[Commlist] CfP_Special Issue Summer 2021_Ethical Pluralism and Intercultural Information Ethics in Asian Contexts

*Call for Papers*

The Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA), a refereed biannual 
journal on East and Southeast Asia
is announcing a call for papers for a special Summer 2021 issue that 
discusses
*Ethical Pluralism and Intercultural Information Ethics in Asian Contexts.*

_Invited editor: Charles M. Ess, University of Oslo 
((c.m.ess /at/ media.uio.no) <mailto:(c.m.ess /at/ media.uio.no)>) _

The early 1990s and the Internet’s rise as an engine of globalization 
forced a central task upon emerging
Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE): how to conceptualize and 
implement a global information and computing
ethics conjoining (quasi-) universal ethical norms and principles with a 
robust defense of local, culturally
variable identities and practices? Discourses pitting a homogenous 
imposition of Western values and norms
against resistance to such homogenization for defending local cultural 
identities, but at the cost of potential
fragmentation and isolation, first forced these issues. Increasing 
recognition of “computer-mediated colonization” –
as Western-centric cultural norms and communicative preferences, 
embedded in ICT design, were imposed upon
“target” cultures – made these concerns still more urgent.

In response, ethical pluralisms (EPs), as conceptualizing connections 
(such as shared norms) preserving irreducible
local differences, were developed and successfully implemented in both 
Western and non-Western contexts.
But Western-based EPs remain open to critique. In Asia, EP is integral 
to conceptions of resonance and harmony in Daoist,
Confucian, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions. Furthermore, Chinese and 
Indian technological innovation hubs have also emerged,
grounding further exploration of Asian-rooted conceptions of EP, 
resonance, and harmony, which remain central to an IIE opposing
colonizing adaptation of Western values and norms in Non-western 
cultures. These are especially critical vis-à-vis the ongoing
encroachment of advanced ICTs, e.g. AI, Big Data, the IoT, “surveillance 
capitalism” and the Chinese Social Credit System,
as increasingly defining our cultural lives.

Our primary questions: what sorts of EP and similar notions of resonance 
or harmony might help resolve these central
problems in the contemporary developments of (East) Asia? And: do 
earlier IIE traditions and evaluation of “radical”
technologies fruitfully respond to even “more radical” emerging ICT 
challenges evoked by contemporary, far more powerful ICTs?

We are particularly interested in but not limited to:

*Critical evaluations and possible expansions of contemporary EP, 
especially as oriented towards / grounded in (East) Asian contexts
*Concrete examples of EP in praxis – whether successful or not in 
sustaining shared norms and irreducible local differences in (East) 
Asian contexts
*Theoretical and practical explorations of (East) Asian relatives of 
Western-centric pluralisms from Confucian, Buddhist, and other
local traditions that might offer advantages over EP on both theoretical 
and practical grounds.

Please submit your *500-word* abstract (maximum) in _English_ to 
(_c.m.ess /at/ media.uio.no) <mailto:(c.m.ess /at/ media.uio.no)>_ by *September 1, 2020*
(subject line should include “JCEA Special Issue”). There are no 
submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

For more details, please refer to our website https://jceasia.org 
<https://jceasia.org/>.


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