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

[Karl Fogel]

Andrew Maier <andrewmaier at codeforamerica.org> writes:
>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/

+1 on that!  http://www.rants.org/2012/12/18/coding-freedom/

-K


>On Jan 6, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Bill Bushey <wbushey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>    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
>    To: newswire at groups.dowire.org
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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>,
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>    Please distribute as appropriate, sorry for the cross-posts -jh
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>    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:
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>    • 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
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>    Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
>    thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
>    think.
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