REMINDER:
Mapping Participation
A talk by Christopher Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles)
19th March, 16.00-18.00
RHB 137 (Richard Hoggart Building)
All welcome
How can one map the empirical transformations of a concept? The "Birds of the Internet" project explores internet-mediated participation by looking across a large number of cases evaluated for their "participatoriness." Participation is clearly not an either/or proposition, but a concept and a phenomena with different signatures. However, we have no clear names for the different styles of participation that have emerged in the last decade, nor any clear understanding of how they relate to the large number of other "heteronyms" of participation in the past. In the talk, I will offer a proposal for differentiating these signatures of participation--volatile, stable and extractive--and some thoughts on the use of clustering and case-study methods to analyse the circulation of concepts and transformation in use.
Christopher Kelty works at UCLA, is the author of /Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software/, co-edits the scholarly magazine Limn, and does research on intellectual property, piracy, robots and evolution, freedom, responsibility and other pathologies of software and computing.
This event is part of the Design and Social Science Seminar Series explores the burgeoning analytic interest and methodological preoccupation with data and the shifting terrain of data practices across design and social science. Incorporating lectures, workshops and demonstrations, the seminar series brings together a resonant range of events on data practices that provoke questions about the formation and force of data, the claims made for and through data, and the altered practices and politics of data.
Organised by Alex Wilkie, Jennifer Gabrys, Evelyn Ruppert & Noortje Marres.
More information at http://www.gold.ac.uk/csisp/
best wishes
Alex
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Dr. Alex Wilkie
Director, MPhil/PhD Design
Programme Leader, MA Design: Interaction Research
Department of Design
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5184
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