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Last updated 08/15/2010 by Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone.
SPECIAL ISSUE OF “THE INFORMATION SOCIETY” The Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data
Deadline: November 08 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
SPECIAL ISSUE OF ?THE INFORMATION SOCIETY?
The Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data
GUEST EDITORS
Connor Graham (University of Melbourne: http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/cgraham/)
Martin Gibbs (University of Melbourne: http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/martinrg/)
Dave Kirk (University of Nottingham: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dsk/)
John Phillips (National University of Singapore: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elljwp/)
CALL FOR PAPERS
?Anticipation?does not evade the fact that death is not to be outstripped?? Heidegger (1993:308)
As emergent information technologies increasingly pervade people?s lives, they are also increasingly a part of their dying and their deaths. For example, when someone dies, the connectivities and virtual communities supported by and lived through Facebook, MySpace and the like are transformed from viscous, ?living? portrayals of individuals in burgeoning personal social networks to digital memorials and components in more inert structures for someone who was. (Digital) photographs and video clips become a way to remember, commemorate, preserve and define various forms of digital immortality. Digital fragments such as text messages, Web pages, social networking sites, blog comments and so on populate an identity that promises to linger through these shards of ourselves as never before. However, as bodies decay and decompose after death, so do the digital fragments of the deceased slowly ossify and become fixed yet fragmentary traces of the life that once was. These ?digital life documents? (Plummer, 1983) are then not only dependent on the producer and their immediate connections. They are also supportive of connections that remain after the producer is no longer alive as a part of larger ecologies of interests and exchanges where rules and customs are still evolving. They move from being part of the milieu of simultaneity (Jaureguiberry, 2000) to the property of history and ?glacial time? (Urry, 2000).
?As people spend more time at keyboards, there?s less being stored away in dusty attics for family and friends to hang on to?The pieces of our lives that we put online can feel as eternal as the Internet itself, but what happens to our virtual identity after we die??[Faure, 2009]
Attention has recently turned to how social networking sites can become a form of memorial (Fletcher, 2009; Faure, 2009; Kera and Foong, 2009; van den Hooven, 2008) and how emergent technologies can define new forms of immortality and afterlife. As demonstrated by the quotation above, there is a temptation to apply what we know of the analogue world to the digital and argue, as with paper and offices (Sellen and Harper, 2002), that digital media will simply replace the physical stuff of rituals, ceremonies and ongoing remembering. These are the kinds of assumptions we wish to question and probe through this special issue. Our interests extend beyond commentary, discussion and debate around remembering and commemoration. They also extend beyond consideration of issues of access (i.e. who can get at the remains of the dead and how), representation (i.e. how the dead and their remains can be represented), control (i.e. who manages the transition from being to being remembered and how this is done) and maintenance (i.e. who is responsible for keeping the dead?s fragments available, accessible etc). Through examples drawn from actual cases, thorough analyses and well-argued conceptual discussions we also wish to address the practical, social, conceptual and ethical issues with:
- dealing with the physical and digital remnants of the once living.
- the ongoing management of the social ties between the living and the dead.
- the management of the ?stuff? (i.e. bodies, data, objects) involved in death.
- the possible extension of ?being-in-the-world? through the hybridisation of once living, sentient beings with other biological and robotic entities.
- support for death cults (e.g. http://www.vhemt.com) and desecration through digital technologies.
- the potential for immortality through digital macabre celebrations of death (e.g. http://www.mydeathspace.com), digital mashups of the dead?s digital fragments (e.g. http://www.dziga.com/human-victor).
- new forms of grieving and commemorating via emerging technologies through, for example, the generation of digital archives for individuals and ?those that follow? alike (e.g. http://www.croptrust.org).
- different visions of the preservation, afterlife and immortality of self and society through the digital.
- cultural issues with dying, death, afterlife and technology.
We also wish to reflect on how the apparent ubiquity and uniformity of new technologies contrasts starkly with the diversity of beliefs and cultural practices with regard to dying, death and afterlife. Some of the questions we wish to address through this special issue include (but are not restricted to):
- How do we appropriately design, store and archive the dead?s digital fragments and how can grieving, remembering and ?letting go? be supported through them?
- What are the issues around ordinary technologies transforming into memorials, evoking powerful memories, nostalgia etc?
- How will this ever-increasing mass of ?dead? data be managed and by whom?
- Should ?freedom of choice? concerning death be supported/promoted/safeguarded against through technologies such as social networking tools?
- What are the legal and ethical implications of digital desecration and the hybridisation of (the remains of) the dead with the living?
- What are the implications of and insights provided by the inevitable end of ?civilisation? for the design and management of digital resources?
These issues promise not only to stretch our analytical approaches and tools but also our methods, methodologies and ethical frameworks. Thus we wish to elicit submissions that address themes relevant to this call and, more generally, to ?The Information Society? journal (http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/). Through eliciting these responses we hope to gather together in a single volume a series of high quality, scholarly articles that are accessible to non-specialists to deepen our understanding of issues concerning technology, death and afterlife and immortality through new data, perspectives, conceptual treatments and/or analyses.
SUBMISSIONS
Appropriate longer submissions (up to 7,500 words) include: - Extended reports from the field; - Critical literature reviews; - Discursive pieces exploring themes; - Deployments/evaluations of relevant technologies.
Shorter submissions (4,000 words) can include: - Reflections on approaches and methods; - Opinion pieces; - Early reports on studies of technologies in situ; - Design proposals addressing particular themes.
Papers will be due on 8th November 2010. We will aim to return reviews with feedback on acceptance/rejection and the need for any changes four months after that.
We recommend authors familiarise themselves with the scope and demands of ?The Information Society? journal (http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/) before submitting. Submission guidelines for authors are available from: http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/contributors/authors.html. Authors should send digital manuscripts to: Martin Gibbs (martin [dot] gibbs [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au) or Connor Graham (cgraham [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au). Authors should also feel free to correspond with the special issue editors if they have any questions or are planning to submit an article.
