Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW

Jacob Thebault-Spieker; Stevie Chancellor; Michael Ann Devito; Niloufar Salehi; Alex Leavitt; David Karger; Katta Spiel

doi:10.1145/3462204.3483281

Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Stevie Chancellor, Michael Ann Devito, Niloufar Salehi, Alex Leavitt, David Karger, Katta Spiel

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

CSCW has a rich interdisciplinary and methodological history, and our work focuses on designing and building technologies for collaboration and community as well as evaluating and critiquing these technologies. At the intersection of these interdisciplinary perspectives comes a tension playing out in formal and informal venues: is CSCW's role to fix and improve existing technologies, or is it to start over and build anew? In this panel, we address this question with an eye towards enabling practicable critique within CSCW, and help navigate this tension that arises in our interdisciplinary community. Our panelists reflect methodological diversity in CSCW and positional differences on these questions. We look forward to a lively, spirited discussion between panelists that build on three provocations and engage the community on this important and critical issue.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	234-237
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384797
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3483281
State	Published - Oct 23 2021
Event	24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Oct 23 2021 → Oct 27 2021

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

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Conference	24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	10/23/21 → 10/27/21

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© 2021 ACM.

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Thebault-Spieker, J., Chancellor, S., Devito, M. A., Salehi, N., Leavitt, A., Karger, D., & Spiel, K. (2021). Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW. In CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 234-237). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3483281

Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW. / Thebault-Spieker, Jacob; Chancellor, Stevie; Devito, Michael Ann et al.
CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 234-237 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Thebault-Spieker, J, Chancellor, S, Devito, MA, Salehi, N, Leavitt, A, Karger, D & Spiel, K 2021, Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW. in CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 234-237, 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021, Virtual, Online, United States, 10/23/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3483281

Thebault-Spieker J, Chancellor S, Devito MA, Salehi N, Leavitt A, Karger D et al. Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW. In CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery. 2021. p. 234-237. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). doi: 10.1145/3462204.3483281

Thebault-Spieker, Jacob ; Chancellor, Stevie ; Devito, Michael Ann et al. / Do We Fix it or Burn it Down? Towards Practicable Critique at CSCW. CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. pp. 234-237 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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