Message posted on 16/01/2020
CfP EASST/4S 2020: Online Campaigns and Digital Personhood in the Age of Datafication
Dear colleagues, <br> <br> <br> <br>Apologies for cross-posting! <br> <br> <br> <br>If you are planning to attend this year`s 4S/EASST conference in Prague, <br>please consider submitting an abstract for our panel: Online Campaigns and <br>Digital Personhood in the Age of Datafication. The conference will be held <br>from Aug 18th to Aug 21st. <br> <br> <br> <br>*Conveners:* <br> <br>Christian Ritter, Tallinn University <br> <br>Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu <br> <br> <br> <br>*Panel Abstract:* <br> <br> <br> <br>*127. Online Campaigns and Digital Personhood in the Age of Datafication* <br> <br>This panel examines how influencers construct their identities on digital <br>platforms. By posting selfies, memes, vlogs, emojis, and textual messages <br>on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, influencers create complex <br>online personas. For instance, diaspora activists, gamers, lifestyle <br>vloggers, gender activists, leaders of religious communities, minority <br>representatives, and political populists engage in large-scale campaigns on <br>platforms to grow their following. Such campaign strategies are <br>increasingly based on comprehensive expertise in platform metrics and <br>exploit data analytics. Drawing on recent STS scholarship on technologies <br>of the self, new materialist approaches, and intersectionality theory, this <br>panel reassesses the rise of datafication in contemporary society. In the <br>wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal, access to the APIs <br>of popular platforms has been increasingly restricted for academic <br>researchers, requiring new research methodologies. <br> <br>The overall aim of the panel is to bring together STS scholars who explore <br>the multiple entanglements of influencers with big data in their everyday <br>lives. The panel thus invites papers assessing the datafication of online <br>activities through the lenses of data ethnography or data analytics <br>solutions, such as social network analysis and natural language processing <br>(text analytics, sentiment analysis, topic modeling). Contributions to this <br>panel could address the following questions: What strategies do influencers <br>pursue for platform campaigns? How is agency distributed in the platform <br>worlds of influencers? What understandings of algorithmic mediation do <br>influencers cultivate? What epistemological practices do influencers <br>develop to understand platform metrics? <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Submission information: <br> <br> <br>Abstracts should not be longer than 250 words and can be submitted until <br>February 29th via the conference website: <br>https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/prague20/ <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Please do not hesitate to get in touch, should you have any questions. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>With best wishes, <br> <br>Christian and Rajesh <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>*Dr Christian Ritter* <br>Research Fellow and Lecturer <br> <br>Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT) <br> <br>Tallinna Ülikooli—Balti filmi, meedia, kunstide ja kommunikatsiooni <br>instituut <br> <br>Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School <br> <br>Tallinn University <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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