<div dir="ltr">
<p><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dialogues in Data Power, </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">4</span><sup style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">th</sup><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> International Data Power Conference, June 22</span><sup style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">nd</sup><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - June 24</span><sup style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">th</sup><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> 2022</span></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">Online and in person in three locations: the University of Sheffield, Carleton University and the University of Bremen</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">A
three-day in person and online international conference organized by
Data Power teams at The University of Sheffield in the UK, Carleton
University in Canada and the University of Bremen in Germany.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong>Abstract Deadline:</strong> 15<sup>th</sup> January 2022</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong>Conference Dates:</strong> 22<sup>nd</sup> to 24<sup>th</sup> of June 2022</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong>Venues:</strong>
It will be possible to participate in the conference online or in
person. Conference activities will be hosted for one day in each of
these locations: </font></p><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Department of Sociological Studies and Information School in Sheffield, UK</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, Canada</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Institute for Information Management (ifib) in Bremen, Germany.</font></li></ul><h3><strong><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif">Call for abstracts:</font></strong></h3><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">The
Data Power Conference hosts critical reflections on data’s power and
the social, political, economic and cultural consequences of data’s
increasing presence in our lives, workplaces, and societies. The most
recent conference in 2019 focused on the specific theme of global
in/security. The 4<sup>th </sup>Data Power Conference, in June 2022,
returns to some of the fundamental questions that underpinned the
founding of the conference. It is conceived as a series of dialogues,
dialogues <em>about</em> overarching concerns and <em>with</em> disciplines and stakeholders working with and on data. In particular, the conference will reflect on:</font></p><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">How can stakeholders be engaged in critical conversations about data power?</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">What constitute rigorous methods when it comes to researching data power?</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">To
what extent does critical data power research need to focus on specific
instances of data power in action? What contributions can more
generalised critiques make to our field?</font></li></ul><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">To facilitate dialogues across disciplines and with stakeholders, we welcome papers, </font>panels and roundtable dialogues <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">from
interdisciplinary teams including disciplines incorporating aspects of
data science, and papers which incorporate non-academic collaborators
from a range of sectors.</span></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">As
always, the Data Power Conference remains concerned with in/equalities,
discrimination, questions of justice, rights and freedoms, and agency
and resistance. We welcome </font><font face="arial, sans-serif">papers, </font>panels and roundtable dialogues<font face="arial, sans-serif"> that engage with these matters.</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif">There will be a keynote speaker on each of the three conference days, details to be confirmed.</font></p><h3><strong><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif">Information on abstracts & papers</font></strong></h3><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Whilst
we welcome papers and session proposals of all kinds, please note that
this conference focuses on critical questions about data’s power and
also papers that are critical and/or reflective with regards to the
social and cultural consequences of the rise of data's power.</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">A 250-300 word abstract is required.</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">The deadline for abstracts is 15<sup>th</sup> January 2022.</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submit your abstracts <a href="https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/DP2022/about/submissions." target="_blank">here</a>, or read about abstract submission will be available <a href="http://datapowerconference.org/data-power-2022/about/" target="_blank">here</a></font>. </li></ul><h3><strong><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif">Information on conference organisation</font></strong></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 12pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:normal">
</p><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">It will be possible to
participate fully remotely in the conference, but it will also be
possible to participate in-person in one of the three locations in which
the conference has already taken place – Sheffield/UK, Ottawa/Canada
and Bremen/Germany – as these will each host a local session on one of
the conference days.</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">The
conference will seek to be accessible across time zones, with sessions
9am to 12pm CET and 6pm to 9pm CET on each of the three days.</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">There will be a modest conference fee to cover running costs, with reductions for students and people participating online.</font></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Data Power Conference Management
Team</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Jo Bates, University of Sheffield</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Monika Halkort, Lebanese American
University</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Juliane Jarke, University of Bremen</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Helen Kennedy, University of
Sheffield</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tracey Lauriault, Carleton University</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Data Power Conference Committee</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ysabel Gerrard, University of
Sheffield</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Leif Kramp, University of Bremen</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><br></span></p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span><span></span></span>Dr Jo Bates</div><div>Senior Lecturer in Information Politics and Policy<br></div><div></div><div>Digital Societies Research Group<br></div><div>Information School, The University of Sheffield, Room 236, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP<br></div><div>+44 (0)114 222 2648</div><div><br></div><div>Website: <a href="https://lifeofdata.org" target="_blank">lifeofdata.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><span>Find us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ischoolsheffield" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, follow us on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/infoschoolsheff" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, read our latest news on our <a href="http://information-studies.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Blog</a> and join our community on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-sheffield-information-school?trk=tyah&trkInfo=tas%3Auniversity+of+sheffield+in%2Cidx%3A1-2-2" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a><br></span><br><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#38761d">I don't expect you to respond to my email outside your working hours. <br></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div>
</span></div><span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>