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May 15, 2016 at 7:57 pm #48498Matthew K. Gold (he/him)Participant
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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
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Lauren F. Klein, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0165
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