Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 44.
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        Date: 2023-05-24 08:11:05+00:00
        From: Martin Berg <martin.berg@mau.se>
        Subject: Final call for abstracts to the 4S panel: Shaping Sustainable Socio-Technical Work Futures: Cultures, Practices and Imaginaries of Digital Professionals

Aloha,

I just wanted to give you a heads-up that the deadline for submitting
abstracts (250 words) to the 4S Panel "Shaping Sustainable
Socio-Technical Work Futures: Cultures, Practices and Imaginaries of
Digital Professionals" is coming up this Friday. You’re very welcome to
submit your work to this panel, which is being organised by Sarah Pink
(Monash uni), Maria Engberg (Malmö uni), and myself. The conference will
be taking place in Honolulu, USA, from November 8-11, 2023. Thanks for
considering it!

Panel description:

Digital transformation is often said to fundamentally alter how we work,
creating new possibilities for efficiency and flexibility. However, much
of the research on this topic has failed to capture the perspectives of
those at the forefront of this transformation, namely the digital
professionals involved in creating, utilising and educating about
digital, automated and robotic work tools and services. These
influential actors forge expectations in the labour market of how such
technologies (and future technologies that they enable us to imagine)
will alter our lives and work. Exploring the cultures, practices and
imaginaries in and around these professionals helps us navigate the
shifting terrains of work and provides routes toward sustainable
socio-technical work futures. This panel explores and contests how
professionals working in the tech industries - ranging from software
engineers to CEOs, project managers and creatives experience and
anticipate digital transformations and how they engage with different
stakeholders in work futures. The panel explores the social dynamics of
when digital work technologies are anticipated, adopted and adapted to
and how such practices relate to other dominant future-oriented
narratives and discourses about the future of work. We welcome
empirical, theoretical and conceptual papers - not the least from
practitioners themselves to allow for a multilayered discussion. We are
particularly interested in papers focusing on the 'quiet', and mundane
ways technologies become part of quotidian routines in these
professionals' lives and at work-dimensions that have slipped under the
radar of scholarly attention addressing work futures.

Keywords: Disciplines and the Social Organization of Science and
Technology, Forms and Practices of Expertise, Information, Computing and
Media Technology, Digital transformation, Future of work, Digital
professionals, Tech industries, Sustainability

Link to submission site:
https://members.4sonline.org/members/proposals/propselect.php?orgcode=4S&prid=12
93777

All the best,

Martin Berg

—
Professor Martin Berg
Department of Computer Science and Media Technology
Malmö University
https://mau.se/en/persons/martin.berg/



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