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Camp 2019: Platforms, Politics, Participation<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Privacy Camp will take place on 29 January
2019 in Brussels, Belgium, just before the start of the <a href="https://www.cpdpconferences.org/">CPDP</a> conference.
Privacy Camp brings together civil society, policy-makers and academia to
discuss existing and looming problems for human rights in the digital environment.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Proposals: Platforms, Politics,
Participation<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Privacy Camp 2019 will focus on digital
platforms, their societal impact and political significance. Due to the rise of
a few powerful companies such as Uber, Facebook, Amazon or Google, the term
“platform” has moved beyond its initial computational meaning of technological
architecture and has come to be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon.
Platforms are said to facilitate and shape human interactions, thus becoming
important economic and political actors. While the companies offering platform
services are increasingly the target of regulative action, they are also
considered as allies of national and supranational institutions in enforcing
policies voluntarily and gauging political interest and support. Digital
platforms employ business models that rely on the collection of large amounts
of data and the use of advanced algorithms, which raise concerns about their
surveillance potential and their impact on political events. Increasingly
rooted in the daily life of many individuals, platforms monetise social
interactions and turn to questionable labor practices. Many sectors and social
practices are being “platformised”, from public health to security, from news
to entertainment services. </span><span>Lately, some scholars have conceptualised this phenomenon as “<a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Platform+Capitalism-p-9781509504862" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">platform capitalism</span></a>” or “<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-platform-society-9780190889777?cc=be&lang=en&" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">platform society</span></a>”.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Privacy Camp 2019 will unpack the
implications of “platformisation” for the socio-political fabric, human rights
and policy making. In particular, how does the platform logic shape our
experiences and the world we live in? How do institutional actors attempt to
regulate platforms? In what ways do the affordances and constraints of
platforms shape how people share and make use of their data?<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Participate!<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We welcome panel proposals relating to the
broad theme of platforms. Besides classic panel proposals we are also seeking
short contributions for our workshop “Situating Platforms: User Narratives”.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">1. Panel proposals<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We are particularly interested in panel
proposals on the following topics: platform economy and labour; algorithmic
bias; democratic participation and social networks.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Submission guidelines:<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Indicate a clear objective for
your session, i.e. what would be a good outcome for you?<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Indicate other speakers that
could participate in your panel (and let us know which speaker has already
confirmed, at least in principle, to participate).<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Make it as participative as
possible, think about how to include the audience and diverse actors. Note that
the average panel length is 75 minutes.<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Send us a description of no
more than 400 words.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">2. “Situating Platforms: User Narratives”
submissions<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">In an effort to discuss situated contexts
with regard to platforms, we will have a session on lived practices and user
narratives. Individuals, civil society groups or community associations are
welcome to contribute in the format of a short talk or show & tell
demonstration. Details and the online submission form are here: <a href="https://framaforms.org/your-platform-story-1539768957">https://framaforms.org/your-platform-story-1539768957</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">The
deadline for all submissions is 18 November</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">. After
the deadline, we will review your submission and let you know by the end of
November whether your proposal can be included in the programme. It is possible
that we suggest merging panel proposals if they are very similar.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Please send your proposal via email to
privacycamp(at)<a href="http://edri.org">edri.org</a>!<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">If you have questions, please contact
Kirsten at kirsten.fiedler(at)edri(dot)org or Imge at imge.ozcan(at)vub(dot)be.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">For more details about Privacy Camp, please
visit <a href="https://privacycamp.eu/">https://privacycamp.eu/</a><span></span></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><span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Imge Ozcan<br><br>Doctoral Researcher<br>Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS)<br>Vrije Universiteit Brussel</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>