REFERENCES
Faure, G. (2009). August 18, 2009. How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead. Available online [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1916317,00.html]. Accessed November 2009.
Fletcher, D. (2009). What Happens to Your Facebook After You Die? Time. October 28, 2009. Available online [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1932803,00.html ]. Accessed November 2009.
Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and Time, translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson. New York: Harper.
Jaureguiberry, F. Mobile Telecommunications and the Management of Time. Social Science Information (Information sur les Sciences Sociales). 2000; 39(2): 255?268
Foong P.S. & Kera D. 2008. Applying Reflective Design To Digital Memorials. SIMTech ?08. Cambridge, UK.
Plummer, K. Documents of Life: An Introduction to the Problems and Literature of a Humanistic Method. London: Allen & Unwin; 1983
Sellen, A., & Harper, R. H. R. (2002). The Myth of the Paperless Office. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
van den Hoven, E., Smeenk, W., Bilsen, H., Zimmermann, R., de Waart, S., and van Turnhout, K. (2008) Communicating Commemoration. In Graham, C. and Rouncefield, M. (2008) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech?08). Lancaster University.
Urry, J. (2000). Sociology beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century, London: Routledge.
Social Science of Garbage.
Deadline: October 01 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing. Each article ranges from 600 to 3,000 words. We are now making assignments due October 1, 2010.
This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the library’s electronic services. The General Editor, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, is Dr. William Rathje, emeritus University of Arizona, the top scholar in the field.
If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature, redefining sociological issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.
The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.
If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference with the Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in related issues.
Thanks very much. Joseph K. Golson .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Sociologias
Deadline: September 01 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
We hereby invite you to publish an article on the Sociologias journal (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=1517-452220090002&lng=en&nrm=iso), as a dossier in the subject area of Social Studies in Science & Technology. Sociologias is a semi-annual publication of the Graduate Program in Sociology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS/Brazil (http://www.ufrgs.br/ppgs), intended to promote exchanges between social scientists both in Brazil and internationally; it accepts original studies in the form of articles, book reviews, and research communications. With a pluralistic orientation that seeks to broaden the spaces for the expression of the various currents that exist in the social sciences field, this journal opens up debate themes and approaches that present interfaces with sociology. The council of outside consultants consists of researchers in the specific areas of the articles.
The following themes are suggested for this dossier:
· Biosociability and heterogeneity: the technoscientific narrative as a substrate for somatic identities;
· Disputes for resources and power struggles in the scientific field: discourse and rhethoric analyses in the construction of “strategic knowledge”;
· STS studies and environmental sociology;
· Theoretical and comparative discussion on the main concepts and approaches in the sociology of science and technology;
· Democratic deliberation and decision models in large socio-technical undertakings;
· The role and scope of regulation and ethics in convergent technologies: nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognoscience, and information sciences;
· Technological incarnation in bodies and their consequences on social interactions: difference, personality, and awareness in view of the development of neuroscience, biotechnology, information sciences, and nanotechnology.
· Relationship between plain and applied research within the context of technoscience;
· Discussion on the models of public participation and regulations in science and technology;
· Debate on expertise and scientific and technological controversies;
· The production of scientific legitimacy and its relationship with political counseling;
· The problem of the ontological division between nature/culture as compared with convergent technologies: what is the theoretical and conceptual future of human sciences?
· Studies on scientific controversies involving case studies;
· Empirical STS studies in technologically dense environments, with complex sociotechnical practices and heterogeneous mobilization of human and non-human entities, dependent upon special management structures and organizational practices;
· Sociology of risk and scientific controversies.
We would like very much to count on your participation in this dossier, which will be published in the first semester of 2011. The deadline for submitting the article is September, 2010.
Please find article formatting information attached to this letter. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
The journal is indexed with the following databases:
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts / Sociological Abstracts
• CLASE - Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
• DataÍndice – IUPERJ
• LAPTOC – Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
• Latindex (Directorio)
• Portal Quorum de Revistas (http://www.quorumderevistas.org)
• Redalyc – Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal
• SocINDEX with Full Text - EBSCO.
Annals of Science best paper prize 2010
Deadline: September 30 2010
Updated: August 15 2010
Submissions are being accepted for the Annals of Science best paper prize 2010. This prize is now awarded annually to the author of an original, unpublished essay in the history of science or technology, which is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The prize, which is supported by Taylor & Francis, is intended for those who are currently doctoral students, or have been awarded their doctorate within the past four years. Essays should be submitted to the Editor in a form acceptable for publication in Annals of Science (see the Journal’s webpage for a style guide, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tascauth.asp). The winning essay will be published in the Journal, and the author will be awarded US$500 and a free subscription to Annals of Science! Papers should be submitted by 30th September 2010, with the winner being notified by 31st December 2010. The Editor’s decision is final. For more information please go to: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/competitions/tasc_2010.pdf
Call for Paper Proposals: “Oil Culture,” special issue under consideration with the Journal of Ameri
Deadline: September 01 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Call for Paper Proposals: "Oil Culture," special issue under consideration with the Journal of American Studies
Guest Editors:
Ross Barrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Daniel Worden, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Petroleum has long been recognized to be a dangerously volatile commodity whose illuminative and propulsive capacities are inseparable from its destructive potential. This catastrophic power has been reaffirmed by the succession of environmental disasters that have accompanied the global expansion of oil extraction--a series of ecological tragedies culminating in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout--and the array of social antagonisms, global political conflicts, and chaotic economic cycles that have developed around the industry since its beginnings. Despite its disastrous implications, however, oil came to be embraced over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an unassailable "fact" of everyday American experience, a core issue of national political platforms, and a reliable pillar of industrial and financial capitalism in the U.S. While much work has been done to track the material and political processes that made the dominance of oil capitalism possible, relatively little scholarship has addressed the rise of oil as a cultural problem.
