From sjeppese at lakeheadu.ca Wed Apr 1 05:56:37 2026 From: sjeppese at lakeheadu.ca (Sandra Jeppesen) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 07:56:37 -0400 Subject: [acc-cca-l] CFP Technologies of Social Order - 4S Toronto October 2026 Message-ID: [?EXTERNAL] Hi all, [With apologies for cross-posting] Please find attached and pasted below a CFP for a panel on Technologies of Social Order to be held at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting in Toronto in October. Abstracts are to be submitted through the portal link given below. Toronto 7-10 October 2026 Technologies of Social Order Chairs: David Struthers, IT University of Copenhagen; Vasilis Galis, IT University of Copenhagen; Sandra Jeppesen, Lakehead University; Debra Mackinnon, Lakehead University This panel is a call to discuss the role of technology in establishing and maintenance of social order around the world by critically examining the interrelation of technopower with social, economic, and political power. Contributions are sought to challenge technoscientific future narratives that make power relationships invisible through digital and/or green transformations and other processes. We envision a panel consisting of contributors from a range of backgrounds, joined by their interest in STS interdisciplinary research into sociotechnical relationships and technopolitical orders that imagine, materialize, and constitute governance and policy making. The panel, premised on acknowledging the inherent politicization of e.g., digitalization, the green transition, and AI implementation, challenges dominant ideologies attached to market logics, such as efficiency and optimization, as well as neutralized concepts such as responsibility, inclusion, and ethics. Papers should analyze topics such as political economy, the future of work, security, social/ecological justice, policing, (digital) sovereignty, state-making, as well as community engagement, resilience, and activism. Our goal is to further societal critique, rather than optimize or improve the functions of state agencies and/or technoscientific capitalism. In line with the goal, we seek contributions that document the unequal distribution of power in technoscientific implementation, and technologies enforcing, reproducing and/or transforming the political, social, or economic order. We also expect that panelists approach research in solidarity with subjugated populations (e.g., grassroot science, Indigenous communities) and abstain from purely extractivist research. Deadline: 30 April 2026 Submissions: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_toronto.php Contact: David Struthers stru at itu.dk Vasilis Galis vgal at itu.dk Sandra Jeppesen sjeppese at lakeheadu.ca Debra Mackinnon dmackin4 at lakeheadu.ca All the best, Sandra Dr Sandra Jeppesen (she/her) Professor Media, Film, and Communications Interdisciplinary Studies Social Justice Studies MA News Media Sandra Jeppesen recognized with Distinguished Researcher Award Journal Articles Counter-Mapping Borders: No-Border Logics in Housing, Healthcare, and Migration (2026) Organizing Media: A political economy typology of alternative media (2026) The Affective Lives of Cruising: Recharting Space, Place, and Time (2026) Transformative Media: A Critical Approach to Alt-right Media Appropriations (2025) Dialogical Consent Practices in Research With 2S-LGBTQ+ Youth (2025) Books Coming Soon: The Political Economy of Alternative Media (Routledge, 2026) The Capitol Riots: Digital Media, Disinformation, and Democracy Under Attack (Routledge, 2022) Transformative Media: Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter (UBC Press, 2021) Special Issue Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance Projects Teams Centres Networks Media Action Research Group Counter Data Mapping Project Critical EDI Work Project Research Centre for Sustainable Communities Smart[er] Cities Research Network Land Acknowledgment Lakehead University Orillia is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg. 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As the writers in this collection show, digital technologies have serious social, political, and climate consequences. These consequences are concealed by reductive nouns and misleading metaphors?think ?learning management system? and ?predictive tech??brilliantly coined by the technology industry to resist change and sustain the status quo. Each chapter in this book discusses a specific technology and, crucially, makes a move to rename it. Collectively, we subvert Big Tech?s careful branding and rechristen today?s most popular technologies in ways that point explicitly to their problems. This book proposes an alternative vocabulary for digital technologies in the Anthropocene, drawing attention to what they actually bring about