Deadline: October 15th, 2022
EMERGE is an annual event organised by the Digital Society Lab of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Its goal is to connect actors from the tech industry, policy makers, and academic researchers in discussing the social and economic impact of emerging technologies. EMERGE 2022 will consist of the EMERGE Forum on The Future of AI driven Humanity and the International Scientific Conference on Digital Society Now. It will take place in Belgrade, Serbia and online, 16–18 December.
The topics of the EMERGE 2022 Conference include, but are not limited to:
The language of the conference is English. There are no participation fees. Presentations will be delivered both online and in person. EMERGE 2022 outputs will include the Book of Abstracts and an edited book. The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15th, 2022.
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Michal is an Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He studies humans in a digital environment using cutting-edge computational methods, AI and Big Data. Michal has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals. His research inspired a cover of The Economist, a 2014 theatre play “Privacy”, multiple TED talks, a video game, and was discussed in thousands of books, press articles, podcasts, and documentaries.
Matteo Cinelli is a research fellow in Computer Science at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and a research affiliate at ISC-CNR, Rome, Italy. His research interests include network and data science, computational social science, and big data analytics. Matteo Cinelli is an active member of the Complex Systems Society.
Damian Trilling is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Science and affiliated with the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at University of Amsterdam. He is also active in the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab and associate editor of the journal Computational Communication Research. Currently, he spents a lot of his time on his ERC-funded project NEWSFLOWS (“Modeling news flows: How feedback loops influence citizens beliefs and shape democracy”).
Deadline: October 15th, 2022
Scientific Committee
Ljubisa Bojic, Research Fellow, University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Chair, Serbia
Jelena Guga, Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Matteo Cinelli, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, University of Venice, Italy
Milad Mirbabaie, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Paderborn University, Germany
Jörg Matthes, professor, Department of Communication, University of Wien, Austria
David Roden, Honorary Associate, Philosophy Department, Open University, UK
Claudia Roda, Professor, American University of Paris, France
Susan Perry, Professor, American University of Paris, France
Evi Sampanikou, Professor, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of Aegean, Greece
Romina Surugiu, Associate Professor, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania
Bojana Romic, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Culture and Society & School of Arts and Communication, Malmo University, Sweden
Smiljana Antonijevic, Adjunct Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA
Vera Mevorah, Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Cedomir Markov, Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Vladimir Cvetkovic, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Organizing Committee
Cedomir Markov, Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Chair, Serbia
Jelena Guga, Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Chair, Serbia
Jörg Matthes, professor, Department of Communication, University of Wien, Austria
Claudia Roda, Professor, American University of Paris, France
Vera Mevorah, Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Susan Perry, Professor, American University of Paris, France
Ljubisa Bojic, Research Fellow, University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Chair, Serbia
Simona Zikic, Research Assistant, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Novakovic, Research Assistant, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Ana Lipij, Research Assistant, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Deadline: October 15th, 2022
EMERGE is an annual event organised by the Digital Society Lab of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Its goal is to connect actors from the tech industry, policy makers, and academic researchers in discussing the social and economic impact of emerging technologies. EMERGE 2022 will consist of the EMERGE Forum on The Future of AI driven Humanity and the International Scientific Conference on Digital Society Now. It will take place in Belgrade, Serbia and online, 16–18 December.
We invite scholars from diverse fields to evaluate the risks, benefits, and potential outcomes of emerging technologies and to critically examine the ways these technologies affect and shape societies. We welcome submissions examining different aspects of emerging technologies from the perspective of specific disciplines as well as interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary approaches to the topic.
Emerging technologies have brought about ground-breaking changes to societies across the globe. Leading global regulators are struggling to keep up with technological development and impose new rules and regulations. Our choices and habits, personal freedoms, human rights, and power relations are being fundamentally transformed through our constant interaction with and reliance on technology. The development of autonomous vehicles, military drones, and other types of AI systems opens up significant questions in the domains of ethics and law.
In interacting with media such as news content, ads, and search engine results, citizens are exposed to algorithmic decisions by AI-based recommendation systems on an individual level and are subjected to echo chambers, misinformation, and personal data misuse by big tech and third parties. Freedom of speech and regulation of social media have been the battlefields of leading global tech corporations.
New markets are constantly being opened by the creative industry sector propelled by the evolution of digital technologies. This has become a sector of strategic importance. New apps are being developed on multiple platforms, offering additional functionalities and transforming the needs and habits of digital consumers. The fusion of creativity, art, advertising, and start-up culture has become a driving force of creative economy growth across the world.
Immersive virtual spaces are being introduced under the umbrella term Metaverse designated as an open and shared sum of all virtual reality spaces (worlds). The shift to the virtual realm has been significantly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and military conflicts around the world. Major corporations are investing billions to create a new market that will transport our daily activities, such as shopping, work, leisure, entertainment, and socialization, into the virtual realm.
Beyond its use in cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology has promising potential in handling misinformation and fake news and therefore could serve the purpose of regaining trust in online news media. At the same time, blockchain technology has a very significant environmental impact, it is vulnerable to cyberattacks, and any information stored on it (including, for example, child pornography) cannot be corrected or erased.
The fast pace of technological development is followed by the development of posthumanist concepts, shedding light on implants, cognitive enhancement, bio-hacking, and other emergent technologies. EMERGE 2022 seeks both specific and broad perspectives on current technological advancements. As Nick Montfort wrote in his exploration of the concept of the future, our goal should be consciously trying to contribute to future-making rather than anticipating and predicting the future.
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