Message posted on 14/01/2020
Call for papers: ”Surveillance infrastructures or open platforms?”
PLEASE FORWARD. APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS. <br>_________________________________________ <br> <br>Dear Colleagues, <br> <br>We wish to invite you to submit an abstract proposal to the panel <br>Surveillance infrastructures or open platforms? Aid and control of vulnerable <br>populations through digital data (track 12) at the 8th STS Italia Conference <br>Dis/Entangling Technoscience: Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justice, <br>University of Trieste, Italy, 18-20 June 2020. <br> <br>Information about the conference can be found at this link <br>https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts. Abstract must be <br>submitted by February 9th.For any questions please email <br>lorenzo.olivieri3@unibo.it <br> <br> <br>Best regards, <br> <br>Lorenzo Olivieri and Annalisa Pelizza <br>__________________________________________ <br> <br>Track 12: Surveillance infrastructures or open platforms? Aid and control of <br>vulnerable populations through digital data <br> <br>Convenors: <br> <br>Annalisa, Pelizza, University of Bologna,annalisa.pelizza2@unibo.it <br> <br>Lorenzo, Olivieri, University of Bologna,lorenzo.olivieri3@unibo.it <br> <br> <br>Panel description: <br> <br>The multiple ways in which data infrastructures and digital platforms can <br>shape the organisation of society are clearly revealed when it comes to <br>vulnerable populations like refugees, minors, the elderly, to name a few. <br>There seems to exist a division of labour in this field, between data <br>infrastructures conceived of as control tools and platforms as selfempowering <br>resources. On the one hand, data infrastructures are obligatory passage points <br>at any step of the processing of vulnerable populations, both by governmental <br>and humanitarian actors. On the other hand, the semantic richness and <br>ambiguity of the term platform allows attracting users, clients and <br>advertisers by promising an open, neutral and egalitarian space. Facebook, <br>Whatsapp and Twitter, for example, play an increasingly important role in the <br>movement of migrants and asylum seekers, enhancing their possibilities of <br>sharing information. Yet closer attention shows a more articulated landscape. <br>While institutional data infrastructures allow controlling people and <br>mobility, they also give access to welfare services like healthcare and <br>shelter. While commercial platforms allow bottom-up coordination and <br>selfmanagement, they exert a role on delicate issues such as privacy, mobility <br>tracking, identitybuilding. They represent a further source of control <br>available to governments and European agencies. In addition, private companies <br>analyse the data and meta-data of their users for commercial purposes, <br>eliciting a further tension between vulnerable-people-as-everydayconsumers and <br>vulnerable-people-as-such. Within this context, the technical affordances of <br>each platform are decisive in determining uses. For example, migrants choose <br>to use Whatsapp chats because they are encrypted. Minors communicate in <br>Facebook closed groups to avoid parental control. Tailored platforms - like <br>InfoMigrants.net or WatchTheMed, anonymizations techniques and zero <br>knowledge architectures might become a crucial factor in the management and <br>protection of vulnerable people. This panel invites presentations discussing <br>the two-fold dimension inherent to data infrastructures and platforms: how do <br>they allow empowering innovations in the communications strategies of <br>vulnerable people? How do they on the contrary produce novel or exacerbate <br>already existing vulnerabilities? How is the modern distinction between <br>government, business and civil society de facto reshuffled as a consequence? <br> <br>Contributions are expected to address, but are not limited to: <br> <br> Development and use of tailored platforms in the humanitarian sector or by <br>local, bottom-up communities <br> Co-optation of private companies in surveillance and risk analysis <br> Accessibility, privacy and vulnerability issues at stake in the use of <br>platforms by migrants and infrastructures about migrants <br> Inscription of migrants identities in interfaces, classifications and <br>ontologies. <br> <br>________________________________________ <br> <br>Kind regards, <br>Anna Melnyk <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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