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    From: Lauren Klein <lauren.klein@lmc.gatech.edu>
    Date: Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:09 PM
    Subject: [DHSI] CFP: Feminist Media Histories, special issue on “Data”
    To: DHSI List <Institute@lists.uvic.ca>

    Please see below for a CFP for a special issue of Feminist Media Histories
    on “Data,” including an option to submit digital projects for peer review.

    *CALL FOR PAPERS*

    *Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal*

    *Special Issue on “Data”*

    Guest Editors: Miriam Posner (UCLA) and Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech)

    “Data” has enormous cultural currency in the world today. Most of us
    understand that corporations are encoding and analyzing our habits,
    preferences, and behaviors on a massive scale. Personalized music
    suggestions, predictive policing, and Amazon recommendations are all part
    of this pervasive data regime. Discussions of this regime, and of data more
    generally, tend to focus on the present. But the concept of data also has a
    history, one embedded in a range of cultural, political, and material
    contexts. Building upon recent feminist scholarship that has drawn our
    attention to the various ways data shapes twenty first-century life–how
    data affects our experience of gender, how the effects of gendered data are
    felt differently across racial lines, and what feminist theory might bring
    to data and its visualization, to name only a few–this issue seeks to
    model how feminist *histories* of data might help us chart a range of
    unexplored futures. We ask not only how gender and identity can be brought
    to bear on the concept of data and its emergence, but also how theories and
    methods associated with feminist scholarship might be employed to
    illuminate the historical and cultural complexities of data.

    We seek both scholarly essays and born-digital works on topics including
    but not limited to:

    ● *Data and media.* Is data “media”? If so, what are its features
    and/or how is it expressed?

    ● *Data and history.* How does a renewed attention to certain
    historical subjects or events enrich our understanding of data, past or
    present?

    ● *Data and narrative.* What are the stories we tell about the history
    of data, and how can a feminist approach offer an alternative narrative of
    the concept?

    ● *Data and gender.* What are the ways in which gender is, or could
    be, represented as data? What are the gender effects of its visualization?

    ● *Data and method.* How can feminist methods inform a history or
    critique of data?

    ● *Data as concept.* What can the concept of “data” bring to feminist
    media history? What does the concept of “data” elide?

    ● *Data as politics.* How is data complicit in structures of power?
    How does data become part of how power is practiced, experienced, or
    expressed?

    ● *Data as agent*. How has data-driven decision-making influenced the
    history of media, particularly as it relates to gender?

    ● *Data in the world.* How can an intersectional feminist approach to
    data allow us to better understand its global impact?

    Potential contributors should send short proposals of 300-500 words to the
    guest editors directly (mposner@humnet.ucla.edu and
    lauren.klein@lmc.gatech.edu) by no later than *June 30th, 2016*.
    Contributors will be notified by July 15th, 2016, with completed
    articles/projects due October 1st, 2016. All contributions, including
    digital projects, will be sent out for peer review shortly thereafter. The
    issue is scheduled for a Summer 2017 release (*Feminist Media Histories *3.3).

    We welcome proposals for nontraditional digital projects, although *Feminist
    Media Histories* itself cannot host these projects. Should a digital
    project be accepted, we will publish a 500-1000-word author’s statement in
    the volume, which will include a link to the externally-hosted project.

    *Feminist Media Histories *is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to
    feminist histories of film, video, audio, and digital technologies across a
    range of periods and global contexts. Intermedial and transnational in
    approach, *Feminist Media Histories *examines the historical role gender
    has played in varied media technologies, and documents women’s engagement
    with these media as audiences and users, creators and executives, critics
    and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators and activists. *Feminist
    Media Histories* is published by the University of California Press. More
    information is available here: http://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/submit

    Lauren F. Klein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA 30332-0165
    lauren.klein@lmc.gatech.edu

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