[Commlist] 4S Panel - Call for abstracts: Researching the Digital Everyday

You are invited to submit your abstracts for our panel on Digital 
Everyday for 4S 2026, Toronto. Both in-person and Zoom participations 
are accepted in our panel.

The submission deadline is 30 April 2026.

Here is the panel call for abstracts:

  STS scholars of digital technologies, the digital humanities, and 
media and communication studies, all frequently point to the pervasive 
presence of digital devices throughout everyday life to argue the import 
of their various research programs. While most anyone can “negotiate 
access” to everyday life, it remains elusive; by nature something that 
is takenfor-granted, mundane, and usually tedious (Löfgren, 2008; 
Johnstone, 2008; Perec, 1997; Ehn and Löfgren, 2010). The lived 
experience of everyday life is inextricably related with one’s 
positionality in highly stratified economic, political structures, 
geographic positionality, and historical moment (Willim, 2024). Everyday 
life saturated with digital media technologies afford a select few tech 
firms “unprecedented power to observe and intervene in people’s everyday 
lives” (Matias et al.). This interplays with the other inequities that 
inform everyday experiences. For this panel, we invite projects which 
engage an everyday life theory framework– broadly defined–to the 
technologies and sociotechnical systems which uphold and augment notions 
of the everyday in different national, historical, geopolitical, and 
cultural contexts. We are particularly interested in contexts where 
digitalization, and ‘always-on’ modes of orienting towards digital 
communication technologies, have matured to be experienced and 
apprehended as mundane. We invite any projects which probe the forms, 
norms, and contours of the everyday, for example: How everyday life can 
act as a mechanism through which scholars might help communities develop 
“critical vision” of their everyday lives, and engage with rigorous 
thinking about their experiences of routines and rhythms of contemporary 
life. How ongoing engagement with communication technologies and media 
in everyday life complicates theories of everyday life The relations 
between individuals and systems–infrastructures, political processes, 
popular culture–instantiated by contemporary digital device

For more information check:
https://4sonline.org/call_for_open_panels_toronto.php 
<https://4sonline.org/call_for_open_panels_toronto.php>
Or email (Nhajir2 /at/ uic.edu) <mailto:(Nhajir2 /at/ uic.edu)>

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