[Air-L] Call for Abstracts "Technoscience and the self: emotions, identities, and self-knowledge"

[Serena Ciranna]

Hello everyone,


We welcome submissions to present on our panel about *"Technoscience and
the self: emotions, identities, and self-knowledge"* (Convenors: Jacopo
Domenicucci, Serena Ciranna), in the context of the 10th STS Italia
Conference “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring”,
at the Politecnico di Milano, 11-13 June 2025 in Milan (Italy)


https://stsitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/62.Technoscience-and-the-self_-emotions-identities-and-self-knowledge-ID_103.pdf


By capturing and analyzing actions, behaviors, facial expressions, and
vocal inflections, computing technologies and computational sciences are
increasingly used to explore and invest the domain of the personal.
Machines, in their practical applications and scientific uses, infer moods,
emotions, intentions, and identity traits about us. In this way, they enter
the sphere of self-knowledge and self-expression, which is par excellence
an epistemic and moral competence of the individual. How do we know
ourselves and how do we construct and express our identities in this
context? How might the entry of machines into the exploration of our inner
life challenge the preservation of our epistemic authority over who we are
and what we can know about ourselves? Can we think of us as agents capable
of self- reflection, self-construction, and self-regulation? Spanning
philosophy and STS, this panel will explore the epistemic and ethical
issues of self-knowledge, self-expression, and identity construction from
the perspective of increasingly close cooperation between machines and
human individuals.



We are particularly interested in papers that:

•  explore how our self-knowledge increasingly integrates machine
perception;

•  explore how information from digital technologies can be internalized by
our     self-understanding, or, in contrast, how it can be refused and
opposed;

•  investigate how our personal narratives and our computational identities
might compete or work together;

•  interrogate the risks of a distinctive form of epistemic injustice
emerging from these     technological possibilities;

•  bring to the fore the specificity of diverse identities in this context
(namely, along the     lines of sex, gender, race, age, abilities, and
intersectionality);

•  study the contribution of computational sciences and computing
technologies to how we  think about the self;

•  interrogate how “Artificial Intelligence” can support or hinder
emotional intelligence;

 •  focus on specific “AI companions” (“AI friends”, “AI partners”, and
other bots) from the     perspective of their contribution to our sense of
self and emotional life.


Abstracts (500 words max) are due by February 3, 2025.


Further information about the submission process and key deadlines can be

found here: https://stsitalia.org/call-for-abstracts/


We look forward to receiving your contributions and seeing you in Milan!


Serena Ciranna (Università Federico II, Napoli)

Jacopo Domenicucci (Dartmouth College)

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Serena Ciranna
Postdoctoral Researcher
Southern Center for Digital Transformation
University of Naples, Federico II