Dear SIGCIS,
Tom Haigh and I have been busy preparing the "Computing is Work!"
conference at Siegen University - and we would be very happy to
see some of you this July!
For those of you who can't: We do have plans to videotape this for documentation, although we do have the recent controversy about scholarly talks on film in mind.
Watch out for program updates here:
http://www.socialstudiesof.info/ComputingIsWork/
Kind regards,
Sebastian Giessmann
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Computing is
Work!
International
Conference
July 6–8, 2017
Universität
Siegen, Artur-Woll-Haus
Am Eichenhang 50, 57076 Siegen;
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Conveners:
Thomas Haigh / Sebastian Giessmann
We humans
spend most of our waking lives working. Work includes
cultural, intellectual,
managerial, and emotional labor as well as physical toil.
Despite this, most
work by humanities and media scholars implicitly treats the
study of work as
marginal or uninteresting. Even the study of “digital
practices” rarely engages
with the specifics of the workplace, despite the importance of
distributed
micro-practices like clickworking. Information technology
underpins the
transformation of work today, as it has it in the past.
We welcome
interdisciplinary contributions that address computing as work
practice, both
on a local, situated, infrastructural level. Speakers will be
exploring many
kinds of work, from the work of computerized literary
production to the work of
scientific research. We believe that close attention to the
social processes of
work has the cross-cutting potential to integrate a variety of
historical,
social and ethnographic research approaches, from labor
history to the
scientific ethnography to the study of media practices as
cooperative
accomplishments, into a revealing whole.
July 6,
Thursday (Artur-Woll-Haus)
9:30 OPENING REMARKS
Computing is Work!
Thomas Haigh (University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee/Siegen University)
and
Sebastian Giessmann (Siegen University)
10:00 ROUND
TABLE
Computer Supported
Cooperative Work as
Theory and Practice
Erhard Schüttpelz
/ Volker Wulf (Siegen):
Moderator:
Dave Randall (Siegen)
11:00 KEYNOTE
Matthew Jones
(Columbia University):
Data Mining is Work:
Scaling Algorithms,
Overcoming Friction, Redefining Knowledge
Moderator:
Carolin Gerlitz (Siegen)
14:00 PANEL: Scientific Workplaces
– Jens
Schröter (Bonn):
Work will be 3D:
Imaginary Workplaces and
Volumetric Displays
– Gerard
Alberts (Amsterdam)
Archiving is
Work, Archaeology Even More
Moderator:
Jörg Potthast (Siegen)
16:30 PANEL: Structuring Labor
– Roli
Varma (University of New Mexico):
Women at Work: Decoding
Femininity in
Computing in India
– Nathan
Ensmenger (Indiana University):
Documentation is Work:
Flowcharts as
Temporal Boundary Objects
Moderator:
Axel Volmar (Siegen)
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July 7, Friday
(Artur-Woll-Haus
and Museum für
Gegenwartskunst)
9:00 KEYNOTE
Kjeld Schmidt
(Copenhagen Business School):
Coordination is Work:
The Problem of
Computerizing Coordinative Practices
Moderator:
Erhard Schüttpelz (Siegen)
11:00 PANEL: Workflows
– Kari Kuutti
(Oulo):
”Muddling through” is
Work: a Plea for
Workflow Oriented Computing
– Maria Haigh
(Milwaukee / Siegen):
Stopping Fake News is
Work
Moderator:
Peter Tolmie (Siegen)
15:00 PANEL: Institutions and Markets
– Hallam
Stevens (Nanyang Technological University):
Copycatting is Work: The
Diverse Labours
of the Shenzhen Electronics Markets
– Ben Peters
(University of Tulsa):
Networking is Work: How
Computing
Institutions Matter even When Networks Fail
Moderator:
Christian Henrich-Franke (Siegen)
18:00 KEYNOTE
Fred Turner
(Stanford University):
Bohemia is Work:
Reimagining Art and
Labor Inside Facebook
Moderator:
Ehler Voss (Siegen)
(Venue: Museum
für Gegenwartskunst, Unteres Schloss 1, 57072 Siegen).
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July 8,
Saturday (Artur-Woll-Haus)
9:00 PANEL: Fun and Games
– Ksenia
Tatarchenko (University of Geneva):
Leisure is Work: The
Making of the Soviet
Computing Collectives
– Laine Nooney
(Georgia Tech):
Games are Work: Notes
from the
"Little Silicone Valley"
Moderator:
Nadine Taha (Siegen)
11:30 CLOSING
REMARKS
Thomas Haigh
(University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee/Siegen University) and
Sebastian
Giessmann (Siegen University)
12:00 KEYNOTE
Matthew
Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland):
(Even) Literature is
Work! Word
Processing and Literary Labor
Moderator:
Till Heilmann (Bonn)
Participation
is free. Please
register in advance with Anja Höse: Anja.Hoese@sfb1187.uni-siegen.de.
Supported by
the Siegen University iSchool, the Collaborative Research
Centre “Media of
Cooperation”, Siegen and the Ministry of Innovation, Science
and Research North
Rhine-Westphalia.
-- Dr. Sebastian Gießmann Collaborative Research Centre Media of Cooperation SFB Medien der Kooperation Universität Siegen http://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de https://www.facebook.com/mediaofcooperation http://www.sebastiangiessmann.de Telefon: 0049-(0)271-740-2586 Sprechstunde: n.V.