May 22-23, 2025

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2025

ECREA Communication & Democracy Section Off-Year Conference

https://automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com/ 

A kind reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for the ECREA Communication & Democracy Section's off-year conference, Automating Democracy: AI Use Between Social Justice and Social Control is coming up on January 15, 2025. The conference will explore the transformative effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on democratic processes, focusing on two inter-related themes:   

•AI & governance

•AI & citizen participation

We are also excited to announce our keynote speakers for the conference:

• Prof. Dr. Madalina Busuioc, Full Professor of Public Governance in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  
• Dr. Simone Natale, Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin
  

The two-day event will also include a practitioner-scholar roundtable facilitating a dialogue on current practices and challenges of AI-use for progressive social change between civil society representatives and conference participants. 

For additional information on submissions, fees and proposed timeline, please visit our conference website https://automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com/

Conference organizing committee

• Dr. Delia Dumitrica, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  
• Dr. Ofra Klein, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  
• Victoria Balan, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  
• Dr. Giuliana Sorce, Tubingen University
  
• Dr. Jun Liu, University of Copenhagen
  
• Dr. Arianna Bussoletti, Sapienza Universita di Roma