instead of parroting Silicon Valley notions of what people should buy. In Your Teaching The Need to Rename Tech is not a textbook, but it will be useful in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on media and communication studies, science and technology studies, feminist approaches to technology, the rhetoric of technology, environmental media studies, and communication for social change. Students and academics will benefit from the varied qualitative methodologies discussed in the book, such as fabulation and fictocriticism. Get the Book Learn more about the book by clicking here. Because of this book?s price point, Robin and I are hopeful you will ask your library to acquire a copy. (And I would be happy to share a 20% discount code. Please get in touch: cchokshi at mtroyal.ca.) Help Us Achieve Our Goal! We are really hoping to see 50 libraries acquire the book within three months. Please consider making a request to your library and, if you do, please let me know. Robin and I would be grateful for your support. 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You can download a free copy of the book here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/low-carbon-research-methods/ The book presents research methods as a site for collective organizing and experimentation in parallel efforts to make a more sustainable and inclusive global academy. Communication studies scholars will find a lot of food for thought in the book's address of data-centers as a particular site of concern, as well as the efforts to build alternative digital networks and forms of academic publishing that characterize many chapters. Plus maybe you do archival research/ethnography/close readings/Global South collaborations? All that and more have their place in the discussion. We planning a two day series of events to launch the book and reflect on its themes next week. Please feel free to drop in to whichever day works best for you (or both if you're super keen?). We'll do a series of short readings from the chapters and a discussion/Q+A about where our thoughts have roamed since writing the book 2(?) years ago. It'll be a nice opportunity to celebrate all the work and thinking that went into this publication and ponder where we might head next. Both events will be on Zoom, run for 1 hour, and are set to start at 11 AM EDT / 8 am PDT / 5 pm CEST You'll need to register to attend. You can do so here: Day 1: April 6, 2026 (11 AM ? 12 PM, EDT): https://trentu.zoom.us/meeting/register/DUNZnP0vRZWIpj-x8Psg8A * Featuring readings from: Emily Roehl, Kate Elliott, Urmi Bhattacharya, Yani Kong, and Brian Sutherland Day 2: April 7, 2026 (11 AM ? 12 PM, EDT): https://trentu.zoom.us/meeting/register/xkZY5Qo4TF2QiNw7ZeHwYA * Featuring readings from: ????Jonathan Karpetz, Shirley Roburn, Kim Fernandes, and Nisharggo Niloy Hope to see many of you there! 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About the Book: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones explores five vibrant multimedia projects: the REDress Project, which pairs donated red dresses with digital elements to draw attention to Canada?s crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; the Disposable Red Woman mixed-media installation, with the same goal; a digital memorialization of murdered Ontario women each anniversary of the Montreal Massacre; the documentary Slut or Nut, covering one activist?s journey through a rape trial; and the Memory Stones Project, in which beach stones are painted with anti-violence messages, then shared over social media for maximum impact. Interviews with numerous activists offer insights into their creative, daring, participatory, and commemorative ways of addressing GBV and the discourses that normalize it. The Goal: In addition to engaging with this contribution yourselves, I?m hoping some of you will: * Adopt From Red Dresses to Memory Stones for your courses * Request the book for libraries Please reach out if you have any questions. You can learn more about the book here. Reviews from UBC's website (Scholarly, Policymaker, and Activist): ?This kind of trauma-aware, activist-driven media scholarship not only enriches academic scholarship, but also offers practical insights for future research and on-the-ground advocacy work. An original and deeply engaging work, From Red Dresses to Memory Stones will make a significant impact on the study of media activism, feminist methodologies, and gender-based violence prevention in Canada and beyond.? ? Brianna I. Wiens, Department of English, University of Waterloo ?From Red Dresses to Memory Stones shines a light on the ongoing efforts to create systemic change. It is an essential, timely resource for advocates, policy makers, and anyone seeking to understand and advance the fight against gender-based violence.? ? Pam