[SIGCIS-Members] SIGCIS 2025 CFP: proposals due June 30
Morgan G. Ames
morganya at berkeley.edu
Fri May 30 08:00:00 PDT 2025
We are excited to announce our Call for Participation for the 16th Annual
Conference of the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and
Society, "Power Surge," which will take place online September 25-27.
Proposals for papers, panels, graduate student WIP papers (new this year!),
or other forms of participation are due June 30 (11:59pm AoE) at
https://forms.gle/R63W9xYzAepkCwB98.
See below or follow this link
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1plGw7dI_bUWUxNW295A0IrdeBMggoZ-qRI2hPAKPrEM/edit?usp=sharing>
for the full CFP. Please reach out if you have any questions, and please
spread the word!
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SIGCIS 2025: power surge
September 25-27 2025 | Online via Zoom
The Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS)
welcomes submissions to their 16th Annual Conference
meetings.sigcis.org
Proposal Due Date: June 30, 2025 | Submit Here
<https://forms.gle/R63W9xYzAepkCwB98>
Keynote Speaker
Lily Geismer
<https://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile/lily-geismer>Professor of
History,
Claremont McKenna College
call for participation
>From the rapid uptake of commercial AI tools in the workplace to the
increasingly dominant role the tech industry is playing in politics, the
combustible confluence of technology, power, money, and politics is moving
fast and things are breaking. Scholars and practitioners know to be wary of
cycles of hype and fear around new technologies. But to many, what’s
happening today feels like a definitive break from the past, akin to an
unexpected power spike that exceeds the normal operating voltage of a
circuit. For SIGCIS 2025, we ask: What are the stakes of studying the
history of computing at a time when technology's perceived excesses are
unraveling political institutions, legal doctrines, and professional norms?
When technology works as intended for some and "glitches" for others
(Benjamin 2019), when political agency is superseded by the
technologists' visions
of autonomy (Marx 2010), and when labor is devalued in the name of machine
productivity (Bix 2000), we assert that locating this moment within the
longer history of computing can help us grapple with the contemporary
politics of power.
The 16th annual conference of the Special Interest Group for Computing,
Information, and Society (SIGCIS) employs a broad definition of the history
of the politics of computing to facilitate a timely discussion of the
relationship between political power and digital technologies. What role
does the tech industry play in engineering political, cultural, and
economic orders? How do the changes in systems of government funding and
patronage steer the goals, tasks, and values of professional and research
communities in computer science and engineering? How do political and
economic ideologies create demand for certain technologies and shape their
adoption? Whether one sees this moment as a breaking point or as a
fundamental continuity, this year's theme "Power Surge" also connotes the
potential for resistance and response to excesses of computing’s
technologies, institutions, corporate actors, and legal doctrines. What
modes of effective push-back does the history of computing present to us?
"SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge" invites scholars, museum and archive
professionals, journalists, IT practitioners, artists, and independent
researchers across the disciplinary spectrum to consider how the history of
computing and information technology can offer fresh perspectives on tech
policy and regulation, the institutional contexts in which computing
technology is developed and deployed, and how computing technologies
mediate the politics of everyday life. SIGCIS is welcoming of new
directions in scholarship. We are particularly interested in submissions
that bridge and engage with adjacent but often siloed fields that center
the study of power, politics, and policy such as American Political
Development (APD), global political economy, political theory, technology
policy, and related fields; as well as broader analyses from the histories
of technology, computing, information, and science; science and technology
studies; oral history and archival studies; critical studies of big data
and machine learning; studies of women, gender, and sexuality; studies of
race, ethnicity, and postcoloniality; film, media, and game studies;
software and code studies; network and internet histories; music, sound
studies, and art history; or other adjacent domains. We maintain an
inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry supporting disciplinary
interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and
promoting diversity in STEM.
submission format and procedures
SIGCIS welcomes proposals for individual 15-minute papers, 3-4 paper panel
proposals, and non-traditional proposals such as roundtables, software
demonstrations, art and music performances, hands-on workshops, etc.
Participants are limited to one presenting role, but may take on additional
roles as moderator, discussant, graduate student workshop mentor, or
similar.
NEW THIS YEAR: WIP Workshops for graduate students! In addition to the open
SIGCIS program, we invite graduate students to submit an abstract,
following the submission guidelines below, for a closed works-in-progress
(WIP) workshop, where accepted participants will receive feedback on their
drafts from established scholars in the history of computing and adjacent
fields. Workshops will take place on Saturday, September 27, the final day
of the conference. Students who are accepted to the WIP Workshop must
submit a full or excerpted draft of their paper/chapter (4000-8000 words,
excluding references) by August 31, 2025 in order to be included in the
final program. Drafts will be circulated to mentors in the weeks before the
conference. We also invite mentor nominations (including self-nominations),
and graduate students submitting WIP papers are especially encouraged to
submit nominations.
Submissions are due June 30, 2025 here: https://forms.gle/R63W9xYzAepkCwB98.
Submissions must include:
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An anonymized 300-350 word abstract, summary, or prospectus (as
appropriate for the submission type). Full panel proposals should
additionally include 200-250 word abstracts for each paper that will be
part of the panel. If you are proposing a virtual performance, skill share,
social activity, or other non-traditional event, please also tell us how
much time you anticipate needing. Please do not include names or other
identifying information in this file.
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A separate file of 100-150 word biographies with full name, affiliation,
email, and presentation title for you and each other participant in your
submission (if applicable).
If you are submitting a co-presented paper, pre-constituted panel, or other
submission involving multiple participants, please only have one person
submit for the group.
Questions about the submission process should be sent to
sigcis.conference at gmail.com.
virtual logistics and accessibility
In order to make SIGCIS as accessible as possible within the means of an
all-volunteer organization, the SIGCIS Conference Committee has implemented
these measures:
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SIGCIS is hosted online every other year, starting in 2021.
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Virtual SIGCIS conferences are not co-located or co-timed with our
parent organization, SHOT, so as not to conflict with SHOT’s in-person
conference.
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While our typical in-person format is a one-day, 3-stream conference,
our virtual format is a multi-day, single stream event with
time-zone-sensitive scheduling.
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The virtual conference has a sliding-scale registration fee, and
membership in SHOT is not required to register.
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The submission form includes a field where you can list your time
zone(s) and a field where you may make requests for accessibility
accommodations.
SIGCIS meetings organizing committee
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Morgan G. Ames <http://morganya.org/>, University of California,
Berkeley (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings)
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Xiaochang Li <https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-li/>, Stanford University
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Katya Babintseva
<https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html>,
Purdue University
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Gili Vidan <https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan>, Cornell
University
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Colette Perold
<https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold>,
University
of Colorado, Boulder
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