***with apologies for cross posting*** Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference Theme: Signals and Noises 9-11 July 2025 Naarm/Melbourne The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference is now open! This year’s theme is ‘Signals and Noises’. Please submit your proposals via this form<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=7Hgj0IgW1UaFQBwotfRw9qAINXVXg4RLoPbYgoC38XVUNU5MVDFIWFdLUTRSTDFNUldKWlNaMEFTWC4u&route=shorturl>. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, meet-ups, making and doing sessions, and pre-submitted papers - the CFP will be open until Friday 14 March (11:59pm AEDT). This year’s conference will take place across three days, from Wednesday July 9th to Friday July 11th in Narrm/Melbourne. Day 1 will take place at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn. Days 2 and 3 will take place at Deakin Downtown (Docklands). For more information and details about the conference theme please check out the AusSTS website<https://aussts.org/aussts-2025-cfp/>. We will be announcing details of national and international keynote speakers in coming weeks - please stay tuned! ‘SIGNALS AND NOISES’ AusSTS 2025 seeks to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory - the problem of noise. Noise (as distortion, as error) is a problem for communication - it corrupts and contaminates communication signals (as they fly along wires or along undersea cables for example). But to eliminate noise entirely is to shut signals down, to sever communication. To perfectly silence noise would also mean perfectly silencing the signal to which it belongs. Signal and noise are intimately, iteratively bonded in their material production, reception and translation. What questions then might signals and noises ask of STS? Is it simply a case, as it was for Shannon and Weaver (1949) of eliminating noise as far as possible in the service of signal? Or can we listen to ‘noise’ differently? Can the difference between what we seek to understand or convey on the one hand, and the ‘unintended things’ that trouble our efforts on the other, be illustrative? How might we work creatively with the flotsam and jetsam of research, or trace the twisting journeys of signals? We encourage submissions<https://forms.office.com/r/bvAgkWWize> that grapple with the entwined nature of signals and noises in our efforts to understand the world and listen to noise differently. We invite generous readings of the theme. For more information and suggestions on engagements with the theme, see <https://aussts.org<https://aussts.org/>/> or get in touch at <ausstsgrad@gmail.com<mailto:ausstsgrad@gmail.com>>. Sponsored by: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S), Deakin Science and Society Network, Science, Technology, & Human Values, and the National Communication Museum. Best, Carina Truyts and Christopher O'Neill 2025 AusSTS convenors Important Notice: The contents of this email are intended solely for the named addressee and are confidential; any unauthorised use, reproduction or storage of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and any attachments immediately and advise the sender by return email or telephone. Deakin University does not warrant that this email and any attachments are error or virus free.