Damoff, former MP and CEO of the Pearson Centre ?Through detailed personal stories ? from red dresses hanging in trees to memory stones placed on beaches and tweets commemorating femicide victims ? Nicolette Little reveals how everyday media can become tools of resistance, remembrance, and healing. This is a powerful and well-researched book that has been written in a sensitive manner to share the stories and struggles related to gender-based violence in Canada. This book honours the voices of survivors and mourning families and also challenges us to rethink how we engage with trauma, activism, and public memory. It is an essential read for anyone committed to justice and change.? ? Carol Todd, Founder of Amanda Todd Legacy Society Nicolette Little, PhD (she/her) Director, Feminist Collaboratory and Data Visualization Centre Assistant Professor, Adjunct, Media and Technology Studies & Women's and Gender Studies University of Alberta Book >From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada can be pre-ordered from your local bookstore or UBC Press. Recent Publications Features like iPhone?s and Facebook?s ?Memories? can retraumatize survivors of abuse (Conversation Canada, 2025). Memorial-tweeting Ontario's femicides: The use of twitter (X) in gender-based violence-related activism (Canadian Journal of Communication, 2024). The unsolicited algorithm: Revealing gendered harms and (non)consent in Apple iOS features. (Journal of Gender Studies, 2024). 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It is designed in response to the Horizon Europe call ?Designing new ways of risk awareness and enhanced disaster preparedness (HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-01)? and seeks to provide new insights into how communication among diverse stakeholders influences decision-making and action during crisis situations in the era of AI. This project aims to study and strengthen crisis management related to cyberattacks by leveraging immersive training programs In doing so, the project will contribute to enhancing the understanding and effectiveness of cybercrime response strategies within European, Canadian, and international organizations. Researchers and professionals interested in participating are invited to submit, by April 30, a document (maximum 3 pages) outlining their research or professional interests, as well as a short preliminary proposal for collaboration. Following the evaluation of submissions, selected participants will be invited to take part in a networking and partnership-building event. This event will take place at the Campus R?gional de Cybers?curit? et de Confiance Num?rique de Nouvelle-Aquitaine on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. We aim to submit a Horizon Europe funding proposal by the end of 2026, depending on the specific call selected following the networking event. The project will be built on a strategic partnership between several European universities and the University of Ottawa. It will be led by Universit? Bordeaux Montaigne (Prof. Marl?ne Dulaurans) and University of Ottawa (Prof. Ivan Ivanov), in close collaboration with the IBM Cyber Range Lab at the University of Ottawa (Prof. Guy-Vincent Jourdan). For any additional information, please contact Aris Somda at ykusi097 at uottawa.ca Y?ros?o Aris KUSIELE SOMDA PhD Candidate (Organizational Communication) ? Part time Professor ? 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Montr?al, Pavillon Judith Jasmin, salle J-1060 ? distance : Zoom (https://uqam.zoom.us/j/88314076012) La quatri?me s?ance accueille Julie Denou?l, maitresse de conf?rences habilit?e ? diriger des recherches en Sciences de l'?ducation et de la formation ? l'Universit? Rennes 2 et Fabien Granjon, professeur au sein de l?Institut d?enseignement ? distance de l?Universit? Paris 8 et membre du Laboratoire de sociologie, de philosophie et d?anthropologie du politique (Sophiapol ? Paris Nanterre/Paris 8) L?intervention de Julie Denou?l a pour titre : Les communs num?riques dans l'enseignement sup?rieur public fran?ais : une approche socio-historique des politiques, des dispositifs et des acteurs R?sum? : Cette intervention portera sur la question des communs num?riques dans le champ de l'enseignement sup?rieur public fran?ais, ? partir d'une approche socio-historique des politiques, des dispositifs et des acteurs intervenant sur cette question. Nous verrons que si le d?veloppement des communs num?riques a ?t? promu depuis 15 ans de mani?re structur?e, continue et homog?ne sur le volet recherche (cf. d?marches et processus de science ouverte), il est inscrit dans des strat?gies beaucoup plus ambivalentes sur le volet formation, en raison d'enjeux industriels et marchands. Partant, il s'agira d'interroger le r?le des acteurs locaux dans les modalit?s de mise en ?uvre des communs