In September last year the 3rd International Conference of the Internet Sciences took place in Florence, Italy. I had the chance to present some work my fellow researchers (Calkin Suero Montero and Massimo Menichinelli) did on concepts and terminologies used by the Maker movement. You can find links to the paper, the presentation and the conference website below this posting if the topic interests you!

The work I presented was part of the MAKE-IT project which in turn is part of the CAPS program – one of the most interesting and exiting streams of activities I have seen in Horizon 2020. Technologies such as fabrication tools typical for the Maker movement as well as sharing platforms are researched not only to evaluate their technological capabilities but also to better understand and promote their potential to be used as essential ingredients to solutions which are more mindful of our use of resources.

The Internet Science Conference was a perfect place to show how broadly the term ‘resources’ should be applied. Of course, makers use and re-use materials and potential changes to distribution networks may reduce fuel consumption and CO2 production. However, the Internet Science Conference showed that human attention is a scarce resource as well that needs to be managed wisely as is privacy, a resource often not missed until we are confronted with the consequences (e.g. some aggregated but incomplete data taken from our digital footprint lead to a completely wrong depiction of ourselves). In that sense the conference presented many valuable opportunities for exchanging views on issues we shared in our respective projects (e.g. analyzing community data) but approached them from different perspectives.

All in all 12 interesting CAPS projects shared their views on a wide range of topics such as peer production and distributed governance, user control of personal data, bottom-up networking, free and open source and monitoring the impact of public outreach campaigns.

These projects were present at the conference

CAPSELLA www.capsella.eu
P2P Value www.p2pvalue.eu
DECARBONET www.decarbonet.eu
DSI4EU digitalsocial.eu
MAKE-IT make-it.io
netCommons www.netcommons.eu
Wikirate www.wikirate.org
hackAir www.hackair.eu
SciCafe2.0 www.scicafe2-0.eu
PROFIT projectprofit.eu
OPENCARE opencare.cc
NEXTLEAP nextleap.eu

The paper has was published in the proceedings of the conference, you can find a pre-print copy here below (together with my presentation), on the Publications page and on ResearchGate.

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An empirically informed taxonomy for the Maker Movement

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Christian Voigt, Calkin Suero Montero, Massimo Menichinelli: An Empirically Informed Taxonomy for the Maker Movement. In: Bagnoli, Franco; Satsiou, Anna; Stavrakakis, Ioannis; Nesi, Paolo; Pacini, Giovanna; Welp, Yanina; Tiropanis, Thanassis; DiFranzo, Dominic (Ed.): Internet Science, pp. 189–204, Springer International Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-45981-3 978-3-319-45982-0, (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_17).

Abstract

The Maker Movement emerged from a renewed interest in the physical side of innovation following the dot-com bubble and the rise of the participatory Web 2.0 and the decreasing costs of many digital fabrication technologies. Classifying concepts, i.e. building taxonomies, is a fundamental practice when developing a topic of interest into a research field. Taking advantage of the growth of the Social Web and participation platforms, this paper suggests a multidisciplinary analysis of communications and online behaviors related to the Maker community in order to develop a taxonomy informed by current practices and ongoing discussions. We analyze a number of sources such as Twitter, Wikipedia and Google Trends, applying co-word analysis, trend visualizations and emotional analysis. Whereas co-words and trends extract structural characteristics of the movement, emotional analysis is non-topical, extracting emotional interpretations.

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@inproceedings{voigt_empirically_2016,
title = {An Empirically Informed Taxonomy for the Maker Movement},
author = {Christian Voigt and Calkin Suero Montero and Massimo Menichinelli},
editor = {Bagnoli, Franco and Satsiou, Anna and Stavrakakis, Ioannis and Nesi, Paolo and Pacini, Giovanna and Welp, Yanina and Tiropanis, Thanassis and DiFranzo, Dominic},
url = {https://make-it.io/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2017/01/INSCI_2016_v22.pdfhttp://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_17},
isbn = {978-3-319-45981-3 978-3-319-45982-0},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-09-12},
urldate = {2017-01-26},
booktitle = {Internet Science},
pages = {189--204},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
abstract = {The Maker Movement emerged from a renewed interest in the physical side of innovation following the dot-com bubble and the rise of the participatory Web 2.0 and the decreasing costs of many digital fabrication technologies. Classifying concepts, i.e. building taxonomies, is a fundamental practice when developing a topic of interest into a research field. Taking advantage of the growth of the Social Web and participation platforms, this paper suggests a multidisciplinary analysis of communications and online behaviors related to the Maker community in order to develop a taxonomy informed by current practices and ongoing discussions. We analyze a number of sources such as Twitter, Wikipedia and Google Trends, applying co-word analysis, trend visualizations and emotional analysis. Whereas co-words and trends extract structural characteristics of the movement, emotional analysis is non-topical, extracting emotional interpretations.},
note = {DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_17},
keywords = {Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), clustering, Co-word analysis, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, development, Emotion profiling, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Internet science, Maker Movement, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Taxonomy},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}

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Analytics around concepts and terminologies defining the Maker movement at the Internet Science Conference

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