[pp.int.general] Democratization of Hacking

[Daniel Riaño]

The more academically-oriented among you may be interested in this call for
papers for a revision of the concept, definition and perception of
"hacking" in our society. It may be a good oportunity to explore the role
of pirate minds in the democratization and progress of culture and
education.

Daniel

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 to aschrock at usc.edu<mailto:aschrock at usc.edu> and
>  jhunsinger at wlu.ca<mailto:jhunsinger at wlu.ca>. Final selected articles
> will be due during September 2014 and will undergo peer review.
>
> Andrew Schrock
> USC Annenberg Doctoral Candidate
> Twitter:       @aschrock
> Email:         aschrock at usc.edu<mailto:aschrock at usc.edu>
> Phone:        714.330.6545
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/attachments/20131213/7eb3af33/attachment-0001.html>