<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-block gmail-block-layout-builder gmail-block-field-blocknodeadvanced-pagetitle" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-field gmail-field--name-title gmail-field--type-string gmail-field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing:border-box"><h1 class="gmail-page-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.35;padding-left:1.33rem;padding-right:1.33rem"><font size="6"><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/Automation-by-Design">Automation by Design:</a></font></h1><h1 class="gmail-page-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.35;padding-left:1.33rem;padding-right:1.33rem"><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/Automation-by-Design">Politics, Culture, and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn</a></h1><h1 class="gmail-page-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.35;padding-left:1.33rem;padding-right:1.33rem"><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/Automation-by-Design">CFP--Deadline Friday, April 29th</a></h1><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em"><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/Automation-by-Design">Automation by Design</a></em> is a global, interdisciplinary, virtual CBI symposium on the politics and culture of digital automation. We welcome papers in a broad range of fields across the humanities and social sciences. These include history, STS, sociology, anthropology, media studies, policy, legal studies, geography, communication, rhetoric, information studies, and philosophy.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em">The platformization of society, fueled by automation and machine learning, impacts IT users in deleterious, discriminatory, democracy-threatening, and at times deadly, ways that intersect and compound. This symposium seeks papers that explore how automation—from its algorithmic and architectural design to its structuring, materiality, maintenance, and use—has developed jointly with social politics. We are especially interested in papers that address education, law, capitalism, labor, science, medicine, leisure, privacy/security, surveillance, the body, and the environment.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Program Committee:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em"><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/jeffrey-r-yost-phd" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(144,0,33);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(144,0,33)">Dr. Jeffrey Yost (</a><a href="https://twitter.com/JustCodeCulture" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(144,0,33);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(144,0,33)">@JustCodeCulture</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">)</span><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/jeffrey-r-yost-phd" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(144,0,33);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(144,0,33)">, CBI Dir. & Res. Prof., HSTM, Univ. of Minnesota</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em"><a href="https://sts.ucdavis.edu/people/condiaz" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(144,0,33);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(144,0,33)">Dr. Gerardo Con Diaz, Assoc. Prof., STS, Univ. of California, Davis & Stanford Univ. Fellow</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em"><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/hstm/honghong-tinn" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(144,0,33);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(144,0,33)">Dr. Honghong Tinn, Asst. Prof., HSTM & ECE, Univ. of Minnesota </a> </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em"><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(144,0,33);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(144,0,33)">Dr. Colette Perold, Asst. Prof., Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado</a></p></div></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font color="#222222">Please connect:</font><font color="#222222">   </font><font><a href="https://twitter.com/justcodeculture" target="_blank"><font color="#ff0000">Twitter</font></a><font color="#000000"> </font></font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><b><font color="#222222"> </font><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-yost-b714566" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Linkedin</font></a></b><b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/babbageinstitute" target="_blank"><font color="#6aa84f">CBI-FB</font></a><font color="#38761d"> </font><font color="#222222">  </font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Decentralizedinternet/" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Blockchain & Society FB</font></a></b></div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D.         </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, <a href="http://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi" target="_blank">Charles Babbage Institute</a>; Research Professor, HSTM</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">222 21st Avenue South, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN 55455</p></div><div><br></div></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor </span></div><div><font color="#222222"><b>PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."</b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.blockchainandsociety.com" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d"><b>Blockchain & Society Blog and Site</b></font></a> (Founder/Leader)</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#38761d"><b>Committee Member, National Academy of Engineering Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society</b></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)</font></a></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>