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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I wrote a brief “Think Piece” on this topic a few years ago for the Annals:
<a href="http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/an/2006/03/man2006030096-abs.html">http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/an/2006/03/man2006030096-abs.html</a>. Not quite what you are looking for, but it is a fascinating topic, and one that I continue to follow as it
pertains to what I called “Internet Alley” in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Paul Ceruzzi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Amy Johnson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 17, 2015 7:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> members@sigcis.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Materialities of the Digital ~ open panel at 4S<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Hi all,<br>
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A colleague and I are running an open panel at this year's annual 4S meeting, called Materialities of the Digital. I've included the abstract and submission info below. If you know of anyone who might be interested, could you pass it on? Or if YOU'RE interested,
send something our way. (Submission info here:<a href="http://www.4sonline.org/meeting" target="_blank"> http://www.4sonline.org/meeting</a>; deadline is March 29, 2015.)<br>
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Really excited about this year's 4S theme of making and doing. Lots of interesting open panels. You can check them out here:
<a href="http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/open_sessions" target="_blank">http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/open_sessions</a>.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
~Amy<br>
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Materialities of the Digital<br>
</b>Much popular discourse positions digital technologies as either phantom or prosthetic</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#262626">—</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">presence without
substance, or extension that enables new experience of the world. Think: Twitter and Google Glass. This phantom/prosthetic dichotomy is a curious one, one that demands scrutiny and challenge. What
<i>are</i> the materialities of the digital? And what do we embrace</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#262626">—</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">and hide</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#262626">—</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">when
we position them so?<br>
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We investigate materiality broadly here. We include hardware and network materialities such as data centers and undersea cables, transistors and LCD crystals. Such materialities are often transmuted by metaphor: the cloud, the highway, the screen. Why are these
materialities treated as elusive? What details are visible without this obscuring/illumination?<br>
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We include classic bodily materialities</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#262626">—</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">bodies themselves, but also physical extension through tactile interfaces
and digital sex toys like RealTouch. What are the material practices of the digital? How do the shapes of bodies</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#262626">—</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">and
selves?</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#262626">—</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">change as digital technologies transform boundaries and surroundings? As bodies/objects cross from
one material channel to another?<br>
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And we include relative materialities, such as language and script, bits and pixels, avatars and alts. Materialities that arise from their use as building blocks and tools, from their use as faces and agents that speak and remember. Components that undergird
everything from affective emoji play to bots that shop the darknet. What does it mean to understand materiality as relative and relational?<br>
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For this panel we invite papers drawing on diverse methodologies, from media studies and digital anthropology to feminist and queer theory, biomedicine, crip theory and disability studies, critical race studies, and neuroscience and neuroeconomics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Open session list here:
<a href="http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/open_sessions" target="_blank">http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/open_sessions</a><br>
Submissions info here: <a href="http://www.4sonline.org/meeting" target="_blank">
http://www.4sonline.org/meeting</a> (deadline: March 29, 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Amy Johnson
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/johnson.html" target="_blank">PhD candidate</a>, MIT HASTS<br>
<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ajohnson" target="_blank">Berkman Center for Internet & Society</a>, Harvard<br>
<a href="http://kipis.sfc.keio.ac.jp/people/amy-johnson/" target="_blank">Keio International Project for Internet & Society</a>, Keio University</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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