Together with several colleagues from the Sharing and Caring COST Action and beyond, Airi Lampinen is looking for participations to a workshop that invites discussion on the various socio-technical processes and dynamics that characterise scale and scaling in local, community-sited initiatives. Seeking to move beyond a view of scale as mere growth in numbers and a matter of technology-mediated replication, the workshop aims at developing a nuanced vocabulary to talk about various forms of scale and practices of scaling in CSCW research. It will bring together interdisciplinary scholars, activists, practitioners and representatives of the public sector who wish to question and further develop the notion of scale generally associated with processes of upscaling. The workshop provides a forum to discuss: i) concepts, theories and empirical cases that broaden our view of what constitutes scale; and ii) the implications for CSCW research in assessing the long-term impact and sustenance of socio-technical innovations.
The workshop will be run virtually as a part of the CSCW 2020 conference. The Call for Participation is open until August 31, 2020.
Full details: https://scaleandscalingcscw2020.wordpress.com/