[ecrea] Ethical implications of Snowden revelations - Second Call for Papers for special edition - Ethical Space

Ethical Space

Second Call for Papers: Ethical implications of Snowden revelations

The unauthorised release of documents from the National Security Agency 
by dissident contractor Edward Snowden has raised a new set of ethical 
questions for the media, politicians, the national security state and 
the public. Snowden has revealed that, as a result of the pervasive 
nature of modern electronic communications, we have sleepwalked into the 
mass surveillance state, capable of documenting the citizens’ every 
electronic communication and much, much, more. This surveillance state 
is far more extensive that anything that could have been conceived by 
the Stasi. Yet the publication of Snowden’s material by leading news 
organisations has been challenged not only by the states concerned, but 
also others parts of the news media, the academy and the public in those 
countries. Some have found mass surveillance reassuring and others felt 
able to ignore the Snowden disclosures.
Ethical Space is planning a special double issue at the end of 2015 to 
examine the ethical issues in this contested discourse. This could 
include ethical issues around mass surveillance, the secret state, 
privacy and the media publication of the Snowden revelations. Ethical 
Space’s editors believe the implication of Snowden’s revelations is so 
profound that it needs multidisciplinary response. In addition to the 
journal’s existing and established media based community, the editors 
solicit papers from other disciplines including intelligence studies, 
political studies, criminology, psychology, law and computing. They 
could include the ethical issues of new concepts such sousveillance. For 
example, we are interested in whether the collective knowledge of a mass 
surveillance state will alter the citizen’s behaviour and what would the 
consequence of that might be, a question on the ethics of social 
engineering, that might be best answered by a behavioural psychologist. 
Was the collection of data by the NSA network legal for each country 
involved? A lawyer may be best able to answer. What part has 
‘patriotism’ played in media coverage of this global story? What are 
ethics of patriotism?

Expression of interest can be registered by submitting a 250 word 
abstract by the 31 March 2015. Please send abstracts to 
(paul.lashmar /at/ brunel.ac.uk)

Ethical Space website: http://www.communicationethics.net/espace/

Publication guidelines can be found at: 
http://www.communicationethics.net/espace/index.php?nav=guide

Editors, Professor Richard Keeble and Donald Matheson, have invited Paul 
Lashmar, of Brunel University, who specialises in the relationship 
between intelligence agencies and the media, to be guest editor of this 
issue.
www.paullashmar.com



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