[Asis-l] IER 2018: Surveillance, Algorithms, and Digital Culture

[Jens-Erik Mai]

Information Ethics Roundtable 2018
Surveillance, Algorithms, and Digital Culture

University of Copenhagen, Denmark
May 17-18, 2018

Proposals Due: February 5, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: March 5, 2018
Full papers due: April 23, 2018

http://www.ier2018.info/

The 16th annual Information Ethics Roundtable (IER) will explore the interconnections and interdependencies between Surveillance, Algorithms, and Digital Culture that exist in the contemporary information society. Our daily lives and activities take place in digital media; information provision is highly personalized; decision-making is guided (automated) by the use of algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; personal information is traded on the information market by platforms and data brokers; and surveillance, in many forms, is increasingly pervading both the public-facing and more intimate aspects of our daily lives. In the 2018 edition of IER, we seek proposals that approach these interconnections and interdependencies through the lens of information ethics (writ large, to include those working in multiple fields and with differing methods).

The Information Ethics Roundtable (held annually since 2003) is a yearly conference that brings together researchers from disciplines such as philosophy, information science, communications, public administration, anthropology, and law to discuss ethical issues such as information privacy, intellectual property, intellectual freedom, and censorship.

Proposals for IER 2018 should be situated within the general field of information ethics (although participants are expected to come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds) and, ideally, should connect two or more of the following areas of inquiry:
  - Surveillance, privacy, and/or data protection
  - Algorithms, machine learning, and/or artificial intelligence (AI)
  - Digital culture, digital media, social media, and/or other forms of digital media (non-)use


*Proposal requirements*
We invite two types of proposals:
(1) Papers: please submit a 500-word abstract of your paper.  If accepted, you are expected to submit a full paper prior to the Roundtable, and you will be presenting the paper at the conference.  The paper will not be stored in a public repository or published in proceedings.

(2) Panels: please submit a 1500-word description of your panel.  The description should include: i) description of the topic, ii)  biographies of the panel members, ii) organization of the panel.  It is a requirement that panels focus tightly on a specific emergent topic, technology, phenomena, policy, or the like, with clear connections between the presentations.

Proposals should be sent to: sille.obelitz at hum.ku.dk<mailto:sille.obelitz at hum.ku.dk>
Please include the subject line: “IER 2018 proposal”

We are also interested in receiving expressions of interest to serve as a commenter/discussant for another person’s paper, as each author with an accepted paper will be paired with a commenter who will provide formal feedback and comments during the conference (after the initial paper presentation; discussants will be included in the official conference program). Expressions of interest should be sent to: sille.obelitz at hum.ku.dk<mailto:sille.obelitz at hum.ku.dk> by April 16, 2018, although decisions will be made on a rolling basis after March 5, 2018 (the paper notification deadline). Please include the subject line: “IER 2018 commenter.”


*Deadlines*
Submission of Proposals (papers and panels):  Monday February 5, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: Monday March 5, 2018
Full Paper Deadline: Monday April 23, 2018
Registration Deadline: Friday May 4, 2018
Conference Dates: Thursday & Friday May 17-18, 2018


More information on conference website:  http://www.ier2018.info/





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Jens-Erik Mai
Professor
University of Copenhagen
Information Studies
jemai at hum.ku.dk<mailto:jemai at hum.ku.dk>
http://jenserikmai.info