[acc-cca-l] FW: PLEASE SHARE WIDELY - 4S 2025 Open Panel

[Fenwick Mckelvey]

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Hi all
Please consider applying to PhD Candidate Robert Marinov’s panel. I am hoping to apply myself and I’d welcome some company. Please share widely.

Be good,
Fenwick

From: comslist <COMSLIST at LISTS.CONCORDIA.CA> on behalf of Robert Marinov <rmarinov99 at GMAIL.COM>
Date: Monday, January 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
To: COMSLIST at LISTS.CONCORDIA.CA <COMSLIST at LISTS.CONCORDIA.CA>
Subject: PLEASE SHARE WIDELY - 4S 2025 Open Panel
Hi all, please consider sharing this open panel call for abstracts for the 2025 4S conference in Seattle<https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php> to anyone in your networks studying simulation models, digital twins, or similar areas.

#125 Mobilizing Knowledges and Critical Perspectives Towards a Socio-Politics of Digital Twinning

The practice of Digital Twinning has gained widespread popularity in recent years. This set of approaches to the simulation modelling of physical and cyber-physical systems originated in the manufacturing, aerospace, and construction industries, but are now applied across diverse industrial, consumer-economic, and governance sectors as tools for bolstering and steering digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Advocates frequently celebrate Digital Twins as “crucial,” “revolutionary,” and a coming “business imperative,” drawing on the sublime rhetoric of artificial intelligence-enabled optimization to feed the growing hype. All the while, the Digital Twin concept and its specific technological manifestations still lack both public awareness and critical academic engagements. This poses a series of problematics. Public and private organizations are rapidly adopting these technologies without clear concern for how they might replicate or aggravate the social, data, and environmental harms that have plagued similar advanced digital tools such as artificial intelligence. Digital Twin Cities, for example, now map, surveil, and optimize bodies, behaviors, and urban systems as unproblematically as factories sense and optimize their production lines. Digital Twins of oil and gas, mining, and forestry operations are portrayed as efficiency-enhancing solutions all while ignoring their role in bolstering harmful resource exploitation. Digital Twinning is set to fundamentally transform governance processes and imaginaries across public and private sectors. But how, why, and to what effects? With the scale of Digital Twinning now literally spanning the atomic to the global, it’s increasingly important to subject them to critical scrutiny and investigation. This panel will assemble diverse perspectives on this emerging sociotechnical paradigm in an attempt to mobilize knowledges and explore approaches for iterating a socio-politics of Digital Twinning. It welcomes research and theoretical or conceptual work from a variety of disciplines and foci, including historical, political, socio-cultural, feminist, anti-racist, decolonizing, environmental, data harms, and other lenses.

All the best,

Robert Marinov
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