[csaa-forum] AusSTS 2025 Conference 'Signals and Noises' - CFP closes Friday 14 March (11:59pm AEDT)

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Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference

Theme: Signals and Noises

9-11 July 2025

Deakin Downtown, Naarm/Melbourne

*Flyer attached*

The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference is now open! This
year’s theme is ‘Signals and Noises’. Please submit your proposals via this
form
<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=7Hgj0IgW1UaFQBwotfRw9qAINXVXg4RLoPbYgoC38XVUNU5MVDFIWFdLUTRSTDFNUldKWlNaMEFTWC4u&route=shorturl>.
We invite submissions for presentations, posters, meet-ups, making and
doing sessions, and pre-submitted papers - the CFP will be open until
Friday 14 March (11:59pm AEDT).

This year’s conference will take place across three days, from Wednesday
July 9th to Friday July 11th in Narrm/Melbourne. Day 1 will take place at
the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn. Days 2 and 3 will take place
at Deakin Downtown (Docklands).

For more information and details about the conference theme please check
out the AusSTS website <https://aussts.org/>. We will be announcing details
of national and international keynote speakers in coming weeks - please
stay tuned!

‘SIGNALS AND NOISES’


AusSTS 2025 seeks to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills,
practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of
information theory - the problem of noise.

Noise (as distortion, as error) is a problem for communication - it
corrupts and contaminates communication signals (as they fly along wires or
along undersea cables for example). But to eliminate noise entirely is to
shut signals down, to sever communication. To perfectly silence noise would
also mean perfectly silencing the signal to which it belongs. Signal and
noise are intimately, iteratively bonded in their material production,
reception and translation. What questions then might signals and noises ask
of STS? Is it simply a case, as it was for Shannon and Weaver (1949) of
eliminating noise as far as possible in the service of signal? Or can we
listen to ‘noise’ differently? Can the difference between what we seek to
understand or convey on the one hand, and the ‘unintended things’ that
trouble our efforts on the other, be illustrative? How might we work
creatively with the flotsam and jetsam of research, or trace the twisting
journeys of signals?

We encourage submissions <https://forms.office.com/r/bvAgkWWize> that
grapple with the entwined nature of signals and noises in our efforts to
understand the world and listen to noise differently. We invite generous
readings of the theme. For more information and suggestions on engagements
with the theme, see <https://aussts.org/> or get in touch at <
ausstsgrad at gmail.com>.

Sponsored by: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making &
Society (ADM+S), Deakin Science and Society Network, Science, Technology, &
Human Values, and the National Communication Museum.
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