Event overview
The Design & Social Science Seminars
A seminar with Chris Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles)
How can one map the empirical transformations of a concept? The "Birds of the Internet" project explores internet-mediated participation by looking across a large number of cases evaluated for their "participatoriness." Participation is clearly not an either/or proposition, but a concept and a phenomena with different signatures. However, we have no clear names for the different styles of participation that have emerged in the last decade, nor any clear understanding of how they relate to the large number of other "heteronyms" of participation in the past. In the talk, I will offer a proposal for differentiating these signatures of participation--volatile, stable and extractive--and some thoughts on the use of clustering and case-study methods to analyse the circulation of concepts and transformation in use.
Christopher Kelty works at UCLA, is the author of /Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software/, co-edits the scholarly magazine Limn, and does research on intellectual property, piracy, robots and evolution, freedom, responsibility and other pathologies of software and computing.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Mar 2014 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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