CfP Extended Deadline: Automating Democracy: AI Use Between Social Justice and Social Control Erasmus University Rotterdam, 22-23 May 2025 Join the ECREA Communication & Democracy Section’s off year conference in May 2025 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands to explore the transformative effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on democratic governance & citizen participation. To account for the winter holidays, we have extended the deadline to 31 January 2025. The two-day event will by keynoted by Prof. Dr. Madalina Busuioc, Full Professor of Public Governance in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Dr. Simone Natale, Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin. Conference participants will have the opportunity to participate in a practitioner-scholar roundtable on current practices and challenges of AI-use for progressive social change. For additional information on submissions, fees and proposed timeline, please visit our conference website https://automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com/ Conference organizing committee Dr. Delia Dumitrica, Erasmus University Rotterdam Dr. Ofra Klein, Erasmus University Rotterdam Victoria Balan, Erasmus University Rotterdam Dr. Giuliana Sorce, Tubingen University Dr. Jun Liu, University of Copenhagen Dr. Arianna Bussoletti, Sapienza Universita di Roma