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<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Papers </span></b><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Opting Out of Pandemic Digitalities: Digital
Disengagement and Covid-19<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Edited
by Adi Kuntsman, Sam Martin and Esperanza Miyake </span></b><span></span></p>

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Press </span></b><span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:15pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Contributions </span></b><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Emerging from the concept of “digital disengagement” – a framework
developed by the editors to examine digital media from the point of
disconnection, refusal,  and opting out – this book brings into
interdisciplinary dialogue two critical key areas of concern in the context of
COVID-19. The first one is what we call “pandemic digitalities” – the rapid and
extensive increase, reliance and shifts in meaning of digital technologies in
the age of COVID-19 and post-COVID futurities across various spheres in
science, technology and society: from public health, to education, to politics,
to everyday life. The second concerns the politics of refusal, the right and
even the viability to opt out of digital technologies, networks, tracing
surveillance, and databases.  </span><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">At this unique moment in time, both have global spread and
significance: the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every society globally; so do
digital technologies and networked communication. Crucially, “global” should
not be mistaken for “universal” – while both the virus and digital technologies
are spread around the world, their adoption, use and impact are profoundly
different both across, and within different countries, societies and
communities. Within the growing field of Disconnection Studies, research on
opting out and digital refusal has focused almost exclusively on “the
West”/“global North”. To this date, no literature addresses in great depth the
implications, consequences and (im)possibilities of opt out in the quickly
changing digital landscape and lived realities of the COVID-19 pandemic which
has forced a rapid and sudden digitisation in times of crisis.  </span><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Taking a critical global perspective, this timely edited
collection thus has two key aims: firstly, to explore digital disengagement and
opt out through the lens of the global pandemic; and secondly, to explore
pandemic digitalities through the critical perspective of digital
disengagement. As we are arguing elsewhere, digital disengagement is a
continuum, rather than a dichotomy, containing a range of individual and
institutional practices, legal frameworks, and technologies, as well as degrees
of disengagement that shrink and expand elastically across time and space. And
digital disengagement is also a matter of justice, operating within and
vis-à-vis political forces and forms of structural injustice. How do these
times and spaces of digital disengagement open and close in the era of COVID-19
and post-COVID futurities? What does digital justice look like at the time of
the pandemic? </span><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Looking at digital disengagement through the lens of COVID-19 and
at the pandemic through the lens of the pandemic, we invite contributions that
would take a variety of perspectives: legal, social, cultural, political, and
economic. We seek contributions that address, but are not limited to, the
following in the context of <b>digital disengagement and the pandemic:</b> </span><span></span></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Inequalities
     (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, class, ability)  </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Individual
     versus collective concerns (e.g. individual data rights versus collective
     data justice, individual freedoms versus social responsibility, collective
     good or herd needs) </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Health
     and wellbeing (e.g. Zoom fatigue, Long Covid, lockdown) </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Digital
     economies   </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Key
     workers, home-schooling and digital labour </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Spaces,
     times (e.g. lockdown, social-distancing) </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Increased
     surveillance (e.g. track-and-trace, digital health apps, WFH/remote
     working) </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New
     spaces of digital disengagement  </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Environment
     (e.g. extractive economies, regeneration and sustainability) </span><span><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Social
     Media (e.g. misinformation and fake news, media saturation)  </span><span><span></span></span></li></ul>

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<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Format</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">contributions of up to 5,000 words length, in a variety of formats
(creative and academic, autoethnographic, reports, critical commentary and
more). </span><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Submission info</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please send a 500 words abstract to <a href="mailto:digitaldisengagementproject@gmail.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">digitaldisengagementproject@gmail.com</a>
by <b>May 10^th 2021</b>. Authors will be notified by May 31^st,
with full submissions due by end of December 2021. </span><span></span></p>





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