SIGCIS 2022 CFP: UNDER CONSTRUCTION | Due June 1
Dear SIGCIS Community, The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to *announce the CFP for our 2022 SIGCIS Conference, **UNDER CONSTRUCTION*. Our keynote for the event is Lilly Irani <https://quote.ucsd.edu/lirani/>, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. The SIGCIS Conference will take place *November 13th, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, *on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. *Abstracts are due June 1.* Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here <https://bit.ly/388L3Zk>, or at our conference website: meetings.sigcis.org. Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you at SIGCIS! -Laine Nooney, Morgan G. Ames, Stephanie Dick, and Xiaochang Li -------------------------------------------------------------- *UNDER CONSTRUCTION* *New Orleans, LA, US | November 13, 2022* The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their annual conference meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: June 1, 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Lilly Irani Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies University of California, San Diego THEME A shovel strikes dirt in one country, and the Internet goes out in another. Data centers are cooled by local water supplies, fiber-optic cable follows the sightlines left by railroads and telegraph, global hardware semiconductor supplies depend on the labor of rare earth mineral miners: somehow computing always needs more. The past ten years, in particular, have exhibited a perilous turn in the political economy of computing, as software became service, programming became agile, and storage became cloud. This new regime is driven by an accelerated mode of iterative software development that increasingly relies on post-sales bug fixes, security patches, and performance upgrades, producing a litany of products and services whose endless failures aid some and threaten others. From the communities subject to such “innovation” to the shadow workers paid to “be” artificial intelligence to the coders pushing ambient updates by the millions, risk hums through it all. Computation today is locked in a state of perpetual beta testing, forever promising “improved” features—just don’t ask when it will end, and don’t ask who’s doing the work. In the meantime, these new standards of practice generate new labor and resource demands, new forms of risk, and new challenges for accountability and intervention alike. Yet the patched and partial nature of computing isn’t new. Computing is infrastructure, requiring its own forms of construction and maintenance throughout its history, whether tearing up roads, detangling spaghetti code, or hastily soldering circuits. These are metaphors for history too: what better encapsulates the sentiment of doing history, than the feeling that it will never be done? For historians of information and computing itself, such anxieties are particularly acute due to the objects under examination: constant upgrades, absent documentation, planned obsolescence, the failure of historic hardware. For every line of code we save, hundreds, thousands, disappear. As we work to make sense of our contemporary conditions, how does the undone quality of history affect our ability to tell it? The 2022 SIGCIS Conference, convening in-person in New Orleans on November 13 following the SHOT Annual Meeting, invites scholars, museum and archive professionals, journalists, IT practitioners, artists, and independent researchers across the disciplinary spectrum to submit abstracts related to the historical conditions of computing. We are especially interested in (but not limited to) work that relates to the theme of construction, maintenance, and labor, broadly and imaginatively construed. Areas of engagement may include: - Maintenance and infrastructure in the history of computing and information tech - Historically-oriented approaches to the platform and gig economies - Computing as a site of labor struggle - Networks, borders, boundaries - Computational models of resistance: obfuscation, open-source, hacking, going “off grid” - Government’s historic role in the construction of computing industries and infrastructure - Communitarian and utopian applications of computing - Updates, upgrades, failures, and bugs - Modding, re-using, recycling, afterlives - Archival and curatorial practices and methods - Oral history, memory, forgetting - The limits of historical representation SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions 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; and all other applicable domains. The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://bit.ly/3Nswik2 SUBMISSION FORMATS SIGCIS welcomes proposals for individual 15-20 minute papers, 3-4 paper panel proposals, and non-traditional proposals such as roundtables, software demonstrations, art and music performances, hands-on workshops, etc. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Submissions are due June 1, 2022 via Google form: <https://forms.gle/C8ixar9s3JsCXq8d9>https://forms.gle/sLRowEDz6QitKCfv9. Submissions require: - 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. - 100-150 word bios for each participant 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; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: xiaochang.li@stanford.edu. COSTS/REGISTRATION While last year’s online conference was pay-what-you-can, hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS As a new initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We understand that for some, participation is more contingent on childcare or elder care, and as such we are opening up these grants to provide that form of support as well. There is no separate application form, though depending on the volume of requests and available resources we may need to contact you for further information before making a decision. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT annual meeting, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Laine Nooney, New York University (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Morgan Ames, University of California, Berkeley Stephanie Dick, Simon Fraser University Xiaochang Li, Stanford University ---- Laine Nooney <http://www.lainenooney.com/> MCC <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/> @ NYU <http://www.nyu.edu/> Assistant Professor -Need to make an appt? Click, don't email: https://bit.ly/2GIHuK0 -Probably typed by voice recognition, so please cherish typos
