[Commlist] CFP: Democracy & Digital Citizenship Conference Series

*Call for Papers – Democracy & Digital Citizenship Conference Series, 
Denmark*

*Date*: September 29 & 30, 2022

*Keynotes*: Gina Neff, Cambridge University; Linnet Taylor, Tilburg 
University

*Where:*Roskilde University, Denmark

*Format*: 2-day conference, including a conference dinner (covered by 
the conference fee) at the end of the first day. The conference includes 
a pre-conference ‘work in progress’ event for PhD candidates. This event 
will take place on the morning of the first day(please see details below).

*Conference fee:*1000 DKK for faculty, 500 DKK for early career 
researchers. The fee covers lunches on the two days, plus a conference 
dinner on the first night. Please note, a limited number of fee waivers 
will be made available for faculty and early career researchers from 
Tier B and C countries (following the UN model for country 
classification based on the World Bank's indicators of Gross National 
Income) as well as scholars in precarious positionsto facilitate their 
participation.

*Submission Deadline*: May 1, 2022. Please submit papers to: 
*(digitalcitizenship /at/ ruc.dk) <mailto:(digitalcitizenship /at/ ruc.dk)>*

*Conference Series:*

Key questions of democracy and citizenship are becoming increasingly 
inseparable from discussions on the development of digital technologies. 
Gaining traction in academic disciplines across the humanities, social 
and technical sciences, the question of how political processes are 
influenced by technological innovation—and what makes such influences 
productive or disruptive—has simultaneously become a leading emphasis 
for public interest groups, civil society organizations, and public 
authorities.

Against this backdrop *The Centre for Digital Citizenship (CDC) at 
Roskilde University, Digital Democracy Centre (DDC) at the University of 
Southern Denmark,* *Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS) at 
the University of Copenhagen**, **and **Shaping Digital Citizenship 
(SHAPE) at Aarhus University* are pleased to collectively announce *the 
formation of a biennial international conference on Democracy & Digital 
Citizenship*. The Centres view the pressing societal challenges beset by 
digital media technologies, big data, and artificial intelligence as key 
research priorities, and we offer this initiative as a new 
interdisciplinary space for developing and addressing these priorities. 
We hope that scholars from different academic traditions and disciplines 
—who all too rarely meet, despite sharing many research interests— will 
convene in Denmark every other year, in order to exchange knowledge and 
insights into the complex and evolving relationships between 
technological developments, institutional and everyday political 
practices, and democratic systems of governance.

*Call for Papers**: *

It’s easy to make a rhetorical case for the importance of considering 
technological developments alongside political shifts in digital 
democracies. Technologies shape how citizens engage with and know many 
key democratic actors (governments, parties, media, the public sector, 
judiciary, etc.) and, conversely, how these actors  know and engage with 
citizens. Moreover, digital technologies shape much of the societal 
information flow we deem a necessary precondition for contemporary 
democracy. For example, technologies help collect, aggregate, and 
compare the statistical and demographic figures that shape governance; 
control the flow of news and information about public affairs that 
inform and (dis)connect people; create an ever-larger digital footprint 
that serves as the basis for innumerable policies, programs, and 
procedures… The list is seemingly inexhaustible.

As digital technologies continue marching forth, this conference invites 
papers that collectively help us identify and address a disarmingly 
simple question in its many different aspects and forms: What are the 
key research agendas for digital democracy and citizenship over the next 
5 years?

By bringing different disciplinary insights into conversation over this 
two-day event, we envision a central function of the first iteration of 
this conference series to be relational, (re-)connecting everyone with 
methodological, conceptual, and/or practical interests in digital 
democracy and citizenship. Specifically, we welcome studies and research 
projects that focus on issues and themes such as:

  * Digital transformations of democratic institutions
  * Digital networks of public debate
  * Public trust in technology
  * Citizens’ mediated identities and agencies
  * Control/empowerment of datafied publics
  * Digital methodologies for the study of democracy
  * Conceptualizations of digital democracy

The first iteration of this conference series will be hosted by the 
Centre for Digital Citizenship at Roskilde University, which is located 
approximately 25 minutes by train from Copenhagen Central Station. The 
organizers are planning to publish a selection of the papers presented 
in a special issue following the event.

  * Abstracts (maximum 500 words) are invited for consideration as
    contributions to the main conference program.
  * Deadline for submission of abstracts for main conference and PhD
    workshop: *May 1, 2022*. Notification of accepted papers will be
    given on June 1, 2022. Please send your abstract to:
    *(digitalcitizenship /at/ ruc.dk)* <mailto:(digitalcitizenship /at/ ruc.dk)>
  * PhD candidates wishing to take part in the PhD ‘work in progress’
    activity are asked to submit a 500-word abstract for this event that
    specifies the submission is for the ‘Works in Progress’ event, and
    not the main conference program. Please be sure to identify it as
    such in the title for review purposes by using the format: ‘*PhD
    works in progress: [Title of Paper]’*. Participation in this event
    during the conference requires that full papers (up to 8000 words)
    or works in progress (minimum 3000 words) be delivered as the basis
    for feedback from a senior scholar, including members of the
    steering committee and invited speakers. These can be submitted up
    to two weeks before the conference. Feedback will be given in a
    morning seminar that takes place before the main conference program.
  * For more information, please contact the co-directors of the Centre
    for Digital Citizenship, Sine Nørholm Just & Chris Peters at:
    *(digitalcitizenship /at/ ruc.dk)* <mailto:(digitalcitizenship /at/ ruc.dk)>
  * *Steering Committee*: Claes de Vreese, University of Southern
    Denmark/University of Amsterdam, Sine Nørholm Just, Roskilde
    University, Chris Peters, Roskilde University, Frederik Hjorth,
    University of Copenhagen, Marília Gehrke, University of Southern
    Denmark, Peter Lauritsen, Aarhus University, Peter Danholt, Aarhus
    University.

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