[Air-L] CFP for Critical and Ethical Studies of Digital and Social Media - HICSS 56

[Amelia Acker]

Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting this call for papers. My colleagues Andrew
Iliadis and Nick Proferes, and I invite you to submit to the HICSS 56
Digital Social Media minitrack panel on Critical and Ethical Studies of
Digital and Social Media
<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/digital-and-social-media/#critical-and-ethical-studies-of-digital-and-social-media-minitrack>.


This minitrack focuses on two themes: a) research that critically
interrogates how and when digital and social media reify existing power
structures or realign power for underrepresented or marginalized groups,
and b) research that addresses ethical issues associated with doing
research on digital and social media. The minitrack seeks both conceptual
and empirical approaches to these two themes. Conceptual papers should
address foundational scholarship and theories —e.g., important
interventions for thinking about information exchange in communities and
societies, key ideas, paradigms, and methods. Empirical papers should draw
on original studies of digital and social media that illustrate the
critical or ethical dimensions of digital infrastructures, social media
platforms, or data use.



Potential paper topics could explore the following topics and themes:

   - studies of the perpetuation of gender, race, ethno-nationalist, and
   faith-based hostility and bullying found in a range of online environments;
   - studies of the values and worldviews embedded within specific hardware
   and software technologies;
   - studies that look at the political economies and labor conditions of
   digital content creation, digital work, and the consequences of sharing
   economy platforms;
   - studies that look at mediated representations and practices of
   political community;
   - studies that examine digital power relations between individuals,
   collectives, and societal institutions.
   - case studies that grapple with the challenges and opportunities of
   unequal data access among digital and social media researchers (e.g., APIs,
   open vs. proprietary data);
   - studies that explore the situated ethics of social media research in
   different digital contexts
   - studies of the environmental impact that digital and social media
   researchers have on the planet by using and reusing data and metadata
   stored in resource-intensive ways;
   - studies of academic collaborations with actors that are a focus of
   controversies (e.g., military units, immigration enforcement officials,
   lobbying groups);
   - studies that mobilize non-traditional or experimental research methods
   developed for the specificities of digital and social media.


Submissions are due 15 June 2022. For more dates and author instructions,
please see: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ . Please share this CFP with
interested colleagues, as you can. If you have any questions, please don’t
hesitate to reach out.
Sincerely,

Amelia



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*Amelia Acker*, Assistant Professor

Director, Critical Data Studies Lab

*The University of Texas at Austin **| *School of Information

http://www.ameliaacker.com/