Dear SIGCIS Community, The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the CFP for our 2024 SIGCIS Conference, *SYSTEM UPDATE*. Our keynote for the event is *Anita Say Chan <https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/anita-say-chan>*, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The SIGCIS Conference will take place *July 14th, 2024* in Viña del Mar, Chile, on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. Abstracts are due *January 28, 2024*. Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wrXsJaSuQnK1NKaZKTSY5mJLy7I5d90qgj6obBbbC6o/edit?usp=sharing>, or at our conference website: https://meetings.sigcis.org. Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you at SIGCIS! -Morgan G. Ames, Xiaochang Li, Gili Vidan, Katya Babintseva, and Colette Perold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Update: Patches, Tactics, Responses Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile | July 14, 2024 The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their 15th Annual Conference meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: January 28, 2024 <https://forms.gle/87jx9wSrpUs8i4ZM7> KEYNOTE SPEAKER Anita Say Chan <https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/anita-say-chan>Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences Director, Community Data Clinic Provost Fellow, International Relations & Global Strategies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign THEME Patches, central to functioning computer systems, may improve performance, mend security flaws, or debug code. Like a patch on torn clothing, these updates are by design tactical and temporary, a response to immediate vulnerabilities. Patchwork can be an important tool for resilience and repair when a system overhaul would be protracted and disruptive. Still, patchwork also presumes that problems are ‘bugs’ or ‘glitches,’ isolated issues that could and would be fixed on the go (Benjamin 2019, Kidwell 1998). As patches accumulate, their stitches and seams can themselves be a vulnerability, and their presence may distract from more transformative change. The history of computing is permeated with patchwork. While many have critiqued an overreliance on quick technical fixes, patchwork can also be understood as a targeted resistance, a vital stopgap that directly addresses local failures and externalities within political, social, and economic systems when systemic forms of recourse are limited or unresponsive to the specific needs of local communities. As we gather for our first SIGCIS meeting in Latin America, Chile provides important historical lessons for how to think about architectures for technology and power, ones that move beyond surface-level responses to deeply revolutionary visions (Medina 2011). This history also reminds us of the constraints faced by historical actors who must work within a system even when seeking to update it. “System Update: Patches, Tactics, Responses” 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 is entangled with political and economic histories in a variety of contexts, and especially to consider patchwork. In spaces of uneven infrastructural investment, environmental restoration, or resistance and reparations, what are the uses and limitations of quick fixes? How have patches been used as tactical responses to large-scale, deeply historical injustices? Who carries the burden of patchwork and who is left out of the update? How can historical analyses help us respond to colonial and environmentally-fraught computing practices in and beyond the Global South? What strategies might allow for system rebuilding rather than mere patching? The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2024-joint-icohtec-shot-a... 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. Submissions are due January 28, 2024 via Google Form https://forms.gle/87jx9wSrpUs8i4ZM7. Submissions require: - 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. - 100-150 word bios for each participant 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; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions 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; and all other applicable domains. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: sigcis.conference@gmail.com. REGISTRATION COSTS Hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending the Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS Continuing our 2022 initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We will reach out to presenters after acceptances have been sent out with further information and instructions for applying. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT Annual Meeting, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate strongly to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Morgan G. Ames <http://morganya.org/>, University of California, Berkeley (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Xiaochang Li <https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-li/>, Stanford University Katya Babintseva <https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html>, Purdue University Gili Vidan <https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan>, Cornell University Colette Perold <https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold>, University of Colorado
Automated Reply: I’m out of the office from December 22-January 3 inclusive, so responses may be slower than usual. Happy New Year! On Dec 26, 2023, at 7:35 PM, Morgan G. Ames via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
Dear SIGCIS Community,
The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the CFP for our 2024 SIGCIS Conference, SYSTEM UPDATE. Our keynote for the event is Anita Say Chan, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The SIGCIS Conference will take place July 14th, 2024 in Viña del Mar, Chile, on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. Abstracts are due January 28, 2024.
Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here, or at our conference website: https://meetings.sigcis.org.
Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you at SIGCIS!
-Morgan G. Ames, Xiaochang Li, Gili Vidan, Katya Babintseva, and Colette Perold
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System Update: > Patches, Tactics, Responses Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile | July 14, 2024 The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their 15th Annual Conference > meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: January 28, 2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKER > Anita Say Chan > Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences > Director, Community Data Clinic > Provost Fellow, International Relations & Global Strategies > University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign THEME Patches, central to functioning computer systems, may improve performance, mend security flaws, or debug code. Like a patch on torn clothing, these updates are by design tactical and temporary, a response to immediate vulnerabilities. Patchwork can be an important tool for resilience and repair when a system overhaul would be protracted and disruptive. Still, patchwork also presumes that problems are ‘bugs’ or ‘glitches,’ isolated issues that could and would be fixed on the go (Benjamin 2019, Kidwell 1998). As patches accumulate, their stitches and seams can themselves be a vulnerability, and their presence may distract from more transformative change. The history of computing is permeated with patchwork. While many have critiqued an overreliance on quick technical fixes, patchwork can also be understood as a targeted resistance, a vital stopgap that directly addresses local failures and externalities within political, social, and economic systems when systemic forms of recourse are limited or unresponsive to the specific needs of local communities. As we gather for our first SIGCIS meeting in Latin America, Chile provides important historical lessons for how to think about architectures for technology and power, ones that move beyond surface-level responses to deeply revolutionary visions (Medina 2011). This history also reminds us of the constraints faced by historical actors who must work within a system even when seeking to update it. “System Update: Patches, Tactics, Responses” 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 is entangled with political and economic histories in a variety of contexts, and especially to consider patchwork. In spaces of uneven infrastructural investment, environmental restoration, or resistance and reparations, what are the uses and limitations of quick fixes? How have patches been used as tactical responses to large-scale, deeply historical injustices? Who carries the burden of patchwork and who is left out of the update? How can historical analyses help us respond to colonial and environmentally-fraught computing practices in and beyond the Global South? What strategies might allow for system rebuilding rather than mere patching? The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2024-joint-icohtec-shot-a... > > 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. Submissions are due January 28, 2024 via Google Form https://forms.gle/87jx9wSrpUs8i4ZM7. Submissions require: • 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. > • 100-150 word bios for each participant > 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; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions 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; and all other applicable domains. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: sigcis.conference@gmail.com. REGISTRATION COSTS Hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending the Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. > > TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS Continuing our 2022 initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We will reach out to presenters after acceptances have been sent out with further information and instructions for applying. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT Annual Meeting, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. > > ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate strongly to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. > > SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Morgan G. Ames, University of California, Berkeley (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Xiaochang Li, Stanford University Katya Babintseva, Purdue University Gili Vidan, Cornell University Colette Perold, University of Colorado
