[ecrea] Redesigning or Redefining Privacy CfP-

   Call for papers: REDESIGNING OR REDEFINING PRACY
   Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture: 2:2: call for papers.

   The revelations of Edward Snowden in 2013 came as a wake-up call for a
   public that increasingly depends on the internet for numerous everyday
   activities. A shift of boundaries between the state and the public
   came to the fore placing state scrutiny at the centre of public
   debates, at least for a while. Recent studies suggest that individuals
   who consider themselves as ordinary citizens disregard surveillance on
   the basis of the argument, “nothing to hide, nothing to fear”. Others
   like Stoycheff, 2016 suggest that surveillance has contributed to a
   chilling effect on minority views, which are forcefully silenced.


   The FBI-Apple dispute about a locked and encrypted iPhone shifted the
   attention to privacy by design, which introduced an interesting
   paradox: companies that harvest personal data of individuals for their
   own commercial interest are to be found protecting the same data from
   government agencies and promising privacy via encryption. In a
   neoliberal context, though, many companies are driven by the
   maximization of profit rather than the common good. Thus, such actions
   can be seen as shrewd customer relationship management to boost their
   loyalty. Blaming the “bad” state that spies on people, the “good”
   companies come to "protect " human rights such as privacy.


   This raises serious questions that need to be addressed: do new
   technological developments empower the user and ensure privacy and
   freedom of expression as the discourse suggests? Should citizens place
   their rights in the hands of big corporations? Do many individuals now
   show more trust in corporations than in democratically elected
   governments? If so what are the implications for democracy as such?
   Should the response to risks of computer-based surveillance be yet
   more advanced technology? This special issue calls for papers that
   contribute to the ongoing debate about surveillance, focusing on the
   implications for democracy following Snowden’s revelations and the
   shift to privacy by design.


   Themes may also include but are not limited to the following:


   The role of corporations and the state in the digital era


   The rethinking of privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression


   Citizens’ experience of the surveillance state


   Privacy by design as a response to surveillance


   New forms of resistance to surveillance


   Trust in corporations and the state


   National and international privacy protection policies and data
   protection laws

   Submission of Abstracts:

   Prospective authors of research articles of between 6,000-8,000 words
   including notes and references are encouraged to send a 250-word
   abstract to WESTMINSTER PAPERS IN COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE no later
   than 1st October 2016.


   Deadline for abstracts:  1st October 2016

   Please send abstracts to (WPCC2015 /at/ gmail.com)


   The editorial team of WPCC will inform authors of abstracts by the
   15th October 2016 if the abstract meets the brief of the issue and if
   they would like to request submission of a full text with a view to
   inclusion, subject to peer-review and editing on delivery.


   Deadline for full-text submission:  1st February 2017.


   Authors of those abstracts encouraged by WPCC or new submissions
   should register at the journal website by 1 February 2017 attaching
   the article. Authors will be notified as soon as possible about
   acceptance, revisions or rejection and the outcome of the review
   process with a view to publishing accepted articles subject to any
   amendments requested. Please route communications about articles
   submitted via the journal's online system.


   Please submit articles via:
   http://www.westminsterpapers.org/about/submissions/




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