[Commlist] Call for Papers: The Datafied Family

The call for papers is now open for - *The Datafied Family* – a free, 
fully online day-long event on Wednesday 28th June 2023, hosted by 
Professor Ranjana Das of the University of Surrey with funding from the 
Institute of Advanced Studies.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Sonia 
Livingstone, London School of Economics, UK; Professor Usha Raman, 
University of Hyderabad, India; Dr Giovanna Mascheroni, Catholic 
University of Milan, Italy and Professor Veronica Barassi, University of 
St Gallen, Switzerland

 From body-trackers, non-human digital support apps, smart home tech, 
parenting apps and gadgets, surveillance devices from the womb to the 
cradle, technologies of intimacy and play in the Internet of the Things, 
and wellbeing and wellness support bots – the textures of family life 
are changing – at disparate paces across global cultures and economies 
with a steady increase in family technologies, which are subtly, and not 
so subtly altering the doing of care, intimacy, leisure, learning, play, 
routine and more.

WEBSITE: 
https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounters-in-care-intimacies-routine-and-play/ 
<https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounters-in-care-intimacies-routine-and-play/>

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Datafied Family – will raise and respond to a set of key questions – 
without restricting its topics to these alone. Overarchingly, we ask

1.         In what ways have family dynamics – routines, caring, 
intimacies, leisure, play, learning, parenting and more – been 
interrupted, (re)shaped, or transformed by the steady algorithmizing of 
everyday family life?

2.         What material artefacts – toys, apps, smart home tech, 
educational applications, portals and meta-portals – punctuate family 
life and to what effect?

3.         What inequalities, injustices, and power dynamics are being 
rehearsed or reshaped through the datafication of family life?

4.         How is the algorithmic shaping of domestic routines and 
rapports encountered in practice, resisted, or reshaped through human 
agency?

5.         What global perspectives remain less visible and 
unincorporated in theorising the datafied family, including the 
disparities between the global north and south?

The event welcomes paper submissions on its submission portal in the 
following areas – which are indicated below but not produced as an 
exhaustive list –

•           Surveillance technologies in the home

•           Body trackers

•           Geo-location devices and relationships

•           Datafication of intimacies and sexuality

•           Parenthood, parenting and platforms

•           Childhood, big data and datafication of childhood

•           Rights based perspectives on data technologies in the family

•           Kinship, routines, time and technology

•           Aging, care and emerging technologies

•           Smart home technologies

•           Leisure, play, learning and Big Data

•           Algorithmic cultures, resistance, play and algorithmic 
shaping of family life

•           Data driven discrimination

•           Data inequalities and injustices

•           Redefining ‘family’ in an era of datafication

Abstract submission details:

Final Submission Deadline: 28th February 2023

Notification of Outcome: March 20th 2023

Event date: 28th June, 2023, 930 am to 3 pm UK time.

Submission portal: [*please submit your abstract here 
https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounters-in-care-intimacies-routine-and-play/* 
<https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounters-in-care-intimacies-routine-and-play/*>].

If any questions, please get in touch with Professor Ranjana Das, at 
(r.das /at/ Surrey.ac.uk) <mailto:(r.das /at/ Surrey.ac.uk)>

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