Make Magazine and the Social Reproduction of DIY Science and Technology

This analysis of Make, a US parenting magazine, focuses on how the periodical attempts to democratize science and technology through do-it-yourself (DIY) politics by rendering it a problem of child-rearing. Positioning the magazine within a broader context of contemporary interest in making and DIY practices, I argue that Make magazine deploys constructions of creative children to naturalize risk-taking as integral to future innovations, as a response to tensions between risks and responsibility underlying DIY modes of science and technology. Make magazine’s content performs what I define as the workshop-function, which distributes protocols through mass media for inaugurating spaces of scientific work outside of professional laboratories run by amateur scientific and technologic subjects. Make magazine highlights how DIY science and making intersects the politics of social reproduction, since the creation of amateur workshops and their operation become integral functions of the home, tying citizenship and political legitimacy to domestic labor in support of scientific and technological innovation

Amateur · Citizenship · Legitimacy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reproduction · Sociology · Tying · Computer Science · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Science Education and Perceptions

• Do-it-yourself (DiY) science

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• The limits of the Maker ideology

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• Mapping do-it-yourself science

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• Interrogating Innovation

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• Hacktivism and Cyberwars

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• Two Bits

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• Street Science

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• Toward a psychology of being.

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• Citizen Science

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• Coding Freedom

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• The Success of Open Source

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• Risk anxiety and the social construction of childhood

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• Literature and the Creative Economy

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• Gender, the State, and Social Reproduction

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• Venture Labor

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• Folk Devils and Moral Panics

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• From Counterculture to Cyberculture

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• Street Science

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• Synthetic biology

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• Free, Open Source Software Advocacy as a Social Justice Movement

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• Insurgent Expertise

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• Constructing at Home

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• Antislick to Postslick

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• Democracy as Defeat

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• The Power of Things

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• The Increasing Technology Divide

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• Patches don’t have gender’

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• A Cultural Project Based on Multiple Temporary Consensus

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• We Need a Showing of All Hands”

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• Democratizing production through open source knowledge

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• Hobbies

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• No Future

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• Cyber-Libertarianism 2.0

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• Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction

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• Generational Identity and Memory in American Newsmagazines

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• Imagined communities

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• Knowledge, Care, and Trans-Individuation

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• A Risk Society of Moral Panic

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• Hacking with Chinese Characteristics

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• Democratizing Science

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• No Place of Grace

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• Risk Society

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• "Creating "Chicks Who Fix

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• New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers

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• Gender, Metaphor and the State

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• Risk Society, Towards a New Modernity

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• Do-It-Yourself

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• Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

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• Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices

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• Cosmopolitanized Nations

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• Beck's Sociology of Risk

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• In Spite of Women

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