Dear AoIR colleagues, We hope you're holding up in the endless endlessness. We're writing to invite you to submit abstracts for papers to our 4S Open Panel, <https://www.4sonline.org/58-digital-unwellness-power-health-and-screen-time/> *Digital (Un)wellness: Power, Health, and Screen Time.* The deadline for abstracts is March 8 and the conference is ostensibly taking place in Toronto, October 6-9. No matter what, there will be options for distance participation. The panel description is below, and of course please feel free to send this CFP to anyone who might be interested. Sincerely, Laura Calloway*, Indiana University* Alex Beattie*, Victoria University of Wellington* Hannah Zeavin*, UC Berkeley* Chad Valasek*, University of California at San Diego* *Digital (Un)wellness: Power, Health, and Screen Time* In recent years, an emerging concern over the amount of time that people spend in front of screens has led to pathologizing models of digital device use (i.e., “digital addiction”). Scientific research and corporate programs, such as Google’s Digital Wellbeing app or Apple’s Screen Time app, have constructed digital wellness, positing an ideal amount of digital device use, while also generating new understandings to expertise of “healthy” productivity, digital forms of parental supervision, and combating physical fatigue, depression, and burnout. Although engineers and psychologists have turned toward descriptions of digital overuse and addiction, other scholars have turned toward the so-called attention economy. While both groups of scholars may be critical of tech industry exploitation of users, they also tend to reinforce akratic models of users. In addition, the entanglements between digital wellness and health remain wedded to surveillance–especially through infrastructures for data collection and body tracking. We seek papers that reevaluate digital wellbeing from a critical STS perspective and center aspects of social inequality inherent in digital wellness discourses. Topics may include: discourses surrounding home surveillance, children, and screens; the relationship between COVID-19 and screen time debates; digital labor and its relation to the possibilities and limits of political futures; how digital wellbeing experts and the psy-disciplines construct digital addiction; the relationship of digital wellness to the gig economy, platform labor, digital inequalities and global divides; or how digital wellbeing could be politicized and collectivized as a form of mutual aid and good relations. Potential topics include: Digital health, wellness, surveillance, labor, mutual aid, "digital addiction" ------------------------------------------- *Alex Beattie* Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Science in Society | Pūkenga, Pūtaiao ki te Pāpori Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka lxbt.co <https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furlproxy.sunet.se%2Fcanit%2Furlproxy.php%3F_q%3DaHR0cDovL2x4YnQuY28v%26_s%3DbWFnZGFsZW5hLmthbmlhQHNvYy51dS5zZQ%253D%253D%26_c%3D0fd6bc07%26_r%3DdXUtc2U%253D&data=02%7C01%7Calexander.beattie%40vuw.ac.nz%7C3a261dc50d724b42ce8808d67a250268%7Ccfe63e236951427e8683bb84dcf1d20c%7C0%7C0%7C636830697974156178&sdata=4%2FcBqEXySSOb9HeOakdVPiqMD%2FD6mHqlAKnrRtOoDTE%3D&reserved=0> | @amdbeattie