**apologies for cross-posting" Dear list members, Please find below a Call for Papers for an *edited volume *on the Anthropology of Digital Harms, Addiction and Disconnection and for a*roundtable* on the "Crisis of Digital Addictions: Anthropological Perspectives on a Growing Concern" for the Medical Anthropology Europe Conference (16-19 September, University of Vienna). Best wishes, Suzana and Joe ... *Call for Submission: Edited Volume on the Anthropology of Digital Harms, Addiction and Disconnection* We are seeking submissions for an edited volume on the anthropology of digital harms, addiction, and disconnection. The volume will provide one of the first comprehensive anthropological explorations of a highly relevant topic. *Confirmed Contributors and Publication Details:* Nine contributors have already been confirmed, including Alex Beattie, Paula Helm, and Ingrid Richardson. The volume will be submitted to Berghahn Press and Cornell University Press. The editors are Joseph Tulasiewicz and Suzana Jovicic. *Submission Guidelines:* * Deadline Abstract: _April 30th_, 2025 * Timeline for Completion: Chapters are expected to be completed by December 2025. * Submission Requirements: We invite anthropologists who have researched internet-related addictions, harmful digital product design, digital harms, or digital disconnection to submit a 200-word abstract for an eventual 8,000-word chapter. * For further details or to submit your abstract, please contact us at: ucsajrt@ucl.ac.uk and suzana.jovicic@univie.ac.at *Editorial Vision: * Over the last few decades, people worldwide have gained unprecedented access to video recording technology, strangers around the world, and an almost infinite variety of mesmerizing games and content streams. What began as a utopian vision of a connected, democratized world of endless possibilities, has devolved into troubling narratives of addiction, exploitation, and harm. Despite the traces of historical continuities in the adoption of new media technologies, the scale of changes in this landscape seems to have few precedents. Yet, there is still little consensus on the subject across disciplines, especially in regards to the effects of these chances. This volume does not shy away from exploring effects from an anthropological perspective, embracing both skeptical and concerned voices. It seeks to add context and nuance to existing debates, while also developing new theoretical standpoints and linguistic registers with which to conduct them. It seeks to remain contextual and holistic, but also take seriously predatory design and reported experiences of harm and addiction shared by interlocutors and clinicians. Finally, the volume also encouraged constructive engagement with the topic of disconnection, and encourage its contributors to think about what a more balanced relationship with technology might look like. By hosting this in-depth exploration of digital harm and addiction, this volume extends academic engagement with these pressing issues, and contributes to vital societal and political conversations. Please also note the current*CfP “Crisis of Digital Addictions: Anthropological Perspectives on a Growing Concern”* for the Medical Anthropology Europe Conference (Sept 16-19, University of Vienna, hybrid). The CfP is open until _April 15, 2025._ https://mae.univie.ac.at/scientific-program/ -- *Dr. Suzana Jovicic* Researcher & Lecturer Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna, Austria Co-founder of DEI - Digital Ethnography Initiative <https://digitalethnography.at/> Co-convenor of ENPA (EASA) - European Network for Psychological Anthropology <http://enpanthro.net/>