Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Conference on Creating Spaces for Digital Futures
09.10.2025 - 10.10.2025 in Bochum, Germany, Center for Advanced Internet
Studies (CAIS)
In an era where digital transformation is reshaping every facet of our lives,
the concept of digital spaces opens new frontiers for research. While spaces
are understood differently across various disciplines and encompass both
material and abstract dimensions, the term is commonly used to describe the
interdependencies between individual practices and environments. Thus,
individuals are shaped by economic, legal, social, cultural and spatial
structures that simultaneously emerge from action (Lefebvre 1991; Lw 2001).
Addressing spaces from multiple perspectives considers social and technical
affordances and helps to anticipate digital futures.
The two-day conference "Creating Spaces for Digital Futures" calls on
researchers from various disciplines dealing with research questions related
to digital transformation to explore how digital environments can be designed,
utilized, and optimized to enhance various aspects of society - now and in the
future. The conference will be a space to analyze both macro-level trends and
micro-level action, investigating the interdependencies between practices and
digital spaces. We will explore perceptions of space and individual agency
within digital environments, as well as the creation of new digital spaces in
various contexts.
We invite scholars to contribute their insights and research presenting
theoretical, empirical or visionary positions on how these spaces can be
analyzed, perceived and designed. More specifically, this conference will
focus on, but is not limited to, three specific types of digital spaces, each
with distinctive implications, challenges and opportunities: Public Spaces,
Learning Spaces, and Data Spaces.
We invite submissions for position papers and theoretical papers, research
reports, workshops, and debates.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2025
For further information, please visit our website
(https://www.cais-research.de/creating-spaces-for-digital-futures/) or contact
us at submissions@cais-research.de.
References
Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space. Blackwell.
Lw, M. (2001). Raumsoziologie. Suhrkamp.
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