[Bigdatasur] Digital nationalism: nations between transformation and continuity CFP EASST4S2024 Amsterdam 16-16 July, 2024.

[Nelli Piattoeva]

 Dear list members, Please consider this ongoing cfp for the upcoming
conference EASST4S2024, Amsterdam 16-16 July, 2024.
Digital nationalism: nations between transformation and continuity CFP
EASST4S2024 https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14081


Convenors:

Dr Nelli Piattoeva (Tampere University) nelli.piattoeva at tuni.fi

Dr Aaro Tupasela (University of Helsinki) aaro.tupasela at helsinki.fi
Short Abstract:

We explore the reshaping and reproduction of nations and nationalism in the
policies and sociomaterial practices of digitalization and datafication.
Using digital nationalism we ask how digital and data-driven technologies
create new forms of national identity, territory, imaginary, memory and
more.
Long Abstract:

This open panel explores the notion of digital nationalism where
digitalization and datafication reshape and reproduce nations,
nation-states and nationalism in new ways. As a political principal
nationalism equates the state as a bounded territory with a cultural
community performing itself as sharing common traits. Nationalism as
discourse (Özkirimli, 2010) builds on broader claims of a shared identity,
spatiality and temporality, constructing a frame of reference for making
sense of and structuring reality. Old and new conceptions of territory,
identity, memory, inclusion and exclusion, among others, (re)emerge through
the sociomaterial work of digital and data driven technologies, the
policies and discourses that promote them also in the new spaces of digital
and often virtual communities such as transnational diasporas or corporate
networks (Tupasela, 2021; Couldry and Mejias, 2019; Kitchin, 2014; Trigo,
2003). Across public and private domains some technologies may become
powerful tools of communicating and stabilizing social and cultural norms
through material and affective, spectacular and mundane means (Larkin,
2008). For instance, historically and contemporarily nations have deployed
large-scale infrastructures to bind themselves physically and affectively
(Barney, 2017). Technological innovations and aspirations are also
indicative of and nurture visions and collective imaginaries of the future
(Jasanoff, 2015) whereby different policies and practices play generative
and mediating roles between nationalism and technologies. The development
of technologies and technological infrastructures entails deliberate or
unintentional choices of inclusion and exclusion.

Our panel will discuss these and other emerging forms of digital
nationalism to start building an intellectual community focused on this
phenomenon. We invite presentations which engage with historical or
contemporary empirical cases including but not limited to:



- Education; - Immigration; - Social media and virtual communities; -
National digital policies and infrastructures; - Medical technologies; -
Visual representations; - Cultural institutions; - Corporate and commercial
activities
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