[Commlist] 2nd Data Justice Conference 'Participation in the Datafied Society'

One more week to submit proposals for the Second Data Justice Conference!

Deadline: 15 December 2019

*Civic Participationin the Datafied Society*

Date: May28-29, 2020

Location: Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK

Host: DataJusticeLab

As the generation, collection and analysis of datacontinues to transform 
key aspects of our society across economics, politics and culture, the 
question of participationhas rarely been so pertinent. Democratic 
processes and traditional avenues for participationare facing challenges 
as state-citizen relations are increasingly shaped through dataanalytics 
and automation at the same time as alternative visions for participatory 
democracy and decision-making have proliferated. As citizens, we are 
said to be both coerced and active participants in this shift, both 
liberated and exploited in the use of digital tools, both more visible 
and more obscured in data-driven systems. How, then, should we 
understand civic participationin the datafied society? In what ways are 
we positioned as citizens in the advancement of datafication? How are 
decisions made, governance carried out, and systems created? What 
possibilities exist to intervene in, influence, create and resist power? 
Who gets to participate and on what terms? How might our institutions 
and government practices need to change? What are strategies for 
democratising the emergent datafied society? And what are avenues for 
enhancing citizen and community participation?

This two-day event explores the relationship between datafication and 
participation. Hosted by the DataJusticeLabat Cardiff University’s 
School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), it will bring together 
international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups 
to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participationin a 
datafied society. Speakers include:

Carly Kind (Ada Lovelace Institute)

Mark Andrejevic (Monash University, Australia)

Nanjira Sambuli (World Wide Web Foundation)

Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

Rashida Richardson (AI Now)

Tawana Petty (Detroit Digital JusticeCoalition)

The conferencewill include both scholarly contributions and workshops 
with civil society, practitioners and impacted communities in order to 
facilitate and advance knowledge exchange. We therefore welcome 
alternative formats and ideas. Themes for submissions include (but are 
not limited to):


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    Citizen juries, assemblies and audits

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    Participatory datagovernance and oversight

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    Datacommons and co-operatives

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    Dataactivism and resistance

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    Participatory design and design justice

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    Digital and human labour in data

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    Participation, exploitation and coercion

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    Geopolitics of participation

Submissions

Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 15thof December, 2019

Submit via 
EasyChair:https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=datajustice2020

All submissions must include a title, author name(s), institutional 
affiliation(s) and full contact information (mailing address, email 
address). If you propose a workshop or practical demonstration, please 
provide a clear statement of purpose and a detailed description of 
activities, as well as any infrastructure requirements. Please note that 
time-slots for sessions are 90 minutes. If more is needed, please 
include an explanation.

How to get there

Cardiff is a 2-hour train journey west of London and Heathrow airport. 
The closest airports are Cardiff and Bristol.


Conferencefee

Full fee: £75 (early bird) / £100

Reduced fee for students and civil society: £50 (early bird) / £75


Conferenceorganizing committee: LinaDencik, Arne Hintz, Joanna Redden 
and Emiliano Treré (DataJusticeLab, Cardiff University, UK)


For information about the DataJusticeLab, see:http://www.datajusticelab.org
Online CfP:https://datajusticelab.org/data-justice-2020/
Hashtag: #DataJustice2020

Contact for further information:https://datajusticelab.org/contact/
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