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Dialogues about the Digital: A Research Symposium / SSAP Book Launch - Wednesday 3 October
From: vicki Fox
Valid from: Thursday 27 September 2018 to Friday 5 October 2018
Dialogues about the Digital: A Research Symposium
There is much to discuss regarding the pervasiveness of digital technologies in our increasingly data-driven society. As both a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life, the digital is never too far away from our research inquiries. The digital infrastructures, technologies and social spaces that shape our lives are also reassembling our research practices.
There is an urgent need to critically engage with the challenges and possibilities of digitalised life, from social change, activism, ethics, and human rights to algorithms, platforms, personal safety, privacy and design. How can we better understand what people are becoming with technology? What contemporary problems are currently being intensified? What data are being generated about us and why? What kinds of tools and ideas do we need to think differently about the digital? What kinds of research practices are emergent through and with our digital devices?
Participation
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Join us for this interactive symposium, which comprises of table discussions led by HDRs and ECRS, who will present key issues, problems or provocations about digitalised life and/or doing research in, on, and with the digital. In this dialogical forum, we hope to create a low pressure, welcoming space to discuss and address the nuances and complexities of digital times. The idea is to support new knowledge generation and create opportunities for collaboration around our shared digital topics of interest. Our overall aim is to foreground the diversity of our concerns and find ways to work together across our disciplines and methodologies.
For any event queries, please contact the symposium facilitators: Dr Jenna Condie at j.condie@westernsydney.edu.au or Dr Peter Bansel at p.bansel@westernsydney.edu.au
#SSAPDigital
Time: 4.00 – 5.30pm
Location: Parramatta City campus, Level 9, Conference Room 2
Please RSVP by Wednesday 3 October to ssap-research@westernsydney.edu.au
SSAP Book Launch
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You are also invited to join us in celebration of books and edited books published by SSAP Members.
Books to be presented are:
* Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods Across Fields of Inquiry – Edited by Cristina Costa and Jenna Condie
* The i-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism – Adam Possamai
* Cyber Racism and Community Resilience: Strategies for Combating Online Race Hate - Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen, Andre Oboler, Rosalie Atie, Karen Connelly