[Commlist] Digital Infrastructure and Social Futures symposium

Registrations are open for the Digital Infrastructure and Social Futures 
symposium at the University of Western Australia, Perth, June 17-19.
The symposium will be of particular interest to colleagues in 
communication and media studies, digital culture and critical 
infrastructure research. Attendance is free, with in‑person and hybrid 
options available (see registration links below).

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DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND SOCIAL FUTURES
UWA, 17-19 June
Digital infrastructures condition society in profound and uneven ways, 
bringing into relief the issues of knowledge and power, risk and 
resilience, equity and exclusion, sovereignty and sustainability.
This interdisciplinary symposium brings together international 
researchers, industry practitioners and the next generation of scholars 
to examine how digital infrastructures configure our social and material 
worlds, shaping the contested horizons of shared planetary futures. A 
featured session on Orbital Media Ecologies extends this inquiry beyond 
the planet.
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Orbital Media Ecologies: Infrastructure, Sustainability and Power | 
Wednesday 17 June
Katarina Damjanov (UWA) | Amanda Davies (UWA) | Rob Cover (RMIT) |
Marie-Pier Boucher (U of Toronto) | Sy Taffel (Massey U, NZ)
The Makings of Collective Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | 
Thursday 18 June
Ionat Zurr | Ex-Utero for Earth and Space
Ari Jerrems | Digital Regimes of Visibility and Baghdad's 'Red Zone'
Ethan Blue and Simon Miraudo | Digitality and Community Radio in Western 
Australia
Emmett Stinson | Algorithmic Publishing, Platforms and Authorial 
Discoverability
Clas Weber | Meaning and Purpose in the Age of AI
Tauel Harper | Extropism, AI and the Ontological Dimensions of Thinking
Oron Catts | Some Things Cannot Be Digitized: Presence and 
Representation Through Invasive and Evocative Aesthetics
Rethinking Infrastructures and Futures: Critical Conversations | 
Thursday 18 June
Marilyn Bromberg (Law), Jonathan Albright (Media and Communication), 
Grace Oakley (Education), Josh Brown (Culture and Language) | UWA
Registration (Hybrid): 
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digital-infrastructure-and-social-futures-symposium-day-2-tickets-1990847788327?aff=oddtdtcreator 

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Public Lecture | What are the Harms of Digital Harms? | Thursday 18 June
Professor Rob Cover, Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre 
(RMIT)
Registration (F2F only): 
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digital-infrastructure-and-social-futures-public-lecture-tickets-1991028725515?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Cross-Sector Perspectives on Infrastructural Futures | Friday 19 June
Panel 1 – Space Infrastructures in WA
Panel 2 – Critical Digital Systems and Services
Panel 3 – Community, Connectivity and Care
Registration (F2F only): 
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digital-infrastructure-and-social-futures-symposium-industry-day-tickets-1991068176514?aff=oddtdtcreator 

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The Symposium is hosted by the Frontier Technologies and Society 
Research Lab and is supported by the School of Social Sciences, 
Institute of Advanced Studies and the International Space Centre UWA.
For any questions contact:
Katarina Damjanov | University of Western Australia | 
katarina.damjanov/at/uwa/edu.au

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