[Air-L] CfP: Digital Criminology session / STS Conference Graz 2026

[Piotr Siuda]

Dear AoIR colleagues,

I would like to share a Call for Abstracts for a session titled "Digital
Criminology – Bridging Technologies, Human Practices and Environments",
which we are organising (together with Meropi Tzanetakis) at the STS
Conference Graz 2026 (4-6 May 2026, Graz).

The session invites 400–600 word abstracts engaging with digital platforms
and infrastructures, datafication and surveillance, AI and algorithmic
systems, online and hybrid illicit markets (including drug markets), and
broader intersections between criminology, STS, internet and media studies.

Abstract submission deadline: 27 January 2026
Submission system: https://www.conftool.com/sts-conference-graz-2025/
Conference website: https://stsconf.tugraz.at
Author guidelines: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/call-for-abstracts/

The full Call for Abstracts is available at this link:
https://www.wu.ac.at/fileadmin/wu/d/i/sozio/Dateien_zu_News/CfA_Digital_Criminology_STS_Graz_final.pdf

Please feel free to circulate this CfP within your networks.

Best wishes

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*Piotr Siuda* (PhD, Professor of Media Studies)

Faculty of Cultural Studies

Department of Game Studies and Digital Culture

Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland


Associate Editor, *Journal of Creative Communication *(SAGE Journals)


*Recent papers:*

*-- **Digital drug trading ecologies in context: Technological, geographic,
and linguistic variation across darknet platforms*, *International Journal
of Drug Policy.*

-- *Navigating community-transaction and egalitarian-hierarchy divides:
redefining virtual communities in the darknet drug trade and beyond*,
*Information,
Communication & Society.*

*-- **The opioid crisis in Poland? Insights from online forum data.
**International
Journal of Drug Policy.*