<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><b style="background:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">F<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span>ourth international Data Justice conference</b></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Date:  <b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">1-2 June, 2026</b></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Location: <b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK</b></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Host: <b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Data Justice Lab</b></div><div aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"> </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">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 are 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><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"> </p><div aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">This two-day conference will therefore explore the role and transformations of the state in an age of datafication and what this means for social justice and resistance. It will examine the interrelations between data-driven technologies and government, the changing role of corporations, emerging popular responses, and efforts to democratise datafication. Hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) in the UK, it will bring together international scholars, practitioners and community groups to discuss the nature and implications of the datafied state.</div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"> </p><div aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Keynote Speakers</span> include:</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Oriana Bernasconi, UC Chile, Chile</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Sarah Myers West, AI Now, US</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Nick Srnicek, King’s College London, UK</div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"> </p><div aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Submission of abstracts</span> of max 500 words to <u style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a id="m_8266786571193613862m_6993313262888133471gmail-OWA501a05c2-8a11-9dd3-57ab-0e8bfc694f3b" title="mailto:DataJusticeLab@cardiff.ac.uk" href="mailto:DataJusticeLab@cardiff.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,255,0)">DataJusticeLab@cardiff.ac.uk</a></u></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"> </p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Deadline for submissions of abstracts: <b style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">31st of December, 2025</b></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"> </p><div aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Conference registration fees</span>:</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Regular: £175  (£150 early bird)</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Students: £125 (£100 early bird)</div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"> </p><div aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Conference registration deadlines</span>:</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">6th of March 2026 – early bird</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">17th of April 2026 – final deadline</div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"> </p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Conference attendance:</span></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif">Data Justice 2026 will be an in-person conference. After previous Data Justice conferences were held in-person (2018), online (2021), and hybrid (2023), the next conference should allow participants to come together physically to discuss their work. We have tried to keep registration fees as low as possible in order to enable attendance for as many of you as possible. This will unfortunately not allow for meaningful hybrid participation, but we will try to provide online streams or recordings of keynotes and major events.</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Atlas Typewriter",Helvetica,Arial,Lucida,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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 d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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#666666">Dr Emiliano Treré</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"></span></p>

<p style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#666666">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="color:black"></span></p>

<p style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#666666">Co-director Data
Justice Lab</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#666666">Reader in Data
Agency and Media Ecologies, School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC),
Cardiff University (on career break)</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

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