num?riques et, ce faisant, de (re)positionnement de l'enseignement sup?rieur sur sa mission premi?re de service public. Bio : Julie Denou?l est Maitresse de Conf?rences Habilit?e ? Diriger des Recherches en Sciences de l'Education et de la Formation ? l'Universit? Rennes 2 et chercheuse au CREAD (Centre de Recherche sur l'Education, les Apprentissages et la Didactique). Fond?es sur une approche sociologique critique, ses recherches portent sur les transformations num?riques associ?es aux politiques qui visent la modernisation des actions et des services de l??tat. L'enseignement sup?rieur public constitue actuellement son terrain d'enqu?te privil?gi?. Publication en lien avec l'intervention : Le num?rique en ?ducation et formation. Approches critiques (avec S. Collin, N. Guichon et E. Schneider) Presses des Mines, 2022. L?intervention de Fabien Granjon a pour titre : Fondements pour une politique critique du commun (biotique-intersp?cifique) R?sum? : Comme le pr?cisent Christian Laval, Pierre Sauv?tre et Ferhat Taylan dans leur ouvrage sur L?alternative du commun : ? combats sociaux, alternatives ?conomiques, mobilisation ?cologique, innovations urbaines, lutte d?mocratique et potentialit? du num?rique sont en train de se rejoindre dans une m?me r?f?rences aux communs, per?us et con?us comme les conditions et les bases de toute vie collective ? (2019 : 6). Sans doute faudrait-il ajouter, ? cette liste, la th?matique du vivant. Cette convergence ferait ainsi du commun ? un r?gime de pratiques, de luttes, d?institutions et de recherches ouvrant sur un avenir non capitalistes ? (Dardot, Laval, 2014 : 17). Dans le cadre de notre intervention, nous voudrions revenir sur le principium critique du/des commun(s) et consid?rer la mani?re dont celui-ci pourrait ?tre utile pour penser les communaut?s politiques intersp?cifiques (un commun bioticopolitique). Bio : Fabien Granjon est sociologue, professeur au sein de l?Institut d?enseignement ? distance de l?Universit? Paris 8 et membre du Laboratoire de sociologie, de philosophie et d?anthropologie du politique (Sophiapol ? Paris Nanterre/Paris 8). Derniers ouvrages publi?s : L'Universit? en porte-?-faux. Auto-socioanalyse d'un universitaire d'extraction populaire, collection Critiques ?ducatives, Carignan-de-Bordeaux, Le Bord de l?eau, 2026 ; La Maison du Peuple de Saint-Claude. ?ducation populaire, ?mancipation, politisation, collection Sciences sociales et mondes populaires, ?ditions du cygne, Paris, 2024. ? propos du cycle de s?minaires Le(s) commun(s), le buen vivir et l?ubuntu pour changer le monde Catastrophe climatique, extinction des esp?ces vivantes, exploitation capitaliste croissante, r?gimes politiques de plus en plus autoritaires?Les enjeux auxquels nous sommes confront?s sont d?une ampleur telle qu?ils nous renvoient tout simplement aux possibilit?s m?mes de l?habitabilit? humaine sur notre plan?te Terre. C?est dans ce contexte que nous, membres du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la communication, l?information et la soci?t? (CRICIS) avons d?cid? de d?velopper des recherches sur les concepts de ? commun ?, de ? buen vivir ? et d?? ubuntu ?, ainsi que sur les pratiques sociales qui se revendiquent de ces ?thiques avec pour objectif de ? changer le monde ? en portant notamment attention aux enjeux culturels, m?diatiques et informationnels. Nous souhaitons ainsi mettre l?accent sur les activit?s qui contribuent ? favoriser de multiples formes d??mancipation, et ainsi ? contrer toutes les formes d?oppression li?es notamment aux syst?mes capitaliste, patriarcal et raciste/colonialiste. Le cycle de s?minaires a commenc? le 23 janvier dernier avec Walter Mignolo, professeur titulaire en ?tudes litt?raires et directeur du Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities ? la Duke University (Durham, Caroline du Nord) et Silvia Federici, professeure ?m?rite en philosophie politique et ?tudes internationales ? la Hofstra University (New York City, New York State) puis a continu? le 27 f?vrier avec Jean-Paul Sagadou, th?ologien dipl?m? de l?Institut catholique de Paris, pr?sident fondateur de l?Association personnaliste des amis de Mounier (APAM Burkina-Faso). Sont intervenus le 27 mars dernier Roland-Yves Carignan et Jean-Hugues Roy, professeurs ? l??cole des m?dias (Facult? de communication) de l?UQAM. Les contenus des trois premi?res s?ances sont maintenant en ligne : https://www.cricis.uqam.ca Au programme des s?ances suivantes (? suivre le 29 mai 2026 et pendant la session d?automne ? venir) Laurence ALLARD, Ma?tresse de conf?rences, D?partement en ?tudes Culturelles et M?dias, Universit? de Lille, France Daniela FESTA, Chercheuse postdoctorale, ?cole des hautes ?tudes en sciences sociales, Paris, France et chercheuse associ?e, Universit? degli Studi di Roma, Italie Jean-Marc FONTAN, Professeur associ?, D?partement de sociologie, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Katherina NIEMEYER, Professeure, ?cole des m?dias, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Viva PACI, Professeure, ?cole des m?dias, Universit? du Qu?bec ? 