[ecrea] CFP: DATA Feminist Media Histories

CALL FOR PAPERS
Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal

Special Issue on “Data”
Guest Editors: Miriam Posner (UCLA) and Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech)

“Data” has enormous cultural currency in the world today. Most of us 
understand that corporations are encoding and analyzing our habits, 
preferences, and behaviors on a massive scale. Personalized music 
suggestions, predictive policing, and Amazon recommendations are all 
part of this pervasive data regime. Discussions of this regime, and of 
data more generally, tend to focus on the present. But the concept of 
data also has a history, one embedded in a range of cultural, political, 
and material contexts. Building upon recent feminist scholarship that 
has drawn our attention to the various ways data shapes twenty 
first-century life--how data affects our experience of gender, how the 
effects of gendered data are felt differently across racial lines, and 
what feminist theory might bring to data and its visualization, to name 
only a few--this issue seeks to model how feminist histories of data 
might help us chart a range of unexplored futures. We ask not only how 
gender and identity can be brought to bear on the concept of data and 
its emergence, but also how theories and methods associated with 
feminist scholarship might be employed to illuminate the historical and 
cultural complexities of data.

We seek both scholarly essays and born-digital works on topics including 
but not limited to:

+ Data and media. Is data “media”? If so, what are its features and/or 
how is it expressed?

+ Data and history. How does a renewed attention to certain historical 
subjects or events enrich our understanding of data, past or present?

  + Data and narrative. What are the stories we tell about the history 
of data, and how can a feminist approach offer an alternative narrative 
of the concept?

+ Data and gender. What are the ways in which gender is, or could be, 
represented as data? What are the gender effects of its visualization?

+Data and method. How can feminist methods inform a history or critique 
of data?

+ Data as concept. What can the concept of “data” bring to feminist 
media history? What does the concept of “data” elide?

+ Data as politics. How is data complicit in structures of power? How 
does data become part of how power is practiced, experienced, or expressed?

+ Data as agent. How has data-driven decision-making influenced the 
history of media, particularly as it relates to gender?

+ Data in the world. How can an intersectional feminist approach to data 
allow us to better understand its global impact?

Potential contributors should send short proposals of 300-500 words to 
the guest editors directly ((mposner /at/ humnet.ucla.edu) and 
(lauren.klein /at/ lmc.gatech.edu)) by no later than June 30th, 2016. 
Contributors will be notified by July 15th, 2016, with completed 
articles/projects due October 1st, 2016. All contributions, including 
digital projects, will be sent out for peer review shortly thereafter. 
The issue is scheduled for a Summer 2017 release (Feminist Media 
Histories 3.3).

We welcome proposals for nontraditional digital projects, although 
Feminist Media Histories itself cannot host these projects. Should a 
digital project be accepted, we will publish a 500-1000-word author’s 
statement in the volume, which will include a link to the 
externally-hosted project.

Feminist Media Histories is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to 
feminist histories of film, video, audio, and digital technologies 
across a range of periods and global contexts. Intermedial and 
transnational in approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the 
historical role gender has played in varied media technologies, and 
documents women’s engagement with these media as audiences and users, 
creators and executives, critics and theorists, technicians and 
laborers, educators and activists. Feminist Media Histories is published 
by the University of California Press.  More information is available 
here: http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/submit
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