[ecrea] Call for Papers ECREA Symposium 'Digital Democracy: Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data'

*REMINDER: **Call for Papers ECREA Symposium 'Digital Democracy: 
Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data' *Deadline approaching*

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10-11 November 2017, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

Joint Conference of two ECREA Sections: Communication and Democracy; and 
Media Industries and Cultural Production

Abstract Deadline 1 June 2017

Keynote speakers

  * Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield)
  * Joseph Turow (University of Pennsylvania)
  * Mikkel Flyverbom (Copenhagen Business School)

The coordinates of democracy, civic engagement and political 
participation are being fundamentally reconfigured in the context of 
digital media, Big Data and algorithmic culture, and so too are the 
media industries. This joint conference of the ECREA Communication and 
Democracy and Media Industries and Cultural Production Sections provides 
the opportunity to analyse and assess these changes.

The constant need to measure and capture our behavior and attitudes has 
consequences for our political agency and subjectivities. What do big 
data and algorithmic culture mean in the context of democratic 
participation and engagement? What are the consequences of ubiquitous 
surveillance, preemptive policing and social bots for our understanding 
of democracy and exercise of civic rights? How do current discussions of 
political agency in the digital age compare to previous moments of 
disruption in terms of the introduction of media technologies?

Big data and issues related to algorithmic governance have become a 
major topic of inquiry in the context of media industries as well. 
‘Legacy media’ are trying to respond by integrating new digital services 
with their existing ones and new data-driven journalistic and media 
production practices emerge. This presents policy challenges, as, for 
example, public service media need to adapt to a situation in which data 
is increasingly commercialized. There are implications too for media 
workers in this new moment. In this context, we wish to explore issues 
related to the integration of Big Data and the media industries as well 
as online production, creativity and digital labour.

During this section conference, we aim to engage with questions 
concerning datafication, media industries and (digital) democracy 
through addressing topics such as (but not limited to):

  * Political subjectivities and political agency in the age of Big Data
  * Political consequences of storing, processing and organizing of data
  * Civic engagement and political participation in times of Big Data
  * Surveillance and preemptive policing
  * Materiality and environmental issues of Big Data and algorithmic 
culture
  * New actors and discourses in the context of datafication
  * Democratic potential of Big Data and algorithmic culture
  * Algorithmic taste management in the media industries
  * Archives and archiving of cultural production and civic engagement
  * Media work and labour in datafied media industries
  * Data Journalism

A YECREA workshop on “Digital methods for studying algorithms: 
complicating the socio-technical relation” facilitated by Annette 
Markham will be arranged for doctoral students, post-docs and early 
career scholars. The workshop will take place in the afternoon of the 
9th November. More details are to follow.


*Submission details*

Please submit a 300-word abstract for individual proposals

Panel proposals should include a 300-word panel rationale plus 
individual 200 word abstracts from a minimum of four speakers.

All abstracts for individual as well as panel proposals should be 
submitted through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecreadigdem2017


*Deadline for submission is 1 June 2017.* Notifications of acceptance 
will be issued by 15 August 2017.


*Registration and Fees*

Early bird registration €50 (until 1 September 2017)

Early bird reduced student fee €30 (until 1 September)

Full fees €75

Reduced student fee €40


*OrganisingCommittee:*

Göran Bolin, Hanne Bruun, David Hesmondhalgh, Anne Kaun, Maria Michalis, 
Maria Kyriakidou, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Julie Uldam, Julia Velkova


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