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Call For Papers
Join us as we examine the intersection of cybersecurity, consumption, and socio-cultural dynamics, exploring how digital interactions shape security practices and vice versa.
Contributors for oral presentations are encouraged to submit a 500 word abstract via email to the conference chairs by:
📅 Friday 24th January, 2025
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We invite submissions which focus on all areas of digital consumer behaviour, cybersecurity, and political economy including conceptual and empirical papers.​
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Oral presentations should ideally be 10-15 minutes maximum with room for Q&A.
Research Areas
Possible areas of consideration include, but are not limited to...
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Social Media
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Virtual communities
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Populist online practices
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Free speech & cyber-libertarianism
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Cancel Culture
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Political economy of Artificial Intelligence
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Cybercrime economies
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‘Dataveillance’ / Surveillance capitalism
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Wearables, digital tracking & biopolitics
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Digitalisation & national security
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Online radicalisation
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Addiction (e.g. online shopping, pornography, gaming)
Abstract Submission
We invite all interested participants to submit a 500-word abstract (excluding references) outlining their proposed presentation or project. Your abstract should highlight the key themes, objectives, and any preliminary findings you wish to share.
This is a one-off opportunity to engage with colleagues, gain valuable feedback, and contribute to the broader conversation within our community.
To submit your abstract, please click the button below and follow the instructions.
Workshop Overview
The concept of cybernetic culture was first crystallised in the 1990s to invite critical commentary on the complex intersection of computational systems with human imagination, community, material culture, and political economy. Since its initial formulation, cybernetic culture’s borders have rapidly widened and intersected with consumer culture to encompass many aspects of everyday life leading to academic and popular concerns about privacy and digital sovereignty, commercial surveillance, the spread of misinformation, ‘deepfakes’, online populism, radicalisation, cybercrime, and the damaging effects of ‘callout culture’ or ‘cancel culture’.
This workshop invites interdisciplinary contributions to critically explore these and other issues pertaining to digitalisation, consumption, deviant leisure, and social harm.
The workshop provides a space for sharing and collaboration between those with expertise in consumer culture, marketing, cultural theory, and the cybersecurity ecosystem. Oral presentations and roundtable conversations will centre on the most pressing social issues emerging from cybernetic culture, theoretical conceptualisations of these problems, and ideas which can inform solutions.