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Dear SIGCIS Community, The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the CFP for our 2024 SIGCIS Conference, *SYSTEM UPDATE*. Our keynote for the event is *Anita Say Chan <https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/anita-say-chan>*, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The SIGCIS Conference will take place *July 14th, 2024* in Viña del Mar, Chile, on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. Abstracts are due *January 28, 2024*. Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wrXsJaSuQnK1NKaZKTSY5mJLy7I5d90qgj6obBbbC6o/edit?usp=sharing>, or at our conference website: https://meetings.sigcis.org. Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you at SIGCIS! -Morgan G. Ames, Xiaochang Li, Gili Vidan, Katya Babintseva, and Colette Perold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Update: Patches, Tactics, Responses Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile | July 14, 2024 The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their 15th Annual Conference meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: January 28, 2024 <https://forms.gle/87jx9wSrpUs8i4ZM7> KEYNOTE SPEAKER Anita Say Chan <https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/anita-say-chan>Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences Director, Community Data Clinic Provost Fellow, International Relations & Global Strategies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign THEME Patches, central to functioning computer systems, may improve performance, mend security flaws, or debug code. Like a patch on torn clothing, these updates are by design tactical and temporary, a response to immediate vulnerabilities. Patchwork can be an important tool for resilience and repair when a system overhaul would be protracted and disruptive. Still, patchwork also presumes that problems are ‘bugs’ or ‘glitches,’ isolated issues that could and would be fixed on the go (Benjamin 2019, Kidwell 1998). As patches accumulate, their stitches and seams can themselves be a vulnerability, and their presence may distract from more transformative change. The history of computing is permeated with patchwork. While many have critiqued an overreliance on quick technical fixes, patchwork can also be understood as a targeted resistance, a vital stopgap that directly addresses local failures and externalities within political, social, and economic systems when systemic forms of recourse are limited or unresponsive to the specific needs of local communities. As we gather for our first SIGCIS meeting in Latin America, Chile provides important historical lessons for how to think about architectures for technology and power, ones that move beyond surface-level responses to deeply revolutionary visions (Medina 2011). This history also reminds us of the constraints faced by historical actors who must work within a system even when seeking to update it. “System Update: Patches, Tactics, Responses” 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 is entangled with political and economic histories in a variety of contexts, and especially to consider patchwork. In spaces of uneven infrastructural investment, environmental restoration, or resistance and reparations, what are the uses and limitations of quick fixes? How have patches been used as tactical responses to large-scale, deeply historical injustices? Who carries the burden of patchwork and who is left out of the update? How can historical analyses help us respond to colonial and environmentally-fraught computing practices in and beyond the Global South? What strategies might allow for system rebuilding rather than mere patching? The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2024-joint-icohtec-shot-a... 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. Submissions are due January 28, 2024 via Google Form https://forms.gle/87jx9wSrpUs8i4ZM7. Submissions require: - 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. - 100-150 word bios for each participant 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; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions 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; and all other applicable domains. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: sigcis.conference@gmail.com. REGISTRATION COSTS Hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending the Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS Continuing our 2022 initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We will reach out to presenters after acceptances have been sent out with further information and instructions for applying. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT Annual Meeting, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate strongly to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Morgan G. Ames <http://morganya.org/>, University of California, Berkeley (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Xiaochang Li <https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-li/>, Stanford University Katya Babintseva <https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html>, Purdue University Gili Vidan <https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan>, Cornell University Colette Perold <https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold>, University of Colorado
Automated Reply: I’m out of the office from December 22-January 3 inclusive, so responses may be slower than usual. Happy New Year! On Jan 3, 2024, at 6:04 PM, Morgan G. Ames via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
Dear SIGCIS Community,
The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the CFP for our 2024 SIGCIS Conference, SYSTEM UPDATE. Our keynote for the event is Anita Say Chan, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The SIGCIS Conference will take place July 14th, 2024 in Viña del Mar, Chile, on the Sunday of the SHOT conference. Abstracts are due January 28, 2024.
Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here, or at our conference website: https://meetings.sigcis.org.
Please circulate widely, and we hope to see you at SIGCIS!
