[Commlist] CfP: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society

We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our next conference 
at the Data Justice Lab themed:

*Civic Participation in the Datafied Society*

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Date: May 28-29, 2020

Location: Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK.

Host: Data Justice Lab

As the generation, collection and analysis of data continues to 
transform key aspects of our society across economics, politics and 
culture, the question of participation has rarely been so pertinent. 
Democratic processes and traditional avenues for participation are 
facing challenges as state-citizen relations are increasingly shaped 
through data analytics and automation at the same time as alternative 
visions for participatory democracy and decision-making have 
proliferated. As citizens, we are said to be both coerced and active 
participants in this shift, both liberated and exploited in the use of 
digital tools, both more visible and more obscured in data-driven 
systems. How, then, should we understand civic participation in the 
datafied society? In what ways are we positioned as citizens in the 
advancement of datafication? How are decisions made, governance carried 
out, and systems created? What possibilities exist to intervene in, 
influence, create and resist power? Who gets to participate and on what 
terms? How might our institutions and government practices need to 
change? What are strategies for democratising the emergent datafied 
society? And what are avenues for enhancing citizen and community 
participation?

This two-day event explores the relationship between datafication and 
participation. Hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s 
School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), it will bring together 
international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups 
to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a 
datafied society. Speakers include:

Carly Kind (Ada Lovelace Institute)

Mark Andrejevic (Monash University, Australia)

Nanjira Sambuli (World Wide Web Foundation)

Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

Rashida Richardson (AI Now)

Tawana Petty (Detroit Digital Justice Coalition)

The conference will include both scholarly contributions and workshops 
with civil society, practitioners and impacted communities in order to 
facilitate and advance knowledge exchange. We therefore welcome 
alternative formats and ideas. Themes for submissions include (but are 
not limited to):


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    Citizen juries, assemblies and audits

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    Participatory data governance and oversight

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    Data commons and co-operatives

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    Data activism and resistance

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    Participatory design and design justice

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    Digital and human labour in data

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    Participation, exploitation and coercion

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    Geopolitics of participation

*Submissions*

Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 15thof December, 2019

Submit via 
EasyChair:https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=datajustice2020
All submissions must include a title, author name(s), institutional 
affiliation(s) and full contact information (mailing address, email 
address). If you propose a workshop or practical demonstration, please 
provide a clear statement of purpose and a detailed description of 
activities, as well as any infrastructure requirements. Please note that 
time-slots for sessions are 90 minutes. If more is needed, please 
include an explanation.

*How to get there*

Cardiff is a 2-hour train journey west of London and Heathrow airport. 
The closest airports are Cardiff and Bristol.


*Conference fee*

Full fee: £75 (early bird) / £100

Reduced fee for students and civil society: £50 (early bird) / £75


*Conference organizing committee*: Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Joanna 
Redden and Emiliano Treré (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK)


For information about the Data Justice Lab, 
see:http://www.datajusticelab.org

Online CfP:https://datajusticelab.org/data-justice-2020/

Hashtag: #DataJustice2020

Contact for further information:https://datajusticelab.org/contact/




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