Month: April 2019
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CfP: Knowledge Socialism. The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence
Saving this here to come back to later: CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Knowledge Socialism The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence Peters, T. Besley, P. Jandrić & X. Zhu (Editors) Knowledge socialism is a term that refers to a new global collectivist society that is coming online based on communal aspects […]
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Farewell @thesocreview, it has been a wonderful five years 👋😢
At the end of next month, I step down as Digital Engagement Fellow at The Sociological Review Foundation. It will have been five years at that point since I first received an e-mail from then editor Bev Skeggs inviting me to get involved, joining Marcus Gilroy-Ware to get the digital operation off the ground for […]
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CfP: What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today?
CFP – Special issue of Internet Policy Review on What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today? Topic and relevance As more of our everyday lives become digital, from paying bills, reading news, to contacting companies and services, keeping in touch with your friends and family, and even voting – it has become crucial […]
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Digital literacy as individual and collective empowerment
My notes on Njenga, J. K. (2018). Digital literacy: The quest of an inclusive definition. Reading & Writing, 9(1), 1-7.\ On a view which associates digitalisation with the globalisation of the economy, digital literacy is “synonymous with the ability of individuals to participate in the economy through skills and creativity enabled by the digital technologies” […]
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What social theorists and their diagrams can learn from cyberneticians and their machines
After years of struggle to build his DAMS (Dispersive and Multistable System), Ross Ashby began in 1958 to scale back his ambitions in a manner recounted by Andrew Pickering on pg 130 of his The Cybernetic Brain: Ashby’s strained optimism of 1957 was misplaced. A year later, on 29 September 1958, we find him writing […]
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The real danger is to linger at the base of the thing
And this is how we rise by taking the fall Survive another winter on straight to the thaw One day you’ll learn to strain the tea through your teeth And maybe find the strength to proceed to the peak Press on into the thin again till I cannot breathe I swallowed so much of my […]
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Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice
I often come out of meetings feeling that what we’ve been discussing is utterly transparent to me. I feel I hold the issue in my hands, seeing how the initial steps connect to a broader horizon of action. It couldn’t feel more straight forward. However partly for that reason, I never take notes at the […]
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The epistemological conservatism of the accelerated academy
There’s an interesting section in Andrew Pickering’s The Cybernetic Brain discussing Ross Ashby’s experiments in building cybernetic systems and the design philosophy these undertakings led him to articulate. As Pickering describes on pg 128: If, beyond a certain degree of complexity, the performance of a machine could not be predicted from a knowledge of its […]
Mark Carrigan 