-Morgan G. Ames, Xiaochang Li, Gili Vidan, Katya Babintseva, and Colette Perold
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System Update: > Patches, Tactics, Responses Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile | July 14, 2024 The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their 15th Annual Conference > meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: January 28, 2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKER > Anita Say Chan > Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences > Director, Community Data Clinic > Provost Fellow, International Relations & Global Strategies > University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign THEME Patches, central to functioning computer systems, may improve performance, mend security flaws, or debug code. Like a patch on torn clothing, these updates are by design tactical and temporary, a response to immediate vulnerabilities. Patchwork can be an important tool for resilience and repair when a system overhaul would be protracted and disruptive. Still, patchwork also presumes that problems are ‘bugs’ or ‘glitches,’ isolated issues that could and would be fixed on the go (Benjamin 2019, Kidwell 1998). As patches accumulate, their stitches and seams can themselves be a vulnerability, and their presence may distract from more transformative change. The history of computing is permeated with patchwork. While many have critiqued an overreliance on quick technical fixes, patchwork can also be understood as a targeted resistance, a vital stopgap that directly addresses local failures and externalities within political, social, and economic systems when systemic forms of recourse are limited or unresponsive to the specific needs of local communities. As we gather for our first SIGCIS meeting in Latin America, Chile provides important historical lessons for how to think about architectures for technology and power, ones that move beyond surface-level responses to deeply revolutionary visions (Medina 2011). This history also reminds us of the constraints faced by historical actors who must work within a system even when seeking to update it. “System Update: Patches, Tactics, Responses” 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 is entangled with political and economic histories in a variety of contexts, and especially to consider patchwork. In spaces of uneven infrastructural investment, environmental restoration, or resistance and reparations, what are the uses and limitations of quick fixes? How have patches been used as tactical responses to large-scale, deeply historical injustices? Who carries the burden of patchwork and who is left out of the update? How can historical analyses help us respond to colonial and environmentally-fraught computing practices in and beyond the Global South? What strategies might allow for system rebuilding rather than mere patching? The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2024-joint-icohtec-shot-a... > > 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. Submissions are due January 28, 2024 via Google Form https://forms.gle/87jx9wSrpUs8i4ZM7. Submissions require: • 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. > • 100-150 word bios for each participant > 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; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions 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; and all other applicable domains. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: sigcis.conference@gmail.com. REGISTRATION COSTS Hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending the Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. > > TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS Continuing our 2022 initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We will reach out to presenters after acceptances have been sent out with further information and instructions for applying. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT Annual Meeting, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. > > ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate strongly to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. > > SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Morgan G. Ames, University of California, Berkeley (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Xiaochang Li, Stanford University Katya Babintseva, Purdue University Gili Vidan, Cornell University Colette Perold, University of Colorado
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*UPDATED DEADLINE! *Please submit proposals for SIGCIS 2024 (July 14th in Viña del Mar, Chile; hybrid options TBD) by *Monday, February 12th.* The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the CFP for our 2024 SIGCIS Conference, *SYSTEM UPDATE*. Our keynote for the event is *Anita Say Chan <https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/anita-say-chan>*, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Below you can find the full CFP for this year's conference. The CFP can also be viewed as a Google doc here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wrXsJaSuQnK1NKaZKTSY5mJLy7I5d90qgj6obBbbC6o/edit?usp=sharing>, or at our conference website: https://meetings.sigcis.org. Submit your abstracts here! <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefeagtvwInMA0duDChir_AfDK8R--gYV7zRWg8tiy7p3dM6g/viewform> *Please help us spread the word!