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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With apologies for cross-posting, this is a reminder regarding the upcoming deadline for abstract submissions for the workshop and journal special issue on digital inequality and automated
decision-making at RMIT, Melbourne and online on<b> 1</b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">8</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<b>July 2022</b>. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The workshop is convened by Dr Jenny Kennedy, Dr Indigo Holcombe-James, Professor Anthony McCosker & Distinguished Professor Julian Thomas, and
<span style="color:black">forms part of the upcoming symposium on automated societies delivered by the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society (</span></span><a href="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fevent%2Fsymposium2022%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cindigo.holcombe-james%40rmit.edu.au%7Ce791e84af4d64f88165008da3f7342fb%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C637892061518906678%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8BpcA5nwTtKlHvMiim6aKilu3cq8wVicwDLNnvO1FdE%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/symposium2022/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">).
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">500 word abstracts are due by 14 June 2022, with all details provided below.
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We look forward to receiving your abstracts.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best regards, </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Indigo </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CFP - Digital inequality and automated decision-making</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Workshop - 1</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">8<span style="color:black">th July 2022, Melbourne, Australia and online</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <a href="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fdigital-inequality-and-automated-decision-making-workshop%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cindigo.holcombe-james%40rmit.edu.au%7Ce791e84af4d64f88165008da3f7342fb%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C637892061518906678%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dJp9xlPr%2BJ6nTGUxvsb3CBOCBy%2BIMO%2BzB%2FN4sGuWdM0%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.admscentre.org.au/digital-inequality-and-automated-decision-making-workshop/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">While digital inclusion is not a new research topic, with studies of the digital divide, its dynamics, and impacts extending back to the mid-1990s, recent events — bushfires, and the COVID-19 pandemic
and its associated restrictions — have brought it into sharp focus. In fact, every move to digitise and automate the services and interactions we take for granted in our daily lives increases the potential for digital exclusion. These processes multiply problems
associated with the inability to access, make use of, and afford the digital technologies and services required to meaningfully engage with contemporary life (Thomas et al., 2021). Restrictions to in-person connections with people and services have emphasised
the persistent link between social and digital inequalities. Those who are unable to navigate platforms for social connection or work, new modes of QR access to venues and services, or manage their personal vaccination status through linked health and identity
documentation are literally locked out. Similarly, there has been a forced acceleration of digital transformation for many institutions, businesses, services, and non-profit organisations. As we move further into the new era of pandemics, there is wide recognition
that, as Ellen Helsper puts it, digital engagement is 'a continuous process—a scene of constant struggle' (2021: 1).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Automated systems increasingly mediate decision-making across many domains of the digital society, the 'scene of struggle' is widening and deepening. Concerns about digital inclusion
and exclusion are in this way exacerbated by automation. The continued uptake of automated decision-making (ADM)—with these decisions in part based on data derived from digitally included participants—raises specific questions about the consequences of digital
exclusion. How does digital inclusion (and, by extension, how does digital exclusion) inform how people experience ADM? Whose digital practices are informing ADM, and whose are left out? What might a focus on digital inclusion and exclusion tell us about how
institutions can promote responsible, ethical, and inclusive ADM? How might machines such as recommender systems consider digitally excluded and non-users? And what data models, processes, and capacities does an attunement to digital exclusion reveal? With
ADM systems barely explainable by their creators, we see yet another frontier opening up for forms of digital exclusion and inequality.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are particularly concerned with identifying and thinking through questions of digital inclusion and automated decision-making that may presently be tangential to dominant fields
and debates, and are especially keen to hear from scholars working in fields beyond media and communications. In doing so, we aim to create a generative space in which we can draw out the implications of digital inclusion for broader concerns. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Important dates:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abstracts due (500 words): 14 June 2022</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Notification: 21 June 2022</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Workshop (Melbourne and online): 1</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">8</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">th July 2022</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full paper due (8000 words): November 2022</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Special issue publication: TBC</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Guidelines:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Authors are first invited to submit an abstract of 500 words that states the paper’s main argument, methods, and scholarly contribution. The abstract should clearly explain how the full submission
will contribute to the aims of the special issue. Authors should email abstracts and a short biography for each author to
</span><a href="mailto:jenny.kennedy@rmit.edu.au"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">jenny.kennedy@rmit.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, cc’ing
</span><a href="mailto:indigo.holcombe-james@rmit.edu.au"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">indigo.holcombe-james@rmit.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, by 14 June 2022. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work in a workshop, held at RMIT, Melbourne and online, on 1</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">8<span style="color:black">th
July 2022. Following the workshop, attendees will be invited to submit original full papers–up to 8000 words in length–for a special issue of [journal to be announced shortly]. Full papers will be peer-reviewed, and the selection of papers to be published
in the special issue will be decided according to the journal guidelines. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Indigo Holcombe-James (she/her)</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Postdoctoral Research Fellow</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Technology, Communication and Policy Lab | Digital Ethnography Research Centre
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Media and Communication | RMIT
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