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

Fri Aug 12 08:51:57 GMT 2022




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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