Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Jan 8, 2025
In recent years, perhaps stimulated by the growing awareness of the power of digital technologies, there have been calls for engineers and designers to advance values ‘by design’, such as democracy, participation, privacy and transparency. This builds on earlier inclusive design and access-for-all initiatives. But not all encounters with technologies are fulfilling, and some are designed to exclude or harm people, animals and nature. This workshop focuses on those technologies that could be described as hostile or exclusionary by design.
The workshop is supported by the Maastric...
Published On: Nov 25 2024
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
In an age of endless disruption, how do we live with the rapid advances and early analyses of artificial intelligence software, moral panic, and the voracious consumption of already oppressive datasets and social relations? In this issue, we want to explore a range of critical framings and interventions that understand AI as the latest wave of technological change that may be able to help or hinder us in our weird and sometimes wonderful daily grind(s), rather than as a totalizing and inevitable replacement of human existence. 500-word abstract due January 15, 2025; papers due June 1, 2025.
Published On: Dec 9 2024
Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
Citation remains a cornerstone of scholarly and scientific work. However, like many academic practices, citation is neither neutral nor universal. There are important differences between disciplines and language groups, and how and what we cite changes over time. There is also a great deal of evidence suggesting that the conscious and unconscious biases and discrimination that marks so much of our world also shapes who gets cited. Such bias serves to render the contributions of marginalised groups less visible. This special issue of the KULA journal seeks to explore how we can achieve greater ...
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
‘Security’ has become an increasingly dominant frame in recent decades, linking issues such as climate, biodiversity, borders, energy, food and military activities. Ever-more societal issues have been framed as security problems, even as existential threats. These frames seek to justify pre-emptive management through technoscientific expert systems, imagining control over everything and fostering an authoritarian culture. This SaC special issue will explore linkages among three dynamics: modern pre-emptive techno-securitisation, today’s active colonial relations, and the mili...
Published On: Oct 14 2024
Deadline: Nov 12, 2024
Science communication has always been central to the mission of Science for the People. Throughout our history, we have recognized how conventional modes of science communication have championed militarism, reified biological essentialism related to gender and race, and reinforced the notion that there is a natural or scientific basis for inequality and oppression. Choices about what language, analogies, and metaphors to use when communicating scientific concepts to the public have strong political implications. While science itself is never neutral, science communication adds a further layer ...
Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in health and medicine.
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2024 | Notification of Acceptance: January, 1 2025 | Event: Feburary 7–8, 2025
Published On: Nov 25 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
The special issue in the Journal of Organizational Sociology advances our understanding of the link between technology and the organization of social fields. Theoretical and empirical contributions address the role of technology in field constitution and change and/or the role of fields in the design, production, and use of technology. The SI has two goals: (1) to systematize research on technology in the various strands of sociological field theory; (2) to bring field theory to bear on issues linked to the digital transformation, such as platformization, or the rise of AI. Abstracts due Dec 1...
Published On: Oct 14 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
Can robots be sensual? In our era of technological advancements, the once clear demarcation between humans and machines is becoming increasingly blurred. As robotics and artificial intelligence continue to evolve, there is a remarkable confluence of situations that beckons us to ponder the profound implications of human-robot interactions. Sexual robots, or partners like Replika, are just an example. This edited issue puts on the table the relationship between aesthetics and philosophy, seeking to understand the intricate interplay of sensuality and robots.
Published On: Oct 10 2024
The editorial team behind the new series Imagination, Annotated, from the MIT Press, is inviting proposals for edited books in the series. Imagination, Annotated features speculative fiction texts from the 19th and 20th centuries that envisage possible futures, each annotated by a diverse group of experts, scholars, and practitioners. It aims to open up great works of speculative fiction to new readers and contemporary concerns, inspire reflection, and include readers in a continuing conversation about what kind of world we want to live in.
Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Nov 15, 2024
The editorial collective of Science, Technology, & Human Values announces the journal’s 2024 Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue on Techno-environmental Racialization. In this Special Issue (SI), we invite contributions that explore racializing techno-environmental processes and how these are un/done, contested, or disrupted by knowledge practices and multispecies relations.