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The 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
(C&T) Humanization of Digital Technologies
Call for Participation
May 29 - June 02, 2023 Lahti, Finland
The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is
the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate
and disseminating research on the complex connections between
communities – in their multiple forms – and information and
communication technologies.
C&T 2023 welcomes participation from researchers, designers,
educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and
perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and
technology, including architecture, arts, business, design,
economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, informatics,
information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media
and communication studies, and social sciences.
In the light of the conference theme "Humanization of Digital
Technologies" topics appropriate for submission to this conference
are myriad. They may emerge from a variety of relevant
perspectives including philosophy, social sciences, design,
business, art, the humanities, etc. Examples of some of the
vibrant areas of communities and technology research include, but
are not limited to:
· Domains such as learning/education, health, cultural heritage;
crises and natural disasters; environmental degradation,
economics, and climate change;
· Diverse communities and their relationships to technology; urban
and rural, migrants, refugees, indigenous peoples, LGBTQ+,
activists and social movements, low-income communities, alt-right,
and hate groups; the developing world and non-Western societies;
professional communities, communities of practice, research
communities, cultural sensitivity;
· Bottom-up movements, grassroots developments, civic activism,
community engagement, participatory publics, communities and
innovation; ethics, power, and social justice issues;
· Human-centred design, participatory design, living labs,
social-embedded design and research, critical and future-oriented
design approaches, more-than human, arts-based design,
empowerment;
· Human values and needs, agency, inclusion, psychological safety,
human well-being, postdigitalism,
· Crowdfunding, collective and civic intelligence, community
learning, early warning systems, collective awareness,
collaborative awareness platforms; social cognition; community
emotion; happiness; historical memory;
· Community-owned and operated technology, peer production and the
commons, DIY and maker communities (makerspaces, fablabs,
crafters); community agriculture;
· Online and offline communities, urban and rural communities;
urban technologies; urban informatics; urban interaction design;
cross-community work; new forms of communities;
· Community memory, archives, and knowledge; resilience; smart
communities in the context of smart cities; sustainable
communities; economic and social development;
· Civic problem-solving, communities in relation to urgent and
complex challenges to the health of the planet and the people that
inhabit it; collaborative systems; partnering with education;
government, civil society, and movements;
· Sharing or collaborative economies; platform capitalism and
platform cooperativism; social media and social capital;
associations, strong and weak ties;
· Supporting community processes: sensemaking, online
deliberation; issue, argumentation and discussion mapping;
community ideation and idea management systems; collective
decision-making; group memory; participatory sensory networks;
· Technological issues: community toolkits; federated systems;
decentralization and blockchains; integration with other systems,
integration with face-to-face systems;
· The future of humans, communities, and technology; simulations,
utopian or dystopian design; durable relationships and long-range
goals; and
· Developing and supporting the Communities & Technologies
community; social and technological critique; effectiveness and
other measures.
Important dates:
Papers (full and short): 22.2.2023
Case studies: 8.3.2023
Workshop proposals: 8.3.2023
Doctoral colloquium applications: 5.4.2023
Posters and demos: 5.4.2023
Workshop days: 29.05-30.05.2023
Conference days: 31.05.-02.06.2023
Check for full details from:
http://2023.comtech.community/
Chairs:
Annika Wolff: Annika.wolff_at_lut.fi
Dominik Siemon: dominik.siemon_at_lut.fi
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