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 ______________ * * *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) ______ *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). _______ * * *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 <mailto: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.