[ecrea] CfP - Proposed Special Issue on Veillance and Transparency in the Post-Snowden, Big Data Era

*CFP:/Big Data and Society/*

*//**Proposed Special Issue on **Veillance and Transparency:A Critical
Examination of Mutual Watching in the Post-Snowden, Big Data Era*
<http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/big-data-society.php.en>**

Guest Editors: Vian Bakir, Martina Feilzer, Andrew McStay (Bangor Univ.)

We invite papers for a proposed Special Issue in /Big Data and Society/
<http://bds.sagepub.com>/, /Sage’s inter-disciplinary, open access,
peer-reviewed scholarlyjournal that explores the social implications of
Big Data from social sciences, humanities and computing perspectives.

*Our central proposition:*today we live in a techno-cultural condition
of increased and normalised transparency through various /veillant/
forces of mutual watching.

*Our central question:***what are the technical, social, economic,
political, legal, ethical and cultural//implications of this situation?

Drawing on the many academic disciplines that deal with issues of
veillance and transparency, we seek theoretical and empirical academic
papers; artistic, activist and educational provocations (the journal can
link to digital versions of these); and shorter commentary from the wide
range of actors involved in these debates (including data regulators,
intelligence and security services, private companies, NGOs, politicians
and journalists).

Specifically, we are interested in the following questions (each
unpacked further below):

1./On Theory-Practice: /How useful are theories of ‘veillance’ in
explaining transparency practices in the post-Snowden, ‘Big Data’ era?

2./On Ethics, Values and Norms: /What, if anything, can or should we do
about practices of watching that operate without informed consent or
adequate processes of accountability?

3./On //Regulation, Power, Resistance and Social Change:///Are existing
mechanisms of regulation and oversight able to deal with nation-states’
desire for forced transparency, or is resistance required from other
quarters?

4./On Representation, Discourse and Public Understanding: /What
socio-cultural discourses and practices on veillance and transparency
prevail; how do they position the sur/sous/veillant subject; and are
they adequate to the task of educating and engaging people on abstract
and secretive surveillance practices, as well as on the possibilities
and pitfalls of sousveillance?

**

*More details on the Call are **here*
<http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/big-data-society.php.en>*.*

**

*Submission Details*

Proposals of no more than 1000 words are invited for consideration and
inclusion in this proposed Special Issue of /Big Data & Society/ (BD&S).
All papers should foreground why Big Data practices are important to
their central argument, as outlined in this CfP.

Proposals should be sent to the Guest Editors: (v.bakir /at/ bangor.ac.uk)
<mailto:(v.bakir /at/ bangor.ac.uk)>, (mcstay /at/ bangor.ac.uk)
<mailto:(mcstay /at/ bangor.ac.uk)>, (m.feilzer /at/ bangor.ac.uk)
<mailto:(m.feilzer /at/ bangor.ac.uk)>

**

*Manuscript and Style Guidelines*

As this is an online only journal, there are fewer restrictions on
format, including the use of visualizations (which are encouraged, where
this helps the explanation).Full guidelines are below:

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/msg/bds.htm#Prep

Final Manuscripts should be 8,000 words for an Original Research
Article, 3,000 words for a Commentary, and 1,000 words for an essay in
the Early Career Research Forum section.

*Peer review*

All submissions of Original Research Articles to BD&S are double-blind,
and triple peer-reviewed.

Anonymous peer review feedback will be accompanied by comments from the
guest editors that draw on the central arguments of other papers
selected for inclusion in order to enhance the coherence of the proposed
Special Issue.

Commentaries, Early Career Research Forum submissions, and artistic,
activist and educational provocationsare reviewed by the Guest Editors.

*Deadline for academic papers (original research articles and early
career research forum essays)*

·Proposal Deadline: 15 Oct 2015

·Notification of Acceptance: 1 Dec 2015

·Paper Deadline: 1 May 2016

·Reviews Returned: 31 Jul 2016

·Revised Paper Deadline: 1 Nov 2016

*Deadlines for commentaries and **artistic, activist and educational
provocations**:*

·Proposal Deadline:27 May 2016

·Notification of Acceptance: 1 Jul 2016

·Revisions Deadline: 1 Nov 2016

*Anticipated **Publication date for Special Issue*: Jan/Feb 2017.

Any questions, just ask.

All the best,

Vian


Dr. Vian Bakir
Reader in Journalism & Media
Course Leader BA (Hons) Journalism (NSS top ranked Journalism course in
UK - 2015)
School of Creative Studies & Media, Office 14,  John Phillips Building
Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK, LL57 2DG
email: (v.bakir /at/ bangor.ac.uk)
Twitter <https://twitter.com/VianBakir1?refsrc=email>: @VianBakir1
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Network for study of Media & Persuasive Communication
<https://mpc.bangor.ac.uk>

*PI: ESRC Seminar Series.* DATA - PSST! Debating & Assessing
Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance, Trust
<http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en>
*CfP: Proposed Special Issue of */**/
<http://bds.sagepub.com/><http://bds.sagepub.com/>/*Big Data & Society*/
<http://bds.sagepub.com/>on Veillance and Transparency:  A Critical
Examination ofMutual Watching in the Post-Snowden, Big Data
Era<http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/big-data-society.php.en>
*New Special Issue of /International Journal of Press/Politics/ (2015):*
News, Agenda-Building & Intelligence Agencies
<http://hij.sagepub.com/content/20/2.toc>
*Recent book: *Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on
Terror: Agenda-Building Struggles (2013)
<http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409422556>

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