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User Generated Cinema
No full textDai grandi blockbuster che invadono le sale alle forme più marginali di prodotti presenti solo su Internet, dalle forme di riscrittura dei testi audiovisivi ai commenti dei cinefili della rete, dal fansubbing al marketing creativo, dal Machinima alle strategie di produttori e distributori, dalle questioni sul downloading ai nuovi pubblici creativi. Tutto questo, e ancora altro, è il cinema oggi. Accanto a un'ampia ricerca sui pubblici, il libro cerca di offrire uno sguardo analitico sui tanti e diversi aspetti che compongono il mondo dei rapporti fra cinema e Internet. Un'analisi fatta di tanti "carotaggi" su un terreno vasto e accidentato. Un primo sguardo su un panorama affascinante e intrigante. Come sempre, quando si parla di cinema
Troubling binary codes. Studying information technology at the intersection of science and technology studies and feminist technoscience studies
Get PDFThis dissertation provides a study of Information Technology (IT) as professional and technical culture by drawing together the theoretical lenses of Feminist Technoscience Studies (FTS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS). This central topic has been investigated through an empirical research that focuses on two distinct issues: the gender gap and underrepresentation of women in IT educational and professional paths (computer science, computer engineering, computing); the role of digital artifacts and materiality in the process of organizing within an Italian telecommunication company.
With regard to the first field, I have carried out a historical analysis of the experience of the first female coders in early digital computing era and I have conducted a set of interviews with contemporary Italian female IT professionals and practitioners who form and participate to networks and campaigns that promote women’s presence and gender awareness in computing. Drawing on contributions from STS and feminist socio-constructivist approaches in science and technology, I shall argue that the analysis of gender divide in IT should go beyond the issues of female discrimination in order to call into question the gendered nature of computer artifacts and technical knowledge (Faulkner, 2001; Misa, 2010).
In the second field site, I have gone beyond the visible issues of gender asymmetries in organization in order to challenge the alleged neutral character of technical artifacts and materiality (Latour, 1992) by drawing on contributions from STS and Workplace Studies. Starting from this body of knowledge which calls into question the very boundaries between the social and the technical (Heath & Button, 2002), I have employed analytic sensibilities from FTS and the recent debate on new materialism in feminist theory (Barad, 2007; Alaimo & Hekman, 2008; Hekman, 2010; Dolphijn & van der Tuin, 2012) to trace out the agential role of materiality and technical objects in producing marginal and invisible positions (Haraway, 1988; Star, 1991; Star & Bowker, 2007). In this respect, I shall argue that technical knowledge and non-human actors take part in politics and practices of boundary-making, sustaining divisions and hierarchies (Hughes & Lury, 2013)
“Appartenenze multiple, lavoro invisibile e allergia alle cipolle: il potere del punto zero per osservare e trasformare la tecnoscienza”.
No full textQuesto libro muove dal riconoscimento epistemologico dell’incertezza come tratto endemico macroscopico di ogni società
umana: l’instabilità quale condizione di una rinnovata “normalità”, che la pandemia di Covid-19 ha esasperato ma non generato.
L’opera è concepita tenendo a mente due finalità complementari e almeno in parte sovrapposte: una culturale, l’altra politica. Per quanto attiene al primo aspetto, il lavoro intende esporre il dibattito – non di rado conflittuale – tra scienza, politica, media e
società a un pubblico più ampio e articolato di quello composto da chi se ne occupa per contingente necessità o per mestiere.
Ciascuno dei cinque capitoli contiene un “classico” del pensiero dei Science Technology and Society Studies ed è preceduto da
un’introduzione di registro divulgativo allo scopo di facilitare la metabolizzazione dei contenuti e, per quanto possibile, attualizzarli nel contesto storico e culturale che oggi viviamo. Il secondo dei due fini, quello politico, si manifesta nella scelta di tenere fede alla lezione weberiana circa lo sguardo della sociologia sui fatti del mondo: mantenersi laici e avalutativi sui problemi tra scienza, politica, media e società. Non si tratta però di un’azione facile, né popolare, considerando che siamo nell’era del consenso guadagnato sulle polarizzazioni e le gogne online. Eppure, pare l’unico modo sensato di collocare in prospettiva i temi discussi
Trajectories of Women in Mathematics and Computer Science: Mobility, Positioning and Hybridization
No full textThis paper focuses on the trajectories of women within educational and professional paths in science and technology. The paper draws on the narratives of women working in scientific careers in order to open the black box of the fields under analysis – mathematics and computer science – and trace their current reconfigurations.
