Hi Everyone! I wanted to send a reminder about the deadline for abstracts for the 2023 Platform Governance Research Network conference (December 19th). You can apply here on EasyChair <https://easychair.org/cfp/PlatGovNet2023>. In keeping with our mission and commitments to this being a *global network, *this will be *a virtual conference with accommodations made to account for multiple time zones *(we make it a lot of fun! I swear!). We're shooting for the moon with the theme for the conference, asking participants to imagine what *trustworthy, sustainable, and democratic platform governance **could *look like. With everything going on with Twitter, and movements over to alternative platforms, this is a good opportunity to think about how new forms of governance and participation can take shape over platforms (while also keeping our focus on making the bigger platforms more accountable). But really, we invite all papers talking about themes related to: - *Empirical studies of platform governance from the micro to the macro,* utilizing a range of qualitative as well as quantitative, experimental, and/or computational methods. - *Policy-oriented analyses of private and governmental efforts to regulate platforms *across the broad categories of online content, competition policy, labour, data protection, and more. - *Conceptual or theoretical insights that highlight gaps in the current public or scholarly conceptions of platform governance*, as well as normatively oriented work that engages with important questions, visions, and notions for/of platform governance going forward. - *The meta-aspects of scholarly work as it relates to major technology platforms,* and the relations between policy, academia, and civil society in the emerging platform governance research and policy landscape. Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) are due December 19th. Accepted submissions will be announced in mid-February.*. * Please circulate the call among your networks! Thank you! - Robyn Caplan https://easychair.org/cfp/PlatGovNet2023 -- Senior Researcher Data & Society Research Institute @RobynCaplan