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[ecrea] cpf Northern Lights: Surveillance: Through media, by media, in media
Tue Feb 14 21:24:54 GMT 2017
Call for submissions to /Northern Lights/, Volume 16 - Theme issue on:
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*Surveillance: Through media, by media, in media*
Volume editors: Göran Bolin and Anne Jerslev
Following the spread of digital media, the interdisciplinary field of
surveillance studies has raised a prominent agenda, engaging scholars
from the humanities and the social sciences alike. Although surveillance
as an activity presupposes the involvement of media technologies and
images and often involves media organizations, the specific role of the
media in these activities has not been sufficiently dealt with.
The increased opportunities for corporate businesses and state
administrations to monitor customer and citizen behavior around the
clock raise a range of media-related questions of ethical, legislative
and political nature, concerning privacy, citizenry, power and
individual rights vs. the common good included in an open digital
information architecture. However, surveillance is also present /in/ the
media, aesthetically and thematically. The increased possibility of
surveillance and the many levels of monitoring made possible in society
are critically examined and challenged in contemporary media practices.
What could be labeled a ‘surveillance aesthetics’ seems to be part and
parcel of communicative strategies and audiovisual experiments in
photography, film and television series – from constructions of
different panoptic points of view to embodied, subjective points of view
– just like surveillance is prominent as theme, discourse and narrative
structure in a range of programs on diverse platforms as well as in news
media.
For this issue of /Northern Lights/, we invite articles that critically
analyze and discuss the role of media in various forms of monitoring and
surveillance in society. This includes issues regarding the ways media
technologies both enact and facilitate surveillance and how different
media genres, platforms and technologies facilitate monitoring such as
the corporate monitoring of media audiences, media users and customers
through various forms of (big) data. Moreover, articles may discuss one
or more of political and ethical themes raised by mediated surveillance
on different levels from discussions of national and transnational
privacy protection laws to discussions of everyday practices within an
environment characterized by ubiquitous surveillance technologies.
Finally, articles may discuss how surveillance functions as
(audio)visual practices.
Themes include (but are not restricted to):
* Surveillance aesthetics in (audio)visual media
* Surveillance and privacy
* Surveillance and social media platforms
* Media historical perspectives on monitoring and surveillance
* Analyses of systems of monitoring and surveillance in relation to
digital media
* Distinctions between audience analysis and surveillance
* Media coverage of surveillance post-Snowden
* Analysis of attitudes to surveillance and monitoring by different
groups of new media users
* Sousveillance and the critique of power
* Panspectric practices in marketing
* The role of big data in surveillance systems
Please send an extended abstract of 500-600 words to volume editor
Professor Göran Bolin: (goran.bolin /at/ sh.se) <mailto:(goran.bolin /at/ sh.se)>
Deadline for abstract submission: 3 April 2017
Notification to authors: 21 April 2017
Final article submission: 1 September 2017
Publication: Spring 2018
Additional information about the journal is available on the Intellect
Press website:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=143/view,page=2/
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