[ecrea] CfA: APC 2018 'Personalized Communication and Behavioural Engineering'

*Call for Abstracts: AMSTERDAM PRIVACY CONFERENCE 2018 (APC 2018)*
*Theme 'Personalized Communication and Behavioural Engineering’*
*5-8 October 2018, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)*
https://apc2018.com
Deadline for paper abstract/panel abstract: 15 April 2018

The 2018 Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2018) brings together 
researchers, practitioners, policy makers and professionals in the field 
of privacy to share insights, exchange ideas and formulate, discuss and 
answer the challenging privacy questions that lie ahead of us. APC 2018 
intends to be a lively forum to discuss privacy issues, held in the 
capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam.

APC 2018 is organised by the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research 
(APPR), a network of researchers at the University of Amsterdam, with 
active participants from diverse fields, including philosophy, law, 
economics, computer science, medicine, media and communication studies 
and social sciences. APC 2018 is the follow-up to the highly successful 
conferences APC 2015 and APC 2012.

The conference will take place on 5-8 October 2018 at the intimate venue 
of the Roeterseiland in the heart of Amsterdam. It will include plenary 
sessions, parallel sessions, and panel discussions with invited 
speakers, as well as presentations from respondents to this call for 
papers. The goal of the conference is to bring together academics, 
policy makers, journalists, and practitioners to promote active 
discussion on timely topics, and foster debate on privacy issues between 
participants from various backgrounds and perspectives.

One of the topics that especially might be of interest is Topic 5 
'Personalized Communication and Behavioural Engineering’. This theme 
discusses how news media track consumers to offer more “personally 
relevant” content; Google and Facebook “personalize” search results; 
political profiling allows politicians to adjust their messages to the 
preferences of the audience. Personalized communication can be used to 
steer citizens; nudging allows for soft-paternalism. Can and will these 
types of behavioural engineering be used to promote the ‘good life’ or 
will they gradually undermine individual autonomy and create filter 
bubbles that produce one-dimensional citizens?

Download the call for papers: 
https://apc2018.com/onewebmedia/APC_extended_deadline.pdf
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