15^th International Conference of Sociocybernetics(ICSC2019)

June 25-29, 2019, Urbino, Italy

Scope & Topics

In 2009 the ISA Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics hosted its annual conference in Urbino. The topic of the conference was the impact of the, then emerging, social media technologies on society. In the call, the “web 2.0” turn was explicitly associated to the advent of the printing press. The title of the conference was Modernity 2.0: emerging social media technologies and their impact. Along the line of visionary founding fathers of cybernetics and systems theory, the call solicited interdisciplinary contribution to explore the possibilities and tackling the challenges of a “new extraordinary change that we can barely describe today”.

A decade later, having witnessed the first impact of social media on society, it is about time to call for a new sociocybernetic forum to reflect on what we learned so far and the future perspectives. The anticipated disruptive potentials of digital and social media unleashed on our society but the outcomes appear to be darker than what envisioned by scholars ten years ago. The entire industry is heavily concentrated in the hands of few organizations (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft). Our mediated private and public conversations increasingly take place on powerful platforms owned by private organizations that, in a classic feedback loop, leverage these data to target advertisements tailored to our tastes and preferences. Contents on these platforms are sorted and filtered by proprietary algorithms that prioritize most engaging contents. Traffic to news source is increasingly driven by these algorithms and so are their revenues. For the first time in history, a handful of global private organizations are more powerful and rich than an entire country.

The goal of this conference is therefore to bring scholars together to explore, within a sociocybernetic approach, the issues at stake.

Topics of Interest :

• Sociocybernetics governance of social media platforms;
  
• Participatory democracy;
  
• Local issues with respect to a particular geographical region, political entity or cultural or ethnic group;
  
• Global issues affecting all mankind in the 21st century;
  
• Emerging technologies and the link between micro, meso, macro levels of individual actors and social institutions, respectively;
  
• Social systems and economic models of the web;
  
• Participation on the web (politics, business and entertainment);
  
• Culture, knowledge and social impact of the Artificial Intelligence as a commodity;
  
• Cyberculture, knowledge and local communities;
  
• Algorithms accountability;
  
• Media literacy and how it may backfire;
  
• The public/private distinction on the Internet;
  
• Internet subcultures;
  
• The human use of human beings.
  

Important Dates

Submission Deadline	:	February 01, 2019
Authors Notification	:	March 01, 2019
Final Manuscript Due	:	May 24, 2019

 

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