[Commlist] CfP GIG-ARTS 2022: "Global Internet Governance and International Human Rights - Whose Rights, Whose Interpretations?"

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*GIG-ARTS 2022 - The Sixth European Multidisciplinary Conference on 
Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies
13-14 April 2022, Nicosia
Global Internet Governance and International Human Rights
/Whose Rights, Whose Interpretations?
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*/Call for Abstracts - Deadline:  1st February 2022 /*
Calls for states, but also companies to ensure the compliance of digital 
tools and products with international human rights standards 
are ever-present. While this abstract goal has become somewhat of 
a globalist consensus, the legal, political, and institutional 
conditions needed to get there are far from clear: how can international 
human rights law initiate improvements in different areas, given 
its indeterminate, often even disputed nature? What are the risks of the 
reference to international human rights law, in terms of 
stabilizing preexisting disparities or power concentrations through 
illusive improvements? Where does the reference to human rights 
only provide a new, improved language for a non-improved status quo? 
Could private internet companies provide a protection of human rights 
online comparable to that of judicial institutions? Ultimately, whose 
human rights, and whose interpretations are determining the present 
and future of global internet governance?

This event invites scholars and actors in the practice and policy world 
to re-examine and revisit the state and role of human rights in 
the digital world, as this is shaped by technological and 
political economic changes of ‘platformisation’, privatization of public 
spaces, erosion and abuse of certain rights, the pressure imposed on a 
decade of successive crises from financial, environmental to health, and 
the re-emergence of authoritarian politics and modes of governance.

In recent years, the everyday life of humanity has been affected 
dramatically by the experience of a global pandemic, where public 
health political responses have been met with varying degrees 
of acceptance. The severity and nature of this impact differs greatly 
among regions and within societies, across genders and socioeconomic 
discrepancies, bringing back to the fore the persistence and deeply 
engrained footprint of social inequalities. Within this context of 
emergency, crisis and exacerbation of inequities, the digital world 
occupied a center stage in the social, cultural and professional 
spheres. The heightened physical and mental health crisis across the 
globe is intertwined with a long and arduous struggle in governing 
digital platforms for the benefit of humanity vis-a-vis the 
profit driven dominant model. The latter has impacted not only on the 
ways in which users on platforms are adjusted to the needs of the 
platform, systematically and technologically through the use of AI, 
rather than the opposite, but have also impacted on understandings and 
conceptualizations of fundamental freedoms and rights, as they are 
shaping social conceptualizations of what privacy means, the extent of 
free speech and hate speech, the extent of misinformation and the 
exercise of informational rights.

After having addressed “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy 
Issue” at its first edition in 2017, “Overcoming Inequalities in 
Internet Governance” in 2018, “Europe as a Global Player in Internet 
Governance” in 2019, and “Online Information Governance” in 2020, 
The European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance 
Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies turns its 
attention this year to the governance of human rights in the 
digital world, continuing the conversation on global internet governance 
from attention to institutions and structural factors to the role of 
content and misinformation as an object of governance, and internet 
actors as forces of change.

In addition to general internet governance issues and 
topics, submissions are particularly welcome on the following possible 
areas of investigation:

- How human rights translate in a digital world: losses, gains and 
shifting of priorities
- Human rights duties and responsibilities of respective internet 
governance stakeholders
- From high-level panels on digital cooperation to digital conventions: 
towards a new digital world order?
- The role of European and global institutions in shaping the conditions 
of human rights and democracy online
- Global platforms, conflicts of jurisdictions and extraterritorial 
legislations
- Weaponization of platforms to interfere in political processes and 
harass individuals and groups
- Responsibility and liability of platforms and other intermediaries in 
content regulation
- Governance from below: practices and principles by civil society 
aiming to shape the conditions of technology
- Restrictive regulation and the securitization of content
- Structural role of individual targeting, behavioral advertising and 
other economic models of online platforms on the reshaping 
of fundamental freedoms and democracy
- Privacy, misinformation, democracy: challenges to internet governance
- From nudging to manipulation: consequences on autonomy and human dignity
- Freedom of expression, freedom of the press and democracy
- Youth and other vulnerable groups: access to information, news and 
misinformation in the online world

*/Submission information and publication Opportunities
/*Authors are invited to submit their extended abstracts (no longer than 
500 words), describing their research question(s), 
theoretical framework, approach and methodology, expected findings or 
empirical outcome. Submitted abstracts will be evaluated through 
a peer-review process.

