[Air-L] CFP: AoIR Flashpoint Symposium – June 2025 – Bremen, Germany

[AoIR Association Coordinator]

*From Platform Governance to Generative AI:Concepts, Methods, and Data for
Studying Tech Governance*

We’re thrilled to announce that submissions are open for our next AoIR
Flashpoint Symposium, to be hosted by the Lab Platform Governance, Media,
and Technology (PGMT), at the Centre for Media, Communication and
Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen to be held on 3-4 June
2025!

The study of platform governance and generative AI has become increasingly
critical as these technologies significantly (re)shape public discourse,
societal norms, and policy-making processes. By determining how information
is created, shared, and consumed, these technological systems raise complex
questions of accountability, fairness, transparency, contestability, and
ethics. After 20 years of social media these challenges remain topical, and
both current political developments as well as the advent of generative AI
will exacerbate rather than relieve those challenges. The AoIR Flashpoint
Symposium 2025 in Bremen aims to contribute to these urgent discussions on
governance and normative questions.

Submissions for research papers or policy/position papers, or for
pre-curated panels, will take the form of 400-600 word abstracts. *The
submission deadline is 15 February 2025.*

The complete Call for Papers, more information on the symposium and the
link for submissions are available here:
https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/

Inquiries can be sent to aoir2025 at uni-bremen.de.

The Symposium organisers are Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Daria
Dergacheva, and Dr. Dennis Redeker.