CFP: Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference 2023

The 2023 AoIR conference addresses themes of revolutions, and their contingent promises and failures as related to digital technologies. How have digital technologies been enrolled in revolutionary projects? How have discourses of revolutions taken shape in projects of social justice, the reorganization of social orders, or as corporate manipulations of revolutionary promises? This conference is an opportunity to engage with these complex and crucial questions. We welcome submissions on the following themes and beyond:

• Revolutions, the rhetoric of revolution, and critiques thereof
• The successes and failures of revolutions, both within digital technology and using digital technologies
• Revolutionary tactics, actions, and goals
• History of revolutions and internet technologies
• Sovereignties within, across, and against the digital world, including revolutionary or alternate sovereignties to those that currently exist
• Democratization versus mobbing and the politics of mass participation
• Revolutions in research and methods
• Revolutionary understandings of time and place, and envisioning pasts or futures as revolutionary goals
• Balancing the visibility as a political strategy with the capacities for increased surveillance

We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the internet beyond the conference theme. The committee extends a special invitation to students, researchers, and practitioners who have previously not participated in an AoIR event to submit proposals, and to scholars from the Global South, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color globally, LGBTQIA+ peoples, scholars living with disabilities, and people outside or adjacent to the academy.