PUBLICATIONS
Edited Collections
Entanglements: Activism and Technology
Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley, and Jean Burgess
Publication: Fibreculture Journal. Issue 26. 2015
Previous issues of the Fibreculture journal examined activist philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and the push back against precarious new media labour. Our issue extended this work by capturing the complexities associated with the use of technology in activist contexts, and offering insights into how practitioners, scholars, and the makers of digital and networked technologies do and might need to work more collaboratively and pragmatically to address social justice issues.
Book chapters
Fabbing the Chinese Maker Idenitity
Authors: Xin Gu and Pip Shea
Publication: Critical Makers Reader
Editors: Loes Bogers and Letizia Chiappini
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2018.
This book features an array of practitioners and scholars who tackle issues of technological making and its intersections with learning, art and design, institutionalisation, social critique, community organising, collaboration, activism, urban regeneration, social inequality, and the environmental crisis.
Hacker Agency and the Raspberry Pi: Informal Education and Social Innovation in a Belfast Makerspace
Author: Pip Shea
Publication: Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements In Context
Editors: Jeremy Hunsinger and Andrew Schrock
Publisher: Peter Lang, New York. 2018.
This book describes and situates the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of hacking and making. Hackers and makers are often mythologized, leading to people misunderstanding them as folk heroes for the modern age. In response, this book describes and critiques these movements from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives to help readers appreciate their worldwide scope and highly localized interpretations. Making Our World is essential reading for students and scholars of technology and society, particularly those interested in social movements and DIY cultures.
Civic Practices, Design, and Makerspaces
Author: Pip Shea
Publication: Negotiating Digital Citizenship: Control, Contest and Culture
Editors: Anthony McCosker, Son Vivienne and Amelia Johns
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield, London. 2016.
This book explores the diversity of experiences that define digital citizenship. These range from democratic movements that advocate social change via social media platforms to the realities of online abuse, racial or sexual intolerance, harassment and stalking. The chapters probe the idea of digital citizenship, map its use among policy makers, educators, and activists, and identify avenues for putting the concept to use in improving the digital environments and digitally enabled tenets of contemporary social life.
Papers
Investigating Responsible AI for Scientific Research: An Empirical Study
Authors: Muneera Brano, Didar Zowghi, Pip Shea and Georgina Ibarra
Preprint
Makerspaces and urban ideology: the institutional shaping of Fab Labs in China and Northern Ireland
Authors: Pip Shea and Xin Gu
Publication: Journal of Peer Production, Issue 12, 2018
DIY Citizenship in the ‘New Northern Ireland’: the Case of a Belfast Makerspace
Author: Pip Shea
Publication: The Civic Media Project, 2015
An Initiative of the Engagement Lab at Emerson College and MIT Press.
Co-Creating Knowledge Online: Approaches for Community Artists
Author: Pip Shea
Publication: Cultural Science. 6:1, 2013
Public Service Broadcasting, Creative Industries and Innovation Infrastructure: The Case of ABC’s Pool
Authors: Chris Wilson, Jonathan Hutchinson, and Pip Shea
Publication: Australian Journal of Communication. 37:3, 2010
PhD thesis
Community Arts and Appropriate Internet Technology: Participation, Materiality, and the Ethics of Sustainability in the Networked Era
Author: Pip Shea
Field: Media & Communication
Queensland University of Technology, 2014.
Conference papers
Shenzhen’s maker culture, technonationalism, and the digital divide
Author: Pip Shea & Xin Gu
Paper presentation: Industrial Revolution 4.0: Preparing for disruptive technologies in 21st Century Asia 2017. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
The Makerspace as Civic Communication World
Author: Pip Shea
Paper presentation: Australia & New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2017. University of Sydney.
Appropriate Technology Design and Digital Social Innovation
Author: Pip Shea
Paper presentation: Cultural Diversity and Technology Design Workshop, Communities & Technologies 2015. University of Limerick.
Northern Ireland's Creative Meshworks: Tracing Ad Hoc Knowledge Exchange
Authors: Pip Shea, Miriam Haughton, Michael Alcorn, Karen Fleming
Paper presentation: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) 2014. University of Greenwich.
Resistance is Feral: Community Arts, Digital Culture, and the New Cultural Gatekeepers
Author: Pip Shea
Paper presentation: International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) 2013. University of Sydney.
Visualising Invisible Networks as Collaborative Arts Practice
Author: Pip Shea
Paper presentation: International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) 2011. Sabanci University Istanbul.
Catalogue essays
Art and the Digital Fabrication Turn
Author: Pip Shea
Commissioned by Fab Lab Northern Ireland as part of the Future Artist-Makers exhibition and residency program, 2016.
Pamphlets
Appropriate Approaches to Online Community
Author: Pip Shea
Community Arts and the Internet Field Guides, 2011
Co-creating Knowledge Online
Author: Pip Shea
Community Arts and the Internet Field Guides, 2012