[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 262, Issue 30

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Today's Topics:

   1. Call for contributions: Democracy + Silence Symposium, Oslo
      Sept.2026 - Submission deadline: June 19. (Taina Bucher)
   2. Bored of US Tech-bro-topia ? ? OA SI: Towards Popular
      Techno-Futures. ? A Global Culture Perspective ? (Jascha Bareis)


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Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 11:33:01 +0000
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Subject: [Air-L] Call for contributions: Democracy + Silence
        Symposium, Oslo Sept.2026 - Submission deadline: June 19.
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Reimagining the democratic potentials of silence - An international symposium; University of Oslo; 23?24 September 2026

Call for Contributions
About the symposium

This two-day symposium reexamines democracy and citizenship by treating silence as an integral, rather than oppositional, feature of democratic culture. Silence can disrupt, slow down, knit communities together, reveal limits, and induce reflection. The symposium, part of the Democracy of Silence research project, reexamines logocentric concepts ? voice, participation, freedom of speech ? by attending to the political potential of silence (e.g. withdrawal, breaks, gaps, hesitations, disconnections, void, quietude, disaffection) to interrupt the status quo, create openings and make new things sayable, or unsayable, together.

The symposium gathers researchers, artists, designers, and practitioners across disciplines to think with, and against, the regimes of voice, visibility, and engagement that have come to dominate contemporary democratic theory and digital culture alike. We are particularly interested in what silence does, refuses, holds, or opens in datafied societies: how silence fosters reflection, resists conformity, and influences decision-making at the edges and inside of platforms, states, institutions, communities. The purpose is to get one step closer to understanding what a democracy of silence could look and feel like. That is, how can we reimagine the democratic potentials of silence in a society that hinges on vocal ideals of citizenship? What politics emerges by embracing silence as a democratic value, rather than a threat?

The symposium will place emphasis on discussions, interaction and experiences rather than conventional paper presentations. Accepted contributors will share a short pre-circulated contribution in advance, and the symposium itself will be devoted to working through these together, across panels, listening sessions, walks, and informal exchanges. Our hope is to leave with something held in common: a shared set of questions, a collective formulation, and the seeds of a longer trajectory (an edited volume or special issue is under consideration).

What we are inviting
We invite participation from anyone interested in the democratic potentials of silence. We also welcome alternative formats, such as artistic works, design concepts, or policy statements. Accepted submissions will be shared with all participants prior to the event.

While silence is the central theme, we invite contributions that consider silence in relation to one or more of the following sub-themes, and we welcome work that exceeds or rethinks these:

? The unsayable, the not-said, refusal of articulation, the limits of voice as a political idiom.
? The politics of withdrawal, opacity, disaffection, silence as protest and care work.
? Quiet, noise, listening, attention; sonic infrastructures of attention and inattention.
? Embodied silences, gestures and breath.
? Withholding, opting out, refusal of legibility; what computational systems cannot register.

Formats
To ground the event across a range of disciplines and practices, we ask participants to submit a 1?2 page statement (500?800 words) on the democracy of silence in one of the following formats:

? Provocations and position papers: Provocations aim to unsettle comfortable paradigms and inspire reflection. Contributions may take the form of conceptual essays, speculative pieces, or critical commentaries that complicate or expand how we understand silence in democratic culture.
? Works-in-progress (papers, projects, ideas): Unfinished ideas are welcome, including early-stage projects, half-formed arguments, or paper drafts that might benefit from collective discussion and attention.
? Design work, artistic research, sound pieces (incl. 2?3 images or links to documentation): Speculative, critical, or research-through-design contributions are encouraged.

Selection criteria
? Generative of collective thinking. Proposals that open questions, frictions, or methods for the room.
? We will compose the programme to accommodate a range of disciplines, registers, geographies, and career stages. Submissions from outside the academy are warmly welcomed.
? Contributions that add an ?x-factor?. Surprising and out of the box concepts that spark inspiration.

How to submit
Submissions are made via our online form: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nettskjema.no/a/629553__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TqLGUwfc$
Submission deadline: 19 June 2026 (23:59 CEST).

Key dates
? Submission deadline: 19 June 2026 (23:59 CEST)
? Notification of acceptance: by 1 July 2026
? Submission of revised contributions for circulation: 12 August 2026
? Circulation of accepted contributions: 26 August 2026
? Symposium: 23?24 September 2026, Oslo

Practical information
Where and when: 23?24 September 2026 in central Oslo, Norway. In-person only. Capacity is intentionally small (~35 contributors) to allow for sustained collective conversation across the two days. Language: English. No registration fee. Lunches, coffee, and one shared dinner are included.

