Hello everyone, A group of young scholars is seeking a small number of participants for a panel on hackerspaces for the 2013 International Communication Association (ICA) convention in London. Hackerspaces are here thought to be a vital touchstone for informal education, shared rituals, resistant media practices, and various amateur pre-histories. An interdisciplinary perspective on hackerspaces, rather than hacker culture in general, will help to bridge the many disciplinary perspectives already at play in this field by grounding the discussion in terms of specific people, places, and events. Possible topics include: * Hacker motivation for technological appropriation and tinkering * Spaces and social environments for creative and technical making * Trans-national hobbyist networks * Gender, race and ethnicity in hacker culture * Hackers in popular culture * Hacker literacies For more information, please contact Andrew Schrock at aschrock@usc.edu. -- Kevin Driscoll PhD candidate Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California