For this special issue, we seek essays that explore the wide field of "oil culture" that has emerged around the American petroleum industry in the 150 years since its inception in northwestern Pennsylvania. More specifically, we are looking for articles that examine how painting, sculpture, video and digital art, film and photography, popular visual culture and music, television programming, the print and digital news media, literature, advertising, and other forms of public culture have contended with the volatile material of oil and the systemic shifts that it has produced, and in so doing contributed to, or contested, the reorientation of modern American life around oil consumption. We hope, ultimately, to assemble a roster of essays that elucidate the complex role that imaginative representations have played in the establishment of oil as the primary commodity underpinning modern economic expansion and a fundamental ontological construct shaping social and political life in the United States and beyond.
Papers might address a range of subjects and problems, including:
--artistic engagements with oil, the petroleum industry, and petro-carbon consumption --art, environmentalism, and sustainability --documentary photography and oil --cinematic and televisual interpretations of oil --oil in popular imagery and music --oil companies and cultural patronage --museums and the oil industry --oil advertising and marketing --petroleum at World's Fairs and Oil Expositions --architecture and the oil industry --the material culture of oil consumption --oil and the culture of automobility --race, class, and gender in the oil fields --oil, mobility, and subjectivity
Proposal Process:
Authors are asked to electronically submit an abstract of 500-1000 words and an abbreviated cv (two pages) to Ross Barrett (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) and Daniel Worden (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) by September 1, 2010. Abstracts should articulate the central arguments, historical and/or theoretical implications, and methodological approach of the proposed essay, and situate the essay within relevant scholarly conversations. The abstract and cv should be sent as Word documents or PDFs.
After reviewing the proposals, the editors will notify the selected authors and submit chosen abstracts to the Journal of American Studies by September 8, 2010. Upon acceptance by the journal, authors will be asked to submit a full copy of their article to the issue editors by January 2011. The full version of the article should not exceed 6000 words, and should be accompanied by a short abstract (200-300 words). All articles will go through the peer-review process, and it is on the basis of these reviews that articles will be selected for publication in the special issue.
For further information on the special issue, please see:
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=177429
For further information on the Journal of American Studies, please see:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AMS
Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships
Deadline: July 15 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010
?Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships,?
A book edited by Francesca Comunello Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com
Introduction
The rise of individualism has been recently described in terms of ?networked individualism? or ?individualized networking? (following Wellman and Castells). Instead of being organized in groups, our lives are articulated around multiple networks, while our forms of sociability are getting growingly increasingly privatized. The new patterns of sociability seem to be built on multiple me-centred networks: each person ?becomes a communication and information switchboard, between persons, networks, and institutions? (Wellman, 2004). Far from proposing an atomized vision of individuals, these Authors underline the growing degree of responsibility people experience in their everyday activity of relationship management. The concept that better describes the forms of sociability we are experiencing is, in my opinion, Castells? networked sociability. Digital technology is not determining this process: it is rather enabling each person to build and manage their own social networks, both on- and offline.
The recent popularity of Social Network Sites (SNS) such as My Space, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. shows that there is a growing interest in articulating, making visible, and managing personal or professional relationships through technology-enabled environments. The phenomenon addressed is wider than Social Network Sites, and includes the wide variety of ways in which people are linked to each other.
Objective of the Book
In the proposed publication we will on a variety of Social Media and Computer-Mediated Communication environments, in order to underline the ways in which people articulate their social relations and the related individualized identity performances. In this book's analysis, Social Network Sites will play a major but not exclusive role. For a better understanding of the identity performances and of the ties? strength, this book will not only focus on SNS, but rather consider the wider context, includingthe variety of ways in which people are linked to each other (a context where old and new media collide, and where mediated and face to face social relations are growingly integrated). Nevertheless, SNS are powerful playgrounds, both for the user and for the researcher. a sociological point of view, one of the main point of interest of Social Network Sites, let alone their constantly growing popularity among internet users worldwide, is that they represent powerful environments to observe publicly articulated self presentation and identity performances: SNS make such processes visible, trackable, and, therefore, easy to study. Far from constituting an alternative or ?virtual? world, social media are embedded in everyday life: using Social Network Sites, people connect to each other in ways they perceive seamless to face-to-face relations. Nevertheless, the above mentioned ?trackability? enables people?s awareness (we are now more consciously engaged in our personal network management). This book will analyze this increased consciousness, fully exploring the technology and impact of our social networks in the current social atmosphere.
Target Audience
? Academics: Scholars, Researchers, Students (Media Studies, Internet Studies, Education, Sociology, Psychology, etc.) ? Educators (Primary and Secondary School) ? Policy makers ? Consulting firms, marketing and communication experts
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ? Networked individualism and networked sociability: theoretical perspectives; ? Social Network Sites: data on adoption and use (worldwide); ? Personal profiles and identity performances in digital networked media (including comparative and cross-platform approaches); ? New forms of sociability, on- and offline (including comparative and cross-platform approaches); ? Social Network Sites and New Media Literacy; ? Social Media and privacy concerns; ? People's different usage patterns (varying according to sex, age, individual attitudes, platforms, etc.); ? People's attitude towards specialized platforms; (business and recruiting platforms, social media sharing sites, UGC environments, etc.); ? Emerging trends.
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 15, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 30, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 30, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference? and ?IGI Publishing? imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com . This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.
