<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Emiliano,<div><div><br></div><div> hi all - I thought I'll share my upcoming film's synopsis on this list in case it is of interest&relevance for any of your programmes next year.</div><div><br></div><div>Emiliano - </div><div> the ‘Datafied State’ conference promises to be a very stimulating context for a discussion of my upcoming documentary, which is looking at the consequences of a datafied authoritarian state/monarchy, the UAE, onto the local civic agency and the role of ’nation branding’ to control it’s image abroad. </div><div><br></div><div>I ‘d like to ask, if a documentary film presentation would be welcome at the conference?</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Manu</div><div>^^^ www.ManuLuksch.com</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I Do Not Have The Courage to Stay Silent <br>
dir Manu Luksch, 120 min, AT/UK 2026</span></p>
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What connects the security of your phone, the disappearance of a citizen for a tweet, and Emirati influence on the global stage? </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 16);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The United Arab Emirates is the fantasy frontier where hi-tech dreams of smart cities and a frictionless economy are being realised today. In its preparations for a post-oil future, it is also an aggressive investor on a global scale. Emirati engineer, poet, commentator and father of four Ahmed Mansoor has over decades reflected cogently on his country's attempts to modernise while remaining a hereditary sheikhdom – lacking democracy, free speech, and an independent judiciary. For his efforts, he has endured years of state surveillance and harassment, including a spyware attack that exposed a crucial vulnerability of the iPhone to the world. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 16);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">This film traces international flows of capital and information and technological visions of progress alongside deteriorating human rights regimes and disempowerment of ordinary citizens – revealing how the brutal treatment of Mansoor is an affront and threat to us all. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 16);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Includes interviews with</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 16);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Ahmed Mansoor<br>tele-engineer, poet, human rights defender and currently prisoner of conscience in the UAE<br>
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Dr. Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr<br>
Director General, Smart Dubai 2015-2020<br>
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Dr. Nick McGeehan<br>
Gulf researcher, FairSquare</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 16);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Dr. Jonathan Silver<br>
Urban Institute, University of Sheffield</span></p>
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Dr. Marc Owen Jones<br>
Associate professor of media analytics at Northwestern University in Qatar,<br>
Author of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East<br>
</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 16);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 16);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Lasse Skou Andersen<br>
Investigative journalist, Daagblad Information</span></p></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 16 Oct 2025, at 20:11, Sam Takavarasha Jr <stjnr1@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for this. We will strive to submit</div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Sam</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 at 13:27, Emiliano Treré <<a href="mailto:etrere@gmail.com">etrere@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br><div>
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<div><span><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Call for Papers</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Fourth international Data Justice conference: The Datafied State</b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">Date: <b>1-2 June, 2026</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Location: <b>Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Host: <b>Data Justice Lab</b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormal">Although contested and multifaceted, the
field of data justice continues to engage critical debates on the
societal implications of datafication in all its iterations, from social
media to platform capitalism to the current hype around
Artificial Intelligence (AI). Much of this focus has been on the
potential harm of such technologies on different communities and on the
societal shifts associated with their uses by a diverse range of actors.
Less focus, perhaps, has been on the way the advent
of data-driven technologies has intermingled with and transformed the
state. From high-stake uses, such as those revealed in the Snowden
leaks, to crisis management as evidenced during the Covid-19 pandemic,
to the mundane and everyday delivery of public services,
platforms and AI systems a<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">re</span>
now deeply embedded within roles and functions associated with the
state. At the same time, the state has been instrumental in the
advancement of datafication and the role that technology, and its
providers, now play in society.
At a time when governments and technology companies are seen to be
closer than ever, examining their relationship and its consequences
seems pivotal for our understanding of data justice.</p></div></div></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="1" color="#666666">- </font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="1" color="#666666"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"calibri light","helvetica light",sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"calibri light","helvetica light",sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></b></div></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm; background: white;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Dr Emiliano Treré</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></div><p style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Distinguished
ATRAE Researcher, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de
Compostela (USC) and Institute of Studies and Development of Galicia (IDEGA),
Spain </span><span style=""></span></p><p style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Co-director Data
Justice Lab</span><span style=""></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Reader in Data
Agency and Media Ecologies, School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC),
Cardiff University (on career break)</span><span style=""></span></div>
<h5 style="margin:12pt 0cm;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.emilianotrere.com/" target="_blank">EmilianoTrere.com</a></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></h5>
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