Call for Papers

Digitalisation, subjectivities, and care
University of Twente
Utrecht, Netherlands
March 7, 2024, 9.30am – 6pm (Utrecht, NL)

Deadline for abstract submission: November 27, 2023

The Digital Collective (DC) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands is planning a symposium on digitalisation in care. More information below. Please consider submitting an abstract for a talk or poster presentation, deadline: 27 November. Any questions to: dc-bms@utwente.nl.

INTRODUCTION

Digitalisation is more than a technological phenomenon. It concerns an ever shifting relation between digital technologies and societal developments. Digital tools are increasingly common in care contexts, reshaping practices, institutions, relations, and social structures. Understanding digitalisation of care therefore requires a multidisciplinary approach to distinct yet related issues that cover the scale of technology innovation, societal impacts (benefits and drawbacks), as well as the pace of development and its ubiquitous nature. In this interdisciplinary symposium we will therefore explore the relation between digital tools and those who use them, willingly or otherwise.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Possible topics related to digitalisation include, but are not limited to:

• Digital users and digital tools
• Care institutions
• Data development / use in digital care contexts
• Epistemic injustice in digital care contexts
• Perspectives on ‘users’ of digital care content
• Realities and subjectivities of ‘digital users’
• (Multi-)methodological approaches to digital care
• Care labour economies
• Global justice perspectives on care
• Human-technology relations
• Health economics
• Health Technology Assessment of digital health technologies

The DC is a multidisciplinary platform and we welcome submissions from a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including from outside academia.

OVERVIEW OF THE SYMPOSIUM:

Schedule and further information about the day to follow.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

• Extended abstract submission: Monday, 27 November 2023
• Notification of decisions: Tuesday 12 December 2023

Please note:

• Extended abstracts should be between 500 and 1000 words.
• Submissions should be sent by email to dc-bms@utwente.nl
• Poster proposals should be sent to the same email, and clearly labelled as such.
• If you want your work to be considered for both a presentation and a poster, please make this clear in your submission. Abstracts not accepted for presentation may be invited to present a poster instead.
• Each submission will receive at least two reviews.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The Digital Collective (DC) is an interdisciplinary research platform on digitalisation at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. DC consists of social scientists and philosophers specialised in digitalisation and with domain expertise in health, higher education, artificial intelligence, and related technologies.

After the symposium the DC intends to build a consortium with a view to developing collaborative work, including for a Horizon Europe funding proposal.

Please send questions to: dc-bms@utwente.nl

EVENT AND VENUE INFORMATION:

The event will be free for all participants. It will be hosted in Utrecht city centre, which is easily accessible from Schiphol Amsterdam Airport as well as several major railway hubs. Our intention is to provide coffee, snacks, lunch, and dinner, to be confirmed.

There will be a maximum number of spaces for participants available.

Unfortunately, the organisers cannot provide travel or accommodation assistance.

Further details to follow.

SYMPOSIUM ORGANISERS AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Please send questions to: dc-bms@utwente.nl

Dr. Letizia Chiappini
Assistant Professor in Digitalisation and Sustainability
Contact: l.chiappini@utwente.nl

Dr. Y.J. Erden
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Contact: y.j.erden@utwente.nl

Dr. Casey R. Lynch
Assistant Professor of Digitalization and Society
Contact: c.r.lynch@utwente.nl

Dr. Sopany Saing
Assistant Professor of Health Technology Assessment
Contact: s.saing@utwente.nl