Conference+dinner (participants not from Deusto or PWILL). "Women, technology & power" Congress. June 18-19, 2024
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In this congress, we explore the following questions: What power asymmetries are hidden in digital technology? What can be learned from women’s stories in technology? What hinders or enables empowering women through technology? What is the relationship between datafication and gender? What new critical interpretations of the datafication process are emerging? How do platforms shape discourses or determine decisions that affect women? What new narratives can inspire the rise of fairer technological systems and algorithms? What possibilities can digital technology offer for equality? What digital practices challenge gender discrimination and antifeminist narratives? The ARES congress is the culmination of a four-year project designed to detect discursive antifeminism, envision fairer futures in digital media content and behavior, and ultimately imagine a better world.
How to participate in the congress. Different forms of participation in the congress are offered. You can choose the option that best suits you and which includes the possibility of participating in the gala dinner to be held at the LABe Restaurant.
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Technology is a form of power. Corporations and institutions with the tools, knowledge, and opportunity to exploit big data have a great capacity to influence and reign. The data infrastructure has been used to monitor individuals, rig elections, discriminate against communities, and support ethnic cleansing. As essential parts of the data infrastructure, the platforms and their algorithms are crucial elements. Due to the digitalization, datafication, and platformization of content, processes, and communication, the platform has become a dominant economic and infrastructure model. Platform biased algorithmic decision-making can have serious consequences. For example, women are often offered worse jobs, their images are relentlessly sexualized, and they are less eligible for loans, which can exacerbate inequality. In addition, platforms play a key role in spreading misogyny, gender misinformation, and, in some cases, promoting and organizing gender-based violence. Since datafication turns most social aspects into data, it seems imperative to take a feminist look at the dominant data narratives.
On the other hand, intersectional feminist studies are exploring new ways of thinking about digital technology and datafication. For example, feminism in data science – a growing space for exploration – focuses on the fact that data infrastructures are neither neutral nor objective, as they are products of unequal social relationships. Emerging initially from cypherpunk and technopositivist approaches, data activism is increasingly creating space for feminist and postcolonial inquiry into the consequences of datafication and a ground for action on behalf of equality. Feminist data studies consider women as users and designers of algorithmic systems, explore how data affects women’s lives and how equality can be fostered through regulation, and practice data activism to promote fairness. Data feminism also requires critical and transversal readings that come from race, law, engineering, economy, and labor studies. Our objective is to summon specialists from these fields to explore the intersections between women, power, and technology.
WHERE: Campus Donostia-San Sebastian, University of Deusto, Mundaitz Kalea, 50, 20012 Donostia;
WHEN: June 18-19, 2024
LANGUAGES: Papers may be delivered in either Spanish or English; the conference will be in English.
WEB: congress.antifeministresistances.com
Venue of the dinner: LABe Restaurant; Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laberestaurant/?hl=es; Location: https://www.google.com/maps?saddr&daddr=Andre+Zigarrogileak+Plaza+1,+20012+San+Sebasti%C3%A1n+-+Donostia+Espa%C3%B1a@43.31661,-1.975844
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In this congress, we explore the following questions: What power asymmetries are hidden in digital technology? What can be learned from women’s stories in technology? What hinders or enables empowering women through technology? What is the relationship between datafication and gender? What new critical interpretations of the datafication process are emerging? How do platforms shape discourses or determine decisions that affect women? What new narratives can inspire the rise of fairer technological systems and algorithms? What possibilities can digital technology offer for equality? What digital practices challenge gender discrimination and antifeminist narratives? The ARES congress is the culmination of a four-year project designed to detect discursive antifeminism, envision fairer futures in digital media content and behavior, and ultimately imagine a better world.
How to participate in the congress. Different forms of participation in the congress are offered. You can choose the option that best suits you and which includes the possibility of participating in the gala dinner to be held at the LABe Restaurant.