[ecrea] Digital Democracy: Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data conference programme

Digital Democracy: Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data
10-11 November 2017, Södertörn University

Co-organised by the ECREA Sections Communication and Democracy & Media 
Industries and Cultural Production

The detailed programme for the conference in November is now available 
at http://www.sh.se/bigdata.
Keynote speakers:
Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield)
Joseph Turow (University of Pennsylvania)
Mikkel Flyverbom (Copenhagen Business School)

Conference theme: 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 enquiry 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.



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