[Air-L] Workshop Invitation: Understanding Citizenship in the Networked Era

[Esther Laufer]

Dear all,
 
It is our pleasure to announce this hybrid workshop organized by our fellow Dr Tetyana Lokot:
 
Understanding Citizenship in the Networked Era: Configurations, Complications, Contestations
 
Date and time: Tuesday, 28 February, 2023, 2pm-5pm CET
 
Location: CAIS, Bochum, and Webex. To participate on site or online, please register at kolleg at cais-research.de mailto:kolleg at cais-research.de. Places are limited.
 
The digitally mediated reality offers a number of affordances to citizens for communication, self-expression, and exercising political and civic agency. ‘Doing’ citizenship in the digital age now encompasses various configurations of social media platforms, messaging services, data repositories, and other networked technologies, and ranges from e-voting and using digital IDs to online campaigning and neighbourhood chat groups.
 
But these affordances are not always possibilities for action: often, they can limit the potential for empowering citizens. Governments also seek to use digital tools to reaffirm their control over the public sphere and information space, while big tech platforms work to collect and consolidate user data for profit as part of their business model. This workshop brings together a group of researchers working on different aspects of digital politics, internet governance and datafied society. The goal is to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue about the promises and perils of networked citizenship and to understand the myriad actors and processes involved in defining, contesting and complicating the practice of being citizens today.
 
Speakers
 
Mariëlle Wijermars, CORE Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
 
Tetyana Lokot, Associate Professor, Dublin City University, CAIS Fellow
 
Tetyana Oleksiyuk, Researcher, CAIS, Vice-President at Council of Europe Access Info Group https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coe.int%2Fen%2Fweb%2Faccess-to-official-documents%2Fgroup-of-specialists&data=05%7C01%7Ccfa%40cais-research.de%7C36f8d465798c4d0c3f2108db0aa4027a%7C9751a78b347a42d4aec536c062291f9a%7C0%7C0%7C638115471776633051%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E1sDtxtZAfHb3a1yPfbCaiGH79qwLFUccFjEcbrZKKM%3D&reserved=0
 
Olga Pasitselska, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Groningen
 
Alena Epifanova, Research Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
 
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Dr. Esther Laufer
Leiterin CAIS Kolleg (Director CAIS College)
 
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) GmbH
 
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