[Commlist] Conference: automated decision-making and Chinese societies

Call for Paper:

*The International conference on "Automated Decision-Making and Chinese 
Societies <https://www.socialcreditproject.com/adm-cs>" *


Dates: 1-3 February 2023
Venue: RMIT City Campus + Zoom

The international conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese 
Societies (ADM & CS) aims to bring together global researchers and 
students doing cutting-edge research on digital China, particularly in 
the field of Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADMS) in the Chinese 
contexts. The conference encourages people to look beyond “China” as a 
singular, unified entity, which can be “sliced” along human, 
geographical, political, or economic variables. Similarly, “Chinese” can 
mean different things to different Chinese diasporic communities around 
the world, often defined and redefined along the routes (instead of 
roots) of Chinese migrants (of generations), visitors, investors, 
entrepreneurs, engineers, and workers. Hence, the conference encourages 
an expansive interpretation of “Chinese societies” in their plural, 
evolving, and diverse forms, who are sometimes centrifugal and other 
times centripetal in relation to the People’s Republic of China.

The ADM + CS conference asks the following indicative questions:

 1. How is ADMS understood in the Chinese context? And who are the key
    players/stakeholders?
 2. What are its key features and trajectories?
 3. What is China’s ambition in the area of ADM, domestically and
    internationally?
 4. How are ADM technologies and systems used in different settings and
    institutions in Chinese societies?
 5. How are ADM systems governed? For example, will China’s Personal
    Information Protection Law set a global standard in regulating
    Internet platforms conducting automated decision-making through
    algorithms?
 6. What’s China’s role in the current debates on frameworks in
    governing data security, rights or ownership, ethics, and transactions?
 7. What are the new, emerging or hidden dynamics and politics in
    Chinese communities around the world as they encounter or engage
    with ADM technologies and systems in their everyday life and 
businesses?
 8. How do people—Chinese, non-Chinese, or foreign citizens of Chinese
    cultural heritage —view or interpret China’s roles in ADM? And why?
 9. What do Western anxieties about digital China and its ADM systems
    like the social credit system tell us about the new geopolitics
    between China and the West/US?
10. What roles Chinese societies can play in ensuring fair, inclusive,
    responsible, and ethical ADM systems that benefit the people rather
    than the few with power, money and knowledge?
We invite scholars, researchers, public policy makers, journalists and 
commentators, and industry analysts to address issues around and beyond 
these suggestive questions.

The ADM+CS conference features keynote plenary sessions, regular panels 
and workshops. The plenary sessions feature keynote speakers and 
discussants, all distinguished scholars in their specific fields in and 
beyond digital China related research. The keynotes will provide 
framing, provocations and questions from different disciplinary 
backgrounds to kick off the event, while the plenary speakers and 
discussants will bring their deep expertise towards unpacking specific 
tracks and topics.

*Keynote speakers:*

Xin Dai <https://en.law.pku.edu.cn/faculty/faculty1/112723.htm>, 
Associate Professor of Law, Peking University

Malavika Jayaram 
<https://www.digitalasiahub.org/governance/executive-director/>, 
Executive Director, Digital Asia Hub

Mark Andrejevic 
<https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/mark-andrejevic>, Professor of 
Communications & Media Studies, Monash University

*Plenary speakers and discussants (confirmed):*

Rogier Creemers 
<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/rogier-creemers#tab-1>, 
Leiden University

Jack Qiu <https://ap5.fas.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmqlj/>, National University 
of Singapore

Min Jiang <https://pages.charlotte.edu/min-jiang/>, University of North 
Carolina at Charlotte

Nicholas Loubere 
<https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/nicholas-loubere>, Lund University

Jun Liu <https://comm.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/380455>, University 
of Copenhagen

Florian Schneider 
<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/florian-schneider#tab-1>, 
Leiden University

Rachel Douglas-Jones 
<https://pure.itu.dk/portal/en/persons/rachel-douglasjones(f11b0cc1-ad9f-4b12-b805-65b70e5bcd65).html>, 
IT University of Copenhagen

Dev Lewis <https://www.digitalasiahub.org/author/dlewis/>, Digital Asia Hub

*Important dates: *

  * *15 October 2022*, abstract submission.
Please submit an abstract of 500 words (including references) that 
states the paper’s main argument, method, and contribution. Abstracts 
should be accompanied by a short biography for each author (approx. 200 
words). Please send your abstract to Professors Haiqing Yu 
((haiqing.yu /at/ rmit.edu.au)) and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen ((zeuthen /at/ dps.aau.dk)).

  * *28 October 2022*, decision on abstracts
*Practicalities:*

  * *Format*: This is a hybrid conference, with Zoom access for all
    sessions/panels to enable people who cannot travel to Melbourne to
    participate in the conference. The conference will be held at RMIT’s
    City/CBD campus. There is no registration fee.
  * *Visa:*Please let us know if you need support/invitation letters for
    visa purposes.
  * *Travel stipends*: There is limited funding available for travel
    costs. Priority will be given to postgraduate students and early
    career researchers. Please let us know if you will need this when
    you submit your abstract.
**

*This conference is organised by * *ARC Centre of Excellence for 
Automated Decision-Making and Society* 
<https://www.admscentre.org.au/>*at RMIT University (Australia), in 
collaboration with **CatCh Network* 
<https://www.politics-society.aau.dk/collaboration-networks/catch/>*(Denmark).*

*Enquiries:* Please contact Haiqing Yu 
<https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/y/yu-professor-haiqing> 
((haiqing.yu /at/ rmit.edu.au)) and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen 
<mailto:Jesper%20Willaing%20Zeuthen> ((zeuthen /at/ dps.aau.dk)) if you have 
any questions about the conference.

For further details, visit: https://www.socialcreditproject.com/adm-cs 
<https://www.socialcreditproject.com/adm-cs>

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