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Hi Alessandro
Bio-hack CFP has been sent to : air, citasa, cpov, p2p, and
nettime-ann, as discussed you can forward to others.
all: If there is another list that someone knows about which may be
interested please forward this CFP and release, and please let us
know.
cheers
Mathieu
ps. @Johan: I removed the umlaut from your name because I noticed
that it is not read properly by some message applications and is
sometimes rendered as a "?".
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(apologies for cross-posts)
Expanding the frontiers of hacking
Bio-punks, open hardware, and hackerspaces
A special issue of Critical Studies in Peer Production
Edited by: Johan Soderberg and Alessandro Delfanti
Call: 500-word abstract
Both theoretical and empirical contributions accepted
During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated
with software development. This is now changing as new walks of life
are being explored with a hacker mindset, thus bringing back to
memory the origin of hacking in hardware development. Now as then,
the hacker is characterised by an active approach to technology,
undaunted by hierarchies and established knowledge, and finally a
commitment to sharing information freely. In this special issue of
Critical Studies in Peer Production, we will investigate how these
ideas and practices are spreading. Two cases which have caught much
attention in recent years are open hardware development and garage
biology. The creation of hacker/maker-spaces in many cities around
the world has provided an infrastructure facilitating this
development. We are looking for both empirical and theoretical
contributions which critically engage with this new phenomenon.
Every kind of activity which relates to hacking is potentially of
intere
st. Some theoretical questions which might be discussed in the
light of this development include, but are not restricted to, the
politics of hacking, the role of lay expertise, how the line between
the community and markets is negotiated, how development projects
are managed, and the legal implications of these practices. We
welcome contributions from all the social sciences, including
science & technology studies, design and art-practices,
anthropology, legal studies, etc.
Interested authors should submit an abstract of no more than 500
words by July 10, 2011. Authors of accepted papers will be notified
by July 31. All papers will be subject to peer review before being
published.
Abstracts should be sent to delfanti sissa.it.
Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) is a new open access,
online journal that focuses on the implications of peer production
for social change. http://cspp.oekonux.org/
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