[Commlist] Conference on What does a good digital society look like? CFP

*ESRC DIGITAL GOOD NETWORK: What does a good digital society look like?*
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  *Submit your abstract or proposal by 29 October 2026**
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Are you a researcher with ideas about how to improve our digital worlds, 
now and in the future? If so, please join us at /What does a good 
digital society look like?, /a two-day conference in Sheffield, UK, on 
10th and 11th June 2027.

We invite proposals for papers, panels and workshops from researchers 
from any discipline and stakeholders from any sector who are interested 
in coming together to talk about the digital society in which we want to 
live. We welcome different types of presentations, including 
theoretical, empirical, and methodological research papers, 
works-in-progress, practice-based work, and other kinds of contributions.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  * Ways to improve specific aspects of our digital worlds
  * Equity, fairness and overcoming biases in a better digital society
  * Environmental sustainability in a better digital society
  * Collective wellbeing in a good digital society
  * Digital technologies  and societal/psychological resilience
  * Theories, concepts and methods for imagining a better digital future
  * Radical, anti-colonial, global majority and indigenous visions of a
    good digital society
  * Politics and the digital good, including digital goodness washing
  * The perspectives of specific groups and communities on the digital good
  * Values for a good digital society
  * Evaluating the digital good
  * Human-centred design as empowerment
  * Methods for building more equitable technologies, eg that function
    well in low-resource languages and in diverse cultures and contexts.
*_Keynote speaker_*

We are delighted to announce that *Professor Ruha Benjamin*, 
transdisciplinary scholar, writer, educator, and cultural worker, and 
Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, will give 
the keynote address at the conference. Her work is a major source of 
inspiration for our own, especially her (2019) invitation to "Remember 
to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you 
dismantle the ones you cannot live within". She is also Founding 
Director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab, and author of four books, 
Imagination: A Manifesto (2024),Viral Justice (2022), Race After 
Technology (2019), and People’s Science (2013), and editor of 
Captivating Technology (2019).

*_Plenary speakers will include_*

*Jean Burgess,* Distinguished Professor of Digital Media, Queensland 
University of Technology & Associate Director of the ARC Centre of 
Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society

*Susan Halford,* Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol and 
Director of the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures

*Rachel Coldicutt OBE,* Founder and Executive Director of Careful Industries

*Shakuntala Banaji, *Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change at 
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

*Jonathan Corpus Ong,* Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at 
UMass Amherst

*Sanjay Sharma*, Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary 
Methodologies, University of Warwick

*_Details_*

*Webpage:* https://digitalgood.net/conference-2027/ 
<https://digitalgood.net/conference-2027/>

*When: *Thursday 10 and Friday 11 June 2027

*Where:* Sheffield Hallam University, UK

*Participation fee:* £150 full fee / £100 for PhD students or those 
without institutional support. The fee covers conference attendance, 
refreshments and lunches during the event and an evening reception on 
the first day. Travel, accommodation and evening meals are not covered.


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