Empirically, the focus on the trajectories of women constitutes an analytical lens whereby to detect the internal articulation of mathematics
and computer science, which, as we shall see, are academic disciplines affected by different dynamics. These cases are discussed in order to show three emerging dynamics that characterize their trajectories in educational and professional paths: mobility, positioning, hybridization
“Re-thinking intersectionality through Science and Technology Studies: trajectories of women in technoscientific fields”
Get PDFThis paper seeks to explore the concept of «intersectionality» through suggestions taken from the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies. We explore three exemplary stories of Italian women engaged in science and technology through the categories of «space», «knowledge», «practice», and «objects». In doing so, we introduce a connection between STS and recent contributions within the debate on intersectionality in order to shed light on sociomaterial issues which have been a neglected aspect of intersectional analysis. We suggest that a similar analysis brings the debate on intersectionality beyond a "human-centered" view towards a "post-humanist" perspective.This paper seeks to explore the concept of «intersectionality» through suggestions taken from the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies. We explore three exemplary stories of Italian women engaged in science and technology through the categories of «space», «knowledge», «practice», and «objects». In doing so, we introduce a connection between STS and recent contributions within the debate on intersectionality in order to shed light on sociomaterial issues which have been a neglected aspect of intersectional analysis. We suggest that a similar analysis brings the debate on intersectionality beyond a "human-centered" view towards a "post-humanist" perspective
Unfolding female quiet in wargames. Gender bias in Metal Gear Solid V. The Phantom Pain from representation to gameplay
No full textThis article investigates the cultural mediatization of the relationship between gender and war by looking at the representation and agency of female presence in one of the most popular sagas in video games: Metal Gear Solid. We have specifically focused on the last chapter of the series, Metal Gear Solid V (MGS5) by putting under scrutiny the character of Quiet. The analysis draws upon the rich theoretical corpus of feminist film studies, with reference to two main concepts: the “visual pleasure” by Laura Mulvey and the “female voice” by Kaja Silverman. These analytic tools are employed in order to scrutinize both the visual representation and the design of the game. We argue that MGS5 is a relevant instance of a large part of gaming production that develops a war imagery characterized by (a) the exploitation of women and (b) an employment of female body as a tool to fulfill the visual pleasure of the male gaze. The figure of Quiet, with the oversexualization of her body and the deprivation of her voice, is particularly telling in this respect. Our analysis aims to identify effective solutions in order to think about more inclusive digital games able to address conflictual issues without surrendering to sexism
What if Siri and Alexa Unionize? Disentangling Digital Feminist Technoscience, between Gender Bias and Self-determination
Get PDFThis contribution takes shape from the conference track titled “Disentangling Digital Feminist Technoscience”, held in occasion of the VIII STS Italia Conference. The article discusses the main insights emerged from the research works presented in the track, identifying digital technologies as assemblages made up of relationships, cultural and social values, as well as imaginaries that can disambiguate, but also overturn, gender bias. The contributions presented reflect, and thus are summarized around, two central issues developed in the literature about feminist technoscience in digital domains, focusing on how digital technologies reproduce gender bias and power asymmetries, but can also generate responsible and conflictual interventions. Ultimately, the article reflects on the potential of technologies and design as important tools to develop a gender-sensitive reflexive stance towards cultures of technology, as well as to subvert gender clichés and create possibilities of transformations
Caring and Commoning as Cooperative Work: A Case Study in Europe
No full textThis paper offers the related concepts of 'caring' and 'commoning', borrowed from feminist technoscience and feminist political economy, as both values for design and analytical lenses to scrutinize computer-cooperative infrastructures for activist interventions. The paper draws on the empirical work conducted in a European participatory design project confronting risks of social exclusion that result from precarious labor conditions increasingly affecting the European populations. We discuss how the combined concepts of caring and commoning present alternatives to capitalist accumulation, supporting activist and emancipatory aims by shedding light on dimensions related to work, affects, and politics
Fostering commonfare. Entanglements between participatory design and feminism
No full textThis paper addresses the role of critical theories to knowledge-making and world- making practices in design research. We discuss the agential and performative power of feminist technoscience sensibilities in shaping a European participatory design project – called Commonfare – which aims to confront the risk of social exclusion as a result of precariousness, low income, unemployment, which is increasingly affecting the European population. More specifically, we explore the entanglement of critical approaches and material practices shaping aspects of the project through three empirical examples – related to the formation of the project consortium, the methodological approach adopted by partners, and the organisation of information as part of the design process – that attend to feminist concerns in technoscience and design in that they come to terms with issues of positionality, embodiment, situated knowledges, relationality and materiality. We conclude by arguing that cultivating the inseparability between knowledge-making and world-making practices is a promising and primary concern for any design research committed to fostering alternative futures
Fostering commonfare. Strategies and tactics in a collaborative project
Get PDFThis paper contributes to the discourse on HCI and political economy, further developing theoretical concepts of strategies and tactics by drawing on the original work of French scholar Michel de Certeau. Strategies and tactics are developed and used as a lens to reflect and understand decisions made throughout an IT design process oriented toward infrastructuring social collaboration among people who are struggling financially. We demonstrate this by presenting the case of Commonfare, an EU funded project, and we focus, in particular, on the relationships between specific research and pilot project consortium partners. We explore decisions and actions that take place over four months between two milestones of the project - the first platform release, and a general assembly
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