[ecrea] cpf: Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture - redesigning or redefining privacy

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This is a reminder posting for the call for papers for: REDESIGNING OR 
REDEFINING PRIVACY
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture: 12:2

Deadline for abstracts:  1st October 2016: is coming shortly.

Please send abstracts to (WPCC2015 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(WPCC2015 /at/ gmail.com)>.

     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, ³nothing to hide, nothing to fear². 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 ³bad² state that spies on people, the ³good²
     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 Snowden¹s 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

     Citizens¹ 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.

     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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