[Commlist] CFP: Data in motion for a more-than-human world

*CFP: Data in motion for a more-than-human world**
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*Blended (in person & virtual) panel at 4S in Honalulu, November 8-11 2023**
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These panels will feature papers that rethink the notion of 'data' as 
the driver of knowledge. Data is usually positioned as discoverable 
fact, a container of meaning, or a solidified agreement about what's 
assumed to be true. These visions of data suggest a world contained, 
like a butterfly pinned to a board, ready for inspection. In contrast, 
relational approaches to data understand the world to be in constant 
motion and focus on processes of meaning making surrounding observations 
or experiences. For example, citizen science often uses positivist 
approaches to count and classify anthropocentric marine debris. In 
contrast, relational approaches might consider how beach trash makes us 
feel; imagine our relationships to the ocean under different 'truth' 
conditions; or explore representations of different marine species in 
struggles over how to 'know' the world. Relational approaches tell us 
that the truth of garbage on a beach is not in its existence, but in our 
mutual and collective subsistence; that data isn't about plastic but 
rather is plastic; and that data isn't a discrete entity, but rather is 
enmeshed in human relations. We seek papers about more-than-human 
approaches to data, information systems, research-creation and knowledge 
production with a particular focus on human relationships with natural 
and built environments. We are particularly interested in papers that 
challenge social processes based in 'containment' views of data (such as 
data repositories, citizen science, open government, etc.) and papers 
that explore and experiment with alternative ways of 'doing data.'

*Organizers: Katherine Reilly, Simon Fraser University; Gillian Russell, 
Simon Fraser University; Rachel Horst, University of British Columbia; *

*Contact: *(kreilly /at/ sfu.ca) <mailto:(kreilly /at/ sfu.ca)>, (gillianr /at/ sfu.ca) 
<mailto:(gillianr /at/ sfu.ca)>, (rachel.horst /at/ ubc.ca) <mailto:(rachel.horst /at/ ubc.ca)>

*Submission Deadline: Friday, May 26*

For more information or to submit please visit 
https://members.4sonline.org/members/proposals/propselect.php?orgcode=4S&prid=1293777 
<https://members.4sonline.org/members/proposals/propselect.php?orgcode=4S&prid=1293777>.


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