[ecrea] Call for Chapters - Latin America digit@l: current trends, legal dilemmas and ethical concerns

Call for Chapters for the edited book.

Latin America digit@l: current trends, legal dilemmas and ethical concerns.

Editor has been working with Routledge to prepare this proposal for The 
Routledge Series on Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs.

Editor:

Dr. David Ramírez Plascencia.
University of Guadalajara – System of Virtual University. E-mail: 
(david.ramirez /at/ redudg.udg.mx) <mailto:(david.ramirez /at/ redudg.udg.mx)>


Proposals Submission Deadline: 01 April 2018

Notification of acceptance: 14 May 2018

Submission Date: 25 November 2018


Introduction.

In Latin America, the use of the Internet in general, and social media 
in particular, is one of the most significant activities between 
inhabitants. Social platforms are so important to Latin Americans that 
in many countries, like Mexico and Brazil, almost all Internet users, 
more than 200 million in between both countries, have at least one 
profile on these platforms. And new information technologies are 
continuously arriving in the region as well, from the internet of things 
to artificial intelligence, robots, and the instant tracking of 
transportation and delivery, all of which are conspiring not only to 
change the domestic social and economic environment, but to transform 
social and economic links across the region and externally with the 
outside world. In a real sense, the internet has cut the region’s 
geographical moorings and plunged it and its inhabitants into an 
integrated and multi-tiered global virtual space.

Trying to embrace this entire new spectrum of digital phenomena requires 
not only an innovative and fresh reexamination of traditional concepts 
like activism, community, intimacy and social responsibility, especially 
when they are used to describe social relations in digital milieus, but 
also the construction of legal and ethical frameworks that clarify the 
boundaries in between private and public assets, and when it is 
permissible to monitor operations of foreign régimes and international 
corporations gathering and disseminating information electronically, for 
example in seeking to influence elections in Las Americas.

Objective and topics.

The purpose of this edited book is to examine the actual technological 
and ethical trends and prospective challenges that will reshape the 
social use of digital technologies in Latin America. How will ethical 
and legal framework have to evolve to respond to novel issues and 
critical challenges in the region, from virtual harassment, bullying and 
sexting incidents posted on YouTube, dating apps’ user privacy, criminal 
organization members’ information disseminated on social media, 
political activism and government censorship, the introduction of 
robotics and AI, cyberwar, the rise of fake news and alternative facts, 
the digital economy, crypto currencies and other key topics.

Submission Procedure

Proposals with a deep theoretical analysis and cases studies focused in 
novel technologies like drones, artificial intelligence and robots from 
a regional perspective are especially welcomed.

You are invited to submit a word document with a brief author or authors 
CV (no more than 250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts), 
title of the proposal and the abstract (500-800 words). All proposal 
should be submitted to the following address: 
(david.ramirez /at/ redudg.udg.mx) <mailto:(david.ramirez /at/ redudg.udg.mx)>

Deadline is 01 April 2018.

The final decision will be notified to the authors by 14 May 2018. 
Authors will be invited to send a full text by 25 November 2018. The 
chapter’s length will be 5000-6000 words. Submitted chapters should not 
have been previously published or sent to another editor. All 
manuscripts will be selected under a double-blind peer review editorial 
process. The book is planned to be published at the end of 2019.

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