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

[Dr. Sourav Gupta]

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On Fri, Jan 10, 2025, 6:42 PM Serena Ciranna via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> 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)
>
>
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> https://stsitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/62.Technoscience-and-the-self_-emotions-identities-and-self-knowledge-ID_103.pdf
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> 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.
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>
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> 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.
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> Abstracts (500 words max) are due by February 3, 2025.
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> Further information about the submission process and key deadlines can be
>
> found here: https://stsitalia.org/call-for-abstracts/
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>
> We look forward to receiving your contributions and seeing you in Milan!
>
>
> Serena Ciranna (Università Federico II, Napoli)
>
> Jacopo Domenicucci (Dartmouth College)
>
> --
> Serena Ciranna
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Southern Center for Digital Transformation
> University of Naples, Federico II
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