Description
Public event and writers’ workshop on March 23-24, 2023, in Copenhagen.Anthology of collected papers from the workshop, to be published by Bristol University Press in 2024.
Much discussion regarding digital technologies, new media, platforms, and information practices have centered on the protection of personal data and privacy. However, privacy studies have offered a limited perspective for addressing the underlying issues that are at stake in the digital, datafied society which go beyond individual rights to fundamental problems of political economy, infrastructural relations, and emerging power formations. Privacy has in the digital sphere often been reduced to a matter of controlling the flow of data and consenting to the use of personal information. However, the widespread data sharing, the dominating power of big tech, the ineffectualness of national policies, the logic of the data economy, deliberate unclear terms of use, and people’s attention to immediate needs have challenged privacy’s focus on individual actions and their rights and responsibilities. While recent measures have given people more abilities to control over and rights to their own personal data, and have introduced more regulation of big tech, issues of
sovereignty, economics, collective goals, and respect for human rights continue to present unresolved challenges.
We are interested in addressing and investigating the fundamental societal and structural issues that embed privacy. This call aims to move forward the discourses on privacy and expand the discussion along three integral and intertwined levels: people, practices, and politics.
The call for participation in a by-invitation-only workshop and contribution to an anthology is sent to selected scholars who together could address these issues in innovative, constructive, and systematic ways. The call constitutes the final part of the project, “Don't Take it Personal” - Privacy and information in an algorithmic age
[www.donttakeitpersonal.net] which is funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.
| Period | 2023 Mar 23 → 2024 Sept 30 |
|---|---|
| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Copenhagen, DenmarkShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Information Studies
- Humanities and the Arts
Free keywords
- Privacy