUC-RADPOLS at jiscmail.ac.uk>,
politicsandtechnology at charlemagne.cddc.vt.edu


Please distribute as appropriate, sorry for the cross-posts -jh

Call For Papers:
Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking &
Making

Research on hacker culture has historically focused on a relatively
narrow set of activities and practices related to open-source
software, political protest, and criminality. Scholarship on making
has generally been defined as hands-on work with a connection to
craft. By contrast, “hacking” and “making” in the current day are
increasingly inroads to a more diverse range of activities,
industries, and groups. They may show a strong cultural allegiance or
map new interpretations and trajectories.

These developments prompt us to revisit central questions: does the
use of hacking/making terminologies carry with them particular
valences? Are they deeply rooted in technologies, ideologies or
cultures? Are they best examined through certain intellectual
traditions? Can they be empowering to participants, or are they merely
buzzwords that have been diluted and co-opted by governmental and
business entities? What barriers to entry and participation exist?

The current issue explores and questions the growing diversity of uses
stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and
democratic contexts. Submissions that employ novel methodological and
theoretical perspectives to understand this turn in hacking are
encouraged. They should explore new opportunities for conversations
and consider hacking as rooted in a specific phenomena, culture,
environment, practice or movement. Criteria for admission in this
special issue include rigor of analysis, caliber of interpretation,
and relevance of conclusions.

Topics may include:

        • Disparities of access and representation, such as gender,
race and ethnicity
        • Open-access environments for learning and production, such
as hacker and maker spaces
        • “Civic hacking” and open data movements on city, state and
national levels
        • Integration of hacking and making within industries
        • Historical analyses of making/hacking such as phreaking and
amateur computing
        • Popularization of terms like “hacker” in newspapers,
magazines and other publications
        • Open-source hardware and software movements
        • Appropriation of technology
        • Hacking in non-western contexts, such as the global south and
China
        • Political implications of a popular shift in hacker/maker culture

Please email 400 word abstract proposals, along with a short author
biography, by May 1, 2014 toaschrock at usc.edu and jhunsinger at wlu.ca.
Final selected articles will be due during September 2014 and will
undergo peer review.

Jeremy Hunsinger
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech


Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
--Byron





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