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View article: Sexual Harassment as Reification: #MeToo in the Cultural and Creative Industries in Sweden
Sexual Harassment as Reification: #MeToo in the Cultural and Creative Industries in Sweden Open
In this article, drawing on 20 interviews with participants in the #MeToo petitions #deadline and #konstnärligfrihet [artistic freedom], we explore the significance of sexual harassment in Sweden's cultural and creative industries. Our fin…
View article: Navigating the theory–practice divide
Navigating the theory–practice divide Open
Drawing on a case study of media technology, this article addresses theory–practice conflict in an educational work setting. This conflict is expressed in employment contracts and career opportunities and in how professional identity is ma…
View article: #MeToo in the Manosphere: The Formation of a Counter Discourse on the Swedish Online Forum Flashback
#MeToo in the Manosphere: The Formation of a Counter Discourse on the Swedish Online Forum Flashback Open
In Sweden, a relative consensus of liberal and feminist values has long been dominant in public discourse. This could be observed in coverage of the #MeToo movement, which was largely presented in a positive light by legacy media, where cr…
View article: DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF DATAFICATION
DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF DATAFICATION Open
In this paper, we explore how activists and human rights defenders deal with datafication. This work demonstrates how data can be a valuable resource in activism and campaign planning. In addition, data and lack of data also complicate dai…
View article: visual methods for desire and wonder in the digital heritage
visual methods for desire and wonder in the digital heritage Open
The digitalisation of cultural heritage creates expectations for improved research methods and more diverse and inclusive memory institutions. However, it is difficult to take advantage of the opportunities the quantification might give ow…
View article: Metadata as imaginary demands: Exploring metadata markets in digital heritage with speculative design
Metadata as imaginary demands: Exploring metadata markets in digital heritage with speculative design Open
Cultural heritage practices is formed by different socio‐technical regimes. Today, it is increasingly formed by the regime of commodification , expressed in terms like interoperability and reuse. This signifies a shift from a regime of the…
View article: The significance of feminist infrastructure: #MeToo in the construction industry and the green industry in Sweden
The significance of feminist infrastructure: #MeToo in the construction industry and the green industry in Sweden Open
To better understand the interplay between digital activism and feminist infrastructure, this study investigates #MeToo activism in the Swedish construction industry and green industry. Both are industries in transition characterized by a …
View article: #konstnärligfrihet: reifikation som förtryckshandling och motstrategi
#konstnärligfrihet: reifikation som förtryckshandling och motstrategi Open
In the autumn of 2017, more than 2,000 female and non-binary artists and designers in Sweden joined forces in the group #konstnärligfrihet [artistic freedom] to share experiences of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual violence, and to wr…
View article: Choice, Negotiation, and Pluralism: a Conceptual Framework for Participatory Technologies in Museum Collections
Choice, Negotiation, and Pluralism: a Conceptual Framework for Participatory Technologies in Museum Collections Open
In an era of big data and fake news, museums’ collection practices are particularly important democratic cornerstones. Participatory technologies such as crowdsourcing or wikis have been put forward as a means to make museum collections mo…
View article: Crowdsourcing historical photographs: autonomy and control at the Copenhagen City Archives
Crowdsourcing historical photographs: autonomy and control at the Copenhagen City Archives Open
This study of crowdsourcing practices at Kbhbilleder.dk at the Copenhagen City Archives provides a rich description of how motivation and work relations are situated in a wider infrastructure of different tools and social settings. Approxi…
View article: Organizing Safe Spaces: #MeToo Activism in Sweden
Organizing Safe Spaces: #MeToo Activism in Sweden Open
Networked online environments can effectively support political activism. In Sweden, the #metoo movement resulted in over 100,000 people participating in activities challenging sexual harassment and abuse, including collecting testimonies …
View article: Materializing activism
Materializing activism Open
Online activism showcases how available digital tools allow social movements to emerge, scale up, and extend globally by fundamentally enabling new forms of power. This special issue brings together eight research articles that engage with…
View article: Open research data repositories: Practices, norms, and metadata for sharing images
Open research data repositories: Practices, norms, and metadata for sharing images Open
Open research data repositories are promoted as one of the cornerstones in the open research paradigm, promoting collaboration, interoperability, and large‐scale sharing and reuse. There is, however, a lack of research investigating what t…
