[ecrea] cfp - data power 2017

DATA POWER 2017

A two-day, international conference organized by Carleton and Sheffield 
universities.
Dates: 22nd & 23rd June 2017
Venue: School of Journalism & Communication, Carleton University, 
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Submission deadline: Friday 27th January 2017
Call for abstracts/proposals
Increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, data are constituted through 
converging technologies and practices such as the internet of things, 
smart cities, drones and precision agriculture; global finance, credit 
scoring and data brokerage firms; surveillance, predictive policing and 
customer relation management systems, to name a few. Data are also 
generated by and flow through applications, software, platforms, and 
infrastructures that reshape how we play, work, eat, socialise, see 
ourselves, and know the world. In an era of data power, data have become 
agentic, especially when input into black-boxed algorithms and systems 
whose outputs are used to profile and sort us, influence the political 
economy, and for purposes for which no consent was given. Is this a 
'fait accompli'?

To answer this question, the Data Power 2017 conference asks: How can we 
reclaim some form of data-based power and autonomy, and advance 
data-based technological citizenship, while living in regimes of data 
power? Is it possible to regain agency and mobilize data for the common 
good? To do so, which theories help to interrogate and make sense of the 
operations of data power? What kind of design frameworks are needed to 
build and deploy data-based technologies with values and ethics that are 
equitable and fair? How can big data be mobilized to improve how we 
live, beyond notions of efficiency and innovation?

This conference follows the successful Data Power 2015 Conference held 
in the UK and creates a space to reflect on these and other critical 
issues relating to data’s ever more ubiquitous power.

To date, the following keynote speakers and commentators on data power 
have been confirmed:

Helen Nissenbaum, New York University, co-author of Obfuscation: A 
User’s Guide to Privacy and Protest with Finn Brunton (2015), and PI of 
the Values in Design project;

Paul N.Edwards, University of Michigan, author of A Vast Machine: 
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010);

Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, author of Social Movements and 
Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change (2016), and PI of the DATACTIVE 
project;

Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland, author of The Black Box Society: 
The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (2015).

Papers and session/panel proposals are invited on the following - and 
other relevant - topics:

·     The political economy of data
·     Data and journalism
·     Theorizing data
·     The politics of data visualization
·     Data labour
·     The social life of data and data-driven methods
·     The politics of open and linked data
·     Data-driven governance, surveillance and control
·     Data, discrimination and inequality
·     Social, ethical and legal issues
·     Data citizens
·     Data activism, citizen engagement and advocacy
·     Data, genealogy and power
·     Data power and violence
·     Critical cultural and feminist approaches to data
·     Resistance, agency and appropriation.

Information/details

Whilst we welcome papers and sessions of all kinds, please note that 
this conference focuses on critical questions about data’s power and 
also papers that are critical and/or reflective with regards to the 
social and cultural consequences of the rise of data's power.

Please submit 250 word paper or panel proposals using the following 
online submission system:
https://ocs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/datapower/datapower2017

The deadline for paper proposals is Friday 27th January 2017.
The conference fee is $225 (CAD) for all, and $90 (CAD) for students.
The organising committee will select papers for a special issue on Data 
Power in the following peer reviewed journals: The Canadian Journal of 
Communication and Online Information Review.

Ottawa is Canada’s Capital, and is celebrating its 150th Anniversary in 
2017. The City is home to numerous international museums and galleries, 
and Carleton University is set along the beautiful Rideau River and the 
Rideau Canal.

Best wishes,
The Data Power Conference team
Tracey, Helen, Jo, Ganaele, Ysabel & Merlyna
(datapower2017 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(datapower2017 /at/ gmail.com)>
Tracey P. Lauriault & Merlyna Lim, Carleton University, Canada
Helen Kennedy & Jo Bates, University of Sheffield, UK
Ganaele Langlois, York University, Canada
Ysabel Gerrard, University of Leeds, UK
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