Important Dates
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010
Proposal Acceptance Notifications: July 30, 2010
Full chapter Submission: October 30, 2010
Review Results to Authors: December 15, 2010
Revised Chapter Submission: January 30, 2011
Final Acceptance Notifications: February 15, 2011
Submission of Final Chapters: February 28, 2011
Final Deadline: March 30, 2011
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr. Francesca Comunello Department of Communication and Social Sciences University of Rome, La Sapienza Tel. +39 06 49918374 Mobile +39 333 9567857 email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Exploring Produsage New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Special Issue
Deadline: July 16 2010
Updated: July 15 2010
Call for papers The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles of users and contributors within social media environments. Participants in open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and Second Life are no longer merely consuming or using preproduced material, but neither are they at all times acting as fully self-determined producers of fully formed new works; rather, they occupy a hybrid position as produsers of content.
Produsage processes are now evident across a wide range of activities - mainly online, but increasingly also extending to the offline world - from citizen journalism and communal knowledge management through to collaborative artistic activities, from learner-led education models to citizen engagement in political processes. As such models establish themselves, what does an examination through the lens of the produsage framework reveal about their internal operations? How do they affect the existing institutional, industrial, social, and cultural environments within which they operate? How may they be guarded against cooptation and exploitation by corporate interests? What possible futures do they foreshadow?
Potential contributions to this special issue could include, but are not limited to, areas such as:
* Conceptualising produsage: theoretical frameworks for examining produsage activities, practical examples of produsage projects, ... * Historical and comparative perspectives: produsage and other forms of collaborative and commons-based work, precedents of produsage, ... * Technologies and practices of produsage: collaborative dynamics of leading produsage spaces, impact of the technological foundations of produsage, ... * Empirical perspectives on produsage: case studies of produsage and its effects, ethnographic research into produsage communities, ... * Methodology: research approaches to the study of produsage, tracking and evaluating produser activities, ... * Critical perspectives: economic, legal, pedagogic, sociological perspectives on produsage, ...
For this special issue of NRHM, we invite contributions on these and other topics related to produsage. Full papers should be around 7,000 words; shorter papers (around 3,000 words) for technical notes, industry perspectives or opinion pieces are also welcome. More detailed instructions for authors can be found online: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm. Queries should be directed to the Guest Editors. Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham
Important dates July 16, 2010 Paper submission deadline September 24, 2010 Author notification October 15, 2010 Final copy due Spring 2011 Publication
Guest Editors Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Jan Schmidt, the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research (Hamburg), .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Special Issue of New Media & Society: Internet Studies: The State of an Emerging Field
Deadline: December 31 2010
Updated: June 15 2010
Editor: Charles Ess, Guest Professor (Professor med s?rlige opgaver), Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Professor, Philosophy and Religion, Drury University. and William H. Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Background
In 2005, Nancy Baym edited a special issue of The Information Society (Vol. 21, No. 4) that asked the question, ?Is ?Internet Research? a Virtual Field, a Proto-Discipline, or Something Else?? In 2010, two handbooks of Internet Studies will appear (edited by Hunsinger, Kastrup, & Allen [Springer] and Consalvo & Ess [Wiley-Blackwell]) while a third has been launched (Dutton [Oxford University Press]. These publications document the emergence and development of Internet Studies as a field of research and scholarship in its own right, one affiliated with a characteristic topoi of issues, research questions, methodologies, and its own distinctive ethics.
To further explore the broad terrains and structures of this emerging field, the Oxford Internet Institute is organizing a series of workshops and lectures over the next two years, intended to encourage and gather critical analyses and perspectives from a number of internationally-recognized scholars and researchers, along with younger colleagues whose research promises new insights and perspectives. The first of these workshops, held at Aarhus University on 19 March 2010, took stock of the field by critically assessing the two major volumes on Internet Studies (Consalvo and Ess 2010, and Hunsinger et al 2010), with a view towards developing further insights for the field, its current and future directions, and its (potential) significance and impact. Future workshops are being organized, including one that will be held in Barcelona in early 2011. Steve Jones (
A special issue of New Media & Society is intended (a) to encourage and collect the development of scholarly contributions developed initially for these workshops, and lectures, and (b) gather related scholarly research and reflections from the global community of Internet scholars and researchers. These contributions will build on the existing and forthcoming handbooks and related compilations to stimulate and inform global discussion about the emerging field of Internet Studies.
Accordingly, we invite contributions from across the range of disciplines applied to study of the Internet that address our thematic questions, beginning with: can ?Internet Studies? be discerned and demarcated as a field (or fields) of academic research and scholarship out of the rapidly growing body of research and scholarship intertwined with the Internet and the array of human interactions it facilitates? And: insofar as Internet Studies can be argued to exist as a field(s) ? what are its defining characteristics, including, e.g., a distinctive set of objects of study, research questions, methodologies, a body of findings and literature recognized as foundational or definitive, ethical guidelines, professional expectations, and whatever else we may argue to be necessary, if not sufficient, conditions for an academic field(s) of study?
Contributions may take one of two forms. One, authors may seek to develop comprehensive and authoritative overviews of how an important topos of research on the Internet (e.g., social interactions, emotion, identity play and development, etc., etc.) has been studied, important findings, and areas in need of further research. Two, authors may take a critical perspective on the field as a whole or any sub-field within this area. Generally, the special issue will not focus on the presentation of specific research, even though it might connect well with and reflect upon a broader synthesis or overview of a larger domain of Internet research. Other special issues and articles are well suited for the publication of original research. This issue will be more focused on generating the most stimulating syntheses of the field ? defining the vitality and overall state of the field.
Selected contributions will appear in the special issue of New Media & Society.
