[Sigtis-l] CFP: "The Democratization of Hacking and Making" - New Media & Society special issue

[Adam Worrall]

For your potential interest; please contact Andrew Schrock or Jeremy
Hunsinger, editors of the special issue, at the e-mail addresses given with
any questions or comments.



> *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
>
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>    - Popularization of terms like “hacker” in newspapers, magazines and
>    other publications
>
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>    - Open-source hardware and software movements
>
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>    - Appropriation of technology
>
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>    - Hacking in non-western contexts, such as the global south and China
>
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>    - 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 to aschrock at usc.edu and jhunsinger at wlu.ca.
> Final selected articles will be due during September 2014 and will undergo
> peer review.
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