Dear all, Sending a reminder that the deadline to submit session proposals for this year's Internet Researchers' Conference is on 5th February 2022. We are looking for a wide variety of submissions relating to labour, movement-building, and violence as they relate to the digital. More information here: https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-call-for-sessions-pdf Send in your submissions to workshops@cis-india.org, and do reach out in case of any questions. Best, Ambika On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 2:04 PM Ambika Tandon <ambikatandon94@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
The Centre for Internet and Society is happy to announce the fifth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC22)! The conference will be held online in April, 2022.
For the call for proposals, and more details, see: https://tinyurl.com/irc22
See below for a description of the theme of this year's conference:
The ‘home’ has been a key line of defense in efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health recommendations and governmental measures over the last two years have relied on the construction, and assumption, of home as a familiar, stable and safe space.
As we continue to come to terms with, and find ways to reorient the disruption of life, being at home has acquired many new meanings. What has it meant to be at home, and what is home? What is and has been the role of the internet and digital media technologies in navigating the contours of a changing ‘normal’? How have/can digital technologies help overcome, or exacerbate existing social, economic and political challenges during the pandemic? What forms of digital infrastructure—tools, platforms, devices and services—help build, sustain and alter the notion of home?
The conference will focus on three sub-themes as they relate to the notion of home - violence and care, labour, and movement-building. The sub-themes are outlined here: https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-call-for-sessions-pdf
We invite contributions that speak to these provocations through one or more of the thematic areas outlined above.
The deadline for submission of session proposals is February 5, 2022. Submissions can be sent in to workshops@cis-india.org.
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Best,
Ambika
-- Ambika Tandon Senior Researcher The Centre for Internet and Society