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URL: From tero.karppi at gmail.com Mon Apr 6 08:30:34 2026 From: tero.karppi at gmail.com (Tero Karppi) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 10:30:34 -0400 Subject: [acc-cca-l] 2026 ICCIT Annual Lecture: Amanda Lagerkvist - AI as Existential Media. April 24, 2026 University of Toronto Mississauga. Message-ID: [?EXTERNAL] Join us on Friday April 24, for the 2026 ICCIT Annual Lecture, presented by Professor Amanda Lagerkvist (Uppsala University, Sweden): AI as Existential Media: Refiguring Human?Technology Relationality at 'the End Times'. In a moment of interrelated crises, advanced technologies that we call ?AI? (artificial intelligence) have hijacked the future itself. Offering prophecies of both doom and salvation, these technologies are simultaneously hailed as the inevitable solution to all of humanity?s problems. This lecture offers a refiguration of ?AI? through the lens of existential media studies and some of its key concepts, frameworks and themes. I will show how, in what I call the ?digital limit situation? (Lagerkvist 2020, 2022) of Krisis and potentially Kairos, the technology is entrusted to be salvaging humanity and feared to render us extinct, spurring new investments. I will then zoom in on ?the human self,? which seems to be encroached from all sides, as new ?subjects? are meanwhile envisioned to be born inside the models. This raises a series of pressing questions as humans are in deep relationality with media technologies: What norms for being human in the world do advanced technologies bring about, challenge or reactivate? And how can we, beyond the apocalyptic AI imaginary, envision our selves and technologies relationally as well as within limits, for promoting an existentially sustainable future with machines? About the speaker: Amanda Lagerkvist is Professor of media and communication studies, PI of the Uppsala Hub for Digital Existence ; guest researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS) at Uppsala University and Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, The University of Helsinki (2025-2026). As Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2014-2018) she founded the field of existential media studies. Her work has spanned the existential dimensions of digital memories, death online and lifeworlds of biometrics. She currently explores intersections of datafication, disability and selfhood; and the ambivalent AI imaginary and its relationship to both futures and endings. In her monograph Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation(OUP, 2022) she introduces Karl Jaspers? existential philosophy for media theory. She is the co-editor of Relational Technologies: In Search of the Self Across Datafied Lifeworldswith Dr. Jacek Smolicki (Bloomsbury) and she is currently under contract for her new monograph Dismedia: Technologies of the Extraordinary Self with The University of Michigan Press. About the ICCIT Annual Lecture: The ICCIT Annual Lecture is organized by the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, at the University of Toronto Mississauga. ICCIT researches the relationship between humans and technology and is a communication and media department for the 21st Century. The ICCIT Annual Lecture features invited scholars who bring different theoretical orientations, philosophies, and methodologies to human-technology problems. Time and Location: Friday April 24, 2026, from 2:00 to 4pm, with reception to follow. University of Toronto Mississauga, Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS), located in Maanjiwe nendamowinan (room MN3230). 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URL: From a.delfanti at utoronto.ca Mon Apr 6 10:56:21 2026 From: a.delfanti at utoronto.ca (Alessandro Delfanti) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 16:56:21 +0000 Subject: [acc-cca-l] The Arcana of Reproduction: book launch with Leopoldina Fortunati (Toronto, April 20) Message-ID: [?EXTERNAL] The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital Book launch with the author Leopoldina Fortunati ?The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s.? https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2718-the-arcana-of-reproduction?srsltid=AfmBOoocX4WqcFX_QCVLYuxZtX-bHutKE_BaHEjjndhozKmETw3BIhik Monday, April 20, 5 PM Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Student Commons, 4th floor 140 St. George street Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Leopoldina Fortunati?s classic work expands and transforms how we