Submissions are due to the editors by December 31, 2010. Submissions accepted by the editors will be returned to the author(s) for any needed revision by 31 March 2011; final versions will be due back to the editors by 30 June 2011, followed by an external review process resulting in final acceptance / rejection / or acceptance with revisions. Final versions of accepted papers will be due by 1 December 2011. Authors? Guidelines are available on the New Media & Society website at
For further information about our workshops, lectures and this special journal issue, please feel free to contact either of the editors: Charles Ess: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) William Dutton: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Scientific Research and Essays (SRE)
Updated: May 17 2010
Scientific Research and Essays (SRE) is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. SRE publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of science, medicine, agriculture and engineering. All papers published by SRE are peer reviewed. SRE is a very rapid response journal with an issue published every month. The following types of papers are considered for publication: • Original articles in basic and applied research. • Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays. Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within three weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. One key request of researchers across the world is open access to research publications. Scientific Research and Essays is fully committed to providing free access to all articles as soon as they are published. We ask you to support this initiative by publishing your papers in this journal. Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE. Prospective authors should send their manuscript(s) to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Scientific Research and Essays (ISSN 1992-2248) is also seeking qualified reviewers as members of the editorial board. SRE serves as a great resource for researchers and students across the globe. We ask you to support this initiative by joining our reviewer’s team. Kindly contact us if you are interested in serving as a reviewer. Dr. N. J. Tonukari Editor-in-Chief Scientific Research and Essays E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE Please visit http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE/contents/2007cont/Jul.htm to view our current issue.
New Groups and New Methods? The Ethnography and Qualitative Research of Online Groups Special Issue
Deadline: September 15 2010
Updated: May 16 2010
(volume 4, number 2, 2011) of “Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa” (Ethnography and Qualitative Research) Edited By: Stefano De Paoli & Maurizio Teli Abstract due: 15 May 2010 (500 words) Online groups, also called "virtual worlds", "virtual communities", or “digital collectives”, are those social groups whose members’ interactions are mediated primarily by the Internet. Participation in these groups has a variety of purposes and takes place via a variety of technological platforms. These include, for instance, platforms for social networking (such as Facebook, Second Life and social networks in general), platforms that have a productive purpose for participants (such as projects for the development of Free and Open Source Software), or platforms whose goal is to provide entertainment or a pastime for users (for instance Multiplayer Online Games such as the Massive Multiplayer Online Games or Online Poker). Nowadays, the social relevance of this phenomenon has become quite clear in several areas. For example, social networks like Facebook or MySpace now count millions of users that interact online, with a variety of goals, practices and tools (Beer, 2008). The proliferation of socio-technical phenomena such as Wikipedia, Creative Commons and Free and Open Source Software has changed some of the traditional assumptions about organizational hierarchies and paid labour (Kelty, 2008). Or again, Online Games' virtual economies are tied to real economies, in ways that challenge traditional assumptions about property (Castronova, 2005). Social, cultural, economic, and technological dimensions are, therefore, closely intertwined in the phenomenon of Online Groups. In this special issue (volume 4, number 2, 2011) of “Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa” (Ethnography and Qualitative Research) we are looking for contributions with a strong empirical bias that can tackle this hybrid complexity and that specifically offer reflections and practical experiences for a discussion on the theoretical and methodological dimensions of the phenomenon. This involves reflecting on one or more of the following topics: Firstly, some reflections might focus on the theoretical dimension. Often the literature, in both the social sciences and economics, for example Benkler’s (2006) or von Hippel’s (2004) works, has associated the birth and proliferation of online groups with a process of democratization and the construction of a new democratic balance of power and knowledge. (Consider the case of Free and Open Source Software or the advent of Web 2.0 and User Generated Content.) However, this literature is often linked with individualistic approaches, the methodological dimension of which does not focus on the “fine grain” of social practices and on the power relationships these practices might imply. One of the goals of this special issue is therefore to stimulate a debate on how ethnographic or qualitative research in general can help to balance this optimistic view, in which "online" is seen as a place of pure democracy. Secondly, the research on online group interactions requires a discussion of and reflection on the assumptions of traditional qualitative and ethnographic research. Indeed, the researcher herself is required to take part in online interactions and to use the Internet to conduct the research. This consideration illustrates that there is an inherent reflexive element: the researcher studies a phenomenon that she is also contributing to identify. It is therefore important for researchers to reflect on the use in research of the same technologies and platforms used for online interactions. This includes, for instance, tools for collecting qualitative data, for analyzing data and also for the communication/dissemination of research results. Examples could be: the use of blogs or wikis as tools to keep and organize field notes or even to build a relationship with participants in the online groups themselves; the use of online resources (such as software tools) that can be used for data collection and analysis, for example extensions for the Firefox browser or web-based CAQDAS software; and the use of blogs, wikis and other platforms to disseminate research results, in this way contributing to the construction of online interactions. Finally, ethnographic and qualitative online research requires specific reflections on the ethical aspects of the research. For instance, the availability of archived material in a space that is neither public nor private, according to classical categories in the ethics of research, and whose authors are not always reachable, poses challenging problems. Indeed, often the user communications and interactions are public, in the sense that they are easily accessible by almost anyone through an Internet connection. This type of “sharing in a limited context” by users raises ethical questions for researchers, as the users' original purpose was not to provide “data” for researchers (Bakardjeva and Feenberg, 2001). Therefore, an approach that takes the situation into account should be used when discussing the status of public/private information in relation to Internet conversations and interactions (Teli, Pisanu, Hakken, 2007). In conclusion, we invite empirically grounded research papers that address one or more of the dimensions outlined above, but which may also expand them and include other aspects. Contributions might include (but are not restricted to): The ethnography and qualitative research of online groups: social networks, online games, Wikipedia, etc. The construction of groups: the role of the researcher and qualitative research Ethnographic and qualitative approaches to power and to online data Power and knowledge: digital archives, avatars Your experiences with using online technologies for the collection and analysis of qualitative data The ethics of qualitative research on online groups References Beer, D. (2008). Social network(ing) sites…revisiting the story so far: A response to danah boyd & Nicole Ellison, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 13 Issue 2, Pages 516 - 529 Benkler, Y. (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, New Haven: Yale University Press von Hippel, E. (2004). Democratizing innovation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Kelty, C. (2008). Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software and the Internet, Durham, NC: Duke University Press Castronova, E. (2005). Synthetic Worlds-The Business and Culture of Online Games, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press Bakardjeva, M. and Feenberg, A. (2001). Involving the virtual subject. Ethics and Information Technology, 2, 233-240. Teli, M., Pisanu, F., and Hakken, D. (2007). The Internet as a Library-of-People: For a Cyberethnography of Online Groups [65 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8 (3), Art. 33, http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/283/621 Important Dates: 15 May 2010: Abstract of maximum 500 words. We will accept any abstract we consider interesting for the aims of this special issue. The selection of the articles to be published will then be done on the basis of the Full Papers. Full Paper Submission: 15 September 2010 Review Results: 15 December 2010 Final Paper (maximum ten thousands words), camera-ready: 15 March 2011
Asian Biotechnology and Development Review (ABDR): Call for Articles, Reviewers
Updated: May 16 2010
The Asian Biotechnology and Development Review (ABDR) is a peer reviewed journal published by Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) from New Delhi, India. It is supported by Life Science Division of UNESCO and Department of Biotechnology of Government of India. This Journal is abstracted in CAB Abstracts. ABDR is guided by an Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board with distinguished experts, policy makers, academics, representatives of UN organizations as members.
