Dear AoIRists, with apologies - the CFP inadvertently omitted some critical information: please use this version instead. == Work, place, mobility and embodiment: «recovery» or repairment in a post-Covid world? The next IFIP Working Group 9.8 workshop on Gender, Diversity and ICT will take place in Linköping, Sweden, April 15-16, 2021. We focus on experiences and reflections from feminist techno-science perspectives on themes of gender, diversity, and inclusion vis-a-vis the societal-scale shifts to online platforms (Zoom, Microsoft Meetings, etc.) and more digitalized ways of living and working in general in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic jolted whole vocations and sectors of society into remote/digital modes. While much of our lives in the contemporary North, as thoroughly interwoven with digital and network technologies, gives the impression of immateriality - the disease brought into stark focus how much of everyday life depends on materialities and the work of bodies. The embodied labor of not only doctors and nurses, but also of drivers, teachers, social workers, cleaners, cashiers, researchers and many others remains essential to both fighting the pandemic and meeting the basic necessities of sustaining life and societies. The pandemic makes visible the intersecting positions and hierarchies of embodied work, as well as the merits and limits of the digital. Against this background, our broad question is: how should we conceptualize, design for, and speak about «recovery» from the pandemic? Who should / will be included in a «recovery» of pre-pandemic practices of travel and affiliated conceptions of place and mobility as privileges tied to class, gender, ethnicity, etc? How are we to conceptualize and thereby shape how we think and feel about possible futures and the role of digital technologies therein? What happens, for example, if we shift from the language of «recovery» to the language of «repairment» - that which is needed is to repair unjust social, cultural, spiritual, economic, and political structures and systems, and most especially the climate and ecosystems of the planet we live on? Repairment can further implicate notions of entanglement and co-generation. Taking up these and perhaps other theoretical, conceptual, and/or linguistic resources - can we discern and better design for our interrelationality, most especially as we are inextricably interwoven with one another via computational and network technologies? SUBMISSION DETAILS / TIMELINE We invite papers (3000-5000 words) that address the themes and issues described above or similar to these. (Papers may be crafted with a view towards helping refine these during the workshop for possible submission to and presentation in the 2022 IFIP conference in Tokyo). Papers must be prepared for blinded submission as all papers will undergo a blind review process. Papers should be formatted in a standard style and referencing system as defined within a document template that will be provided. We will explore possibilities of taking at least some of the Workshop submissions into a journal special issue (the details of this have yet to be developed.) DEADLINES February 1, 2021 - submission of paper March 1, 2021 - notification of acceptance / rejection Those interested in submitting a paper to the workshop are welcome to contact the organizers with preliminary ideas regarding paper topics, approaches, etc. Chair: Sisse Finken, IT-University of Copenhagen: <sisf@itu.dk> Co-Chair: Johanna Sefyrin, Linköping University: <johanna.sefyrin@liu.se> Additional information and resources will be available soon: <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/> Papers should be submitted to: Charles Ess - c.m.ess@media.uio.no with "IFIP WG 9.8 workshop" in the subject line. Related readings: Haraway, D (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. Houston, L. et al (2016) Values in Repair. CHI'16, May 07 - 12, 2016, San Jose, CA, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858470 Wendt, A. (2015) Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology. Cambridge University Press. Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2017): Matter of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. D'Ignazio, C. & Klein, L. (2020): Data Feminism. MIT Press Branicki, L. J. (2020): COVID-19, ethics of care and feminist crisis management. Gender, Work & Organization: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gwao.12491 Buser, M. & Boyer, K. (2020): Care goes underground: thinking through relations of care in the maintenance and repair of urban water infrastructures. Cultural Geographies: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474474020942796 Lupton, D. (2020): "Not the Real Me": Social Imaginaries of Personal Data Profiling. Cultural Sociology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1749975520939779 Vallès-Peris, N. & Domènech, M. (2019) Roboticists' Imaginaries of Robots for Care: The Radical Imaginary as a Tool for an Ethical Discussion. Engineering Studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19378629.2020.1821695 == On behalf of the conference organizers, many thanks and all best, - charles ess Secretary, IFIP WG 9.8 <http://ifiptc9.org/wg9-8-gender-diversity-and-ict/> -- Professor Emeritus Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany Co-chair & Editor, Internet Research Ethics 3.0 <https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess@media.uio.no