The Co-Production of Knowledge: Social Media, STS and ...

Posted on 23 January 2012

This three-day symposium is intended to explore the intersection between these two areas of inquiry, with a specific focus on how Web 2.0 is both generative and challenging of different forms of knowledge production and the authority it commands.

Questions related to co-production, citizen science, the power of data algorithms and metrics to shape or bypass human agency, and the possibility of participatory forms of surveillance are just some of the issues that are raised.

This Special Issue has been reserved and will be published before the REF

More symposium information can be found here