[Bigdatasur] CfP: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society, 28-29 May 2020, Cardiff

Mon Oct 7 20:08:53 CEST 2019

Hi all and thanks Emiliano for sharing this.

I couldn't find any notice about funding for participation, particularly
for data activist located in the Global South or belonging to
underrepresented minorities... which seems kind of self-reinforcing the
problems that the conference is trying to address, regarding a crisis of
participation and visibility of efforts from civic society and the
geopolitics of participation in a datafied society. Without
participation funding the Global South activities will remain in
obscurity as most of them (like the exemplified here[1]) are self
funded, with the know North/South asymmetries

[1]
http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/Docs/En/success-story.md

We may have similar problems here in the Global South too. Recently we
have the Open Conference Latin America, and was organized in a
particularly closed way, from the usual subjects/institutions for the
usual subjects/institutions, giving visibility to those already
belonging the established circuits.

Did I missed the link about funding or is more a event from/for Global
North institutions and/or people located already there? There is any way
of remote participation and/or distributed self-organization for data
activist around the world to join this event?

Cheers,

Offray

On 4/10/19 7:50 a. m., Emiliano Trere wrote:
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> We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our next
> conference at the Data Justice Lab themed:
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> *Civic Participation in the Datafied Society*
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> Date: May 28-29, 2020  
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> Location: Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK.
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> Host: Data Justice Lab
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> As the generation, collection and analysis of data continues to
> transform key aspects of our society across economics, politics and
> culture, the question of participation has rarely been so pertinent.
> Democratic processes and traditional avenues for participation are
> facing challenges as state-citizen relations are increasingly shaped
> through data analytics and automation at the same time as alternative
> visions for participatory democracy and decision-making have
> proliferated. As citizens, we are said to be both coerced and active
> participants in this shift, both liberated and exploited in the use of
> digital tools, both more visible and more obscured in data-driven
> systems. How, then, should we understand civic participation in the
> datafied society? In what ways are we positioned as citizens in the
> advancement of datafication? How are decisions made, governance
> carried out, and systems created? What possibilities exist to
> intervene in, influence, create and resist power? Who gets to
> participate and on what terms? How might our institutions and
> government practices need to change? What are strategies for
> democratising the emergent datafied society? And what are avenues for
> enhancing citizen and community participation?
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> This two-day event explores the relationship between datafication and
> participation. Hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s
> School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), it will bring
> together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and
> community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic
> participation in a datafied society. Speakers include:
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> Carly Kind (Ada Lovelace Institute)
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> Mark Andrejevic (Monash University, Australia)
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> Nanjira Sambuli (World Wide Web Foundation)
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> Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
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> Rashida Richardson (AI Now)
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> Tawana Petty (Detroit Digital Justice Coalition)
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> The conference will include both scholarly contributions and workshops
> with civil society, practitioners and impacted communities in order to
> facilitate and advance knowledge exchange. We therefore welcome
> alternative formats and ideas. Themes for submissions include (but are
> not limited to):
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>     Citizen juries, assemblies and audits 
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>     Participatory data governance and oversight
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>     Data commons and co-operatives
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>     Data activism and resistance
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>     Participatory design and design justice
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>     Digital and human labour in data
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>     Participation, exploitation and coercion
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>     Geopolitics of participation 
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> *Submissions*
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> Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 15th of December, 2019
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> Submit via
> EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=datajustice2020
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> All submissions must include a title, author name(s), institutional
> affiliation(s) and full contact information (mailing address, email
> address). If you propose a workshop or practical demonstration, please
> provide a clear statement of purpose and a detailed description of
> activities, as well as any infrastructure requirements. Please note
> that time-slots for sessions are 90 minutes. If more is needed, please
> include an explanation.
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> *How to get there*
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> Cardiff is a 2-hour train journey west of London and Heathrow airport.
> The closest airports are Cardiff and Bristol.
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> *Conference fee*
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> Full fee: £75 (early bird) / £100
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> Reduced fee for students and civil society: £50 (early bird) / £75
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> *Conference organizing committee*: Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Joanna
> Redden and Emiliano Treré (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK)
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> For information about the Data Justice Lab,
> see: http://www.datajusticelab.org
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> Online CfP: https://datajusticelab.org/data-justice-2020/
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> Hashtag: #DataJustice2020
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> Contact for further information: https://datajusticelab.org/contact/
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> *Dr Emiliano Treré*
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> Senior Lecturer in Media Ecologies and Social Transformation
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> School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), Cardiff University
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