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  • From: Wolf Ludwig <wolf.ludwig AT comunica-ch.net>
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  • Subject: [CC-Europe] WG: [IAMCR] Call for Papers for an ICA Preconference on Sharing
  • Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:20:24 +0200

Just FYI -- with regards,
Wolf

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Nicholas John wrote Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:46:
>Call for Papers
>
>ICA Pre-Conference: Sharing
>
>Thursday, May 22, 2014
>
>University of Washington, Seattle
>
>
>
>Sharing is a rich and emotive concept that refers to a range of distinct yet
>associated practices, all of which are powerfully salient in contemporary
>society. At the very least, sharing is the constitutive activity of Web 2.0,
>an alternative mode of production, distribution and consumption, and a type
>of speech. This pre-conference invites scholars from a range of fields to
>contribute to the research and theorization of sharing.
>
>
>
>Thematic background
>
>The notion of sharing is widely deployed nowadays, and in a number of
>different ways. First, sharing is a keyword for the digital age: In Web 2.0
>we share statuses, tweets, files, photos, videos, book reviews and more.
>Second, sharing is the proposed bedrock of alternative forms of production
>and consumption. Some of these forms are known collectively as the Sharing
>Economy, an emergent movement that identifies with and rests upon the
>technologies of social networks; others might fall under headings such as
>FLOSS, peer production, or the P2P economy. Third, sharing is a category of
>speech, or a type of communication, that is fundamental to our therapeutic
>culture, referring mainly—but certainly not only—to the conveyance of
>intimate information about the self to a significant other. These are just
>some of the ways in which sharing, in its different senses, is constitutive
>of important aspects of our social, economic and intimate lives.
>
>A feature of sharing that is common to these different practices is that
>they all touch on the nebulous and porous boundary between the ‘public’ and
>the ‘private’: for instance, SNS users are criticized for polluting the
>public sphere, or ‘oversharing’; a popular model in the Sharing Economy
>involves offering private spaces (spare bedrooms, space in one’s car) for
>public consumption; and the rise of the therapeutic discourse has entailed
>increased levels of self-exposure between intimates, friends, and even
>colleagues.
>
>Relatedly, each of the types of sharing draws on a similar pool of values,
>which includes honesty, openness, trust, and commonality. To the extent that
>these are desirable values, sharing would thus seem to be integral to any
>vision of the good life. Indeed, sharing is almost by definition good. But
>this is precisely the point at which a critique of sharing is required. For
>instance, we might wish to note that by sharing on social network sites we
>are contributing to privately-owned (and government-accessed) assemblages of
>surveillance; we might want to ask in what sense renting out a spare room is
>sharing it, and we might want to explore the role of venture capital and big
>business in the Sharing Economy; and we might wonder what structures of
>power are enacted and reproduced by privileging certain types of
>culturally-situated speech. More generally, if inclusion in a social
>framework is predicated on the ability to share, where does this leave
>people who have nothing?
>
>
>
>Topics
>
>Empirical and theoretical papers are invited on any topic for which sharing
>is a central concept. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the
>following:
>
>● Sharing online: What is the political economy of online sharing? How
>does the metaphor of sharing as the constitutive activity of Web 2.0 operate?
>
>● Technologies of sharing: Reports have claimed that online sharing
>(e.g. of statuses) increases people’s propensity to share stuff offline
>(e.g. power drills). How is sharing today technologically mediated,
>encouraged, or forced? And: how do different technologies encourage sharing
>or punish non-sharing? Skype users, for instance, must share bandwidth to
>use the service; peer-to-peer file sharers share what they are uploading for
>as long as they are downloading.
>
>● The word, ‘sharing’: Etymologies; ‘sharing’ in different languages;
>evolving meanings. And: what is stake by calling a practice one of sharing?
>What is gained?
>
>● The Sharing Economy: The Sharing Economy and collaborative
>consumption as a critique of capitalism; the differences between sharing and
>gifting – for instance, does sharing create the same obligations described
>by Mauss and Derrida in relation to gifts?
>
>● Sharing as a category of speech: What characterizes it? What rules of
>reciprocity and mutuality govern it? How do the values of sharing as a
>category of speech inform sharing in other social fields?
>
>● Sharing and gender: Is sharing gendered? What would it mean to say
>that it is?
>
>● Sharing, giving, exchanging: conceptual boundaries
>
>● What’s new? Sharing is a practice as old as human society, so what is
>new about sharing in the 21st century, if anything?
>
>● Sharing as a norm: How is sharing normatively promoted? What are the
>sanctions for non-sharing in the different spheres of sharing?
>
>● Sharing as a form of subjectivation and desubjectivation
>
>● Sharing between having and being: towards existentialist
>understandings of sharing
>
>● Sharing and the concept of intimacy
>
>● The anthropological narrative of sharing
>
>
>
>We are particularly interested in submissions that actively interrogate the
>concept of sharing. If sharing is an important notion in your research, we
>therefore invite you to think about the work done by the word in your field
>and how it might relate to other senses or uses.
>
>
>
>Submissions
>
>Submissions are welcomed from scholars at all stages of their careers, and
>across multiple disciplines engaged in research that relates to sharing.
>Submissions should be extended abstracts of around 750 words and be in Word
>doc/docx or PDF format. Please submit your abstract as an email attachment
>to sharingpreconference AT gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is November
>30, 2013. Papers will be judged on criteria of relevance and originality of
>topic, clarity of presentation, as well as proximity to—and contribution
>to—the preconference theme. Notifications on acceptance will be emailed in
>mid-January.
>
>In an effort to facilitate informed discussion of papers, the organizers
>hope to have the papers for this pre-conference posted online. For this
>reason, we will ask for full papers to be submitted no later than April 15,
>2014.
>
>
>
>Venue
>
>The sharing pre-conference will be held at the University of Washington.
>Transportation to the venue from the conference hotel will be provided at
>the beginning and end of each day's events.
>
>
>
>The preconference is sponsored by the divisions of Popular Communication and
>Philosophy, Theory and Critique, as well as by the Department of
>Communication, University of Washington. It is being organized by Nicholas
>John (Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and
>Wolfgang Sützl (School of Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University).
>
>Queries may be directed to n.john AT huji.ac.il.
>
>This call for papers may be downloaded in PDF format here.
>
>____________
>Nicholas John
>Department of Communication,
>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
>Tel: +972-54-7906073
>@nicholasajohn
>
>

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