Abstracts and authors’ information should be submitted through the 
Easychair conference management system at:
*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2022 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2022>*
*
*Authors of selected submissions will have the opportunity to submit 
their full manuscript for publication.

*/Conference Grant for Students
/*The GIG-ARTS conference and the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research 
| Hans-Bredow-Institut are proud to encourage the participation 
of emerging researchers through the HBI/GIG-ARTS Emerging Scholars 
Network project set up in 2022. Up to 10 exceptional submissions from 
emerging researchers will be selected to receive a grant of 500 EUR 
each, to help cover their conference participation costs. Masters or PhD 
Students who have not yet been awarded a PhD by the time of the 
conference are eligible.

In addition to presenting their work at GIG-ARTS 2022, the grantees will 
share their research via a short blog post on the HBI’s Media Research 
Blog, Podcast, or another science transfer format and will join a set of 
network building sessions leading up to the conference.

*To be considered for the grant programme, Masters or PhD students must, 
in addition to the abstract submission process set out above, notify the 
Co-Chairs of their application for the conference grant via an email to: 
(events /at/ gig-arts.eu) <mailto:(events /at/ gig-arts.eu)>*; no additional documents 
are required.

*/Key dates
/*- Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st February 2022
- Notification to authors: 1st March 2022
- Authors registration (at least one author must register for a selected 
presentation to appear on the programme): From 1st to 14 March 2022
- Programme publication: 21 March 2022
- Online registration: From 21 to 31 March 2022
- Conference dates: 13 & 14 April 2022

*/GIG-ARTS 2022 Co-Organizers and Co-Sponsors
/*- Frederick University, Cyprus
- COST Action GDHRNet - The Global Digital Human Rights Network, EU
- Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut, Germany
- LIP6 Computer Science Research Lab, Sorbonne Université & French 
National Center for Scientific Research, France
- The Media Governance and Industries Research Lab & Jean Monnet Centre 
of Excellence FreuDE, University of Vienna, Austria

*/GIG-ARTS 2022 Co-Chairs
/*- Konstantinos Kouroupis, Department of Law, Frederick University, Cyprus
- Meryem Marzouki, LIP6, CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France
- Katharine Sarikakis, Media Governance and Industries Research Lab 
& Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence FreuDE, University of Vienna, Austria
and, as junior chair,
- Martin Fertmann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | 
Hans-Bredow-Institut, Germany

*/GIG-ARTS 2022 Organizing Committee
/*- Martin Fertmann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research 
| Hans-Bredow-Institut, Germany
- Vassiliki Karagouni, Department of Law, Frederick University, Cyprus
- Konstantinos Kouroupis, Department of Law, Frederick University, Cyprus
- Meryem Marzouki, LIP6, CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France
- Katharine Sarikakis, Media Governance and Industries Research Lab 
& Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence FreuDE, University of Vienna, Austria

