[Commlist] ECREA Audience and Reception Studies 2025 conference CfP - Navigating Algorithmic Society: Audiences’ tactics to understanding the world

    ECREA Audience and Reception Studies 2025


    Navigating Algorithmic Society: Audiences’ tactics to understanding
    the world


    October 30-31 2025 - Stockholm, Sweden


        The Media and Communications Department, Södertörn University,
        in collaboration with the ECREA ARS section, is organising the
        ARS mid-year conference 2025.


CfP: 
https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/calendar/events/2025-10-30-ecrea-audience-and-reception-studies-2025 
<https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/calendar/events/2025-10-30-ecrea-audience-and-reception-studies-2025>

*Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 May 2025*

*Maximum abstract lenght: 300 words (follow link below)*


    *Call for papers*

Social media platforms have dramatically changed the ways that people of 
all ages encounter and engage with news and information, as well as 
manage vital aspects of everyday life. The algorithmically governed 
media landscape of today, likewise, not only situates media users in a 
world of information plenty but shapes our daily practices and impacts 
on how we think, learn, and socialise.

This entanglement of media technologies and everyday life is challenging 
for a variety of reasons, not least as the structure of platforms is 
ephemeral and fluctuating. A notable example is how Twitter was swiftly 
turned into X, while the outcome of the American election pushed many 
users to leave the platform for less politicised alternatives. New 
platforms, similarly, emerge for the management of people’s professional 
networks, just as young people and children in many parts of the world 
rapidly gather around TikTok as a key source of information and 
entertainment.

The ephemerality of “the space of the world” of platforms is 
particularly pertinent to discuss in politically turbulent times, as the 
need for stable and predictable spaces for exchange of information and 
organisation of daily life is crucial – and increasingly threatened. 
Understanding the role and consequences of the shifting digital 
landscape for society and human life is an urgent task for scholars of 
varied fields related to media audiences, with a need to discuss the 
altering relationships between media technologies, audiences’ practices, 
and the use of content and information on social media. How do media 
users – across Europe and beyond – navigate and develop tactics to stay 
informed and socially connected in this rapidly shifting media landscape 
– and what does it mean for the spread of information, for social 
cohesion and for everyday life?


*Main topic:*

  * Navigating algorithmic society

*Subtopics:
*

  * Algorithms and datafication
  * Cross-European audience research
  * Social media and information
  * Platforms and everyday life
  * Media activism
  * Decolonization of the field
  * Participatory media
  * Audiences and popular culture
  * News use and information practices
  * Media use and socialization
  * Media literacies
  * Information disorders
  * Theoretical reflection and future perspectives of the field
  * Methodological discussions

Conference dates: *October 30-31 2025*
Deadline for submissions of abstracts: *May 1 2025*
Notification of acceptance: *June 1 2025*
Confirmation of attendance: *July 1 2025*


        *Confirmed keynote speakers *

*Stine Lomborg, Professor, University of Copenhagen Denmark *

**Professor Stine Lomborg’s research explores the meanings and 
implications of digital tracking and data-driven decisions for humans 
and societies, aiming at theory development regarding media and 
communication approaches to digital tracking and datafication. She is 
one of the directors of the research center Tracking and Society at the 
University of Copenhagen, project leader of the ERC project Datafied 
Living as well as editor of the recently published /The digital backlash 
and the paradoxes of disconnection/ (with Albris, K., Fast, K., Karlsen, 
F., Kaun, A., Lomborg, S., & Syvertsen, T. (2024), Nordicom

*Tiziano Bonini, Associate Professor, University of Siena, Italy *

Associate Professor Tiziano Bonini conducts research in the broad fields 
of platform studies, critical algorithm studies, media production 
studies and critical political economy, public service media and social 
construction of technology, often from a cultural studies perspective. 
He is the author of /Algorithms of Resistance: the everyday fight 
against platform power/ (with Emiliano Treré (2024), The MIT Press) and 
/Platformed! How streaming, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are 
shaping music cultures/ (with Magaudda, P. (2024), Palgrave McMillan).

*Andra Siibak, Professor of Media Studies at the Institute of Social 
Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia*

Her research interests are focused around opportunities and risks 
surrounding the use of the internet and new technologies. She has 
published widely on young people’s online practices, datafication of 
childhood, self-presentation on social media, teacher/parental/sibling 
mediation of young people’s technology use, mediatization of parenting, 
dataveillance and AI-based technology use in education, etc. In 2021, 
she co-authored together with Giovanna Mascheroni /Datafied Childhoods: 
Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives/, published by Peter 
Lang.



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