[Air-L] Call for submissions for Internet Researchers Conference, 2022

[Ambika Tandon]

Dear all,

Sending a reminder that the deadline to submit session proposals for
this year's Internet Researchers' Conference is on 5th February 2022.
We are looking for a wide variety of submissions relating to labour,
movement-building, and violence as they relate to the digital.

More information here: https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-call-for-sessions-pdf

Send in your submissions to workshops at cis-india.org, and do reach out
in case of any questions.

Best,

Ambika

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 2:04 PM Ambika Tandon <ambikatandon94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The Centre for Internet and Society is happy to announce the fifth
> edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC22)! The
> conference will be held online in April, 2022.
>
> For the call for proposals, and more details, see: https://tinyurl.com/irc22
>
> See below for a description of the theme of this year's conference:
>
> The ‘home’ has been a key line of defense in efforts to curtail the
> spread of COVID-19. Public health recommendations and governmental
> measures over the last two years have relied on the construction, and
> assumption, of home as a familiar, stable and safe space.
>
> As we continue to come to terms with, and find ways to reorient the
> disruption of life, being at home has acquired many new meanings. What
> has it meant to be at home, and what is home? What is and has been the
> role of the internet and digital media technologies in navigating the
> contours of a changing ‘normal’? How have/can digital technologies
> help overcome, or exacerbate existing social, economic and political
> challenges during the pandemic? What forms of digital
> infrastructure—tools, platforms, devices and services—help build,
> sustain and alter the notion of home?
>
> The conference will focus on three sub-themes as they relate to the
> notion of home - violence and care, labour, and movement-building. The
> sub-themes are outlined here:
> https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-call-for-sessions-pdf
>
> We invite contributions that speak to these provocations through one
> or more of the thematic areas outlined above.
>
> The deadline for submission of session proposals is February 5, 2022.
> Submissions can be sent in to workshops at cis-india.org.
>
> Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
>
> Best,
>
> Ambika
>
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> Ambika Tandon
> Senior Researcher
> The Centre for Internet and Society