ABDR is now into its 12th Volume ABDR has been a forum for informed views and perspectives on biotechnology and development issues. The contents of past issues except the last two issues can be downloaded from RIS website. ABDR is listed under journals in the publications section in the RIS website www.ris.org.in
ABDR has published articles on a wide variety of issues ranging from Access and Benefit Sharing to Bioethics in Asia, from regulation of stem cells to biosafety and international trade, from Bt. cotton in India to regulating biotechnology in Australia. ABDR has published Special Issues also focusing on a particular theme.
Besides articles ABDR publishes Book Reviews. Articles that provide a perspective on an issue or analyze an important case (e.g. Decision by WTO Panel/Appellate Body) can be considered for publication.
The guidelines for contributors are available in the website. When an article is submitted it is immediately acknowledged and the review process is set in motion. We strive to publish the accepted articles as early as possible. ABDR welcomes articles, book reviews and other contributions. ABDR does not publish articles that are solely of scientific or technical in nature. The readership of ABDR is spread across the globe. While the contents of the past issues will give an idea about the nature and scope of the articles and book reviews published in ABDR, articles on themes and topics not covered before particularly articles on socio-economic impacts of emerging biotechnologies and developments in life sciences, and bioeconomy will be considered for publication. The scope of the contributions to ABDR need not be restricted to biotechnology related issues in Asia or developing countries.
ABDR is also interested in empanelling reviewers for doing peer-review of articles. Those interested in doing peer review are requested to submit a brief CV and their areas of specialization/expertise. Submissions can be sent by email to the Managing Editor and there is no need to send the same in CD/hard copy if submission is by email.
For more information about ABDR and work of RIS on biotechnology please visit www.ris.org.in Submissions can be sent by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) For more information please contact Dr. K.Ravi Srinivas, Managing Editor, ABDR email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Fax: +91-11-24682173-74
Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology The Annual Review of Political and Military Sociol
Updated: April 13 2010
Call for Submissions Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology The Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology is currently seeking article submissions in the fields of political and military sociology, broadly defined. APRMS is the new title of the former Journal of Political and Military Sociology, now relaunched and henceforth to be published annually by Transaction Publishers. Since its inception in 1973, the journal has advanced the fields of political and military sociology through the dissemination of high-quality scholarly research. In so doing, it has established itself as a leading international journal in these fields. Continuing this tradition, the Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology welcomes submissions covering a wide range of topics in political science, international relations and political sociology. Such topics include, but are not limited to: military sociology, civil-military relations, problems of governance, foreign policy, ethnic/religious/territorial conflict, secession and irredentism, problems of social and political order, war and armed conflict, political elites and international migration. For more information, or to submit your manuscript, please contact ARPMS's editors: Neovi Karakatsanis Indiana University South Bend South Bend, Indiana USA .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Jonathan Swarts Purdue University North Central Westville, Indiana USA .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Sign Language Studies (SLS)
Updated: March 16 2010
SLS 10:2
This volume connects the burgeoning academic field of science and technology studies (STS) with studies into the technologies of deafness; examples of such technologies include genomics, cochlear implantation, sign language corpora, educational tracking systems, and mobile communications. The subsequent articles all bear witness to the extensive interweaving of advanced technologies, scientific knowledge, deafness and sign language. The papers brought together in this special issue were presented at two prominent international conferences: the annual meeting called “Ways of Knowing” held by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), in Montreal from October 11–13, 2007; and the annual meeting called “Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine,” held jointly by 4S and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) in Rotterdam from August 20–23, 2008.
Science as Culture
Updated: February 14 2010
Science as Culture
The Construction of Personal Identities Online: a Special Issue of Minds and Machines
Deadline: December 15 2011
http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/grants/pio/index.html
Updated: January 15 2010
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are building a new habitat (infosphere) in which future generations will spend an increasing amount of time. So, how individuals construct, shape and maintain their personal identities online (PIOs) is a problem of growing and pressing importance. Today, PIOs can be created and developed, as an ongoing work-in-progress, to provide experiential enrichment, expand, improve or even help to repair relationships with others and with the world, or enable imaginative projections (the "being in someone else's shoes" experience), thus fostering tolerance. However, PIOs can also be mis-constructed, stolen, "abused", or lead to psychologically or morally unhealthy lives, causing a loss of engagement with the actual world and real people.
