Dear friends and colleagues, Please consider submitting your extended abstract to the following panel: deadline Wednesday, February 16 at 11:59 p.m. EST. "The Sociology of Human Rights and Digital Technologies" Organizer: John G. Dale (George Mason University) Newly emerging digital technologies are rapidly changing the way that human rights institutions, organizations, researchers, activists, and advocates defend and advance human rights norms and practices. These technologies also are increasingly incorporated into diverse scientific approaches to documenting and understanding human rights practices – including the sociology of human rights. At the same time, these technologies are introducing new human rights concerns about the ways they are being used and institutionalized in our everyday lives. Their impact on states, markets, civil society and even interpersonal relations, social identity formation, cognitive and emotional development have raised critical human rights issues around which human rights movements have organized campaigns and the United Nations has issued formal General Comments. This panel invites submissions that explore sociological approaches to understanding the dynamic relationship between human rights and digital technologies and seeks to identify empirically grounded conceptual insights for elaborating an agenda for the sociology of human rights that can address these challenges confronting our discipline. For more information on how to submit your abstract, go to: https://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting/papers For more information on this year`s ASA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA (August 5-9, 2022), go to: https://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting Kind regards Wenhong Wenhong Chen, PhD Provost's Teaching Fellow Founding Co-director, Center for Entertainment and Media Industries Associate Professor of Media Studies and Sociology Moody College of Communication | The University of Texas at Austin Office hour zoom <http://bit.ly/1xpHy1c> | wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu> | @wenhongchen | 512.417.4952 | She/Her/Hers