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[Commlist] CFP ICA-Preconference: Comparative Privacy and the Literacies of a Networked Age: A Critical Approach
Tue Feb 08 19:12:04 GMT 2022
Lemi Baruh is writing this e-mail to provide an update on a previous
ICA-Preconference CFP - Comparative Privacy and the Literacies of a
Networked Age: A Critical Approach:
1) Given the uncertainties regarding the pandemic, our updated CFP
reflects the potential availability of remote participation.
2) Additionally, we are happy to announce that the pre-conference
participants will be invited to revise their manuscripts to be submitted
to a special issue to be published in the open-access journal Social
Media & Society [APC's will be waived for the special issue]. 3) A
limited number of hardship waivers will be available for participants
from developing/transitional countries, students, and early career scholars.
In light of these updates, we are extending the deadline for submission
to the pre-conference to February 28, 2022, 23:59 GMT.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cprn2022ica#
The updated CFP is below:
https://comparativeprivacy.org/2022-ica-preconference/
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Comparative Privacy and the Literacies of a Networked Age: A Critical
Approach
Jointly organized by CPRN (Comparative Privacy Research Network,
https://comparativeprivacy.org/) in collaboration with CEJEM (Research
Network on Youth and Media) and hosted by the Center for Research on
Economies, Societies, Arts and Techniques (CRESAT) with support from the
Grand Est Region and the Greater Mulhouse Metropolitan Area
Endorsed by the following ICA divisions: Communication & Technology
Division, Communication Law & Policy Division, Children Adolescents and
Media Division and by the French Society of Information and
Communication Sciences (SFSIC)
NEW Deadline for Extended Abstracts: February 28, 2022, 23:59 GMT
OFF-SITE - | Université de Haute-Alsace, UHA’s Campus Fonderie - FSESJ
(Faculté des Sciences Economiques Sociales et Juridiques), 16, rue de la
Fonderie in Mulhouse
N.B. HYBRID FORMAT : A few selected presentations could be accommodated
remotely, please contact the organizers with your submission number if
this is your intention.
Registration Fee : 35 USD (via ICA)
Hardship Waivers : For participants from developing/transitional
countries and students/early career scholars who have been accepted to
present, a limited number of hardship waiver is available, upon
application. They will be exempt from the registration fee and/or will
be offered a round-trip train ticket from Paris to Mulhouse.
Conference date : May 25 - 9:30 - 17:00 - 2022
(Get-together May 24 20h)
Participants are invited to submit their revised work to a special issue
in the open access journal Social Media + Society, following the
pre-conference and on the topic of comparative privacy research (APCs
will be waived for articles in this special issue). While presenting at
the pre-conference does not guarantee acceptance of a paper in the
special issue and non-participation in the pre-conference does not
preclude submitting to the special issue, the pre-conference will serve
as a good opportunity for prospective special issue authors to receive
developmental feedback from the special issue editors.
Keywords: privacy, privacy literacy, digital literacy, cross-cultural
studies, comparative studies, media education
Digital mediation of everyday life (Couldry and Hepp, 2017) grows ever
more pervasive. Many everyday actions, from shopping to chatting to
entertainment or even political engagement, take place via increasingly
ubiquitous digital technology, hinging on storing and calculating the
traces of these actions. The capture of personal information and the
datafication (Meijas and Couldry, 2019) of social behaviors are
increasingly used for micro-targeting, predictive analytics, and
generalized surveillance (Zuboff, 2019). In light of these developments,
privacy has become an important object of study in various academic
disciplines, including communication studies.
Whether conceptualizations view privacy as an end in itself or as a
means to other ends such as autonomy and personal development (Rössler,
2005), they tend to focus on the protection of the intrinsic personality
of an individual against potential intrusions. Such intrusions can come
from fellow peers, but also from institutions, especially those with
mediatizing power (e.g., the press, social media platforms) and, of
course, the state. Privacy in digital environments is inherently
collective and dependent on the behaviors of others and institutional
practices (Marwick and boyd, 2014) and based on the continuous
negotiation of norms and rules for information disclosure and exchange
(Petronio, 2002; Rey, 2012). Agency of the individual is limited by the
vastness, interconnectedness, and opaqueness of data flows, and their
subsequent capture and analysis (Baruh and Popescu, 2017).
