Call for Papers! Association of Internet Researchers! Flashpoint Symposium 2024! Submit by 30 January 2024!

Date- April 13, 2024

Deadline for abstract submission:- January 30, 2024

Call for Papers

The Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India, and the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, invite submissions for a one-day symposium on the theme “Constructing the Digital: Working from the Global South” to be held on April 13, 2024, in Hyderabad.

This Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Flashpoint Symposium will explore forms and structures of labour contributing to digital infrastructures, content, and systems, and presents an extensive opportunity for emerging and senior scholars, members of the digital/platform labour rights advocacy and activist community in the region to connect around critical questions related to the theme.

In addition to two keynote panels, this one-day symposium will feature three thematic panels dealing with the labour behind the construction of the digital—as platform, infrastructure, device, content, environment, or medium, with particular emphasis on experiences and perspectives from underrepresented groups.

THEMES

Submissions to these panels could explore cultures of production and digital mediation, from data annotation and content moderation to platform and gig workers to creators of various kinds, addressing some of these themes:

Visibility and invisibility in the digital and platform economy
Engineering digital infrastructure–who does it, where, and on what terms?
Gigs behind and beyond platforms
Intersectional understandings of worker rights
Skilling, de-skilling and valuation of labour
AI as enabler and threat
The possibilities of collectivisation
The enfolding of labour into the private sphere
New infrastructures of/for work–who and what do they privilege?
The place of digital labour in life–health, leisure, education, etc.

Please note:

Abstracts must be no longer than 500 words outlining a clear research question, methodology, results or emerging results if it is a work-in-progress, and implications or outcomes from research.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is January 30, 2024; Communication of acceptance February 28, 2024.
Bursaries are available to cover domestic travel for presenters from within India to attend the conference. Priority will be given to graduate students and Early Career Scholars.
While the conference will primarily feature in-person presentations, the committee will consider including a small number of online presentations from scholars based outside the country.
Please submit abstract below.

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