[Air-L] CfP: Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication (Leicester, 26 July 2016, IAMCR pre-conference)

Lina Dencik DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk
Mon Dec 7 07:35:13 PST 2015



>Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication
>An IAMCR 2016 pre-conference
>University of Leicester
>26 July 2016
>
>Deadline for abstracts: (500 words): January 15, 2016
>More information: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/algorithmic-surveillance
>The call as pdf:
>http://iamcr.org/sites/default/files/AlgoSurveillancePreconferenceCfP_0.pd
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>The Snowden leaks have put mass surveillance on the public and academic
>agendas. Data collection, interception and analysis by both state and
>commercial actors are increasingly discussed and investigated, and
>instances of mass data leaks underline the challenges of big data
>gathering and storage. So what does the reality of surveillance and the
>precarity of data security mean as our world is increasingly structured
>by algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, the internet of
>things, and robotic cultures? What are the challenges and solutions, and
>what new concepts and practices need to be considered? What next?
>
>Academic debates on posthumanism, futuristic philosophical endeavours,
>and scholarly fields such as science and technology studies have
>approached these questions, but they have not been very prominent at
>IAMCR. This preconference will therefore address these current debates
>on the future of media and communications.
>
>We welcome researchers who are eager to discuss the consequences of
>algorithmic communication and artificial intelligence to the field of
>media and communication. We particularly invite studies on the long-term
>challenges to privacy and surveillance in digital networks as they are
>emerging in the area of ethics and politics of algorithmic
>communication, and on the employment of AI in areas such as policing,
>healthcare, social services, education, the digital economy and the
>cultural industries.
>
>For this pre-conference workshop we are interested in the following
>themes:
>
>- The politics and ethics of algorithmic communication and security
>- Challenges of the employment of AI in policing, social services, etc.
>- Privacy and security in the context of the internet of things
>- Roles and implications of corporate, governmental and civil society
>production of algorithmic communication
>- Accountability and agency in the ?black box society?
>- The role of human/civic rights in the context of AI and algorithmic
>security
>- Necessary policies, regulatory frameworks, and relevant standards
>- Robot protests: sociopolitical cyberconflicts and resistance to
>algorithmic security
>- The pre-conference is associated with the projects The Common Good:
>Ethics and Rights in Cyber - Security and Digital Citizenship and
>Surveillance Society.
>
>
>
>----------------
>
>Dr Arne Hintz
>
>Senior Lecturer | Director MA Digital Media and Society
>
>School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies | Cardiff University
>
>Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue | Cardiff CF10 3NB
>
>Principal Investigator | ESRC project 'Digital Citizenship and
>Surveillance Society'
>
>Fellow | Center for Media, Data and Society | Central European University
>
>Email: HintzA at cardiff.ac.uk
>



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