Conference Co-Chairs:  

• Bryce Newell – University of Oregon
• Joshua Reeves – Oregon State University

Theme:

The 2023 Oregon Surveillance Studies Workshop welcomes proposals from scholars across disciplines to workshop works-in-progress papers that focus on issues of surveillance and/in society, with a particular emphasis on scholarship that brings media, communication, or information studies perspectives to these issues. Our broad theme is focused on the interconnections between “Media, Information, and Surveillance.” Proposals that align with the theme of the conference will receive some priority in the selection process. By framing the conference theme around issues of media, information, and surveillance, we hope to foster connections and dialogue about how approaching and understanding emerging surveillance practices and technologies from media studies, communication theory, information science, and critical data studies perspectives can provide new insights or open new directions for surveillance studies research. For example: How can theories, concepts, and approaches from media studies and the information sciences inform how we conceptualize, study, and regulate emerging forms of data-intensive surveillance?

Dates and deadlines:

• Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2023
• Acceptance/rejection decisions back to authors: July 22, 2023
• Registration (early bird) deadline: August 18, 2023
• Author/Discussant/Commenter final registration deadline: Sept. 16, 2023
• Full drafts* of accepted papers due: Sept. 16, 2023 (full drafts not submitted by this date will be withdrawn from the program)
• Conference dates: October 12-13, 2023

*Important note about full drafts: Proposals will be accepted on the basis of abstracts, but full drafts of accepted papers must be submitted in time for discussants and other participants to read and prepare comments as noted below. These need not be final, polished drafts, but they should be substantially complete. They should also be at a stage where feedback can be incorporated into the papers prior to submission for publication. If authors of accepted abstracts do not submit a full draft paper by the Sept. 16 deadline, their paper will be removed from the program and will not be workshopped at the conference.

Submission instructions:

Participation Note: There will be opportunities to participate at the conference even if you do not submit a paper. For example, we will be assigning Discussants for each paper at the conference (as authors will not present their own work). If you have an interest in serving as a discussant for a paper at the conference, please sign up for updates via our listserv https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/ssnoregon2023-discussants or check the conference website for updated information later this summer.

Authors should submit an abstract as part of their application to have their research workshopped at the conference. Your abstracts should be in English and be between 500 and 700 words. You should clearly and concisely link your ideas and research to existing scholarly literature (and fully reference cited literature in a references section following your abstract). Abstracts should identify the theories, concepts, methods, and conclusions of your paper, and should also demonstrate your awareness and understanding of the existing relevant literature and explain how your work relates to, informs, or diverges from the existing body of knowledge. If you wish to cite your own work in your abstract, you should refer to your work in the third person – for example, “As Newell and Reeves (2023) argued,” instead of something like “in our prior work….”  Please remember that substantially completed full drafts (which need not be polished but should be complete enough for meaningful discussion and feedback during the conference) will be required for all accepted proposals. Finally, there is no opportunity nor obligation to publish papers workshopped at the conference.

Note: Abstracts which reveal the identity of the author(s), are not accompanied by full references to prior work (those cited in the abstract), or which are significantly below 500 words or above 700 words will be rejected without review.

You should submit your abstracts through EasyChair.

Questions?

For a full description of the workshop visit the workshop call for paper webpage.

Please direct any of your questions to the conference co-chairs, Bryce Newell (bcnewell@uoregon.edu) and Joshua Reeves (reevejos@oregonstate.edu). Please put “SSN Oregon 2023” in the subject line of your email.