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<b><span style="margin:0px">Algorithmic Antagonisms: Resistance, Reconfiguration, and <wbr>Renaissance for Computational Life - </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Special Issue of Media International
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<span>In August 2020, the UK government’s black-boxed algorithm for deciding students’ grades made headlines. It had allegedly lowered the results of 40% of students, most of which from lower-income schools, thus crushing many students’ hopes for entering prestigious
universities. Students went out to the streets and protested, memorably chanting “Fuck the algorithm!”. </span><span>This recent case is just one of many that highlight a clear need for critical and empirical attention on algorithms and the work that they
do, given their increasing importance in shaping social and economic life. There has been important work through critical studies that catalogue the multifaceted domination of algorithmic life and points of liberatory design out of it (Eubanks 2018, Costanza-Chock
2020), while recognising epistemological cleavages between powers of critique and scientific practice (Moats and Seaver 2019) in the seemingly impenetrable nature of “black boxed” algorithmic life (Pasquale 2015). </span><span>Much critical scholarship tied
to algorithms focuses on the ills of algorithms, or the ways in which a normativity can be developed around an ethical, equitable or fair expression of computation via design (see ACM FAccT). Other responses include consideration of critical practices that
advance data science in ways that identify and create social and organizational arrangements necessary for a more ethical data science (Neff et al. 2017) or move towards data justice (Dencik et al. 2019, Taylor 2017, Johnson 2014) to offer equity as design
goals. Yet Critical Data Practices are also taking an antagonistic turn, focussing on ways to actively employ algorithms for everyday, social, and political agency, influence, or resistance.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">This turn adjusts to reframe algorithms from governing black boxes to deployed tools that ‘mediate emerging distributions of power often too nascent [or] disconcerting to directly acknowledge’ (Thomas et al. 2018: 1). It considers posthumanist
assemblages of humans, code, and technological artefacts that shape reality (Kalpokas 2019), but also includes what is missing from previous theorisation of algorithms – namely moving past acknowledging various normative relations to enabling a tactical use
(Raley 2009). </span><span>That is to say, lessons from tactical media seem to be more applicable than ever in constantly shifting datalogical ground (Treré 2018; Velkova and Kaun 2019). To this end, this issue in part considers how critical histories of tactical
media juxtapose structures of algorithmic life, and what might be done to leverage what was once dark towards antagonistic algorithmic light (Ochigame, 2020). Emergent examples reconfigure algorithms into networked media tools that act as vanguards against
extant structures, with equity as a secondary concern. Algorithms are being deployed to radical and subersive action including automatically suing robocallers and contesting civil fines (DoNotPay); war crimes investigation via computer vision (VFrame, Forensic
Architecture); gaming Google’s AdWords to point to sex-worker chat bots (Seattle Against Slavery); writing to MIDI all possible melodies and ‘releasing’ these through Creative Commons; or simply actively messing with Facebook’s feedback mechanisms to alter
newsfeeds.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">Hence, this issue asks: what are the ways in which algorithms are being deployed tactically to provocative ends? And, just as importantly, are these sustainable as activist or political practice? This issue will consider these trends and surrounding
issues in order to introduce new ways of thinking about algorithmic politics in tactical and discrete terms. It hopes to open critical data and algorithm studies in ways that might reconfigure how critical scholarship approaches the algorithm in tactical terms
as networked media tools that are antagonistic. We ask for submissions that consider the design of algorithms not as finished solutions that structure the world, but as something troubling - in a meaningful and helpful way - that might better inform our understanding
of the capacities and limits of algorithmic life.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">We are particularly looking forward to critical engagements with algorithmic practice, which may include feminist theory, de/post-colonial theory, critical race theory, queer theory, indigenous theory, perspectives from the Global South, and others.</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px">The issue looks to submissions including but not limited to…</span></b><span style="margin:0px"> - Agonistic and antagonistic algorithm design - Algorithms as culture (and critical responses to algorithmic culture) - Algorithmic
