[Commlist] CfP Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: From Neoliberal Ideology to Data Colonialism Special Issue

CALL FOR PAPERS - COMMUNICATION IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: 
FROM NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGY TO DATA COLONIALISM - SPECIAL ISSUE*

Fronteiras Journal - a Brazilian open journal. No APC required. We 
accept proposals in English, Portuguese or Spanish - 
http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/fronteiras/announcement/view/55 
<http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/fronteiras/announcement/view/55>

*Guest editors:*

Claudia Nociolini Rebechi (Federal University of Technology – Parana - 
UTFPR)

Nick Couldry (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Roseli Fígaro (University of Sao Paulo - USP)

Syed Mustafa Ali (The Open University)

*Call for Papers *

There is no doubt that communication has become a fundamental aspect of 
productive forces in the current context of digital technologies. 
Communication is a time-space relationship that can be and has been 
mediated by language. Time-space has always been a matter of 
contestation in the logic of the organization of life in human 
societies. Overcoming distances and controlling time are at the heart of 
our concerns. The concept of development is linked to the human capacity 
for agility in the production, circulation and distribution of goods and 
knowledge, and depends on the control of time-space.

With this in mind, time-space is a socio-historical notion that is at 
the heart of human culture. The wheel, the navigation, the press, the 
steam engine, the train, the plane, the telegraph, the cinema, and the 
internet have at their core the same principle: to approach, 
communicate, exchange, circulate, produce and deliver.

The codes of digital technologies are based on time-space compression. 
Language as an objective aspect of the human capacity to symbolize, 
represent, plan, and create has a robust base in the digital age, 
dependent on ores, optical fiber, cables, plastic, glass, water etc. At 
the same time, the mathematical phrases and instructions - including 
those instructions tied up with what is referred to as "artificial 
intelligence" (AI) - are the symbolic elements that have become tools 
for organizing, managing, and controlling time-space and everything that 
is or can become digitalised.

In this second decade of the 21st century, we are faced with mounting 
challenges. The capacity of infrastructure favors the creation of large 
companies that offer us the dimension of instantaneity, connectivity, 
transparency and sharing. In return, these companies extract our data. 
The logics of financial capital and platform companies have in the data 
flows equivalents of gold, silver, and oil mines - that is, an 
inexhaustible supply of wealth as long as there is life.

Controlling this wealth in the context of a new geopolitics challenges 
national states. Plurilateral global governance bodies are also 
challenged. Unemployment grows and the gap between rich and poor has 
never been greater. Science creates and capital appropriates: from the 
right to vaccines to internet access, inequality advances. The 
responsibility for solving these problems has been foisted on the 
individual who must be an entrepreneur, overcome difficulties, be 
resilient, and exercise individual freedom to choose the right, the 
best, and compete to occupy the podium of the successful.

What communication is this? What is this development? What science is 
this? What barbarism is this? What to expect from the future? Future is 
another dimension of time to be controlled, another portal to be 
supplanted by technoscience. The future that promises long life, perhaps 
eternal youth, space travel, other worlds. Science fiction or the future 
of science? There are so many possible questions.

Oppression, exploitation and expropriation are constitutive elements of 
contemporary capitalism intensely integrated into the development of 
systems called "artificial intelligence". Human life, in this context, 
is considered a valuable source of data extracted, controlled and 
manipulated by powerful corporations for the purpose of serving their 
own economic and political interests. The practices of transforming 
human experiences into data are advancing rapidly, promoting evident 
asymmetries of capital. Forms of resistance to this phenomenon, however, 
are possible and can offer alternatives that promote the common good, 
citizenship and democracy.

This special issues aims to bring together research and studies focused 
on the interrelationship of communication, technology and society and 
that contribute to this debate. We indicate some topics for the 
development of articles:

·  Communication in the age of artificial intelligence;

·  Algorithms, information control and public communication;

·  Artificial intelligence, control and privacy;

·  Materiality of work and artificial intelligence;

·  Artificial Intelligence, techno-science and neoliberalism;

·  Algorithmic oppression and digital labor;

·  Decolonial perspectives on platform studies;

·      Artificial intelligence in the workplace;

·  Algorithmic bias and structural racism;

·  Feminist perspectives in the context of artificial intelligence;

·  Artificial intelligence and gender equality;

·  Artificial intelligence governance, ethics and policies.

*TIMELINE*

*April 15* -   Closing date for submission of  500-word abstract - 
(revistafronteiras /at/ gmail.com)

*May 15 -* Invitations to submit full-length papers

*August 31* -  Deadline for submitting full-length papers (5,000-8,000 
words)

*December 2022* -  Publication of special issue


If you have any questions, please send to (revistafronteiras /at/ gmail.com)

Rafael Grohmann
Editor-in-chief - Fronteiras Journal
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