June 28, 2023

Online event

Deadline: February 28, 2023

The call for papers is now open for - The Datafied Family – a free, fully online day-long event on Wednesday 28th June 2023, hosted by Professor Ranjana Das of the University of Surrey, UK, with funding from the Institute of Advanced Studies. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, UK; Professor Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, India; Dr Giovanna Mascheroni, Catholic University of Milan, Italy and Professor Veronica Barassi, University of St Gallen, Switzerland 

From body-trackers, non-human digital support apps, smart home tech, parenting apps and gadgets, surveillance devices from the womb to the cradle, technologies of intimacy and play in the Internet of the Things, and wellbeing and wellness support bots – the textures of family life are changing – at disparate paces across global cultures and economies with a steady increase in family technologies, which are subtly, and not so subtly altering the doing of care, intimacy, leisure, learning, play, routine and more. 

WEBSITE: https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounters-in-care-intimacies-routine-and-play/ 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The Datafied Family – will raise and respond to a set of key questions – without restricting its topics to these alone. Overarchingly, we ask 

1. In what ways have family dynamics – routines, caring, intimacies, leisure, play, learning, parenting and more – been interrupted, (re)shaped, or transformed by the steady algorithmizing of everyday family life? 

2. What material artefacts – toys, apps, smart home tech, educational applications, portals and meta-portals – punctuate family life and to what effect? 

3. What inequalities, injustices, and power dynamics are being rehearsed or reshaped through the datafication of family life? 

4. How is the algorithmic shaping of domestic routines and rapports encountered in practice, resisted, or reshaped through human agency? 

5. What global perspectives remain less visible and unincorporated in theorising the datafied family, including the disparities between the global north and south? 

The event welcomes paper submissions on its submission portal in the following areas – which are indicated below but not produced as an exhaustive list:

• Surveillance technologies in the home 

• Body trackers 

• Geo-location devices and relationships 

• Datafication of intimacies and sexuality 

• Parenthood, parenting and platforms 

• Childhood, big data and datafication of childhood 

• Rights based perspectives on data technologies in the family 

• Kinship, routines, time and technology 

• Aging, care and emerging technologies 

• Smart home technologies 

• Leisure, play, learning and Big Data 

• Algorithmic cultures, resistance, play and algorithmic shaping of family life 

• Data driven discrimination 

• Data inequalities and injustices 

• Redefining ‘family’ in an era of datafication 

Abstract submission details: 

Final Submission Deadline:28th February 2023 

Notification of Outcome:March 20th 2023 

Event date:28th June, 2023, 930 am to 3 pmUK time.   

Submission portal: please submit your abstract here: https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounters-in-care-intimacies-routine-and-play/

If any questions, please get in touch with Professor Ranjana Das, atr.das@Surrey.ac.uk