[ICTs-and-Society] Emerging ICT and Citizens' Values - call for abstracts closing

[Philip Boucher]

Reminder for abstract submission deadline-
15
th Feb
.



*Emerging ICT and Citizens' Values: Anticipating and Responding to
Challenges*In this session, we consider the relationship between citizens'
values and emerging information and communication technologies (ICT). In
particular, we consider how we can anticipate problems and proactively
design social, technical and regulatory responses to them. Technologies
such as wearable sensors, internet of things, social media, bio-banking and
autonomous systems pres

ent several moments of design. The values that are intentionally and
unintentionally 'designed in' to technologies achieve greater longevity and
reach. As our lives are increasingly mediated by digital artefacts - to the
extent that we live in a digital society and experience a digital culture -
certain values, such as openness, can be amplified at the expense of
others, such as privacy. Those technologies

that achieve massive proliferation and normalisation profoundly affect the
experience of contemporary life, for example by exaggerating our capacity
to measure and remember events and adjusting the norms of our relationships
with others over time and space. This capacity to transform the way we
live, often in unpredictable ways, has been met with both delight and
caution.

We will explore the significant challenges in anticipating and proactively
responding to the future effects of ICT development on different groups.
How can we identify which benefits are at stake and anticipate which rights
are at risk before development has occurred, and how can we use this
knowledge to protect citizens' values without foregoing the benefits of
technical development? In exploring the possibilities, we particularly
welcome submissions on the following topics:
·         Designing social, technical and regulatory methodologies for the
exploration of the relationship between ICT and citizens' values, and for
the identification of potential consequences of future developments.
·         Evaluating existing social, technical and regulatory responses to
issues raised by emerging ICT (e.g. sousveillance, privacy-by-design and
citizens' juries).
·         Designing social, technical and regulatory responses to specific
issues such as cyber-bullying, dual-use, surveillance, digital memory and
the right to be forgotten.

The track will be presented in English.

Session announcement
http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/STSITALIA_2014/AMD_Track6.pdf



Abstract submission:
http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/ocs/index.php/STSIC/AMD/author/submit?requiresAuthor=1


*Conference details*
A Matter of Design. Making Society through Science and Technology
Milano (IT), Politecnico di Milano
June 12, 2014 - June 14, 2014

The 5th STS Italia Conference will be held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through
14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in
collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design.

The conference is an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical work
from a variety of disciplines and fields (sociology, anthropology, law,
philosophy, design, psychology, semiotics, history, and economics, etc.).
It focuses on diverse aspects of the social study of innovation processes,
technology, science and design.

The 5th STS Italia Conference theme is design processes. Design, on the one
hand, is a process that gives rise both to artifacts and to their
accompanying social networks, those that are brought about by the artifacts
as well as those that make the artifacts possible. On the other hand,
design processes cannot be explained as the result of independent, rational
choices by isolated individuals, whether designers, producers or users.
They are, rather, collective processes in which humans and nonhumans
interact. When science and technology studies meet the latest design
thinking, new scenarios and new perspectives arise for both these research
communities. This occurs - as the many thematic sessions of the conference
reveal - in studying communication tools, workplaces, robotics, innovation
processes, smart fibers, medical products or even the human body.

We are delighted to announce that the confirmed keynote speakers will be:
Kjetil Fallan (University of Oslo)
Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)
Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University)
Charis Thompson (London School of Economics)

http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/ocs/index.php/STSIC/AMD/schedConf/cfp

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