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

[Ambika Tandon]

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