Austin Toombs
ABSTRACT
Communities of makers-including hackerspaces, maker spaces, repair shops, and similar groups-have demonstrated a unique approach to collaboration and community maintenance. The dissertation research I discuss in this paper seeks to analyze this community labor through a care ethics lens in order to unpack both the espoused and the enacted social ethical systems that underlay these communities of making and reproduce these practices. My work then addresses how these particular types of care relate to the broader "maker culture."
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Index Terms
- Enacting Care Through Collaboration in Communities of Makers
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