View article: #metoo petitions in Sweden 2017-2019
#metoo petitions in Sweden 2017-2019 Open
This is a list of the 78 #metoo petitions that were initiated in Sweden 2017-2019, with signatures, media types, and publication dates. Sources are publications in newspapers and industry publications, the metoo coordination group web page…
View article: Remembering (Art)Work: Collective Memory-Work in Higher Arts Education and Research
Remembering (Art)Work: Collective Memory-Work in Higher Arts Education and Research Open
The Collective Memory-Work method carries strong democratic norms regarding equality, ownership and deliberation where emancipation is enabled through collective work and by questioning hierarchies between researcher and researched. Anothe…
View article: Legitimising a Feminist Agenda: The #metoo petitions in Sweden 2017–2018
Legitimising a Feminist Agenda: The #metoo petitions in Sweden 2017–2018 Open
During 2017 and 2018, the #metoo hashtag united a global movement against sexual abuse and harassment. In Sweden, a large portion of the attention was given to the voices of working women, who organised and wrote petitions that were publis…
View article: Datafication and cultural heritage: provocations, threats, and design opportunities
Datafication and cultural heritage: provocations, threats, and design opportunities Open
Increasing digitization and the emergence of new data sharing practices are likely to change how our understanding of history is negotiated. Archiving practices are not only fundamental for our understanding of the past but vital in naviga…
View article: “We passed the trust on”: Strategies for security in #MeToo activism in Sweden
“We passed the trust on”: Strategies for security in #MeToo activism in Sweden Open
The #metoo movement can serve as a case for how networked online environments can provide settings for the mobilization of social movements, while also entail serious risks for those involved. In Sweden, over hundred thousand people were e…
View article: Provocation, Conflict, and Appropriation: The Role of the Designer in Making Publics
Provocation, Conflict, and Appropriation: The Role of the Designer in Making Publics Open
The role and embodiment of the designer/artist in making publics is significant. This special issue draws attention to reflexive practices in Art & Design, and questions how these practices are embedded in the formations and operations of …
View article: Deliberation, Representation, Equity
Deliberation, Representation, Equity Open
"What can we learn about the development of public interaction in e-democracy from a drama delivered by mobile headphones to an audience standing around a shopping center in a Stockholm suburb? In democratic societies there is widespread a…
View article: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Online : Between Alienation and Belonging
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Online : Between Alienation and Belonging Open
When considering how relations are handled in social media applications, these technologies can further alienate people as their relations become commodified, but they can also bring about the poss ...
View article: From alienation to relation: Examining the modes of production in crowdsourcing
From alienation to relation: Examining the modes of production in crowdsourcing Open
While crowdsourcing is increasingly used for data gathering and problem solving, the power relations in crowdsourced processes remain largely unexamined. Especially in crowdsourced public policymaking, an understanding of these processes i…
View article: 12. Algorithms for Decision Analysis
12. Algorithms for Decision Analysis Open
Tools and methods to support participatory decision making often focus on a specific part of the process, ignoring the wider context.In this project we have started out from a broader picture, situating particular parts of the process in r…
View article: 16. Decision Making in Urban Planning
16. Decision Making in Urban Planning Open
Tools and methods to support participatory decision making often focus on a specific part of the process, ignoring the wider context.In this project we have started out from a broader picture, situating particular parts of the process in r…
View article: 17. Actory: Visualising Reputational Power to Promote Deliberation
17. Actory: Visualising Reputational Power to Promote Deliberation Open
Tools and methods to support participatory decision making often focus on a specific part of the process, ignoring the wider context.In this project we have started out from a broader picture, situating particular parts of the process in r…
View article: 11. Comparing MCDA Methods
11. Comparing MCDA Methods Open
Tools and methods to support participatory decision making often focus on a specific part of the process, ignoring the wider context.In this project we have started out from a broader picture, situating particular parts of the process in r…
View article: 9. A Mobile Urban Drama as a Model for Interactive Elicitation
9. A Mobile Urban Drama as a Model for Interactive Elicitation Open
Tools and methods to support participatory decision making often focus on a specific part of the process, ignoring the wider context.In this project we have started out from a broader picture, situating particular parts of the process in r…