[Commlist] Workshop Sisterhood on Twitter

we are looking forward to receiving your abstracts for our workshop 
“Sisterhood on Twitter? ICT-based Collective Action and Narratives of 
Solidarity and Justice” on February 18, 2019, at the University of 
Tübingen, Germany. The deadline is January 20, 2019.

Registration for the workshop is possible until February 10, 2019.

All information is available below:

*Call for Abstracts: Graduate Workshop “Sisterhood on Twitter”, February 
18, 2019, at the University of Tübingen*

Today, it seems that a hashtag is the means of choice to show solidarity 
with women/LGBTI* or advocate for gender justice. Social media and in 
particular Twitter are used by government bodies, civil society, 
activists, but also companies to promote gender equality. Examples of 
collective action that focus on the advancement of women’s and gender 
issuesinclude the incredibly popular #MeToo initiative against sexual 
harassment in the United States, the relatable #YoTeCreo campaign in 
Spain, but also the #CzarnyProtest mobilization to push back against a 
proposed ban on abortion in Poland. Examples of top-down initiatives in 
support of gender justice include the UN campaign for IDEVAW 
#OrangetheWorld and the European Commission’s initiative #SayNoStopVAW.  
All of the above cases represents instances in which people claimed 
visibility by aggregating their voices and speaking up on a given issue. 
While in some cases more than in others, the overall impression emerging 
from these initiatives is that of a powerful show of horizontal 
democracy. However, the picture is probably not as clear-cut as it might 
look at first sight. Deeply rooted mechanisms of exclusion de facto 
prevent a large portion of the public from participating in these forms 
of collective action. Similarly, inequalities in the distribution of 
social media visibility seriously question the widespread assumption 
that anyone’s voice can actually be heard, as long as they tweet loud 
enough.

At the Centre for Ethics in Tübingen, we will discuss the following and 
related questions: What are mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in 
ICT-based collective actions? What is the actual visibility that these 
kind of actions can hope to achieve? Who are the most visible actors 
within their narrow context? What narratives do these actors voice? How 
do the actors’ narratives of solidarity and justice clash with feminist 
ideas about gender equality and justice? We encourage Master’s students 
and Ph.D. candidates to join our workshop. The goal of the workshop is 
to develop new thoughts about the topic at hand, gather inspiration for 
your own work, and connect with academics working on similar issues.

If you would like to contribute a 10-minute presentation, please send 
your abstract of max. 500 words to the organizers of the workshop by 
January 20, 2019. If you would like to attend the workshop merely as a 
participant, please register with the organizers by February 10, 2019.

Organization:

Ms. Laura Schelenz, University of Tübingen, 
(laura.schelenz /at/ uni-tuebingen.de) <mailto:(laura.schelenz /at/ uni-tuebingen.de)>

Mr. Tommaso Trillò, University of Lodz, (tommaso.trillo /at/ uni.lodz.pl) 
<mailto:(tommaso.trillo /at/ uni.lodz.pl)>

Date and Place:

February 18, 2019

Room 1.13 in Wilhelmstraße 19, 72074 Tübingen

Preliminary Program:

10:00    Welcome and warm up

11:00     Lecture by Tommaso Trillò: “Can the Subaltern Tweet? 
Unfulfilled Promises of Participation and Strategies of Resistance”

12:00     Lunch break

13:00     Short presentations/working groups

15:00     Short break

15:30     Short presentations/working groups

17:00     Final discussion and wrap-up

18:00     Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner: “Algorithmic 
Subjectivities and Digital Publics”

**

*Laura Schelenz*is a Research Associate in the project “Ethical 
Implications of ICT export to sub-Saharan Africa” at the International 
Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of 
Tübingen. She is exploring ethical concerns about digitalization 
processes in Africa and is particularly interested in understanding the 
gender digital divide and mechanisms of exclusion. Schelenz holds an MA 
in Peace and Conflict Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 
and a BA in American Studies from Heidelberg University. She has spent 
time abroad in the USA and Hungary, and has previously worked in 
conflict research and human rights advocacy.

*Tommaso Trillò *is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Early Stage Researcher and 
PhD candidate at the University of Lodz, Poland, in the context of GRACE 
– Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe (MSCA grant agreement No 
675378). His main research focus is on the production of cultures of 
gender equality on social media platforms. His doctoral research project 
aims at exploring how key institutions at the EU supranational level and 
at the Italian national level contribute to the construction of ‘gender 
equality’ as a core European value through a comparative analysis of the 
narratives they advance on Twitter. Trillò holds an MSc in Migration 
Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Political Sciences 
from John Cabot University, Rome, Italy.


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