[ecrea] CfP: Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication (Leicester, 26 July 2016, IAMCR pre-conference)

Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication
An IAMCR 2016 pre-conference
University of Leicester
26 July 2016

Deadline for abstracts: (500 words): January 15, 2016
More information: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/algorithmic-surveillance
The call as pdf:
http://iamcr.org/sites/default/files/AlgoSurveillancePreconferenceCfP_0.pdf

The Snowden leaks have put mass surveillance on the public and academic
agendas. Data collection, interception and analysis by both state and
commercial actors are increasingly discussed and investigated, and
instances of mass data leaks underline the challenges of big data
gathering and storage. So what does the reality of surveillance and the
precarity of data security mean as our world is increasingly structured
by algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, the internet of
things, and robotic cultures? What are the challenges and solutions, and
what new concepts and practices need to be considered? What next?

Academic debates on posthumanism, futuristic philosophical endeavours,
and scholarly fields such as science and technology studies have
approached these questions, but they have not been very prominent at
IAMCR. This preconference will therefore address these current debates
on the future of media and communications.

We welcome researchers who are eager to discuss the consequences of
algorithmic communication and artificial intelligence to the field of
media and communication. We particularly invite studies on the long-term
challenges to privacy and surveillance in digital networks as they are
emerging in the area of ethics and politics of algorithmic
communication, and on the employment of AI in areas such as policing,
healthcare, social services, education, the digital economy and the
cultural industries.

For this pre-conference workshop we are interested in the following themes:

- The politics and ethics of algorithmic communication and security
- Challenges of the employment of AI in policing, social services, etc.
- Privacy and security in the context of the internet of things
- Roles and implications of corporate, governmental and civil society
production of algorithmic communication
- Accountability and agency in the ‘black box society’
- The role of human/civic rights in the context of AI and algorithmic
security
- Necessary policies, regulatory frameworks, and relevant standards
- Robot protests: sociopolitical cyberconflicts and resistance to
algorithmic security
- The pre-conference is associated with the projects The Common Good:
Ethics and Rights in Cyber - Security and Digital Citizenship and
Surveillance Society.



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Dr Arne Hintz

Senior Lecturer | Director MA Digital Media and Society

School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies | Cardiff University

Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue | Cardiff CF10 3NB

Principal Investigator | ESRC project 'Digital Citizenship and
Surveillance Society'

Fellow | Center for Media, Data and Society | Central European University

Email: (HintzA /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)

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