The construction of PIOs affects how individuals understand themselves and the groups, societies and cultures to which they belong, both online and offline. PIOs increasingly contribute to individuals' self-esteem, influence their life-styles, and affect their values, moral behaviours, and ethical expectations. It is a phenomenon with enormous practical implications, and yet, crucially, individuals as well as groups seem to lack a clear, conceptual understanding of who they are in the infosphere and what it means to be a responsible informational agent online. This special issue of Minds and Machines seeks to fill this important gap in our philosophical understanding. It will build on the current debate on PIO, and address questions such as:
- How does one go about constructing, developing and preserving a PIO? Who am I online?
- How do I, as well as other people, define and re-identify myself online?
- What is it like to be that particular me (instead of you, or another me with a different PIO), in a virtual environment?
- Should one care about what happens to one's own PIO and how one (with his/her PIO) is perceived to behave online?
- How do PIs online and offline feedback on each other?
- Do customisable, reproducible and disposable PIOs affect our understanding of our PI offline?
- How are we to interpret cases of multiple PIOs, or cases in which someone's PIO may become more important than, or even incompatible with, his or her PI offline?
- What is going to happen to our self-understanding when the online and offline realities become intertwined in an "onlife" continuum, and online and offline PIs have to be harmonised and negotiated? Papers comparing and evaluating standard approaches to PI in order to analyse how far they may be extended to explain PIO are also very welcome. Submissions will be double-blind refereed for academic rigor, originality and relevance to the theme. Please submit articles of no more than 10,000 words to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) in .doc or .pdf format.
The special issue is part of a series of workshops organised in connection with the AHRC-funded project The Construction of Personal Identities Online. Authors may also wish to submit their papers to one of the workshops organized on the same topic. Submissions will also be considered for publication in the special issue.
The Body in Breast Cancer: a Special Issue of Social Semiotics
Deadline: October 01 2010
Updated: January 15 2010
Social Semiotics invites submissions to a special issue “The Body in Breast Cancer” in order to mobilize new critical interventions into the materiality of breast cancer.
The body, at the level of the breast, is the terrain on and through which breast cancer registers. This body, as understood through poststructuralist theory, is always already constructed and negotiated in relation to technology. This body, then, is a technologized body. The experience of breast cancer at once compels particular interfaces of body and machine in detection, treatment, and “recovery,” and the necessity for corporeal reworking in relation to the machine. Stressing the material breast as a technologized terrain necessitates grappling with the myriad of troubled relations of/to the breast, such as the prosthetic breast, the absent breast, fear of the lost breast, refusal of the breast, the scrutinized fleshy breast. In order to enable such exploration, we solicit papers in the fields of science and technology studies, queer studies, cultural studies, performance studies, and disability studies that enter into dialogue with scholarship on (bio)technologies and/or the posthuman. Foregrounding the technologized materiality in breast cancer will yield new ways of understanding subjectivity and somatic resistance, crafting corporeality, and practicing critique/politics in order to extend “livable lives.”
We are especially interested in accounts of queer, non-white, crip, male, classed bodies, and other particularities of subjecthood, that explore the practices of the technologized body in breast cancer at the level of machine and science, and imagined through biotech, the cyborg, cybernetics, prostheses, biometrics, and so forth.
We welcome articles that investigate:
• Excavations of the breast that foreground the policing, containment, mutilation, resignification, and crafting of the breast
• Bodies in breast cancer surveillance
• Bodies and breast reconstruction
• Bodies in treatment (radiation, the chemotherapy ward, detection, ultrasound, MRI, biopsy, mammogram, the breast clinic)
• Bodies and traces of military technologies; marks of cancer treatment
• Body-erotics/sexuality and breast cancer
• Visual economies of the breast and legalities of breastlessness
• The body and prognosis in breast cancer
• Altered notions of bodily capacity in relation to breast cancer
• Breasted aesthetics as self-crafting/disciplining
• Renegotiations of subjectivity at the interface with machines
• Unstable assemblages between flesh and machine in detection, risk assessment, prognosis
• Cancer and matter
• Regeneration and illness
We invite traditional essays as well as a variety of alternative forms: short performative pieces, short critical etymologies, visual essays, case studies. We are hoping to put together a range of different submissions for this issue in order to encourage unorthodox approaches to breast cancer. If submitting a traditional paper, the word count should be no more than 8000, including notes and bibliography. Alternative formats should be between 1 and 15 pages (maximum). For all submissions, please note that one image is equivalent to 250 words (half page). The journal citation style is Chicago Author-Date. For style guidelines and further information about figures and formatting, please see the journal website instructions for authors: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/csosauth.asp Articles should be prepared for anonymous review. Please provide a separate short author biography and an abstract of no more than 150 words. The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2010, with a final publication date scheduled for January 2012. Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment as a Word document (.doc or .txt) or pdf. The subject line of your email should state the special issue title “The Body in Breast Cancer” and be addressed to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
General Call for Papers: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1875-2160
Updated: January 13 2010
Editor-in-Chief:
Daiwie Fu, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
Associate Editors:
Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney, Australia / University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Pingyi Chu, Academic Sinica, Taiwan
Sungook Hong, Seoul National University, South Korea
Togo Tsukahara, Kobe University, Japan
EASTS is an interdisciplinary quarterly journal based in Taiwan guided by editorial boards of STS scholars from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the West. Founded in 2007, EASTS provides an international platform for STS scholarship on East Asia. The goal of the journal is to bring Western and East-Asian STS communities together to share ideas, knowledge and research on the full range of topics encompassed by STS. EASTS promotes STS studies from and to the East Asian and worldwide STS communities.
Submit Your Paper Now!
