Hi all THEORISING DIGITAL SOCIETY UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA, 14 SEPTEMBER 2015 Drawing inspiration from the successful ‘Theorizing the Web’ conferences held annually in the USA since 2011, this one-day symposium will present new research that brings theoretical perspectives to bear on contemporary digital media and other digital technologies. The keynote speaker is Professor Susan Halford, Head of the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology and Co-Director of the Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, UK. The symposium will be free of charge to all participants, but the numbers of speakers and attendees will be limited. Please submit titles and abstracts of up to 200 words to Professor Deborah Lupton, the symposium convenor, by email (deborah.lupton@canberra.edu.au). The deadline for submission is 30 June 2015. Papers are invited that address the following topics or others related to the theme: - * Theorising methods of researching digital society - * Digital social networks and social media - * Software, code and platform studies - * Apps as artefacts - * Big data cultures and the digital data economy - * Materialisations of data - * Gamification and game cultures - * Self-tracking devices, wearable tech and the quantified self - * Characteristics of digital technology use and non-use - * Veillance/surveillance and digital technologies - * Embodiment, selfhood and digital technologies - * The Internet of Things - * Maker cultures - * Design and artistic responses to digital society - * Work and labour in digital society - * Social activism and social movements using digital technologies - * Gender, race/ethnicity, age, disability, sexual identity, geographical location and social class and how these structure digital technology use and meanings - * Celebrity and fandom on the internet Th