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The theme and focus for the 2013 Forum is “Social Transformations and the Digital Age”.
The role of digital technologies in nearly all aspects of life – most notably in the form of “social media” --has been a constant news focus in recent years, and it has also become a major focus of social research.
As far as “social media” are concerned, popular and scholarly accounts about their participatory and transformative potential are usually enthusiastic. Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and Wikileaks are lauded for their capacity to harness people’s creativity and knowledge, and for their potential to challenge traditional hierarchies in politics, science, and the media. It is claimed these web-based applications have facilitated political uprisings, the solution of scientific problems, and the emergence of hitherto undiscovered talents in music and the arts. Some more critical voices question the validity of such claims, pointing to the dangers of hoax, misinformation, dependency, narcissism, and the loss of privacy.
Yet digital technologies reach far beyond the current “social media” proliferation: in the form of computers and the networks enabling them to communicate with one another they have been in use for decades, and have affected nearly all areas of society, politics, and the economy. They have changed how people think about themselves, how work is organized, how knowledge is produced, and how access to information is regulated. Education, healthcare, shopping, agriculture, finance, security, leisure have all been deeply affected by information and communication technologies.
During the 2013 World Social Science Forum in Montréal, scholars from across the disciplines and across the world will come together to address the ways in which digital technologies are being developed and used, and
(First major focus area) how they are transforming different spheres of social life and
(Second major focus area) how they are transforming the social sciences.
Contributions will address these two overarching themes (see examples of possible foci below). Insights from all disciplines are required to understand these complex changes, and contributions from across the social sciences, from the humanities, and from natural and medical sciences (e.g. the science, technology, engineering and medicine disciplines) are encouraged.
The WSSF will address positive uses of digital technologies, but will also pay attention to the negative and potentially dangerous uses and consequences, and to the unintended and ambivalent outcomes.
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