[ecrea] Networked (in)justice Information, Communication & Society #AoIR2017 special issue published

Alison Harvey and I are extremely excited to announce the publication of 
the #AoIR2017 special issue Information, Communication & Society, which 
we have titled Networked (in)justice.

The issue can be accessed through 
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/21/6.

For the last 10 years, Information, Communication & Society has 
published a special issue including some highlights from the annual 
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference. This, the 11th 
special issue, continues in the tradition of sharing rigorous, 
interdisciplinary, critical research from the event. #AoIR2017 was 
themed on ‘Networked Publics’ and took place from 18 to 21 October in 
Estonia in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. The conference was 
hosted by the programme chair Andra Siibak, Professor of Media Studies 
at the University of Tartu, and facilitated by the Institute of Social 
Studies and the Centre for the Information Society. Held at the Dorpat 
Convention Center in picturesque downtown Tartu, the conference drew 
together attendees from a broad range of national, disciplinary, and 
methodological backgrounds, and we present here a selection of papers 
reflecting this broadness and diversity of internet research. Three 
hundred and thirty-eight participants from 29 countries participated in 
#AoIR2017, and the programme included the presentation of 129 papers, 
alongside 18 pre-constituted panels, 4 fishbowl sessions, 10 
roundtables, an experimental session, 9 pre-conference workshops and a 
doctoral colloquium. The pre-conferences focused on topics ranging from 
visual social media research to digital methods to academic freedom to 
sessions dedicated to the experiences of early career researchers. This 
special issue is pleased to share the emphasis on the diverging and 
contradictory consequences of the formation of networked publics. We 
have chosen to focus in particular on studies of publics that scrutinize 
how they may exacerbate injustices or work towards social justice.

We propose a focus on networked (in)justice drawing attention to:
How mainstream scholarly conceptualizations of publics and platforms 
prioritize some networked publics and marginalize others
How networked publics are shaped as an assemblage of hardware, design, 
algorithms, discourse, bodies, collectives, and affect
How networked publics reflect and shape intersecting power relations of 
geography, gender, race, and sexuality, among others
How networked publics are distinctively local, but simultaneously shaped 
by transnational and global dynamics.

Special issue line-up:
#IAmNotAfraidToSayIt: Stories of Sexual Violence as Everyday Political 
Speech on Facebook
Tetyana Lokot

Platform vulnerabilities: Harassment and misogynoir in the digital 
attack on Leslie Jones
Caitlin Lawson

My life is a mess: Self-deprecating relatability and collective 
identities in the memification of student issues
Kristine Ask, Crystal Abidin

Gay men’s digital cultures beyond Gaydar and Grindr: LINE use in the gay 
Chinese diaspora of Australia
Wilfred Wang, Elija Cassidy

La revolución digital: Mobile media use in contemporary Cuba
Justin Grandinetti, Marie Eszenyi

Navigating a new life: Syrian refugees and their smartphones in Vienna
Katja Kaufmann

The mediatization of leadership: grassroots digital facilitators as 
organic intellectuals, sociometric stars and caretakers Maria 
Bakardjieva, Mylynn Felt, Delia Dumitrica

See https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/21/6  to access all articles,


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