[Commlist] Call for abstract - 4th Digital Geographies Conference (Lisbon) - Session 'Methods, Tools and Skills to Open the Black Box. Exploring Knowledge Transfers in Digital Geographies'

Please see our call for papers below:


4th Digital Geographies Conference 
<https://ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeographies/>
*Methods, Tools and Skills to Open the Black Box*
*Exploring Knowledge Transfers in Digital Geographies*
*Abstract Deadline : 30th. April 2025*
Conference : 3-4th November 2025
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon 
(Portugal)


This Special Session calls for papers which engage with forming 
effective pedagogical approaches to the *transfer of digital-geographic 
skills and knowledge*.


Geography has often been at the forefront of epistemological and 
methodological shifts in the Social Sciences, from the 1950s’ 
quantitative turn (Burton, 1963; Longley, 2000) to the more recent Big 
Data debates (Kitchin, 2014). Digital Geography, as an ever-evolving 
field, reinvigorates this tradition, constantly forging new critical 
engagements, such as with ‘the new algorithmic turn’ (Kwan, 2018). 
Scholars are making rich contributions to our knowledge of digital life, 
from the platform economy to web-generated data. And yet, 
*digital-geographic inquiry continues to be hindered by methodological 
silos, barriers to collaboration*, and the continuous need for 
up-skilling in a fast-moving field.


We invite contributions which engage with the question of the 
solidification and transmission of digital methods. We welcome 
explorations of :

  * *'natively digital’ methods* (e.g., web-scraping, programmatic data
    processing) (Rogers, 2024)
  * *‘digital-ethnographic’* (e.g., digital walkthroughs, augmented
    interviews)
  * reflections on *horizontal *(between researchers), *vertical *(from
    researchers to students) and *circular *(self-learning) *transfers
    of knowledge*.
We encourage reflections on the critical and analytical toolkits 
necessary for digital-geographical enquiry which can best equip us to 
think ‘outside’ and ‘beyond’ the black box (Christin, 2020; Fields et. 
al 2020). Our interest is in reflecting on epistemological approaches 
which can critically interrogate the unequal accumulation of ‘digital 
capital’ (Ragnedda et.al <http://et.al/>, 2018) within the field and beyond.

Please submit your abstract on the 4th Digital Geographies 
<https://ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeographies/> submission page before 
April 30th 2025 for an in-person oral presentation.


Session organisers
Leah AARON & Myriam BOUALAMI
(leah.aaron.16 /at/ ucl.ac.uk) <mailto:(leah.aaron.16 /at/ ucl.ac.uk)> | 
(myriam.boualami /at/ parisgeo.cnrs.fr) <mailto:(myriam.boualami /at/ parisgeo.cnrs.fr)>


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