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 * MEMO: CHAPTER SUMMARIES**

__Preface to Chapter Summaries:__ With this text, I hope to show how previous theoretical frameworks are woven together to further explicate and give foundation for examining the ‘maker’ movement. By moving from theory to data and contemporary practices I hope to demonstrate that this more localized movement is part of a greater shift in the rhetoric and discourse surrounding ‘innovation’ and the global economic mindset. I will move from descriptions of encompassing frameworks, theories and concepts to a focus on the historical groundwork of the ‘maker’ movement and skill-sharing within civic science communities. From here I will explore what is happening locally in makerspaces and skill-sharing centers today, and then scale upward to examine what it means within a global context.


 * __INTRODUCTION__**
 * Aims**: To describe the current historical moment of the ‘maker’ movement and the skill-sharing communities that encompass it, both on and offline. Also, to further suggest critical practices these spaces may incorporate to better involve their immediate and global communities in relevant civic scientific endeavors.
 * Description of Methods**: Methods employed will be select interviews, participant observation of ‘makerspaces’ and skill-sharing praxis both on-line and off-line. This study will also work with participants to create critical making projects that may be shared and distributed.
 * Theoretical Background**: Briefly describe and point to relevant literature on ‘Technological Citizenship,’ ‘Critical making’ practices, ‘Critical consciousness,’ ‘makers’ and ‘hackers’ - not all here though, it will be incorporated throughout the main text as well.
 * Relevance of the Study**: Look at current trends of ‘maker’ culture within the news and the implications of what is to come via 3-D printing. Examine the meaning behind the ‘Industrialization of the Maker movement’ and what this might mean to civic science or the possibilities to think with these tools and opportunities critically. Demonstrate that there is a current discursive shift it what ‘making’ might mean for the future and that this malleable moment has various trajectories that are important to influence and keep in mind.
 * Overview of Manuscript:** This book will focus on historical background, theoretical framing and definition of the object of study within the first two chapters. It will then explicate the current-day trends within the ‘maker’ movement and the regimes of ‘making’ that presently exist. The 4th Chapter focuses on current rhetoric regarding the Industrialization of the ‘maker’ movement and possibilities of focusing on global economies at the expense of local community development. Finally, it will explore future imaginaries of critical making communities and the theoretical groundwork through which this possible reality might take shape and posits how this move toward more critical making practices could scale up from local ‘maker’ communities to a global scale.

-Historical background of Tinkering & DIY -Transformation of ‘Hackers’ and ‘Makers’ into mainstream culture -What are the implications of these movements?
 * __CHAPTER 1: Makers, Tinkerers & DIY Enthusiast__**

-Historical background of Civic Science and -What were Science Shops and do they still exist in anything but our dreams? -Discursive Background of Grey Material and -Online and Offline communities
 * __CHAPTER 2: Sites of Civic Science and Public Engagement__**

-Dancing within the Spectrum of Skill-sharing Communities: -Different intentions within different spaces -The anti-authoritarian/global innovation divide -Online and Offline communities
 * __CHAPTER 3: Regimes of ‘Making’__**

-Extraction of local labor for the global economy -Current Rhetoric within greater Industrial and Governmental Entities -How does the global rhetoric find its way into the local spaces?
 * __CHAPTER 4: Industrialization of the ‘Maker’ Movement__**

-Definitions and examples of Critical Making, Participatory Design and Critical Technical Practices -Where does Freire’s ‘Critical-consciousness’ fit in? -Bringing Freirian Pedagogical practices and Critical making praxis to skill-sharing communities -Rethinking ‘Technological Citizenship’ within a practice-based public community
 * __CHAPTER 5: What’s so critical about Critical Making?__**

-Local ‘Critical Making’ Practices on a Global Scale -Possible future research and projects to explore global implications
 * __CONCLUSION What Next?__**