[Air-L] 4s open panel The normal vices and violences of data

[Jeremy hunsinger]

Submit a paper to our open panel:)
The Normal Vices and Violences of Data
Jeremy Hunsinger Wilfrid Laurier University
Florence Chee Loyola University Chicago

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The normal vices and violences of data is a panel that attempts to
confront what is accepted as normal and everyday about data, but
should not be accepted as providing for better technoscientific
futures.

The panelists confront the normal vices and violences of data. Normal
violence is a seemingly acceptable form of violence because of its
everyday occurrence (Cerulo, 1998; Dutton, 2013; Hunsinger, 2020).
Usually discussed as part of domestic relationships, normal violence
is a form of abuse against the other. Generalized, in society, we can
see subtle ‘normal violence’ occurring everyday, as physical
altercations, mental anguish, pervasive anxieties, emotional
violences, or otherwise (ibid). Similarly, normal vices are those that
are seemingly acceptable elements of vices, be they minor anti-social
behaviours, profiteering and greed, or similar things we accept as
part of everyday life, but we should not.

There are many violences and vices involved with data, the use and
abuse of personal data/identities, the fraudulent representation of
data, the use of data to generalize in manners not warranted, the
objectification of people via data, the racialization of data, the
undermining of democracy, and the undermining of science/technology.

In this panel, we want to confront these issues directly with evidence
of their existence, combined with a critique of those practices.  We
invite authors to expose issues in technoscience, to discuss them
openly, and to share the normal violences and vices that we should not
accept.  We also want to discuss the ethics, or lack thereof, of
participating in these everyday violences.

References:

Cerulo, K. A. (1998). Deciphering violence: The cognitive structure of
right and wrong. Routledge.

Dutton, D. G. (2006). Rethinking domestic violence. UBC Press.

Hunsinger, J. (2020). On the Current Situation: Normal Violences,
Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses.
Fastcapitalism.


-- 
jeremy hunsinger
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech


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