Call for Contributions for the Launch of “Demonstrations. Journal for Experiments in the Social Studies of Technology”

[Tomás Sánchez Criado]

Estimadxs

Algunxs de nosotrxs nos hemos embarcado en colaborar en esta propuesta de revista que puede ser enormemente interesante para pensar los cruces de activismo-ciencia tan presentes en nuestra red y quisiera daros la buena nueva y aprovechar para comentaros que el consejo de la revista estaría encantado de que os animarais a enviar algo para su lanzamiento. 

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T

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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 (demonstrati...@gmail.com). 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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Tomás Sánchez Criado

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