Call for Contributions for the Launch of “Demonstrations. Journal for
Experiments in the Social Studies of Technology”
Demonstrations is a new open access online platform for publications at
the intersection of science and technology studies, art and design, to
be launched in the autumn of 2015. For our inaugural issue, we invite
contributions exploring the theme of ‘demonstration’ by intellectual and
creative means, in the form of research articles, review essays as well
as more reflective contributions.
About the journal
Demonstrations is an interdisciplinary platform that aims to publish
peer-reviewed contributions that combine creative approaches with
science and technology studies. It provides this new and sprawling area
an appropriate platform for publication, experiment and reflection. We
hope to publish both more conventional articles on methodological,
theoretical and empirical issues, but also and primarily items that
combine and play with methods, media, materials and theories in novel
ways. As an online platform, Demonstrations has a number of advantages
for such publications over conventional journals, most obviously the
fact that it is easy to include high resolution audio-visual material
with decreasing space limitations. We then hope that Demonstrations
becomes the main hub for a number of emerging traditions across the
social studies of science, technology, art and design which are
difficult to classify and which combine ethnography and art and design
as well as digital and environmental methods.
Demonstrations is conceived as a platform for varieties of
contributions, rather than as a traditional journal. We plan to offer a
set of different possible templates for content and we will publish
contributions not in issues, but continuously as part of annual volumes.
Some of these will be assembled in thematic collections but on a dynamic
basis, as part of or after publication. This will allow us to publish
items in a more timely fashion. Each contribution will have a stable
DOI, which makes it equivalent to a journal article.
Launching Demonstrations
For the platform launch, we invite contributions that examine, review
and provoke intellectual and creative contexts for Demonstrations. Since
its very inception, social studies of science and technology (STS) have
taken a special interest in the public staging of knowledge and
innovation, and over the last decades this work has been extended into
spaces of creative and curatorial practice by leading figures in design,
art and STS. For the inaugural issue of Demonstrations, we invite
contributions to showcase these new directions in creative and critical
research on and deployment of demonstrations across STS, art and design.
We invite three types of contributions:
a) - Research contributions that showcase the critical and creative
analysis of demonstrations as well as the deployment of demonstrations
as devices of social and cultural research and intervention.
b) - Review contributions that present and review the state of the art
in demonstrations across the fields of STS, art and design.
c) - Reflections on the theme of demonstration in relation to STS
literatures and performative traditions in art and design.
Key Deadlines
Submission of contributions: May 15, 2015
Review of contributions: July 15, 2015
Final submission: September 15, 2015
Submission Format
Provided it follows the Demonstrations formatting guidelines, a
submission can contain all kinds of media, including text, images and
video. Detailed formatting guidelines will appear on the journal website
soon. If you plan to submit a visually complex contribution, please get
in contact with the editors ([log in to unmask]). The
submissions guidelines can be found at http://bit.ly/1CpwlUZ.
Journal info
Demonstrations is housed in the Centre for the Study of Invention and
Social Process (CSISP) in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths and
hosted by Goldsmiths Library.
Editorial Collective: Jennifer Gabrys, Michael Guggenheim, Noortje
Marres, Dan Neyland, Evelyn Ruppert, Alex Wilkie (all Goldsmiths)
Editorial Assistant: Laurie Waller
Designer: Danah Abdulla
Editorial Board: Carl DiSalvo (Atlanta), Matt Fuller (Goldsmiths), Lucy
Kimbell (London), Bernd Kräftner (Vienna), Javier Lezaun (Oxford),
Daniel Lopez (Barcelona), Amade M’Charek (Amsterdam), Katja Mayer
(Vienna), Anna Munster (Sydney), Michelle Murphy (Toronto), Tahani Nadim
(Berlin), Israel Rodriguez Giralt (Barcelona), Tomas Sanchez Criado
(Barcelona), Alex Taylor (Oxford), Nina Wakeford (Goldsmiths), Gisa
Weszkalnys (London).
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86 Charles Rowan House
Margery Street
WC1X 0EJ London
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