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CFP for the forthcoming RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2014, London 26-29 August 2014 The co-productions of data-based living Organisers: Matt Finn (Durham University) and Nat O'Grady (Southampton University) Whether in education, healthcare, insurance, scientific research, shopping, policing, emergency response or border control, the ubiquity of data, software and digital technological processes have become crucial underpinning forces in organisational transformation and the re-configuration of lived experience (Kitchin and Dodge, 2011). Data-based living has problematised how we think of the present whilst exposing us to multiple, often contingent, visions of the future. At the same time, the life of data needs to be explored by the conditions of possibility it opens up for the formation of new modes of governance and intervention across different spaces and times (Amoore, 2013). How do actors come together and what spatialities are emergent in the production of data-based life? What language can capture the multiple forms interface takes and how is decision making redefined along new lines as a result of technological innovation (Galloway, 2012)? How can we think of the practice and politics of mediation? And how do people manage, contest or care for data and their effects? Papers are welcomed which explore the following themes: . Co-production and the enactors of data-based living . The spaces and spatialities of data . Interfaces, the intimate and modes of mediation . Translation of data and theorising visualisation practices and techniques . The politics of data-based decision making . Organisational transformation in relation to data . Digital technology and the remaking of futures . New logics and modes of calculation . Care for the life of data: as institutions, individuals, governments, families and so on To submit Please send abstracts no more than 250 words, including title, author name(s), affiliation and email addresses, to both Matt Finn ([log in to unmask]) and Nat O'Grady ([log in to unmask]) by Monday 3rd February. References Amoore, L., (2013), The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability, London: Duke University Press Galloway, A., (2012), The Interface Effect, Cambridge: Polity Kitchin. R. and Dodge, M., (2011), Code/Space: Software and Everyday life, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press