CALLFORPAPERS:“DATA-DRIVENELECTIONS:IMPLICATIONSANDCHALLENGESFOR DEMOCRATICSOCIETIES” TheBigDataSurveillance(BDS)project,centeredatQueen’sUniversity,andfundedbya PartnershipGrantfromtheSocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncil(SSHRC),in collaborati

Microsoft Word - VICTORIAWORKSHOPCALL.doc CALL FOR PAPERS: “DATA-DRIVEN ELECTIONS: IMPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES” The Big Data Surveillance (BDS) project, centered at Queen’s University, and funded by a Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in collaboration with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British C. [...] The OIPCBC is one of the only data protection authorities in the world to have conducted investigations into the capture and use of personal data in the electoral context, both under the current commissioner, Michael McEvoy, and his predecessor, Elizabeth Denham, the current Information Commissioner in the UK. [...] Delivering the right message, at the right time, to targeted voters has the potential to shift the fate of the modern election campaign and to influence electoral outcomes. [...] The competitiveness of current elections continues to place enormous pressure on political parties and candidates in most democracies to capture as much personal data as possible on the electorate, and to employ data analytics to gain any edge over their rivals. [...] Thus, more data on voters are being captured, and those data are increasingly shared through a complicated network of organizations within the contemporary campaign “ecosystem.” What are the contemporary trends in voter analytics in different societies, and how are they shaped by distinctive legal, institutional and cultural conditions? What is the impact on privacy, civil liberties, and other dem.