[ecrea] cpf Northern Lights: Surveillance: Through media, by media, in media

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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