[Commlist] CfP - Resisting Digital Culture: dystopias, distortions, disconnections

// Resisting Digital Culture: dystopias, distortions, disconnections - 
10th May 2019, King's College London


Current debates about digital technology are caught in a death spiral of 
gloom, doom and anxiety. After a long period of optimism that 
accompanied the explosion of social media and assumptions of their 
democratic potential, today’s discourse is dominated by fear. Fear about 
the unchecked power of digital monopolies like Facebook, Google and 
Amazon; about the (ab)use of social media by far right political 
movements; about the psychopathologies, risks and trade-offs associated 
with constant and unyielding connectivity; fears about the radical 
surveillance enabled by the digital.

What are the actual dangers we face in a world where almost every aspect 
of our life is digitally mediated? What are the ways people are trying 
to respond to these dangers, individually and collectively? What 
solutions do society and technology offer for challenging total digital 
interpellation? This international conference will explore the digital 
pessimism that is currently engulfing our understanding of the internet 
and social media, and assess possibilities for resistance.


We shall explore a number of connected topics: risks connected to 
datafication and surveillance; dangers connected to authoritarian uses 
of the internet; the psychological perils of pervasive connection; and 
citizen/activist efforts to respond to these threats. The conference 
will include various panels, on a number of issues including Digital 
Overload/Digital Detox, Precarity and Automation, Activism and 
Oppression, Surveillance, Algorithmic Discrimination, Digital Politics.


The conference is organised by the Centre for Digital Culture and will 
take place on Friday May 10th 2019 At King's College London


To present at the conference pleasesubmit a 200 words abstract here:

https://easychair.org/cfp/ResistDigital2019

The Call for Papers closes on 28th March 2019. Acceptance notices will 
be given by April 10th.



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