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About the conference
“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral”: the impacts of a technology need always be viewed in context and need always be analysed from both immediate and long-term perspective (first of Kranzberg’s laws). Seemingly benign or even beneficial inventions can have lasting negative effects, and unintended uses of simple technological solutions may have transformative impacts on whole societies. Digital technologies are no exception to this rule. The “Gender, Technology & Power” conference aims at a critical analysis of the empowerment as well as disenfranchisement that digital technologies bring to different actors and groups, with a special focus on intersectionality. The questions that we want to tackle are:
What power asymmetries are hidden in digital technology? What hinders or enables empowerment through technology? What new critical interpretations of the datafication processes are emerging? How do platforms shape discourses or determine decisions that affect different groups and communities? What new narratives can inspire the rise of fairer technological systems and algorithms? What possibilities can digital technology offer for equality? What digital practices challenge gender discrimination and social inequalities?
The congress follows the success of the first edition that took place on June 17-19, 2024 in San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain.
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Karolina Bolesta
Anna Domaradzka-Widła
Anna Domaradzka is a sociologist, an Associate Professor and Director at the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw. She is a Co-PI of Polish World Values Survey team. She also leads a Civil City Lab, that carries out research for the co-creation of better, democratic, and wisely governed cities in the digital era. The team investigates the consequences of digitalization and smart innovations in the context of urban policy and city life, with particular interest in how technology can influence the implementation of the principles of democracy, equality, and social justice expressed by the ‘right to the city’ concept. Anna Domaradzka specializes in intersectional and international comparative research in the areas of urban sociology, civil society and social movements, digital sociology and gender studies. She is engaged in several international projects concerning technological innovations, urban governance and planning, including Values in Crisis, Right to the smart city: the impact of new technologies on quality of life, social relations and urban policy (PI, Polish National Science Centre), EuPOLIS: Integrated NBS-based Urban Planning Methodology for Enhancing the Health and Well-being of Citizens (PI, H2020), and HEART: HEAlthier Cities through Blue-Green Regenerative Technologies (PI, H2020).
David Dueñas Cid
Joanna Erbel
Mayo Fuster Morell
Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak
Miren Gutiérrez Almazor
Dariusz Jemielniak
Full Professor and head of Management in Networked and Digital Environments (MINDS) department, Kozminski University, and faculty associate at Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. He is serves as a vice-president of the Polish Academy of Sciences and on the board of EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology). His current research projects include disinformation, and bot detection. He previously conducted research e.g. at Cornell University, University of California Berkeley, MIT.
Agnieszka Rychwalska
(she/her)
Social psychologist – assistant professor at the Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research tackles the impact of digital technologies on social process. With the use of complex systems methods she investigates online community self-organization and governance.
Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
(she/her)
Wikipedia editor, admin, and photographer known for her actions addressing gender bias in the encyclopedia. She co-founded the annual WikiWomenSummit, and the online content gender gap project, Women in Red. Rosie serves as the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston) and as the Community Engagement Manager at the University of Queensland (Australia). Previously, she served on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. In 2016, Rosie was honored as Wikipedian of the Year; two years later, she was knighted partly because of her Wikipedia work.
Maria Tzanou
Associate Professor in Law, University of Sheffield, UK. Her research focuses on privacy, data protection, surveillance, data justice, the regulation of new and emerging technologies and the inequalities of data privacy law and how these affect vulnerable groups.
Renata Włoch
