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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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