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[Commlist] "Everyday algorithms" - Call for Contributions

Tue Mar 15 10:41:50 GMT 2022







*Everyday algorithms – **Algocount Final Event, Milan, 7 July 2022***

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/Deadline: 8 April 2022 by midnight/

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This international conference aims at exploring the role algorithms play in the formation of public opinion from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The conference is set in the context of the /Algocount/project(www.algocount.org <http://www.algocount.org>), financed by Fondazione Cariplo, conducted by the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences and Density Design, Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan. The project seeks to expand the current understanding of how recommendation and personalization algorithms are perceived as key mediators in the access to news and informational content by ordinary users.


The conference welcomes contributions that critically reflect on the unfolding of what we define as the ‘algorithmic public opinion’. With this term we intend to grasp the algorithmically-driven processes by which certain issues become a salient matter of public opinion, and the central role recommendation and personalization algorithms play as gatekeeping infrastructures through which individuals access information, produce their opinions and consolidate their social and political views.


We invite participants from various intellectual traditions and streams of research, including media studies, sociology, information design, information science, science and technology studies, history of technology, computing and anthropology, human-computer interaction and political philosophy, to participate in an open debate around these issues. The full Call for Contributions is available here: https://algocount.org/events/algocount-final-event <https://algocount.org/events/algocount-final-event>

Ten papers will be selected for presentation at the /Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci of Milan/ on 7 July 2022. Contributors are required to send in a 300-word abstract to the following email address: (algocountproject /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(algocountproject /at/ gmail.com)>. The conference will comprise 4 panel presentations and 2 keynote sessions hosting internationally acclaimed scholars as speakers. Preference will be given to speakers who plan to attend the conference in person, but a small number of remote presentations (no more than 1 per panel) may be included in the programme. Up to 2 scholarships covering travel and accommodation expenses may be awarded to participants at an early-career stage or self-funded. Acceptance notices will be given by 30 April.

Participation to the conference as an attendee (without presenting a paper) will be possible both in person and remotely, via Zoom.

Organizing committee: Alessandro Gandini, Silvia Keeling, Urbano Reviglio, Diletta Huyskes, Luca Giuffrè (University of Milan); Michele Mauri, Beatrice Gobbo, Maria De Los Ángeles Briones Rojas (Politecnico di Milano, Density Design); Simona Casonato (Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan).

For any further information please email: (algocountproject /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(algocountproject /at/ gmail.com)> or (alessandro.gandini /at/ unimi.it) <mailto:(alessandro.gandini /at/ unimi.it)>.



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