[Air-L] CfP: Digitizing Valuation (Theme Issue of Valuation Studies)

[Malte Ziewitz]

*Call for Papers: Digitizing Valuation*
A Theme Issue of Valuation Studies
https://valuationstudies.liu.se/Theme_Call_Digitizing_Valuation

What happens when we “digitize” practices of valuation and what are the
implications? What are the opportunities and limits of existing analytic
tools for understanding new forms of digital valuation? What vistas and
perspectives do emerge for research into valuation?

This theme issue of *Valuation Studies* will explore novel, cross-cutting
approaches to problematizing, analyzing, and examining the intersection of
digitization and valuation in contemporary societies.

Contributions are welcome from a number of approaches to the study of
valuation practices, including sociological, anthropological, cultural,
political, semiotic, historiographic, legal, institutional, critical, and
organisational. Potential research themes include, but are not limited to:

* Linkages between digitization, valuation, and accountability
* The relationship between digital and other modes of valuation
* Issues of bias, discrimination, and gaming in digital valuation
* Innovative methodologies for studying digital valuation
* The roles and relevance of automation in digital valuation
* The relationship between digital valuation and new modes of governing
* How different modes of sensing the world (digital or otherwise) are valued
* How agency is redistributed by digital valuation systems
* Questions of privacy, ownership, and control
* Due process, recourse, and contestability
* Historical analyses of digital valuation practices

Expressions of interest should be submitted in the form of an extended
abstract (about 1,000 words). Selected authors will be invited to submit
full papers for peer review.


*Important dates*
September 15, 2020: Extended abstracts due
October 15, 2020: Notification of authors
April 15, 2021: Full papers due

*Full call for papers:*
https://valuationstudies.liu.se/Theme_Call_Digitizing_Valuation

*Questions and inquiries*: digitalization.valuation at gmail.com

*Editors:* Francis Lee (Chalmers University of Technology); Andrea
Mennicken (London School of Economics); Jacob Reilley (Helmut Schmidt
University Hamburg); Malte Ziewitz (Cornell University)

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Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
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