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

[Andrew Maier]

I kind of feel like this an "obvious" suggestion, but Gabriella Coleman's paper (turned book) on hacking culture is an insightful read:

http://codingfreedom.com/

-Andrew


On Jan 6, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Bill Bushey <wbushey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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