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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">CfP: “Appropriating Technology for Societal Change – The Dynamics of the Digital” of the Nordic Summer
University</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">The summer session 2016 is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Humanities at the University
of Gothenburg and is dedicated to the question of how digital technology affects the fabric of modern society. Relevant subjects may include but are not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">Openness and Secrecy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● What are the consequences of open data for democracy, education, science and politics?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● How is society affected by algorithms guiding social interaction and public debate?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● How should the problems of integrity and privacy be handled?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● What are the benefits/drawbacks of o</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">pen/proprietary software?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">The University in the Digital Public Sphere</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● How does digital technology transform the process of research?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● What are the consequences of the increased level of supervision and control in the academic realm?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● How is the relationship between science and politics affected by digital media?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● Should education be changed as a consequence of the possibilities opened by digital technology?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">Theorizations of the Digital</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● How can the impact of (digital) technology on the fabric of society be
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">conceptualized?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">● How do approaches to the digital originating in different intellectual traditions compare? (ex. media
theory, literary theory, phenomenology, critical theory, psychoanalysis, anthropology, systems theory, science and technology studies...)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">The Nordic Summer University (NSU) is an independent academic organization that for 65 years has organized
yearly summer sessions in the Nordic and Baltic countries. This year, the summer session will be in Orivesi, Finland, July 24 -31.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">If you want to present a paper in the circle, send an abstract of 600 words to the circle’s coordinators
Sverker Lundin and Johan Söderberg. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">The deadline for submitting a proposal is 1<sup>st</sup> of May</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">Presenters at the circle have the option to submit a paper to a peer-reviewed anthology to be published
by NSU press. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">Sverker Lundin:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">Sverker [dot] lundin [at] gmail [dot] com</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">Johan Söderberg:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">Johan [dot] soderberg [at] sts [dot] gu [dot] se</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SV">For more information about NSU, visit:
<a href="http://nordic.university">http://nordic.university</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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