Hosted at Babes-Bolyai University by the international team of researchers on the TakePart Project (https://www.takepart.ro/the-team/), this two-day conference invites paper submissions grappling with the meaning and significance of persistent socio-technological transformation on civic and political participation. We encourage submissions addressing questions to do with adaptation, learning, resilience and resistance among citizens and myriad communities
mobilising in support of democracy but also in opposition to democratic elites and institutions; in solidarity with people experiencing war and deprivation but also with those who feel left behind or sidelined; carried out by people who are innovating with, challenging and repurposing platforms, algorithms or AI prompts and agents; of those who instigate or actively oppose social and political change.