[Air-L] Call for Papers: State Crime and Digital Resistance (Deadline 30 November)
Anne Alexander
raa43 at cam.ac.uk
Fri Nov 18 05:52:11 PST 2016
Special Issue, State Crime Journal (May 2018)
STATE CRIME AND DIGITAL RESISTANCE
Sign up for 6th January 2017 workshop here:
http://statecrime.org/state-crime-research/call-for-papersworkshop-special-issue-of-state-crime-journal/
This special issue of State Crime seeks to investigate how changing
patterns of state crime are being shaped by the massive growth of a
digital communications infrastructure which permeates everyday life for
billions of people through the explosive spread of networked mobile
devices, social media platforms and cloud computing systems. It will
also highlight how and to what extent these same technologies and
infrastructures can be repurposed to expose and resist state crime. The
long-standing entanglement between monopolistic digital media
corporations, the government and military has facilitated the creation
of privatized systems of mass surveillance, alongside the expansion of
mass surveillance systems controlled by states. Is this leading to the
development of a ‘networked authoritarianism’, which in turn is altering
state-society relations and creating a fertile environment for
unaccountability, corruption and human rights violations?
While amateur, user-generated digital content can be used to challenge
the information monopoly of professional media conglomerates, a more
nuanced understanding of verification methodologies is needed to enrich
the critical discourse on citizen participation in human rights
reporting. More importantly, emergent forms of digital activism can
highlight how civil society can serve as a counterweight to the
political and economic hegemony of states and corporations. Here, case
studies of digital resistance from below can further demonstrate the
extent of civic engagement in (1) naming, defining, exposing and
challenging state crime (Green and Ward, 2004); and (2) developing a
more open, democratic and participatory digital architecture which
facilitates ‘unmasking the crimes of the powerful’ (Tombs and Whyte,
2003).
We welcome submissions for this special issue on ‘State Crime and
Digital Resistance’ with a focus on the following three sub-themes:
- The state / corporate / crime nexus from the perspective of
digital infrastructure and the political economy of digital media and
services
- Issues in digital verification and evidence
- Digital activism and resistance
We will be convening a workshop at QMUL for potential contributors to
the special issue on 6 January 2017. This will provide a valuable
opportunity to present and discuss research which will form the basis of
accepted articles. The workshop will also serve as a forum for the
exchange of ideas with other contributors to shape the intellectual
agenda of the special issue.
Please indicate if you would like your paper to be considered for
inclusion in the workshop.
All submissions will be subject to a full peer review process. The
timetable for submission and publication is as follows:
Submission of abstracts (up to 500 words): 30th November 2016
Response to abstract submissions: 7th December 2016
Workshop Date: 6th January 2017 (Sign up here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/state-crime-and-digital-resistance-workshop-tickets-29274521883)
Submission of full article: 31st April 2017
Decisions/Reviewers’ Responses to Author(s): 31st June 2017
Submission of Final Versions: 31st January 2018
Publication: May 2018
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Dr Anne Alexander,
Co-ordinator, Digital Humanities Network,
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Cambridge, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT
Webpage: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/444/dr-anne-alexander.htm
Email: raa43 at cam.ac.uk
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