[Commlist] Digital Exhaustion: A Symposium - Call for Papers

*Digital Exhaustion: A Symposium*- *Call for Papers*

Overflowing email inboxes. Back-to-back Zoom meetings. Unending data 
extraction. Constant connectivity. Data-driven productivity measurement. 
Gruelling gig economy work. The pressure to maintain social media 
presence. Netflix binging. Daily life in digital culture can be exhausting.

The Digital Exhaustion Research Group (DigEx) invite papers for a 
half-day symposium (27^th  May 2022) hosted by the Communications 
Programme at the University of Exeter 
(<https://twitter.com/ExeterComms>@ExeterComms 
<https://twitter.com/ExeterComms>). The symposium will explore social, 
political, environmental, economic and health issues related to the 
ever-expanding presence of digital technologies in daily life. We offer 
‘exhaustion’ as a broad and versatile conceptual prism for thinking 
through human-technology relations in the current climate of digital 
overload.

We welcome papers from scholars working across the social sciences, arts 
and humanities that engage with and explore our techno-saturated moment. 
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

  * Zoom fatigue and other affective states of digital burnout
  *

    Digital labour and overwork

  *

    The ‘Right to Disconnect’

  *

    Addiction (social media; gaming, etc.)

  *

    Digital disconnection and digital detoxing

  *

    Slow computing

  *

    Digital refusal/resistance

  *

    Remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic

  *

    The ‘exhaust’ produced by the carbon-powered cloud as internet
    ‘traffic’ surges

  *

    The exhaustion of planetary resources generated by the manufacture
    of digital devices

Mindful of Zoom fatigue, the symposium will take place as an offline 
event on the University of Exeter’s (UK) Streatham campus.

Proposals for 10-minute papers should consist of:

  * Your name, email and affiliation
  *

    The title of the talk

  *

    200-word abstract

  *

    100-word presenter bio

The aim is to share work that could be included as part of a 
peer-reviewed journal special collection or an edited book volume. Part 
of the symposium will be dedicated to discussing this.

Please send proposals to Alexander R. E. Taylor - 
(_a.r.e.taylor /at/ exeter.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.r.e.taylor /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>_- by 20^th 
April 2022. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 25^th April 2022.

If you have any questions about the symposium, or would like to join the 
Digital Exhaustion Research Group (DigEx) or be added to the mailing 
list, please send an email to (a.r.e.taylor /at/ exeter.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(a.r.e.taylor /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>

This is one of two research events that is being run by the University 
of Exeter's Communications Programme on 27^th  May. The other event is 
titled 'Post-Brexit Digital Cultures'. If you would like more 
information about this event please contact Dr Neil Ewen: 
(n.ewen /at/ exeter.ac.uk) <mailto:(n.ewen /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>


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