[Commlist] CfP RESAW 2025 "The Datafied Web"

This is a reminder that the submission deadline for the RESAW 2025 
conference, themed "The Datafied Web," is on 15 October. A variety of 
possible themes, formats, and submission guidelines can be found in the 
call and below.

The full version of the call: 
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/cfp-resaw-2025 
<https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/cfp-resaw-2025>
and https://cc.au.dk/en/resaw/cfp-resaw-2025 
<https://cc.au.dk/en/resaw/cfp-resaw-2025>

To submit a proposal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=resaw2025 
<https://easychair.org/cfp/RESAW2025>

The 6th RESAW conference will be held at the University of Siegen, Germany.

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  „The Datafied Web“: 6th RESAW Conference (5-6 June 2025, Siegen 
University, Germany) + pre-conference day

Do you remember the beginnings of early metrics in the 90s, the birth of 
web counters, those digital pioneers that marked and started to quantify 
the pulse of online activity, the novelty of seeing website visits 
measured in real-time, eye-catching graphics becoming the currency of 
online attention, and the early days of companies like Webtrends, Urchin 
and DoubleClick?

We invite scholars, researchers, web archivists to contribute to the 6th 
RESAW conference on the topic of “The Datafied Web”, through a 
historical lens. We would like to delve into the historical roots, 
trends, and trajectories that shaped the data-driven paradigm in web 
development and to examine the genealogies of the datafied and metrified 
web. Historical studies of trajectories towards a databased web and the 
emergence of platform-driven mobile ecosystems are very welcome, as well 
as case studies for instance related to the development of Application 
Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the evolution of data-sharing 
practices. Uncovering the early forms of analytics software, their 
origins, and the role they played in shaping the web landscape, and 
examining the historical context, aesthetics and role of web counters, 
analytics tools, mobile sensing and other metrics may also help us 
deepen our understanding of online interactions, past publics and 
audiences, and their (uneasy) trajectories. “The datafied web” also 
raises questions related to methods and (web) archives allowing to 
research this evolution: what are for instance the challenges and 
methodologies involved in archiving the metrified and increasingly 
mobile web, including the back-end infrastructure?

This theme also invites us to trace the historical trajectory of data 
surveillance and the evolution of data capturing practices on the web. 
Complementary are issues related to the historical development of 
tracking mechanisms, cookies, and the creation of digital footprints, as 
well as the evolution of companies relying on metrics, and the 
development of financialized web spaces and their implications. By 
investigating historical controversies and debates surrounding the 
increasing datafication of the web and uncovering historical instances 
of innovative data use or resistance practices against the datafication 
of the web, this conference also aims at reconstructing vivid and key 
debates that are transversal to the history of the web. How did the 
datafied web provide for the sensory media environments that we are now 
living in?

Finally, we wish to discuss innovative research methodologies for 
uncovering the historical dimensions of the datafied and metrified web, 
as well as methods that are approaching web archives as data (from an 
archiving and research perspective) and explore them through distant 
reading, metadata, seed lists, and other methods. Plus, we want to 
encourage everyone to think about datafication as a practice of sensing 
and sense-making that creates, sustains, and undermines media environments.

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Topics: Infrastructures, Publics, Archives — see online call for details

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Possible formats — see online call for details
Individual papers of 15 minutes (500-word abstract).
Panel sessions consisting of three individual papers of 15 minutes, 
introduced by a chair (500-word abstract for each paper, a brief 
300-word description of the purpose of the panel).
Other unconventional proposals like sessions of lightning talks, 
roundtables, etc., are welcome (300-word abstract).
A session “My PhD in 5 Minutes” is foreseen (please apply by providing a 
300-word abstract)
Acceptance of submissions is based on double-blind peer review.

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Submissions for the RESAW Conference: deadline is 15 October 2024
Submissions are welcome from all fields and disciplines, and we would 
particularly encourage postgraduate students and early career 
researchers to participate. We also encourage contributions that 
highlight non-Western and non-hegemonic developments. Contributions on 
practical challenges of web archiving in current moments of crisis are 
also very welcome.

The RESAW conference is organized by the CRC 1187 Media of Cooperation 
in collaboration with the RESAW Conference Committee. The conference is 
funded in part, by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Projektnummer 
262.513.311 – SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation and in part by the 
Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), [INTER/DFG/23/17960744/DIGMEDIA].

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