This week the 18th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) will be held at Tartu, Estonia. NPC's Elinor Carmi has organised a panel called 'Sonic Publics' together with Professor Aram Sinnreich (American University), where she will present her paper titled: "The hidden listeners: Regulating publics through media, from telephone operators to social media content moderators". In her talk Carmi is proposing a new theoretical approach to conduct research on media power by using listening rather than seeing/vision as a knowledge production practice that structures various types of power relations. This panel will also include: Aram Sinnreich, Nancy Baym, Andrea Alarcon, Lana Swartz, Larisa Mann, and Ian Dunham. Join the panel on Thursday 19th October at 9am.

Elinor will also participate in a 'fishbowl' titled 'Privacy beyond the individual', where she will talk about the discussions around the European Union ePrivacy Regulation on Friday 20th October at 9:00am. In this fishbowl she collaborates with Airi Lampinen, Ralf Patrick De Wolf, Tuukka Lehtiniemi and Sander Schwartz.

The full AoIR 2017 programme is available here.

If you can't join the conference physically join the live tweet -> #AoIR2017.