[Air-L] digitalSTS proposal submission site open (May 1st-June 1st 2014)

[Laura Forlano]

FYI - Deadline extended to June 7th.

The digitalSTS submission system is now accepting proposals for the edited volume, from May 1st to June 1st 2014. During June the site will be open for the digitalSTS community to collaboratively review the submissions. Please see digitalsts.net for more information and the full call for proposals. 
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We invite one-page proposals for an edited volume on “digitalSTS” that advance our understanding of digital objects, phenomena, processes, and methods in Science and Technology Studies.

Please submit proposals at submit.digitalsts.net

SUBMISSION PERIOD

May 1 2014 to June 1st 2014

Proposals will be solicited and adjudicated in one of three categories: (1) Theory and Cases, (2) Methods, and (3) Making. To best tailor your proposed submission, we outline the three categories and their expectations below. Please see digitalsts.net for more information.

Strong contributions will draw direct connections to topics, literatures, and inquiries of central importance to STS. They may also engage contributions from intersecting fields such as anthropology, communications, media studies, computer-supported cooperative work, and human-computer interaction. We encourage the broadest possible participation from individuals and groups working across Science and Technology Studies and its constitutive or intersecting domains.

In line with the principles and practices of the growing digitalSTS community, this Call for Proposals (and Things!) was generated by community members at the digitalSTS Workshop at 4S in October 2013. Submissions will be discussed and adjudicated in an open, online peer review format before the Editorial Team will select and solicit papers. We welcome all members of the STS community to participate in the process of reviewing proposals.

1. Theory and Cases (a.k.a. “The Handbook”): Submissions to the “Theory and Cases” section should explore or propose a significant or novel contribution to STS theory through an empirical case study focused on digital environments, objects, or practices. Through such studies, we aim tobuild a corpus of theory around the digital within STS, and also contribute to larger debates and established topics within the field (for example: social shaping, actor-networks, ontologies, expertise, feminist STS, science and technology policy, etc.). 

2. Methods (a.k.a. “The Field-guide”): We seek submissions that address methods and methodologies for studies of the digital, broadly construed, as well as novel approaches that draw on the enabling capacities of digital approaches for investigations of STS topics. The digital presents many novel phenomena and also provokes a reexamination of existing objects of analysis for STS. The styles for submission are broad: we seek exemplary studies that demonstrate methods, or reflexive papers that explore high level methodologies and hands-on approaches. 

3. Making (a.k.a. “The Scrapbook”): This section of the Handbook issues a “Call for Things” targeted at an audience of scholars, designers and makers as well as hybrid identities such as scholar/makers. The call is intended to bring together texts as well as visual materials (such as diagrams, images, prototypes, videos) that use design/making to engage with themes and theories about STS (such as power, materiality), design/making for STS (such as how visual materials and hands-on methods can be incorporated into STS) and design with STS (such as collaborations between scholars and makers).

* Note: We recognize that submissions may cross categories; these are provisional and it may be the case that the final handbook is organized otherwise.


Deadlines:
Online Submission System Open May 1st  2014
Submissions  Deadline  (One Page Proposal) June 1st 2014
Community Review period: June 1st – July 1st 2014

Submission and Review system at submit.digitalsts.net

Editors
David Ribes, Georgetown University
Janet Vertesi, Princeton University

Editorial Team
Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology
Steve Jackson, Cornell University
Yanni Loukissas, Harvard metaLAB
Daniela Rosner, University of Washington

Stephanie Steinhardt, Cornell University
Matt Burton, University of Michigan
Stuart Geiger, University of California Berkeley