analyze the sphere of reproduction, redefining the value of the individual?s life and the labor performed in the home. Released here for the first time in its unabridged form with historical notation and contemporary commentary, The Arcana of Reproduction is a foundational text and essential contribution to today?s discussions of social reproduction and the history of Italian feminism. Fortunati?s work provides some of the earliest theorizations of ?immaterial,? ?affective,? and ?caring? labor, and of the role of technology in reproduction, articulated decades before their popular reception in English academic literature. Reading this work some 50 years after its original publication gives us the tools to analyze the contemporary state of capitalist development and of women?s lives today. The text remains prefigurative and essential in our era of digital labor. Leopoldina Fortunati was a core member of Lotta Femminista and the Wages for Housework Movement internationally. Along with Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James and Silvia Federici, she composed many of the group?s core theoretical and political texts. Her early work continues to inform movements concerned with struggles over reproduction globally and in subsequent work as a theorist of media and technology, Fortunati has been at the vanguard of contemporary theory addressing the relation between gendered labor and technology. Co-sponsored by: Digital Labour Working Group, Jackman Humanities Institute Women and Gender Studies Institute Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fenwick.mckelvey at concordia.ca Thu Apr 9 08:00:00 2026 From: fenwick.mckelvey at concordia.ca (Fenwick Mckelvey) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Subject: [acc-cca-l] [Online book talk] The AI Matrix, April 23 @ 12:00 - 13:30 EST Message-ID: [?EXTERNAL] Join us at Concordia University, to hear Regine Paul on her new book, The AI Matrix: Profits, Power, Politics. April 23, 2026 12?1:30 PM Please register here to receive the attend the talk online. If you?re in Tiohti?:ke/Montr?al, please join us at Milieux in the Resource Room EV 11.705 ABOUT THE TALK: AI is often presented in extremes, either as a revolutionary technology boosting prosperity for everyone, or as a juggernaut that threatens jobs, democracy, or even human life. This talk cuts through those narratives by asking a simpler question: who really benefits from AI, and who has the power to shape how it is made and used? Drawing on her co-authored book, The AI Matrix: Profits, Power, Politics (open access, with Daniel M?gge and Vali Stan), Regine Paul argues that today?s AI boom is not simply about clever machines taking over and our economies and societies needing to adapt, but about profit imperatives and political choices. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Regine Paul is Professor at the Department of Government at Bergen University (Norway, on partial leave) and Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne where she is currently building up a new group on ?Technology and Statehood?. She is co-editor of Critical Policy Studies and the Elgar Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (2024), as well as co-author of The AI Matrix: Profits, Power, Politics (2026), with Daniel M?gge and Vali Stan. Be good Fenwick McKelvey Associate Professor, Communication Studies Graduate Program Director, MA in Media Studies ? Accepting Applications Until 15 January 2026 Associate Director, Milieux Institute - https://milieux.concordia.ca/ Coordinator, Machine Agencies - https://machineagencies.milieux.ca/ New book out in June 2026, SimPolitics: America?s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers ? https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sophie.toupin at mail.mcgill.ca Tue Apr 7 20:05:57 2026 From: sophie.toupin at mail.mcgill.ca (Sophie Toupin) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 02:05:57 +0000 Subject: [acc-cca-l] CFP Digital sovereignty in the age of technopowers - 4S Toronto October 2026 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [?EXTERNAL] Cher.e.s coll?gues, Dear colleagues, Nous vous invitons ? soumettre votre proposition ? notre table ronde lors du congr?s 4S. Please consider submitting to our open panel at 4S. Digital sovereignty in the age of technopowers: New understandings and methods of study within STS 4S Toronto October 2026 Sophie Toupin, Universit? Laval St?phane Couture, Universit? de Montr?al Ksenia Ermoshina, Center for Internet and Society CNRS Riccardo Nanni, CNRS. Digital sovereignty (DS) has long been examined as a research object across academia, civil society, Indigenous scholarship, and policy arenas, giving rise to a turn across multiple disciplines (Couture & Toupin, 2019; Grohmann & Costa Barbosa, 2025; Kukutai & Taylor, 