* We hope to see you in Chile this July. Warmly, -Morgan G. Ames, Xiaochang Li, Gili Vidan, Katya Babintseva, and Colette Perold SIGCIS conference committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Update: Patches, Tactics, Responses Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile | July 14, 2024 The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their 15th Annual Conference meetings.sigcis.org UPDATE: Proposal Due Date: February 12, 2024 <https://forms.gle/87jx9wSrpUs8i4ZM7> KEYNOTE SPEAKER Anita Say Chan <https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/anita-say-chan>Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences Director, Community Data Clinic Provost Fellow, International Relations & Global Strategies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign THEME Patches, central to functioning computer systems, may improve performance, mend security flaws, or debug code. Like a patch on torn clothing, these updates are by design tactical and temporary, a response to immediate vulnerabilities. Patchwork can be an important tool for resilience and repair when a system overhaul would be protracted and disruptive. Still, patchwork also presumes that problems are ‘bugs’ or ‘glitches,’ isolated issues that could and would be fixed on the go (Benjamin 2019, Kidwell 1998). As patches accumulate, their stitches and seams can themselves be a vulnerability, and their presence may distract from more transformative change. The history of computing is permeated with patchwork. While many have critiqued an overreliance on quick technical fixes, patchwork can also be understood as a targeted resistance, a vital stopgap that directly addresses local failures and externalities within political, social, and economic systems when systemic forms of recourse are limited or unresponsive to the specific needs of local communities. As we gather for our first SIGCIS meeting in Latin America, Chile provides important historical lessons for how to think about architectures for technology and power, ones that move beyond surface-level responses to deeply revolutionary visions (Medina 2011). This history also reminds us of the constraints faced by historical actors who must work within a system even when seeking to update it. “System Update: Patches, Tactics, Responses” 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 is entangled with political and economic histories in a variety of contexts, and especially to consider patchwork. In spaces of uneven infrastructural investment, environmental restoration, or resistance and reparations, what are the uses and limitations of quick fixes? How have patches been used as tactical responses to large-scale, deeply historical injustices? Who carries the burden of patchwork and who is left out of the update? How can historical analyses help us respond to colonial and environmentally-fraught computing practices in and beyond the Global South? What strategies might allow for system rebuilding rather than mere patching? The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2024-joint-icohtec-shot-a... 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. Submissions are due January 28, 2024 via Google Form https://forms.gle/87jx9wSrpUs8i4ZM7. Submissions require: - 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. - 100-150 word bios for each participant 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; contact and professional information for other participants can be included in the Bio submission section. SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology and promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions 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; and all other applicable domains. Questions about the submission process should be sent to: sigcis.conference@gmail.com. REGISTRATION COSTS Hosting an in-person event incurs costs related to room and A/V rental, catering, etc. These costs are subsidized in part by our parent organization, SHOT, but participants should expect registration fees in the range of $45-50 for SHOT attendees and $90-120 for those only attending the Sunday SIGCIS Conference (we list these rates in good faith, but they are subject to change). Attending SHOT has its own registration costs. TRAVEL AND CARE GRANTS Continuing our 2022 initiative, SIGCIS will be offering grants to support travel expenses and/or expenses related to child, elder, and other forms of care for presenters whose responsibilities at home may present a barrier to in-person participation. The top financial priority of SIGCIS is support for graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support, and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel assistance. We will reach out to presenters after acceptances have been sent out with further information and instructions for applying. Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference as participation in the SHOT Annual Meeting, so acceptance by SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTS The submission Google form will include a field where individuals may make requests for accessibility accommodations. Since our event is coordinated by our parent organization, SHOT, we cannot guarantee our ability to meet all accommodation requests. However, our intent will always be to advocate strongly to meet the accessibility needs of our participants. SIGCIS MEETINGS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Morgan G. Ames <http://morganya.org/>, University of California, Berkeley (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Xiaochang Li <https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-li/>, Stanford University Katya Babintseva <https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html>, Purdue University Gili Vidan <https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan>, Cornell University Colette Perold <https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold>, University of Colorado -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Morgan G. Ames <https://morganya.org> (pronounced "MORE-ghen Aims"; she/her) faculty, School of Information <https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/>, UC Berkeley associate director of research, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society <https://cstms.berkeley.edu> author of *The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child <https://morganya.org/charisma/>* (2019, MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/charisma-machine>) - 2020 Information Science Book of the Year, 2020 Sally Hacker Prize, 2021 Computer History Museum Prize If you need disability accommodations to meet or work with me, please let me know. UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. See https://cejce.berkeley.edu/ohloneland for more.
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