CfP: Digital Criminology session / STS Conference Graz 2026
Dear AoIR colleagues, I would like to share a Call for Abstracts for a session titled "Digital Criminology – Bridging Technologies, Human Practices and Environments", which we are organising (together with Meropi Tzanetakis) at the STS Conference Graz 2026 (4-6 May 2026, Graz). The session invites 400–600 word abstracts engaging with digital platforms and infrastructures, datafication and surveillance, AI and algorithmic systems, online and hybrid illicit markets (including drug markets), and broader intersections between criminology, STS, internet and media studies. Abstract submission deadline: 27 January 2026 Submission system: https://www.conftool.com/sts-conference-graz-2025/ Conference website: https://stsconf.tugraz.at Author guidelines: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/call-for-abstracts/ The full Call for Abstracts is available at this link: https://www.wu.ac.at/fileadmin/wu/d/i/sozio/Dateien_zu_News/CfA_Digital_Crim... Please feel free to circulate this CfP within your networks. Best wishes -- *Piotr Siuda* (PhD, Professor of Media Studies) Faculty of Cultural Studies Department of Game Studies and Digital Culture Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Associate Editor, *Journal of Creative Communication *(SAGE Journals) *Recent papers:* *-- **Digital drug trading ecologies in context: Technological, geographic, and linguistic variation across darknet platforms*, *International Journal of Drug Policy.* -- *Navigating community-transaction and egalitarian-hierarchy divides: redefining virtual communities in the darknet drug trade and beyond*, *Information, Communication & Society.* *-- **The opioid crisis in Poland? Insights from online forum data. **International Journal of Drug Policy.*
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Piotr Siuda