International Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS (CLOSED)

Childhood(s) in the postdigital society: 

Educators’ practices and knowledge, families approaches and experiences.


In what Cheney-Lippold (2016) called ius algorithmi, the common citizen’s interaction with interfaces offering products and services of their interest, becomes valuable raw material for Big Tech companies. Digital data is frequently monetized and used to get further people’s attention, marketable consumers’ profiling, and increase incomes. In this context, there is an exponential growth of data extracted and monetized. Also, an overwhelming presence of commercial platforms generate power concentration, and the shape of consumers (including families and educational institutions) behaviour. Children, like any other citizen with attributed rights, are also part of this landscape.

Early education and care (ECEC) as part of the schooling system, and as a political space to build citizenship, needs to generate perspectives and practices on the issue. However, most contributions on the problem of datafication and platformisation come from primary, secondary, and higher education. Also, technologies’ usage is more entangled with private life and the parent’s choices.

By introducing the results of our effort to address the problem within the Italian context, we aim to enlarge educators, families and policy makers’ understanding on childhood in the postdigital society. Several expert voices and parallel sessions with research outcomes and educational experiences will set the basis for enriching debate as a driver of future action.

Call for Papers


The international conference “DataChildMap. Childhood(s) in the postdigital society: Educators’ practices and knowledge, Families approaches and experiences," aims to reflect on the current society radically transformed in a digital sense, considering the impact that pervasive phenomena of datafication and platformisation have on the early stages of children's lives. Our educational concern is directed towards the uses and abuses of technologies, problematizing issues related to privacy, manipulation, and surveillance in the 0-6 age group. There is a recognized need to outline new coordinates and good practices of responsibility, training, ethics, and awareness that, in a necessary and non-delayable manner, must involve parental and professional educational figures for the acquisition of a pedagogical stance capable of caring for children's autonomy and freedom in every circumstance. 


In this meaningful context, our Call For Proposals is extended to the scientific community, in continuity with one of the fundamental objectives driving the DataChildMap project: the construction of shared workspaces through a critical-dialogical openness, aimed at developing novel logics of family and professional agency. For educational figures, this entails embracing a challenge that, always placing the child's autonomy at the center, calls for becoming protagonists of active citizenship and policy making, and for devising new reflective alphabets, tools, and virtuous practices to address the complexity of the post-digital era.


The Call For Papers accepts the types of contributions, described as follows.

Articles

Please consider that, in some cases, it can be suggested to change the type of the contribution from an Article to a Poster (in any case, all chosen Abstracts will be published in the Congress' Book of Abstract)

Abstract

Digital Posters

Digital Posters may be created using programs like Canva, Venngage, or simple Office Tools like PowerPoint, Word, etc. 

We also suggest a couple Tutorials, for example: https://guides.nyu.edu/posters or https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/asc/media/2215/download?inline  

Please consider these as examples of infographics posters we kindly accept. 

Please use the Submission Form  below to send your contribution. We cannot accept contributions sent by email.  

Please also check the editorial guidelines and prepare your work accurately before you send it.  All contributions will be subject to double-blind peer review.

Important Dates

Prospects of Pubblication

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli, Emilia Restiglian, Marco Scarcelli

With the contribution of the Project's Scientific Committee


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Maria Valentini, Romina Malghera, Francesca Crudele, Paola Zoroaster, Monica Gottardo