[Commlist] AusSTS 2025 Conference 'Signals and Noises' - CFP

*Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference*

*Theme: Signals and Noises *

*9-11 July 2025*

*Naarm/Melbourne*

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The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference is now open! This 
year’s theme is ‘Signals and Noises’. Please submit your proposals _via 
this form 
<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=7Hgj0IgW1UaFQBwotfRw9qAINXVXg4RLoPbYgoC38XVUNU5MVDFIWFdLUTRSTDFNUldKWlNaMEFTWC4u&route=shorturl>_. 
We invite submissions for presentations, posters, meet-ups, making and 
doing sessions, and pre-submitted papers - the CFP will be open until 
*Friday 14 March* (11:59pm AEDT).

This year’s conference will take place across three days, from Wednesday 
July 9th to Friday July 11th in Narrm/Melbourne. Day 1 will take place 
at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn. Days 2 and 3 will take 
place at Deakin Downtown (Docklands).

For more information and details about the conference theme please check 
out the AusSTS _website <https://aussts.org/aussts-2025-cfp/>_. We will 
be announcing details of national and international keynote speakers in 
coming weeks - please stay tuned!


*‘SIGNALS AND NOISES’*


AusSTS 2025 seeks to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, 
practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of 
information theory - the problem of *noise*.

Noise (as distortion, as error) is a problem for communication - it 
corrupts and contaminates communication signals (as they fly along wires 
or along undersea cables for example). But to eliminate noise entirely 
is to shut signals down, to sever communication. To perfectly silence 
noise would also mean perfectly silencing the signal to which it 
belongs. Signal and noise are intimately, iteratively bonded in their 
material production, reception and translation. What questions then 
might /signals and noises/ ask of STS? Is it simply a case, as it was 
for Shannon and Weaver (1949) of eliminating noise as far as possible in 
the service of signal? *Or can we listen to ‘noise’ differently?* Can 
the difference between what we seek to understand or convey on the one 
hand, and the ‘unintended things’ that trouble our efforts on the other, 
be illustrative? How might we work creatively with the flotsam and 
jetsam of research, or trace the twisting journeys of signals?

_We encourage submissions <https://forms.office.com/r/bvAgkWWize>_ that 
grapple with the entwined nature of signals and noises in our efforts to 
understand the world and listen to noise differently. We invite generous 
readings of the theme. For more information and suggestions on 
engagements with the theme, see <_https://aussts.org 
<https://aussts.org/>_/> or get in touch at <(_ausstsgrad /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(ausstsgrad /at/ gmail.com)>_>.


*Sponsored by*: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & 
Society (ADM+S), Deakin Science and Society Network, /Science, 
Technology, & Human Values/, and the National Communication Museum.


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