2016; Pohle & Thiel, 2020). In the current geopolitical context marked by the beginning of Trump?s second term as President of the USA, the technopower alignment between the USA government, Big Tech, and AI industry, and the race toward AI supremacy against China, new conceptual frameworks, theories, and methodological approaches to the study of digital sovereignty are needed. Contributions and additional details: This Traditional Open Panel invites contributions that are topically, theoretically, and methodologically related to DS and related terms, but not limited to research that addresses the following: - Emerging theorization and methods to understand and conceptualize DS especially from STS perspectives and from multiple geography. - Inquiring into DS from underexamined perspectives including its material conditions (such as access to territory and resources, imperialist or settler-colonial land grab and the construction of data centers) and the humans involved (such as the data annotators as in the case of AI sovereignty). - Resistance to or through DS coming from different actors. This open panel contributes to the field of STS, and to this conference more specifically, by resituating digital sovereignty as a problem of technopower, produced through infrastructure, capital, governance, and knowledge practices, among others. It foregrounds conceptual and methodological approaches to examine how digital sovereignty is mobilized, instrumentalized, contested, and redefined by states, corporations, civil society, and Indigenous peoples. By showing how these struggles shape technoscientific futures rather than merely responding to them, the Traditional Open Panel advances grounded, justice-oriented STS analyses and positions digital sovereignty as a site of methodological inquiry and political intervention. Deadline: 30 April 2026 Submissions: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_toronto.php Contact: Sophie Toupin, Universit? Laval, sophie.toupin at com.ulaval.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dunja.nesovic at concordia.ca Thu Apr 9 12:05:21 2026 From: dunja.nesovic at concordia.ca (=?windows-1250?Q?Dunja_Ne=9Aovic?=) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 18:05:21 +0000 Subject: [acc-cca-l] Symposium JenniCam@30: Thirty years of live streaming cultures In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [?EXTERNAL] [JC-EMAIL.jpg] April 14th, 2026, will mark 30 years since Jennifer Ringley, then a college student, mounted a digital camera on top of her computer in her dorm room and began streaming online. Ringley?s webcam, known as JenniCam, transmitted nearly uninterrupted for seven years, becoming the most enduring webcam performance of the early Internet. Despite not being recognized as a pioneer during her time, Jennifer Ringley made Internet history by pioneering live self-streaming. We're meeting exactly thirty years later to celebrate JenniCam?s anniversary with a day-long event about and through live streaming practices. Morning 10:15am-12pm ? 4th Space, Concordia (LB-103) JenniCam in Context: Keynote lecture by Susanna Paasonen (online), plus an in-situ conversation. Afternoon 1:00pm-5pm ?Speculative Life Cluster (EV-10.625), Milieux, Concordia A pop-up live TV studio transmission hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures. Presentations and in-situ conversations include: Tommaso Campagna on live streaming as a form of publishing(TheVoid.TV); Geert Lovink on the lives of the online self (online); Seska Lee on camming and the construction of liveness; Lotte de Jong on webcam and art (online); Uandha Fernandes Barbosa + Aalok Sud + Tara Halkiw presenting the live coding performance if (afk == false) stream(); Mark Sussman introducing pandemic object theatre, and Jas Nasty djing live (online). Snacks and beverages will be provided at both locations. Morning and afternoon (EST) events will be transmitted at Jennicam-at-30.com. This event would not be possible without the generous and enthusiastic support of: the Digital intimacy, Gender & Sexuality Lab (DIGS), Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Speculative Life-Machine Agencies, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC), COMS Concordia,Institute of Network Cultures, PLSM For more information about the event, the JenniCam, and related web based art, visit Jennicam-at-30.com ? Dunja Ne?ovi? (She/Her) PhD Candidate in Communication Studies, Concordia University Lab Coordinator and Research Assistant, DIGS Lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Le 22 et 23 avril 2026 ? l?UQAM. Ce colloque ouvert ? tous et ? toutes propose de r?fl?chir, par la recherche-cr?ation, ? l?appr?hension des grandes perturbations auxquelles le vivant est aujourd?hui confront?. Il vise ? mettre en dialogue des approches documentaires