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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">T</span><span style="color:black">his year’s Digital Intimacies conference is being hosted by <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/D1tdCoV1kpfX5z4WnI1_Rhx?domain=globalindigenousfutures.com/">The
Centre for Global Indigenous Futures</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on December 1st and 2nd at Macquarie University on the Wallumattagal Campus, North Ryde, Sydney. The theme is Relational Futures.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Can digital technologies hold us, bring us home or bring us back to ourselves? These questions are inspired by Indigenous speculative fictions and particularly, anthologies edited by Mykaela Saunders and
Grace L Dillon. In the Overture to This All Come Back Now, Mykaela Sanders connects the works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers to a genre that Anishanaabe scholar Grace L Dillon calls ‘Biskaabiiyang – Returning to Ourselves’. Saunders and Dillon’s
works speak to the possibilities beyond colonialism and the themes that circulate, including “family and other kin, Old People and ancestors, the destruction of land and water, the archive, technology, language, law, ghosts, hauntings, warm and deep belonging,
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<span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Colonial categories and dichotomies separate out envisioning and storytelling from intellectual and political work towards social and societal reform – treating one as fictional and the other as factual.
Simultaneously, Saunders (2021, p. 9) points out, settlers recycle the fantasy of endless consumption of finite resources. Critical thought that centres relationships and connections, or relationality (Graham 2014), complicates this. Relational thinking asks
us to change – our ideas, our values, our behaviours, our actions – to improve our connections with others. Digital technologies are not beyond but of us. They are dreamed up, designed and used by humans to connect. They are made of and powered by resources
extracted from stolen lands, from mines staffed by but very rarely owned by colonised peoples.
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<span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Digital technologies can and do change, often rapidly. How might they change if good relationships between humans, and between humans and the rest of universe, were their sole purpose? Is it possible to create
and use digital technologies in radical ways that prevent and address harm, and build towards equitable and just futures? Are online cultures towards this vision? What of increasing digital surveillance and policing, and digital consumption of identities?
What can we learn from marginalised communities who are already resisting carceral technologies? These are the questions we hold in mind when think of relational futures.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black">You can see more information here:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/q9nVCp81lrtzq8D62tDMImL?domain=globalindigenousfutures.com">https://www.globalindigenousfutures.com/digital-intimacies-call-for-papers</a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Please send a 250 word abstract and short presenter bios to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:CGIF@mq.edu.au">CGIF@mq.edu.au</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by
June 30th (</span><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:red">next week!</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">) – Successful papers will be notified by July 15th. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">DR FIONA MARTIN </span></b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Associate Professor in Convergent and Online Media, </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Vice President Research, Journalism Education & Research Association of Australia, </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Department of Media and Communications | </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Faculty Work Integrated Learning Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Arts, Communication and English | </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY</b></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">New books:</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Digital Platform Regulation: Beyond Transparency and Openness, </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">with
T Flew (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mediating the Conversation</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> (Routledge,
2023)</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030179052" title="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030179052">Sharing
News Online</a></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Martin F. 2021. </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Visibility,
Connectivity, Agency: journalism’s prospects in an age of automated social news sharing. <i>Digital Journalism</i>, Special issue: Engaging News Audiences</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Martin F. and Murrell C. 2021. Negotiating the conversation: how journalists learn to interact with audiences online. <i>Journalism Practice,</i><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1907211" title="https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1907211">https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1907211</a></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Flew T, Gillett R. Martin F and Sunman L. 2021.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Return
of the regulatory state: A stakeholder analysis of Australia’s Digital Platforms Inquiry and online news policy. <i>The Information Society</i> 37 (2), 128-145</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">ARC Discovery 2019-2022 <i><a href="https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/projects/platform-governance/" title="https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/projects/platform-governance/">Platform
Governance: Rethinking internet regulation as media policy</a></i></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Facebook Content Policy Research on Social Media Platforms award: <i><a href="https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/25116.3" title="https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/25116.3">Regulating
Hate Speech in the Asia Pacific</a></i></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">International Center for Journalists/UNESCO <i>Online Harassment Project.</i></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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