This conference is hosted at the UW this year….in-person possibly. Either way, great opportunity as this conference is typically in Europe

From: Kentaro Toyama <toyama@umich.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 7:41 AM
To: ct2021@googlegroups.com
Cc: Shelly Farnham <shelly@thirdplacetechnologies.com>; Sarah Fox <sarahfox@cmu.edu>
Subject: CFP: Communities & Technologies (C&T) 2021

10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T)

Call for Participation

The 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2021), to be held at the University of Washington in Seattle from June 21-25, 2021, cordially invites you to submit research papers, case studies, workshop proposals, posters, demos, and doctoral research plans for potential presentation or facilitation at the conference! (We are optimistically planning for an in-person conference, but if pandemic conditions persist, alternative plans will be made.)

The biennial International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T) is the premier international forum for stimulating debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – in their multiple forms – and information and communication technologies. C&T is brought to you by EUSSET, the European Society for Socially Embedded Systems, who also brings you ECSCW.  We welcome researchers, designers, educators, industry, practitioners, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology. 

The theme of C&T 2021 is “Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech.” Papers and proposals are accepted from a variety of relevant perspectives including technology, philosophy, social sciences, policy, design, business, art, the humanities, and so on. Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Wicked problem domains such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, racism, misogyny, policy brutality, the opioid crisis, immigration, human-trafficking, homelessness, authoritarianism, disinformation, poverty, public health, self-governance, and terrorism.
• 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;
• Bottom-up movements, grassroots developments, civic activism, community engagement, participatory publics, communities and innovation; ethics, power and social justice issues;
• Community owned and operated technology, peer production and the commons, DIY and maker communities (makerspaces, fablabs, crafters); community agriculture;
• 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;
• Support of community processes: sensemaking, online deliberation; issue, argumentation and discussion mapping; community ideation and idea management systems; collective decision-making; group memory; participatory sensory networks;
• The future of communities and technology; simulations, utopian or dystopian design; durable relationships and long-range goals; and
• Development and support of the Communities & Technologies community; social and technological critique; effectiveness and other measures.

Deadlines

• Papers (full and short)

• February 26, 2021 (23:59 PST), paper submissions due

• Workshops

• March 12, 2021 (23:59 PST), workshop proposals due 

• Case studies

• March 12, 2021 (23:59 PST), case studies due

• Doctoral colloquium

• April 9, 2021 (23:59 PST), Doctoral Colloquium applications due

• Posters/demos

• April 9, 2021 (23:59 PST), posters/demos due

• EUSSET Grant for student and community organizations to attend C&T 2021

• May 3, 2021 (23:59 PST), applications due

• Student Volunteers

• April 15, 2021, applications due

• Early-Bird Registration 

• May 7, 2021, early-bird registration ends

For further details, see https://2021.comtech.community/submissions/.

General Chair

Shelly D. Farnham, Third Place Technologies

Program Co-chairs

Sara Fox, Carnegie Mellon University / Community-Tech Collective

Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan 

Case Studies Co-Chairs

Maria Menendez-Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Workshop Co-Chairs

Jasmine Jones, Berea College

Anne Weibert, Universitat Siegen

Posters and Demos Co-Chairs

Anna De Liddo, The Open University

Yuheng Hu, University of Illinois at Chicago

Proceedings Chair

Florian Cech, Vienna University of Technology / Center for Informatics and Society

Student Volunteers Co-Chairs

Konstantin Aal, University of Siegen

General Organizing Committee

Chris Coward, University of Washington / Center for an Informed Public

Adrienne Russell, University of Washington

Douglas Schuler, The Evergreen State College / Public Sphere Project