provenant tant de l?int?rieur que de l?ext?rieur de l?institution universitaire afin de renouveler nos regards sur le monde. L??v?nement r?unira des chercheur?euse?s et artistes autour de diverses explorations documentaires ? cin?ma, photographie, installation, arts visuels, litt?rature, th??tre et cr?ations sonores ? susceptibles d?interroger nos habitudes perceptives et de faire surgir des relations sensibles et renouvel?es avec l?ensemble du vivant. Comit? organisateur : Diane Poitras, Viva Paci, Maxime Michaud. Comit? scientifique : Marjolaine B?land, Marco Bertozzi, Marion Froger, Viva Paci, Diane Poitras. Assistantes : Tahnee Drago, Lucie Lambert, Ketzali Yulmuk-Bray. Affiche et programme d?taill? du colloque en pi?ces jointes. Le programme du colloque est aussi disponible en ligne : https://labdoc.uqam.ca/revoirlevivant/programme/ Enfin, une programmation Escale sur T?nk.ca sera d?voil?e sous peu. Nous vous invitons ? rester ? l?aff?t! Au plaisir de vous retrouver les 22 et 23 avril, De la part du comit? organisateur du colloque, Maxime Michaud chercheur, artiste et doctorant en communication Auxiliaire de recherche et d'enseignement - ?cole des m?dias Coordonnateur g?n?ral - (Re)voir le vivant - Explorations documentaires en recherche-cr?ation Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al michaud.maxime at uqam.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: REVOIR_LE_VIVANT_AFFICHE.png Type: image/png Size: 299758 bytes Desc: REVOIR_LE_VIVANT_AFFICHE.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Alfred The Future of Journalism Summit May 13, 2026, 11:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT | The University Centre, UBC, Vancouver Presented by Global Journalism Innovation Lab, the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media and the Canadian Journalism Foundation The Future of Journalism Summit brings together journalists, students, academics and media leaders to examine how the craft is evolving amid technological disruption, political polarization, economic strain and global uncertainty. Through keynotes and interactive discussions, the program explores how journalism can adapt and thrive while maintaining public trust and relevance. We are bringing together a remarkable lineup of journalists, creators, and leaders to tackle the most pressing questions facing media today: - How are digital-first creators and platforms reshaping the local news ecosystem? - How do we reconnect the press with a public navigating a fractured political reality? - What are the real risks and opportunities of AI in the newsroom? - How do we build sustainable models for the money side of journalism? It?s going to be a day of candid conversations, networking, and forward-looking insights. Whether you?re a media professional, academic, or just passionate about the future of fact-based reporting, we?d love to see you there. This summit is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/the-future-of-journalism-summit General admission: $20 Student tickets: $15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bonnard.martin at uqam.ca Mon Apr 13 08:19:54 2026 From: bonnard.martin at uqam.ca (Bonnard, Martin) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:19:54 +0000 Subject: [acc-cca-l] =?windows-1252?q?le_labdoc_pour_le_colloque_=28Re=29?= =?windows-1252?q?voir_le_vivant=2E_Explorations_documentaires_en_recherch?= =?windows-1252?q?e-cr=E9ation=2E_Le_22_et_23_avril_2026_=E0_l=92UQAM?= Message-ID: [?EXTERNAL] Bonjour tout le monde, Le labdoc pr?sente : Diane Poitras et Viva Paci, directrices du labdoc (laboratoire de recherche sur les pratiques audiovisuelles documentaires) ont le plaisir de vous convier au colloque (Re)voir le vivant. Explorations documentaires en recherche-cr?ation. Le 22 et 23 avril 2026 ? l?UQAM. Ce colloque ouvert ? tous et ? toutes propose de r?fl?chir, par la recherche-cr?ation, ? l?appr?hension des grandes perturbations auxquelles le vivant est aujourd?hui confront?. Il vise ? mettre en dialogue des approches documentaires provenant tant de l?int?rieur que de l?ext?rieur de l?institution universitaire afin de renouveler nos regards sur le monde. L??v?nement r?unira des chercheur?euse?s et artistes autour de diverses explorations documentaires ? cin?ma, photographie, installation, arts visuels, litt?rature, th??tre et cr?ations sonores ? susceptibles d?interroger nos habitudes perceptives et de faire surgir des relations sensibles et renouvel?es avec l?ensemble du vivant. Comit? organisateur : Diane Poitras, Viva Paci, Maxime Michaud. Comit? scientifique : Marjolaine B?land, Marco Bertozzi, Marion Froger, Viva Paci, Diane Poitras. Assistantes : Tahnee Drago, Lucie Lambert, Ketzali Yulmuk-Bray. Affiche et programme d?taill? du colloque en pi?ces jointes. 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