[Commlist] ICA 2020 Post-conference Call For Papers: Digital Inequalities and Emerging Technologies: Regimes, Spaces, and Imaginaries

ICA 2020 Post-conference *Call For Papers*:
Digital Inequalities and Emerging Technologies: Regimes, Spaces, and 
Imaginaries

Date: Wednesday, May 27,  2020, 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: S226, Lvl 2, John Woolley Building (A20), University of 
Sydney, Sydney

Sponsoring ICA Divisions: Activism, Communication and Social Justice 
Interest Group; Communication and Technology Division

Organisers:
Sharon Strover, University of Texas-Austin, 
(sharon.strover /at/ austin.utexas.edu) <mailto:(sharon.strover /at/ austin.utexas.edu)>
Justine Humphry, University of Sydney (justine.humphry /at/ sydney.edu.au) 
<mailto:(justine.humphry /at/ sydney.edu.au)>
Sora Park, University of Canberra, (sora.park /at/ canberra.edu.au) 
<mailto:(sora.park /at/ canberra.edu.au)>
Teresa Swist, Western Sydney University, (t.swist /at/ westernsydney.edu.au) 
<mailto:(t.swist /at/ westernsydney.edu.au)>
Danielle Wyatt, University of Melbourne (danielle.wyatt /at/ unimelb.edu.au) 
<mailto:(danielle.wyatt /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>

Keynote speaker
Professor Eszter Hargittai, University of Zurich
Others TBD

Description
Problems of digital exclusion have traditionally been associated with 
lack of access to technology. Increasingly digital exclusion also 
emerges with the active agency of state and corporate institutions using 
AI, smart city infrastructures, surveillance systems and even robotics. 
The aim of this post-conference is to make connections between a diverse 
range of disciplinary areas that have studied digital inequalities 
including digital inclusion research, data justice, critical race and 
digital media studies, data sovereignty and digital rights.

Inequalities occur along multiple fronts including geography, social 
class, race, gender, age, and institutional systems and policies. They 
also can be shaped by powerful imaginaries of digitally-enabled futures 
promising efficiency, safety and economic prosperity. Data-driven and 
algorithmic processes related to smart technologies, artificial 
intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), facial-recognition and 
robotics demand an extension from traditional concerns around digital 
exclusion to account for the potential to produce systemic abuses and 
extenuate disadvantage.

The post-conference is an opportunity to examine the ways in which new 
technologies, including those that link digital networks and data via 
tracking tools and algorithms, add to the unequal distribution of 
digital benefits and perpetuate and even worsen inequalities in the 
expansion of the Digital Welfare State and other kinds of neoliberal, 
policing and techno-centric systems.  It also examines the kinds of 
civic, open and public institutions – such as libraries, local 
governments, community media, and justice movements – that are 
increasingly important for ameliorating digital inequalities and 
countering imaginaries premised upon techno-centric fixes.

Co-organised by the University of Sydney, University of Canberra, the 
University of Texas at Austin, Western Sydney University and the 
University of Melbourne, this Digital Inequalities Post-ICA Conference 
recontextualises digital inequalities within the context of emerging 
technologies and their affiliated social and political regimes, spaces 
and imaginaries. We seek to bring together researchers from multiple 
disciplinary perspectives to discuss the impact of digital inequalities 
in multiple sites.

We welcome submissions from theoretical and empirical inquiries that 
examine the following areas:
- Digital inclusion practices in social institutions
- Inequalities and algorithmic governance in data driven society
- Market logics and digital inequalities
- The lived experience of digital exclusion
- Alternative imaginaries for social justice and activism
- Bias in algorithms, interface and design
- Big data, smart technologies and surveillance
- Intersectionality and digital inequalities
- Digital media and algorithmic literacies in platform capitalism

Submitting your abstract: Please submit abstracts for 15 minute paper 
presentations through this Form no later than *Feb 1, 2020*. Abstracts 
are limited to a maximum of 4,000 characters including spaces 
(approximately 500 words).

Contributors will be selected by peer-review and will be notified of 
decisions on or before March 1, 2020. Authors are expected to attend the 
post-conference and present in person.

We will explore the potential of a thematic publication of 
post-conference materials as a special issue in a journal or as an 
edited volume.

All participants must register for the post-conference. Registration 
costs will be $50.00 USD  or $75 AU which covers coffee breaks and 
lunch. To register, participants should follow the instructions on: 
www.icahdq.org <http://www.icahdq.org>.

Key dates:
1 Feb 2020: Deadline for abstract submission
1 March 2020: Corresponding authors notified of decisions
1 May 2020: Post-Conference registrations close
21-25 May ICA Conference, Gold Coast
27 May 2020: Post-conference in Sydney

Location: Please note that this event will take place off-site at the 
University of Sydney in room S226, Level 2, John Woolley (A20) at 
Camperdown campus. The post-conference will conclude at 5:00pm on May 27 
with a cocktail reception following. Recommendations for nearby hotels 
will follow.

Contact: If you have any questions regarding the submission, please 
contact Sora Park at (sora.park /at/ canberra.edu.au) 
<mailto:(sora.park /at/ canberra.edu.au)>



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