In academic research, multiple literacies linked to digital media use
coexist, like media literacy, social media literacy (Livingstone, 2014),
algorithmic literacy (Dogruel et al., 2021), and data literacy
(Pangrazio and Selwyn, 2018). Numerous studies on privacy have
specifically focused on privacy literacy as a crucial factor that can
help individuals to protect their privacy (e.g., Masur, 2020; Park,
2014; Trepte et al., 2015). Privacy literacy is here often
conceptualized as an extension of media literacy, a concept with a rich
history (Corroy, 2016; Bosler et al., 2021). Educators and scholars have
focused on digital and media literacy as a tool to reduce disparities
(Bosler, 2018), promote safer mediated interactions, and engage
citizenry—especially as societies have increasingly moved online.
Privacy literacy, as a dimension of the larger umbrella of digital and
media literacies, has become a key component to autonomy and democracy
in the information society and increasingly emerges as an important
avenue of privacy research (Masur, 2020).
Conceptualizations of privacy literacy continue to be
contested—especially when viewed from a global, comparative
perspective. Conceptions of privacy, and by extension privacy literacy,
hold deep cultural underpinnings (Wilhelm, 2021); yet, the
multidimensionality and contextuality of privacy are still often
underexplored in research that focuses on how privacy is valued,
measured, and enacted. Some argue that privacy in itself is only an
indicator for other endangered values and norms, and is simply
representative of tactics to avoid them (van der Sloot, 2016). A
comparative approach opens up new perspectives, beyond the Western
history and understandings of privacy.
Despite its importance, comparative privacy literacy research is
particularly challenging due to conceptual plurality and socio-technical
developments. We ask to engage with this challenge. We seek to examine
privacy literacy with a cross-cultural lens in order to illuminate
potential blindspots regarding its conceptualization and
operationalization, and to help guide research that will inform
policymaking and empowerment efforts aimed at preserving autonomy and
democracy in the digital age, including media education. Recent
discussions around voluntary disconnection (Schwarzenegger & Lohmaier,
2021; Kaun, 2021; Lomborg & Ytre-Arne, 2021; Markham, 2021) and digital
sobriety (Flipo, 2020) highlight the need to reframe the public privacy
debate beyond best practice of device and platform manipulation. They
call for drawing in the bigger picture and collective destinies linked
to privacy conceptions, to better understand the link between individual
politics and public policies. A comparative angle can help further
understand local contexts and positions towards these issues to avoid
both ethno- and technocentrism.
Program: Drawing on previous and ongoing conversations and
collaborations, this pre-conference aims to attend to privacy literacy’s
critical comparative nature by bringing together scholars that examine
the cultural, political, and otherwise contextualized aspects of privacy
literacy. The ultimate goal is to enhance conversation in communication
studies about the ways in which systematic comparative cross-cultural
analyses of privacy literacy may be conceptualized, theorized, and
operationalized in novel ways. This preconference will be organized in
two parts: First, keynotes will provide inputs on the central issues and
concepts involved such as privacy, comparative research, and media
literacy. Secondly, interactive sessions will focus on three main
aspects of comparative privacy literacy research, namely:
conceptualization, operationalization, and collaboration. These sessions
will bring together competitively selected presentations followed by a
discussion on the challenges of conceptualizing and operationalizing
critical privacy literacy from a cross-cultural perspective. The
presentation sessions will be followed by group activities where
participants will discuss solutions to particular challenges. This final
session will take the form of a guided discussion in the larger group
that will build on the diversity of the group in order to consider new,
future-oriented research questions and forge future collaborations.
Submission: This pre-conference invites unpublished, innovative papers
focusing on, but not limited to:
- research on media/digital literacy and mediated communication, where
knowledge or skills regarding privacy plays a role;
- empirical studies focusing on privacy literacy in a comparative fashion;
- current and new topics for literacies, including the digital ecology,
sobriety, algorithmic and privacy literacies, as well as persistent
areas of inequalities ;
- challenges and opportunities represented by comparative approaches to
studying privacy from a literacy perspective;
- qualitative and/or quantitative methodological approaches to studying
privacy and relevant literacies comparatively;
- challenges and opportunities represented by comparative approaches to
studying privacy and related literacies;
- discussions of pertinent dimensions of comparative privacy research;
- explorations of potential antecedents, mediators, and outcomes of
privacy-related perceptions, decision-making, and behavior;
- conceptualizations and interpretations of privacy and privacy outcomes
in non-WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic) contexts.
