[Commlist] "Everyday algorithms" - Call for Contributions

*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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