From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Fri Apr 23 18:11:01 2021 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:11:01 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a new wave of technological activism Message-ID: Great workshop at C&T 2021!!! *Understanding, Promoting, and Designing for Sustainable Appropriation of Technologies by Grassroots Communities. Towards a new wave of technological activism * This one-day workshop aims at bringing together C&T researchers and practitioners interested in understanding, promoting, and designing forms of sustainable appropriation of contemporary technologies by grassroots communities. This workshop welcomes contributions illustrating how technology design researchers and activists can understand, promote, and design for sustainable appropriation, at an empirical, technical or conceptual level: - Empirical cases illustrating the appropriation of existing digital technologies by grassroots initiatives’. Contributions might outline the role of existing technologies in infrastructuring such initiatives and their limitations in organizing action; - Technical descriptions of grassroots-oriented technologies and/or of the artifact ecologies that grassroots initiatives might adopt; - Conceptual contributions illustrating or expanding concepts, values, tactics and other socio-cultural aspects that are central to the appropriation of technologies by community initiatives. - e.g., commoning, caring; Workshop organizers Maurizio Teli, Myriam Lewkowicz, Chiara Rossitto and Susanne Bødker Read more at: https://sites.google.com/view/technological-activism-ws/home -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: