Cover s comment. Velocipedia by Gianluca Gimini (Italy)

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2 Cover s comment Velocipedia by Gianluca Gimini (Italy) There is a quite funny story behind this project. It all started in 2009 in a bar in Bologna where I was chatting with a friend. We were talking about school time memories and I recalled this very embarrassing moment: a classmate was being questioned by our technical ed. teacher. He was doing pretty bad and was on the verge of tears at a certain point, so the teacher tried to help him out by asking him to describe his bicycle. The poor kid panicked and couldn t even remember if the driving wheel was the front or the rear one. My friend laughed at this story and said that anyone who has ridden a bike must know how it s made. Then he tried drawing one on a napkin and miserably failed. That s the day I started collecting bike drawings. I would walk up to friends, family or total strangers with a pen and a sheet of paper in my hand, asking that they immediately draw me a men s bicycle, by heart. Soon I found out that when confronted with this odd request most people have a very hard time remembering exactly how a bike is made. Some did get close, some actually nailed it perfectly, but most ended up drawing something that was pretty far off from a regular men s bicycle. I collected hundreds of drawings. There is an incredible diversity of new typologies emerging from these crowd-sourced and technically error-driven drawings. A single designer could not invent so many new bike designs in 100 lifetimes and this is why I look at this collection in such awe. In 2016 I eventually decided it was my turn to take part in this project. I selected those sketches that I found most interesting, genuine and diverse, then rendered them in digital form as if they were real. I became the executor of these two minute projects by people who were mainly non-designers and confirmed my suspicion: everyone, regardless his age and job, can come up with extraordinary, wild, new and at times brilliant inventions.

3 Tecnoscienza is a scientific journal focusing on the relationships between science, technology and society. The Journal is published twice a year with an open access and peer reviewed policy; it is managed by an Editorial Board with the supervision of an International Advisory Board. Tecnoscienza è una rivista scientifica che indaga i rapporti tra scienza, tecnologia e società. La rivista è semestrale, open access e peer-reviewed; è gestita da un Comitato di Redazione, con la supervisione di un Comitato Scientifico Internazionale. Tecnoscienza by Tecnoscienza.net is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non commerciale-condividi allo stesso modo 2.5 Italia License.

4 Editorial Board Coordination Attila Bruni (University of Trento IT) Paolo Magaudda Manuela Perrotta (Queen Mary London UK) Editorial Board Claudio Coletta (Maynooth University IRL) Stefano Crabu Enrico Marchetti (University of Ferrara IT) Alvise Mattozzi (Free University of Bolzano IT) Sergio Minniti (IULM Milano IT) Francesca Musiani (CNRS Paris FR) Laura Lucia Parolin (University of Milano Bicocca IT) Annalisa Pelizza (University of Twente NL) Giuseppina Pellegrino (University of Calabria IT) Barbara Pentimalli (University of Roma La Sapienza IT) Assunta Viteritti (University of Roma La Sapienza IT) International Advisory Board Maria Carmela Agodi (University of Napoli IT) Barbara Allen (Virginia Tech University USA) Mario Biagioli (University of California Davis USA) Wiebe Bijker (Maastricht University NL) Geoffrey Bowker (University of Pittsburgh USA) Massimiano Bucchi (University of Trento IT) Barbara Czarniawska (Göteborg University SE) Steven Epstein (UC San Diego USA) Silvia Gherardi (University of Trento IT) Luca Guzzetti (University of Genova IT) Christine Hine (University of Surrey UK) Massimo Mazzotti (University of California Berkeley USA) Amade M'charek (University of Amsterdam NL) Alessandro Mongili Michela Nacci (University of L Aquila IT) Federico Neresini Giuliano Pancaldi (University of Bologna IT) Luigi Pellizzoni (University of Trieste IT) Trevor Pinch (Cornell University USA) Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University UK) Mariachiara Tallacchini (Catholic University of Piacenza IT) Paolo Volontè (Politecnico of Milano IT) Tecnoscienza is promoted by STS Italia ( The Italian Society for the Study of Science and Technology Tecnoscienza c/o STS Italia, Via Carducci, , Milano Italy redazione@tecnoscienza.net ISSN

5 Table of Contents TECNOSCiENZA Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies Cover Velocipedia by Gianluca Gimini Vol. 7, Nr. 2, December 2016 Double Special Issue Part Two Digital Circulation: Media, Materiality, Infrastructures Edited By Gabriele Balbi, Alessandro Delfanti and Paolo Magaudda Guest Editors Introduction Gabriele Balbi, Alessandro Delfanti and Paolo Magaudda A Second Round of Digital Circulation p. 5 Lecture Amade M'Charek Performative Circulations: On Flows and Stops in Forensic DNA Practices p. 9 Essays Annalisa Pelizza Disciplining Change, Displacing Frictions. Two Structural Dimensions of Digital Circulation across Land Registry Database Integration p. 35 Monika Halkort Liquefying Social Capital. On the Bio-politics of Digital Circulation in a Palestinian Refugee Camp p. 61 Cosimo Marco Scarcelli e Claudio Riva Digital Literacy Circulation: Adolescents and Flows of Knowledge about New Media p. 81 Alberto Marinelli and Romana Andò From Linearity to Circulation. How TV Flow Is Changing in Networked Media Space p. 103

6 4 Tecnoscienza - 7 (1) Renato Stella Circulation of Technology, Circulation of Desire. Cybersex and the Sadian Collective Intellectual p. 129 Scenario Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench Science Communication and Science in Society: A Conceptual Review in Ten Keywords p. 151 Book Reviews p. 169 A.G. Anderson Media, Environment and the Network Society (2014) by Paolo Giardullo A. Arelano, M. Chauvet and R. Viales (Eds.) Redes y estilo de investigación: ciencia, tecnología, innovación y sociedad en México y Costa Rica [Networks and investigation styles: science, technology, innovation and society in Mexico and Costa Rica] (2013) by Miquel Domènech M. Audétat (ed.) Sciences et technologies émergentes: pourquoi tant de promesses? [Emerging Sciences and Technologies: Why so many promises?] (2015) By Attila Bruni B. Berner and I. Dussauge (Eds.) Kön, kropp, materialitet: perspektiv från fransk genusforskning [Sex, body and materiality. French perspectives on gender studies](2014) by Silvia Bruzzone and Henny Stridsberg G. Pellegrino and A. Mongili (Eds.) Information Infrastructure(s): Boundaries, Ecologies, Multiplicity (2014) by Tjerk Timan

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