*/GIG-ARTS 2022 Scientific Programme Committee
/*- Francesco Amoretti, University of Salerno, Italy
- Mutlu Binark, Hacettepe, University, Turkey
- Eric Brousseau, Université Paris Dauphine, France
- Andrea Calderaro, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- George Christophides, Frederick University & Legal Partners, Cyprus
- Dimitrios Devetzis, Frederick University, Cyprus
- Martin Fertmann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research 
| Hans-Bredow-Institut, Germany
- Louise Marie Hurel, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
- Matthias Kettemann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | 
Hans-Bredow-Institut, Germany & University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Konstantinos Kouroupis, Frederick University, Cyprus
- Joanna Kulesza, University of Lodz, Poland
- Nanette S. Levinson, American University Washington DC, USA
- Eva Lievens, Ghent University, Belgium
- Robin Mansell, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
- Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France
- Trisha Meyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Tiina Pajuste, Tallinn University, Estonia
- Stavros Parlalis, Frederick University, Cyprus
- Clara Rauchegger, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Michele Rioux, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
- Graziella Romeo, Bocconi University, Italy
- Mauro Santaniello, University of Salerno, Italy
- Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Yves Schemeil, Sciences Po Grenoble, France
- Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University, The Netherlands & University 
of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Mart Susi, Tallinn University, Estonia

*/Venue
/*GIG-ARTS 2022 will be held at Frederick University, Nicosia Campus, 
situated in the Pallouriotissa area, just two kilometers from the 
city center.
We are hopeful that we could meet there in person next Spring. However, 
if the sanitary conditions are such that travels are suspended, 
the conference will be turned into an online event.

*/Conference Registration and Fees
/*Registration fees are 100€ for regular participants and 50€ for 
students showing proof of status. The conference fees include 
a participant kit as well as coffee breaks and meals.

*/GIG-ARTS 2022 Communication Details
/*- Website: events.gig-arts.eu <http://events.gig-arts.eu/>
- Email for information: (events /at/ gig-arts.eu) <mailto:(events /at/ gig-arts.eu)>
- Submissions: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2022 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2022>*
- Twitter: @GigArtsEU - Hashtag: #GIGARTS22
- Mailing list for updates: http://tinyurl.com/yc7rvxm4 
<http://tinyurl.com/yc7rvxm4>


Mauro Santaniello (PhD)
/Internet & Communication Policy Centre /
/Department of Political and Social Studies /
/Università degli Studi di Salerno /
/Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy /
/
//E. (msantaniello /at/ unisa.it) <mailto:(msantaniello /at/ unisa.it)>/
/W. http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello 
<http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello>/
/Skype: internetpolicy /
/T. twitter.com/webvoodoo <http://twitter.com/webvoodoo>/
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/*Recent publications*/
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M.Santaniello (2021) "From Governance Denial to State Regulation: A 
Controversy-Based Typology of Internet Governance Models." In Haggart 
B., Tusikov N., Scholte J.A. (eds.) /Power and Authority in Internet 
Governance. Return of the State? /Routledge.
/
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N.Palladino, M.Santaniello (2021)./ Legitimacy, Power, and Inequalities 
in the Multistakeholder Internet Governance. //Analyzing IANA 
Transition/. Palgrave Macmillan.

*/Pubblicazioni recenti in italiano/*

M. Santaniello (2021) "Fortezza Internet.//L’incastellamento del 
cyberspazio e il regime feudale della cyber security." In Amoretti 
F./Per una cultura della sicurezza democratica/ Pag.131-148 Soveria 
Mannelli Rubbettino.

F. Amoretti, M. Santaniello (2021) "Sovranità (con)tese. Le digital 
corporation nello spazio pubblico globale." In F.Tuccari; G. Borgognone 
/La sovranità/ Pag.175-194

M. Santaniello (2021) "Sunburst. La grande eclissi della cybersecurity Usa."
/Rivista di Digital Politics/. Vol. 1/2021. Pag.179-194.

F. Amoretti, M. Santaniello (2021), "Partecipazione politica e opinione 
pubblica online in tempo di crisi." /Iride/ Vol. 92. Pag.57-67.

F. Amoretti, R. Fittipaldi, M. Santaniello (2021), "Poteri monocratici e 
comunicazione politica ai tempi della pandemia. Dal governo Conte II al 
governo Draghi". /Comunicazione politica, n. /3/2021, pp. 333-356.


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