[Air-L] CFP: 2019 CIRN Conference on Action, Research, & Politics

[Colin Rhinesmith]

Dear colleagues,

There is still time to submit a short abstract to the 16th Annual Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference. Here are the details:
 
Call for submissions ✨

16th Annual CIRN Conference
Wednesday, Nov 6th - Friday, Nov 8th 2019
Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy 

For more information please visit conference website <https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home/submission>.
 
We welcome submissions that explore the intersection of policy and politics, research and scholarship, and advocacy and action in relation to societal informatics (Archival, Community, and Development Informatics) as well as related fields of academic scholarship. We welcome submissions from faculty, doctoral candidates, master students, researchers, and activists from a wide-range of fields, scholarship, and expertise.
 
This interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals that explore (but are not limited to) the following questions:
 
the role of research in shaping public policy
the role of Community Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Informatics, Participatory Information Governance, Recordkeeping Informatics, Community Archives in informing public policy
the interplay between information, technology, and human rights
the impact of national and international politics on local initiatives (whether stemming from academic or from communities) and vice versa
the impact of disruptive technologies on the concepts of community and society
the role politics plays in setting research agendas (and what is meant by politics? institutional, hegemonic forces? power inequalities? what about intersectionality?)
the influence of research on action and advocacy
issues of information sovereignty in a world of proprietary surveillance and datafication
the potential of community-centered principles to shape policy in different contexts
the intersection of grassroots political organizing on Community Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Informatics, Participatory Information Governance, Recordkeeping Informatics, Community Archives
 
What type of proposal can you submit?
Submissions can be:

peer reviewed / refereed papers
non-peer reviewed / non-refereed papers
short-papers
posters
art installations
completed works or works in progress 
 
Submission guidelines can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home/submission <https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home/submission>

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Colin Rhinesmith
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences
Simmons University
phone: 617-521-2881
web: http://crhinesmith.com
pronouns: he/him/his