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Dear all,

We invite you to submit an abstract to our track *Dis-entangling later
life: ageing processes, innovative practices and critical reflections *– at
the *8th STS Italia Conference “**Dis/Entangling Technoscience:
Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justic**e (**www.stsitaliaconf2020.com*
<http://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/>*), *June 18 through 20, 2020, Trieste,
Italy. You can get the general Call for Abstract Announcement at the end of
this email.

*Convenors:*

Silvia Fornasini, University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler,
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Francesco Miele, University of Padova, [log in to unmask]

Francisco Nunes, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, [log in to unmask]



*(Track 4) Dis-entangling later life: ageing processes, innovative
practices and critical reflections*

*Abstract*

The ageing population topic is becoming increasingly salient in the
international and European agenda. The increasing number of older people in
society is rarely framed as a positive feat, but rather as a challenge with
great social impact. In this context, research and development are seen as
the key to “solving” the challenges and impacts of the demographic ageing
by creating innovative social and care processes where older person use
technology to help them engage in self-care and wellbeing. The active
agency expected from older people contrasts with previous held perspectives
on them. In fact, for a long time they were seen as passive subjects that
created a social and economic burden for our societies, as Mort et al.
(2013) describe in their article: “Ageing with telecare: care or coercion
in austerity?”. This approach overlooks the fact that the nature of later
life and its relationship with science and technology is changing: in their
work “Science, technology and the ‘grand challenge’ of ageing -
Understanding the socio-material constitution of later life”, Peine et al.
(2015) describe how current generations of older persons have experienced
different waves of technology innovations during their life course, and
they are increasingly used to adopt technology as part of their daily life,
finding new social roles and identities. Furthermore, as stated by Kogan et
al. (2016) in their literature review “Person‐centered care for older
adults with chronic conditions and functional impairment”, in the case of
non self-sufficient older people, institutions and caregivers are more and
more interested in technological and organizational interventions aimed at
providing the so-called person-centered care.

STS have been contributing to challenge the assumptions according to which
elderlies are passive  subjects, exploring what it means to grow old with
techno-scientific innovations as part of everyday life. From this
perspective, older persons are agents that create and develop meaning for
later life as they interact with new technologies, incorporating it into
their daily life and adapting it to their needs and desires. Moreover,
elderlies contribute at re-defining social representations concerning aging
and at supporting the emergence of scientific innovations (Vincent, 2006,
“Ageing contested: Anti-ageing science and the cultural construction of old
age”). STS foster a new paradigm, which takes into account the increasing
heterogeneity of older people and other actors who are involved in the
co-production of new technologies and, more broadly, of techno-scientific
innovations.

The aim of this track is to highlight the intricate ways in which older
persons themselves - as well as family members, peers, caregivers,
healthcare organizations and media - articulate and reconstruct
understandings about later life through active engagements with
technoscientific objects. Starting from this understanding of ageing, we
intend to attract theoretically, empirically, and/or methodologically
oriented contributes focused on:



●      Technology, active-ageing and empowerment of older people;

●      Participatory design practices and older people;

●      Technology and chronic disease management at home;

●      Technology and care practices in long-term care organizations;

●      Research on ageing processes;

●      Media discourses on ageing and techno-scientific innovations.



*To participate:*



Abstracts (written in English, or in Italian) should be submitted *by
February, 9* to the conference email address ([log in to unmask]) and
to the emails of convenors' selected track. Track Convenor(s) will be
responsible for reviewing, accepting/rejecting and organising submissions
into their track.

THE FINAL PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE WILL BE PUBLISHED ON *MAY 24, 2020*.



Submission (to the conference email address <[log in to unmask]> and
to the emails of convenors' selected track) should include:



1. Author’s name and surname, affiliation and email address

2. Presentation title

3. Abstract (less than 300 words)





*Next important dates:*



*February 9, 2020*: Deadline for abstract submission

*March 2, 2020*: Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection

*March 29, 2020*: Early registration deadline

*April 19, 2020*: Closing date for registration

*May 24, 2020*: Publication of the final conference programme

*June 18–20, 2020*: Conference

Please feel free to circulate this announcement widely.



Best wishes,



Silvia, Francesco & Francisco



*----Call for Abstract Announcement-----*





The *8th STS Italia Conference* <https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/> will
be hosted by the *University of Trieste*, Italy, *June 18 through 20, 2020*,
by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies.



The conference will be an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical
work from a variety of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, design,
economics, history, law, philosophy, psychology and semiotics. *The focal
theme of the 8th STS Italia Conference will be "Dis/Entangling
Technoscience: Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justice”*. This broad
theme refers to the complex and ambivalent role of technoscience and
innovation in constituting societies – making possibilities flourish, but
also creating new vulnerabilities. *The conference will include 33 tracks,
which are clustered into five thematic streams.* The tracks focus on
several topics, including: biomedicine, digital platforms and  media, work
and organizations, expertise and public policy, ethics of technology and
innovation, and governance of  science and technology at large.



Conference’s keynote speakers include: *Amade M’charek* (University of
Amsterdam); Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Nottingham) and  *René von
Schomberg*  (European Commission)



*Abstracts (written in English, or in Italian in case of tracks in two
language) should be submitted by February, 9** to the conference email
address (**[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>**) and to the
emails of convenors' selected track.* Track Convenor(s) will be responsible
for reviewing, accepting/rejecting and organising submissions into their
track.



*THEMATIC STREAMS*

●      Biomedicine, bodies and technoscience
<https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>;

●      Platforms, digital technologies and media environments
<https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>;

●      Rethinking science, technology and innovation: emerging challenges
<https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>;

●      Including, excluding and connecting through / within technoscience
<https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>;

●      Governing and reshuffling technoscience and innovation processes
<https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>;

●       Open Track:  Science and Technology Studies in Post-socialist
countries/in Central and Eastern European countries
<https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts>



STS Italia offers *4 scholarships* for talented PhD students, post-doc and
non-tenured academics. The scholarship
<https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/scholarships> will cover registration
fees, accommodation and social dinner (see more details about scholarships
on the conference website).


Check the conference website www.stsitaliaconf2020.com for further
information and to read the 33 specific call for abstracts. To contact the
organization team write to <[log in to unmask]>

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