practice of the everyday - Activist algorithmic science and practice - Adversarial algorithmic externalities - Standpoint data justice - Tactical algorithmic media - Forms of algorithmic resistance and antagonistic algorithm design in the Global South - Applied
evolutionary computation - Feminist and antirracist algorithmic theory and practice - Disaffected technologies and technologists - Artistic forms of response to algorithmic culture - Antagonism of digital, algorithmic, and tech labourers</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px">Proposed Timeline</span></b><span style="margin:0px"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">28 February 2021: Abstracts (400-500 words) due for submission to guest editors</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">21 March 2021: Invitation to submit full papers sent to selected authors, with feedback on abstracts as applicable</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">31 July 2021: Full papers sent by authors for Peer Review</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">15 October 2021: Peer review returned to authors</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">(Up to) 30 Jan 2021: Final papers due for those papers that have passed/responded to review.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">May 2022: Special Issue comes out on MIA</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px">Editors</span></b><span style="margin:0px">: Luke Heemsbergen (<a href="mailto:luke.h@deakin.edu.au" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">luke.h@deakin.edu.au</a>), Emiliano Treré
(<a href="mailto:TrereE@cardiff.ac.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">TrereE@cardiff.ac.uk</a>), & Gabriel Pereira (<a href="mailto:gpereira@cc.au.dk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">gpereira@cc.au.dk</a>)</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">Costanza-Chock, Sasha. (2020) “Design justice”, MIT Press.<br>
Dencik, L., Hintz, A., Redden, J., & Treré, E. (2019). Exploring data justice: Conceptions, applications and directions.<br>
Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor. St. Martin’s Press.<br>
Johnson, J. A. (2014). From open data to information justice. Ethics and Information Technology, 16(4), 263-274.<br>
Kalpokas I. (2019) Agency and the Posthuman Shape of Law. In: Algorithmic Governance. Palgrave Pivot, Cham<br>
Moats, D., & Seaver, N. (2019). “You Social Scientists Love Mind Games”: Experimenting in the “divide” between data science and critical algorithm studies. Big Data & Society, 6(1), 2053951719833404.<br>
Neff, G., Tanweer, A., Fiore-Gartland, B., & Osburn, L. (2017). Critique and contribute: A practice-based framework for improving critical data studies and data science. Big data, 5(2), 85-97.<br>
Ochigame, R. (2020). Informatics of the Oppressed. Logic, 11. Retrieved from <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flogicmag.io%2Fcare%2Finformatics-of-the-oppressed%2F&data=04%7C01%7CTrereE%40cardiff.ac.uk%7C92edd1ef5ba341f3721308d8cddd972f%7Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%7C1%7C0%7C637485698918185753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=VPb1VoUo%2B81n%2FTa18WraldHsfpXlbil3%2FSwtQtd26AQ%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Original URL: https://logicmag.io/care/informatics-of-the-oppressed/. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Flogicmag.io%252Fcare%252Finformatics-of-the-oppressed%252F%26data%3D04%257C01%257CTrereE%2540cardiff.ac.uk%257C92edd1ef5ba341f3721308d8cddd972f%257Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%257C1%257C0%257C637485698918185753%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C1000%26sdata%3DVPb1VoUo%252B81n%252FTa18WraldHsfpXlbil3%252FSwtQtd26AQ%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1613064723010000&usg=AFQjCNEZ77Cis9vewlo35YUpajRZAyucog" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">https://logicmag.io/care/<wbr>informatics-of-the-oppressed/</a><br>
Pasquale, F. (2015). The black box society. Harvard University Press.<br>
Raley, R. (2009). Tactical media. U of Minnesota Press.<br>
Thomas, S. L., Nafus, D., & Sherman, J. (2018). Algorithms as fetish: Faith and possibility in algorithmic work. Big Data & Society, 5(1).<br>
Taylor, L. (2017). What is data justice? The case for connecting digital rights and freedoms globally. Big Data & Society, 4(2).<br>
Treré, E. (2018). From digital activism to algorithmic resistance. In: Meikle, G. ed. The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 367-375.<br>
Velkova, J., & Kaun, A. (2019). Algorithmic resistance: media practices and the politics of repair. Information, Communication & Society, 1-18</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px">Art for this CfP</span></b><span style="margin:0px"> by Gabriel Pereira, inspired by Willys de Castro’s “Pintura M-111” (1956) and created with p5.js.</span></p>
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