[Air-L] 2nd CFP: special Issue Philosophy & Technology on “Information Societies, Ethical Enquiries”

[Mariarosaria Taddeo]

*Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology’s special issue on
Information Societies, Ethical Enquiries*

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*GUEST EDITORS*

Elizabeth Buchanan & Mariarosaria Taddeo


*INTRODUCTION*

The experiences of individuals living in contemporary information societies
are tightly interwoven with the use of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs). Social, recreational and professional lives cannot be
separated from online activities and interactions.

At the same time, ICTs in particular, and informational infrastructures in
general, have become crucial for the welfare, governance and security of
societies themselves. The so-called information revolution has profoundly
changed individual, societal, and professional lives.

Such changes have generated an extensive policy vacuum concerning both the
regulation of new aspects of individuals’ existence and the management of
information-dependent societies. Discussions and analyses focusing on both
conceptual and applied ethical issues concerning the changes prompted by
the information revolution are incontrovertibly deemed a crucial, if not
necessary, step in the process of filling such a vacuum. A series of
conferences on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) organised over
the past decade by the International Society for Ethics & Information
Technology (INSEIT) has propelled complex and confounding ethical problems
related to the information revolution to the fore by fostering discussion
and debates and disseminating possible solutions to these problems.


Following the organization of the eleventh CEPE, held at Autónoma
University, in Lisbon (Portugal), from July 1st-3rd 2013 (
http://www.cepe2013.com), a special issue of Springer’s Philosophy &
Technology is planned .


*TOPICS*

We solicit the submission of philosophically-oriented papers that
investigate topics such as trust in digital environments; security in the
cyber sphere and its relation to individual rights such as privacy,
anonymity and freedom of speech; ethical implications of online
surveillance; and the conceptual and ethical issues related to governance
in the information societies. Areas of relevance include information and
computer ethics, (philosophy of) law, political sciences,

Internet studies, cyber security and STS.


*The special issue is open to:*

• Authors who presented a paper at CEPE 2013 are invited to submit an
original, recently revised, version of their paper.

• Other interested authors are invited to submit original papers related to
the topics mentioned above.

• Papers submitted for this Call must not have been published previously in
academic journals or article collections. However, submissions may be new
elaborations of ideas previously developed in such publications, as long as
they represent new, original papers.

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*TIMETABLE*

*November 1, 2013*: Deadline papers submissions

*December 1, 2013*: Deadline reviews papers

*January 15, 2014*: Deadline revised papers

*2014*: Publication of the special issue


*SUBMISSION DETAILS*

To submit a paper for this special issue, authors should go to the
journal’s Editorial Manager

http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/


The author (or a corresponding author for each submission in case of co-
authored papers) must register into EM.


The author must then select as article type: "SI on Information Societies,
Ethical Enquiries” from the selection provided in the submission process.
This is needed in order to assign the submissions to the Guest Editors.


Submissions will then be assessed according to the following procedure:

New Submission => Journal Editorial Office => Guest Editor(s) => Reviewers
=> Reviewers’ Recommendations => Guest Editor(s)’ Recommendation =>
Editor-in-Chief’s Final Decision => Author Notification of the Decision.


The process will be reiterated in case of requests for revisions.

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*For any further information please contact:*

Elizabeth Buchanan:  buchanane at uwstout.edu

Mariarosaria Taddeo:  M.Taddeo at warwick.ac.uk



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Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo

Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick

Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of
Oxford

President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy

http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html