Aloha AoIR-ers, We have organized a panel for the 2015 ISA conference, but one of our paper presenters had to withdraw last minute and so there’s an opening for anyone interested. The ISA conference is the annual meeting of the International Studies Association<http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/NewOrleans2015/Call.aspx> and will be held this year in New Orleans from February 18th-21st, 2015. Our panel is titled “Digital Politics and the Networked Eye” and the abstract is below. The panel will be chaired by Mark Salter<https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/professor-profile?id=127>from the University of Ottowa and our discussant will be Jose Marichal <http://www.callutheran.edu/faculty/profile.php?id=marichal> from California Lutheran University. The call for papers deadline is soon, so if you are interested in joining our panel please send a 200 word abstract to Rex Troumbley at rextroumbley@gmail.com as soon as possible. The lasted we can accept abstracts is Thursday, May 29, 2014. We will let you if your abstract fits our panel by May 30th. Thank you all. Rex Troumbley, PhD Candidate Department of Political Science University of Hawaii at Manoa Panel Title: Digital Politics and the Networked Eye Abstract: The contemporary proliferation of networked devices and social medias, interfaces and monitors, ubiquitous data collection, and remote killing technologies has created a tension between transparency and opacity to fundamentally deform politics today. The universalization of surveillance and optics via infrastructural technologies merits critical attention. However, most work surveying the implications of the networked eye misrepresented it as analogous to the theory of social control described by Foucault as the Panopticon. The papers on this panel go beyond the Panoptic trope to consider the tension between transparency and opacity in the age of networked optics. Instead they consider how transparency and opacity can be used as tool of resistance, the kinds of publics which are created or deformed by what they see online, how opacity can be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture, and consequently how networked devices themselves see.