Organisers and contact
Convened by the Democracy of Silence project, University of Oslo. Keynote speakers: [TBC]
Contact: Prof. Taina Bucher, taina.bucher at media.uio.no; for practical questions Tine Skjelstad, tine.skjelstad at media.uio.no


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Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 14:16:45 +0000
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Subject: [Air-L] Bored of US Tech-bro-topia ? ? OA SI: Towards Popular
        Techno-Futures. ? A Global Culture Perspective ?
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Dear AoIR list members:

New special issue of Digital Culture & Society has now been published (fully open access) with independent publisher Transcript:? *Towards Popular Techno-Futures. A Global Culture Perspective* ?by
the Transcript journal Digitial Culture & Society.EditorsAnya Heise-von
der Lippe,Felix Spremberg,Jascha BareisAuthors from all around the globe
discuss: How do communities around the world rethink techno-futures
through friction, re-appropriation, spirituality and, possibly,
wholesome change - beyond Western visions of Tech?From families in
Kharkiv in Ukraine, to platfrom governance frameworks of markets in
India; from techno-orientalism in China, to Afrofuturist dreamscapes;
from the weaponization of social Media in Mali to internet commons of
the Northern Michigan Tribe; from Latin America's sci-fi of resistance,
low-tech alternative education interventions in class rooms, to Japans
dreams of a Society 3.0.... ???? Where is this globe ? heading to? ????

You can access the full issue OA here:

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Printand copies can be ordered from the publisher's website:

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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7321-0/digital-culture-society-dcs/__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TxqZ58D4$>

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*

*Table of Contents:*

Outdated Enchantments of Progress?
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_Intro.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TIIe-kM4$>
Towards Global Techno Futures
/Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Felix Spremberg/

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I Techno-futures in National Strategies and Counter-Discourses

Techno-futures with Chinese Characteristics?
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_1_Song.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TSYPbFd8$>
Negotiating Techno-Orientalism in Chinese Digitalized Lifestyle and
Aesthetics
/Chenyang Song/

Constructing an ?AI-driven Society?
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCA_11_2_2_Spremberg_Nishiyama_Bareis.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6THT7K3ps$>
Idealization and Anxiety in Japan?s National AI Strategy
/Felix Spremberg, Takahiro Nishiyama and Jascha Bareis/

Platform Futures Framework
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_3_Bhatia.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TbHEFb78$>
A Methodological Framework to Assess Digital Platform Viability and
Sustainability for Marginalized Users in the Global South
/Aditi Bhatia-Kalluri/

II Techno-futuristic Communication, Empowerment and Community-Building
Strategies

Mind the Mind
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_4_Kalashnikova.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6T3joD72Q$>
Analysis of Media Habits of the Future
/Alina Kalashnikova/

Internet Futuring
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_5_Butt_Marwell_Feamster.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TP18Fwfs$>
How Communities are Connecting Themselves
/Henna Zamurd Butt, Nicole P. Marwell, Nick Feamster/

voxUp <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_6_Ward_Burgess.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TKrpEJlw$>
Co-Developing a Music Technology for Beatbox Looping in a Special
Education Needs Setting
/Asha Ward and Jon Burgess/

III Techno-futuristic Media: Conflicts and Counter-Narratives

Digital Dimensions of Conflict
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_7_Prokic_Bruls_DeBruijn.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TWf-ssgc$>
Analyzing Malian conflict and violence through Social Media and
Mixed-Methods Approach
/Jelena Prokic, Luca Bruls, Mirjam de Bruijn/

Visualizing the Invisible
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_8_Burkhardt.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TldPkjuU$>
Representations and Narrative Motifs of AI in Latin American Film
/Anne Burkhardt/

Afrofuturist Techno-Futures Reimagined
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_9_Nana_Heise-vdL.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6T1D3cctQ$>
Magic, Dreams and Boundary-Crossings
/Louis Nana and Anya Heise-von der Lippe/

Contributors <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_Contributors.pdf__;!!L4CEoEA!q1pUiz8bq913wTIXmQjk6pRDu0QOtgXe3lq38NzGZx0f6ZSgbhingKcc9PzMuNLqvuK0lg20RutVFs4Uvju3lX6TUK28PUI$>


Best,

the special issue editors

Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Felix Spremberg
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