Papers should be submitted via Editorial Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/east
Editorial queries can be addressed to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Recent Special Issues:
Constructing Intimacy: Technology, Family and Gender in East Asia
Guest Editor: Francesca Bray
Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia
Guest Editors: Adele E. Clarke, Azumi Tsuge and Chia-Ling Wu
The Globalisation of Chinese Medicine and Meditation Practices
Guest Editor: Elisabeth Hsu
Emergent Studies of Science and Technology in Southeast Asia
Call For Papers: Special Issue of Minds and Machines on The Construction of Personal Identities Onl
Deadline: December 15 2011
Updated: December 31 1969
Call For Papers: Special Issue of Minds and Machines on The Construction of
Personal Identities Online
Guest Editors: Luciano Floridi, Dave Ward
Closing date for submissions: 15 December 2011
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are building a new
habitat (infosphere) in which future generations will spend an increasing
amount of time. So, how individuals construct, shape and maintain their
personal identities online (PIOs) is a problem of growing and pressing
importance. Today, PIOs can be created and developed, as an ongoing
work-in-progress, to provide experiential enrichment, expand, improve or
even help to repair relationships with others and with the world, or enable
imaginative projections (the "being in someone else's shoes" experience),
thus fostering tolerance. However, PIOs can also be mis-constructed,
stolen, "abused", or lead to psychologically or morally unhealthy lives,
causing a loss of engagement with the actual world and real people. The
construction of PIOs affects how individuals understand themselves and the
groups, societies and cultures to which they belong, both online and
offline. PIOs increasingly contribute to individuals' self-esteem,
influence their life-styles, and affect their values, moral behaviours, and
ethical expectations. It is a phenomenon with enormous practical
implications, and yet, crucially, individuals as well as groups seem to
lack a clear, conceptual understanding of who they are in the infosphere
and what it means to be a responsible informational agent online.
This special issue of Minds and Machines seeks to fill this important gap
in our philosophical understanding. It will build on the current debate on
PIO, and address questions such as:
- How does one go about constructing, developing and preserving a PIO? Who
am I online?
- How do I, as well as other people, define and re-identify myself online?
- What is it like to be that particular me (instead of you, or another me
with a different PIO), in a virtual environment?
- Should one care about what happens to one's own PIO and how one (with
his/her PIO) is perceived to behave online?
- How do PIs online and offline feedback on each other?
- Do customisable, reproducible and disposable PIOs affect our
understanding of our PI offline?
- How are we to interpret cases of multiple PIOs, or cases in which
someone's PIO may become more important than, or even incompatible with,
his or her PI offline?
- What is going to happen to our self-understanding when the online and
offline realities become intertwined in an "onlife" continuum, and online
and offline PIs have to be harmonised and negotiated?
Papers comparing and evaluating standard approaches to PI in order to
analyse how far they may be extended to explain PIO are also very welcome.
Submissions will be double-blind refereed for academic rigor, originality
and relevance to the theme. Please submit articles of no more than 10,000
words to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) in .doc or .pdf format.
The closing date for submissions is: 15 December 2011.
_____________________________________________________________________
Workshops:
The special issue is part of a series of workshops organised in connection
with the AHRC-funded project The Construction of Personal Identities
Online. Authors may also wish to submit their papers to one of the
workshops organized on the same topic. Submissions will also be considered
for publication in the special issue.
More information about the project and the workshops is available here:
http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/grants/pio/index.html
Please address any queries to Dave Ward: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
SPT 2011 Technology and Security 17th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and T
May 26 2011 to May 29 2011 | Denton, TX, USA
Deadline: November 01 2010
Updated: June 29 2010
SPT 2011
Technology and Security
17th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
May 26-29, 2011
University of North Texas Denton, TX, USA
https://spt2011.unt.edu/
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Deadline for abstracts: November 1, 2010
SPT 2011 welcomes high quality papers and panel proposals in all areas of philosophy of technology. Given the focus of this year’s conference, papers and panels dealing with technology and security are especially welcomed. We encourage submissions from an interdisciplinary spectrum, including but not limited to philosophers, engineers, natural scientists, historians, social scientists, and those involved in public or private policymaking. SPT 2011 tracks:
1. Security technology 1: Information, surveillance, and cyber security
2. Security technology 2: Environmental and agricultural security
3. Security technology 3: Terrorism, warfare, and emerging military technologies
4. Development and globalization
5. Technology, justice, and the good life
6. Sustainable technologies, energy, and built environments
7. Philosophy of engineering and design
8. Ethics and Technology
9. Philosophy/history of technology
10. Technology, gender, and culture
11. Biomedical technology, health, and enhancement
12. Religion and technology
13. Media and technology
14. Emerging and converging science and technology
15. Technologies of self and consciousness: drugs, exercise, meditation
16. Reflective engineering
Papers will be accepted on the basis of a submitted abstract, which will be refereed. An abstract must be between 500 and 750 words in length (references excluded) and submitted via email (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) as embedded plain text or an attachment in RTF, WORD, or PDF format. It should also contain the name and number of the track to which the abstract is submitted. If an abstract does not seem to fit with any track, simply note that with the submission. All submissions are welcome, and authors should not feel constrained by the tracks. Abstracts must be submitted no later than November 1, 2010. Authors will be informed of the decision of the referees by January 1, 2011.
Paper presentations will be 30 minutes, divided into 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.
Panel Proposals. We will also accept proposals for panel discussions, to be submitted to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by November 1, 2010. Panel proposals must be between 500 and 1,000 words in length, include a statement of the general topic, and an overview of the specific questions or issues to be addressed. In addition, the proposal should include a list of the panelists involved, their expertise in this area, and whether they have indicated that they are willing to participate.
Keynote speakers: TBD
Plenary sessions: TBD
SPT presidential address: Philip Brey, University of Twente, title TBD
Co-Directors: Adam Briggle and David Kaplan, University of North Texas
Keep checking the conference website at https://spt2011.unt.edu for further updates and information about the conference.
Conference email address: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)