[Air-L] CFP - Digital Sociology

[Jessie Daniels]

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Abstract (only) submissions due: October 19.



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*Digital Sociology Miniconference  (2016)*
*@ The Eastern Sociological Society*

March 17-20, 2016
The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers
Boston, MA

In keeping with the Eastern Sociological Society’s theme of “My Day Job:
Politics and Pedagogy in Academia,” the Digital Sociology Mini-Conference
will address the many ways digital technologies are changing ways of
knowing and doing our jobs as academics, as well as the broader ways that
digital technologies are changing patterns of human social behavior.

We maintain that the field of sociology has insights to offer the questions
that emerge from the proliferation of digital technologies and that a
sociology without a thorough understanding of the digital will be a
discipline that is irrelevant to the most pressing issues of the 21st
century.

In keeping with this year’s theme of “My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in
Academia,” the *Digital Sociology Miniconference *seeks papers that address
the many digital ways of knowing, particularly as those impinge on the work
we do as scholars, both within and outside the academy. We seek abstracts,
and wholly constituted panels, on a wide range of topics, including, but
not limited to, the following themes:


   - *Public Scholarship, Digital Media and the Neoliberal University: *How
   is the participation of scholars on public, digital media platforms
   regarded within the neoliberal university?



   - *Digital Scholars, Legacy Institutions:* What does it mean to do
   digital sociology within institutions that are steeped in legacy modes of
   rewarding scholarship? How are scholars navigating the landscape of getting
   hired, tenured and promoted with a strong digital presence, or without one?



   - *Digital Sociological Methods: *How do traditional, analog
   sociological methods become digital? Are there new, “born digital”
   sociological methods? Is knowledge production different now? Will big data
   replace survey methodology?



   - *Social and Political Change through Social Media:* Given the
   increasing attention to social media as a tool used by both political and
   social movements as well as political campaigns in the U.S. and abroad, how
   does social media contribute to both grassroots organizing and the growth
   of astroturfed political and social movement structures? What do we know
   about online and offline activism? What are the risks and costs associated
   with online activism? How do online activists craft their identities? How
   do political and social organizations view the utility of online activism?
   How do  specific media platforms are better for transmitting particular
   types of movement content such as frames, identities and programmatic
   claims? How do social movement and political movements using media managers
   interact with activists and constituents? For consideration within this
   theme, please email abstracts to organizers Rachel Durso (
   rdurso2 at washcoll.edu) and Andrew Martin (martin.1026 at osu.edu).


   - *Critical Theories of the Digital Itself: *How have we theorized the
   digital? What challenges does the digital pose to epistemologies underlying
   sociological methods?


   - *Digital Structures, Digital Institutions:* The datafication of
   everyday life is posing unique challenges to the composition of social
   institutions and giving rise to new instantiations of education, finance,
   labor, and governance. How do we theorize, study, and conceptualize the
   recomposition of these institutions?


   - *Identity, Community, and Networks: *How do sociological concepts of
   micro and macro, personal and public, “front stage” and “back stage,”
   evolve as digital and mobile technologies increasingly blur these
   boundaries? How do digital environments shape identities of race, gender,
   sexuality and queerness? And how do the identities of those who create the
   platforms we use shape the platforms? How do race, gender, sexuality and
   queerness shape the communities and networks in which we participate?


   - *Digital Pedagogies, Digital Sociology:* How are digital technologies
   changing the sociological classroom? Beyond simply a recitation of ‘what I
   did in my class,’ we’re interested in theoretical and empirical
   explorations of how to think about digitally-informed pedagogies in the
   sociology classroom. For consideration under this theme, please send
   abstracts to: Jan Purk at jpurk at mansfield.edu. Organized with jointly
   with the Committee on Undergraduate Education.


We encourage submissions from scholars at all levels, and are particularly
enthusiastic to support the work of graduate students and early career
researchers. We welcome submissions for individual papers and for entirely
constituted sessions. The organizers share a commitment to creating a field
that honors diverse voices, and as such are excited to see scholars from
groups that are typically underrepresented in sociology. When proposing
entirely constituted panels, please keep this commitment to diverse voices
in mind.

If you have any questions about proposals, topics, or session ideas please
contact one of the organizers: Leslie Jones (lesjones at sas.upenn.edu),
Tressie McMillan Cottom or Jessie Daniels (jdaniels at hunter.cuny.edu).

For individual presentations, please submit an abstract of no more than 250
words, as well as the title of the paper, name of presenter, institutional
affiliation and contact details.   For wholly constituted sessions, please
include a short description of the concept behind your session, and then
include all of the abstracts (along with names and affiliations of
presenters) in one document.
Deadline: *October 19, 2015.*  Please email your submissions
to:*ESSDigitalSociology at gmail.com
<ESSDigitalSociology at gmail.com>*.

Those whose proposals are  not accepted for the Mini-Conference will be
alerted in time to submit to the ESS general call for submissions.

The Mini-Conference is organized by Leslie Jones (UPenn) Tressie McMillan
Cottom (VCU) and Jessie Daniels (CUNY).

- See more at: http://digsoc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/