[Air-L] CFP Reminder: The 2nd Plat Gov Research Conference

[Robyn Caplan]

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to send a reminder about the deadline for abstracts for the 2023
Platform Governance Research Network conference (December 19th). You can
apply here on EasyChair <https://easychair.org/cfp/PlatGovNet2023>.  In
keeping with our mission and commitments to this being a *global network, *this
will be *a virtual conference with accommodations made to account for
multiple time zones *(we make it a lot of fun! I swear!).

We're shooting for the moon with the theme for the conference, asking
participants to imagine what *trustworthy, sustainable, and democratic
platform governance **could *look like. With everything going on with
Twitter, and movements over to alternative platforms, this is a good
opportunity to think about how new forms of governance and participation
can take shape over platforms (while also keeping our focus on making the
bigger platforms more accountable).

But really, we invite all papers talking about themes related to:

   - *Empirical studies of platform governance from the micro to the
macro,* utilizing
   a range of qualitative as well as quantitative, experimental, and/or
   computational methods.
   - *Policy-oriented analyses of private and governmental efforts to
   regulate platforms *across the broad categories of online content,
   competition policy, labour, data protection, and more.
   - *Conceptual or theoretical insights that highlight gaps in the current
   public or scholarly conceptions of platform governance*, as well as
   normatively oriented work that engages with important questions, visions,
   and notions for/of platform governance going forward.
   - *The meta-aspects of scholarly work as it relates to major technology
   platforms,* and the relations between policy, academia, and civil
   society in the emerging platform governance research and policy landscape.


Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) are due December 19th. Accepted
submissions will be announced in mid-February.*. *

Please circulate the call among your networks!

Thank you!

- Robyn Caplan

https://easychair.org/cfp/PlatGovNet2023

-- 
Senior Researcher
Data & Society Research Institute
@RobynCaplan