[Commlist] Disentangling Digital Feminist Technoscience - Call for Abstracts

*DISENTANGLING DIGITAL FEMINIST TECHNOSCIENCE*
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_Deadline for abstract submission: *December*_*_ 18, 2020_*

Convenors:
Mariacristina Sciannamblo,  Sapienza University of Rome – 
(mariacristina.sciannamblo /at/ uniroma1.it) 
<mailto:(mariacristina.sciannamblo /at/ uniroma1.it)>
Letizia Zampino, Sapienza University of Rome – 
(letizia.zampino /at/ uniroma1.it) <mailto:(letizia.zampino /at/ uniroma1.it)>


Feminist Technoscience Studies (FTS) has been defined as a 
“trandisciplinary field” (Åsberg & Lykke, 2010) as it merges social 
studies of science and technology and the multiple critical intellectual 
legacies of feminist critique. It shares sensibilities concerned with 
how to enact silence, give voice to the traditionally invisible, 
interrogate boundaries, uncover local and marginal positions enacted by 
technoscientific practices. In this respect, a growing body of research 
at the intersection of STS and digital technologies (Vertesi and Ribes 
2019) invites to disentangle the relations between humans and 
computational machines through feminist sensibilities. As a matter of 
fact, recent analyses concerning sites and practices shaped by digital 
technologies have investigated the ways through which they are biased in 
terms of gender, sex, labor, class, ethnicity, (dis)ability. These 
perspectives allow to see, for example: how health-related applications, 
wearable devices – that offer new possibilities for monitoring, 
measuring and visualizing bodily and everyday wellbeing – are interwoven 
in our experience of embodiment, contributing to reconfigure our meaning 
of body (Sumartojo et al. 2016); how medical models and social norms, 
inscribed in the materiality of digital technologies, provide the body 
on the dichotomy male/female (Clarke et al. 2010); how the contribution 
of female work to the development of computing has been underrecognized 
or neglected (Hicks 2017); how gender issues are embedded within 
computing cultures (Dunbar-Hester 2019); how negative biases against 
women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms 
(Noble 2018); how users of commercial platforms are socially and 
creatively engaged, but also labourers exploited by the web companies 
(Jarrett 2015).
This track invites contributions that make empirical and theoretical 
reflections to the site of digital feminist technoscience, which may 
include (but are not limited to):
• technoscientific practices and genderization of digital spaces;
• digital technologies and embodied knowledge;
• women’s contribution to the development of computing;
• emotional labor and care work on digital platforms;
• gender, race, sexuality and computing practices (e.g. robotics, 
machine learning, programming);
• digital technologies and social innovation;
• feminist methods and digital technologies.


*Abstracts submission*
Submissions should be sent to the conference email address 
<(stsitaliaconf /at/ gmail.com)> <mailto:(stsitaliaconf /at/ gmail.com)> and to the 
emails of convenors <(mariacristina.sciannamblo /at/ uniroma1.it) 
<mailto:(mariacristina.sciannamblo /at/ uniroma1.it)>; 
(letizia.zampino /at/ uniroma1.it) <mailto:(letizia.zampino /at/ uniroma1.it)>>, and 
should include:

1. Author's name and surname, affiliation and email address
2. Presentation title
3. Abstract (less than 300 words)

For any inquiry, please contact: (mariacristina.sciannamblo /at/ uniroma1.it) 
<mailto:(mariacristina.sciannamblo /at/ uniroma1.it)> and 
(letizia.zampino /at/ uniroma1.it) <mailto:(letizia.zampino /at/ uniroma1.it)>

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