Both early career and senior scholars are welcome.
Organizers:
Local team members France, Mulhouse, CRESAT, Université de
Haute-Alsace ● Sabine Bosler is an assistant professor in information
and communication sciences at UHA (CRESAT) and has written her PhD
thesis on comparative digital culture and media education in a
french-german context and is currently contributing on developing
comparative approaches in communication science.
● Carsten Wilhelm is associate professor in information and
communication sciences at UHA (CRESAT) and researches the use of digital
media and digital culture comparatively in various projects. Co-founder
of the CPRN Comparative Privacy Research Network with Kelly Quinn and
Dmitry Epstein, he is currently co-coordinator of the French GENIC
research group on ethics in Digital Research, and member of the AoIR
ethics working group.
● International team members
● Dmitry Epstein is a researcher of internet governance and policy at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. For the past two years, he has
been working on questions of digital privacy, focusing on comparative
research across cultural and political boundaries.
● Philipp K. Masur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Communication Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
His research focuses on privacy and self-disclosure, persuasion and
social influence on social media, media literacy, and communication and
well-being.
● Kelly Quinn is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of
Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, has an
interdisciplinary research focus on new media and how it intersects with
such diverse areas as the life course, privacy, social capital, and
friendship. Her recent studies have centered on the processes by which
individuals conceptualize and navigate their privacy online.
● Lemi Baruh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and
Visual Arts, Koc University (Turkey). Lemi does research in
Communication and Media, focusing on surveillance and social psychology
of privacy and disclosure.
● Christoph Lutz is an Associate Professor at the Department of
Communication and Culture and at the Nordic Centre for Internet and
Society, BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo). His research interests lie
in the area of digital technologies and include social media, online
participation, privacy and digital inequalities. In addition, Christoph
is interested in digital labor, the sharing economy and social robots.
Keynote speakers will be announced on our website :
https://comparativeprivacy.org/
SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS
Authors should submit an extended abstract of 800 words (not including
references, figures, and tables) to:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cprn2022ica#
By January 31 February 28, 2022.
The extended abstracts should include the main idea/argument, research
questions, a short literature review and/or theoretical perspectives,
information on methodology and empirical findings (if applicable). We
welcome different approaches, including discussions of literature,
concepts and theories, historical perspectives, and empirical analyses.
All submitted abstracts must include name, affiliation and contact
details. Decisions on acceptance of the extended abstracts will be made
by February 28 March 15, 2022.
Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to attend the preconference
and present in person.
Date of the preconference: Wednesday, May 25th 2022 9:30am to 5:00pm
The conference will be held in a hybrid format to accommodate travel
restrictions should they apply.
Location/Venue: Mulhouse, France (2h30 from Paris by high-speed train)
(all registered participants will be provided with guidelines for travel
to Mulhouse from Paris)
Registration Fee
35 USD / for registered participants, speakers and attendees.
Fee includes: participation in the conference, lunch and coffee.
The preconference is open to both ICA and non-ICA members. Attendees
will need to create a profile to register.
Sponsorship / Division/Interest Group Affiliation
This preconference has received endorsements from the ICA Communication
and Technology, Communication Law and Policy and Children Adolescence
and the Media divisions, as well as the French Society of Information
and Communication Sciences (SFSIC).
Publication
Participants are invited to submit their revised work to a an upcoming
call for papers for a special issue in for the open access journal
Social Media + Society, following the pre-conference and on the topic of
comparative privacy research (APCs will be waived for articles in this
special issue). While presenting at the pre-conference does not
guarantee acceptance of a paper in the special issue and
non-participation in the pre-conference does not preclude submitting to
the special issue, the pre-conference will serve as a good opportunity
for prospective special issue authors to receive developmental feedback
from the special issue editors.
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Bosler, S. (2018). L’éducation aux médias en Allemagne: Quelles
singularités ? [Media education in Germany : which singularities ?].
Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication,
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Bosler, S., Féroc Dumez, I., Labelle, S., Loicq, M., & Seurrat, A.
(2021). Questionner les politiques publiques en éducation aux médias et
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