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  • From: "Giorgos Cheliotis" <gcheliotis.lists AT gmail.com>
  • To: <commons-research AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Commons-research] FW: Call for Papers, Ethics of Sharing
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:55:18 +0800


Dear all, please find a CFP that may be of interest to some of you.

>
> >
> >
> > Call for Papers
> >
> > International Review of Information Ethics http://www.i-r-i-e.net/
> >
> >
> > The Ethics of Sharing
> >
> > Call for Papers for Vol. 15 - July 2011
> > • Deadline for extended abstracts: January 31, 2011
> > • Notification of acceptance to authors: February 8,
> > 2011
> > • Deadline for full articles: April 30, 2011
> > • Publication: July, 2011
> >
> > Sharing has emerged as one of the core cultural and ethical values
> > native to the networked environment. It is built both into the
> > technical protocols that make up the Internet, and holds together
> > distributed, mediated communities and organizations (even if they try
> > to limit sharing to members inside the organizations).
> >
> > In information ethics, sharing has implicitly been discussed in terms
> > of privacy, intellectual property, secrecy, security and freedom of
> > speech, which together define the social character of the information
> > environment. But recent developments such as WikiLeaks have shown that
> > there is a need to go beyond discussing the legitimacy of access or
> > restrictions. We need to address the motivations and ethical positions
> > that compel people to share information, even at considerable risk to
> > themselves. Has sharing of information a special virtue of the
> > information society? How are choices of sharing or withholding
> > information justified? Is sharing subversive of the new global information
> regime, or an integral aspect of it?
> >
> > This issue of IRIE brings together contributions towards an ethics of
> > sharing that embeds the technological potentialities in lived social
> > experience. In our understanding, information ethics "deals with
> > ethical questions in the field of digital production and reproduction
> > of phenomena and processes such as the exchange, combination and use of
> information."
> >
> > The task is both descriptive – helping us understand the contemporary
> > complexities of the ethics of sharing as it emerges from practices
> > across a wide range social and cultural contexts – as well as
> > normative – helping us to address blind-spots and clarifying possible
> > ethical frameworks to address unresolved issues.
> >
> > We seeks submission that might address, without being limited to,
> > issues such as
> >
> > • Sharing of information of different kinds, such
> > technical, social and cultural information
> > • Sharing of resources, such as bandwidth and
> > processing power
> > • Ethics of sharing across different cultures
> > • Values that facilitate sharing
> > • Ethics of Sharing in historical perspectives
> > • Values emerging from environments characterized by
> > pervasive sharing
> > • Subjectivities of sharing
> > • Shifting boundaries between the personal/common
> > • Similarities and differences between the sharing of
> > material and of information resources
> > • Ethical limits of sharing, in regard to other values
> > • Ethical economies of sharing
> > • Economies of sharing vs. economies of exchange
> > • Dangers of sharing
> >
> > We aim at addressing this field from a cross-disciplinary and cross
> > cultural perspective, thus we encourage submission from wide range of
> > research disciplines and from Western and non-Western perspectives.
> >
> > Guest Editors
> >
> > Dr. Felix Stalder <felix.stalder AT zhdk.ch> Zürich University of the
> > Arts Research project "Media Activism" at the University of Innsbruck
> >
> > Dr. Wolfgang Sützl <wolfgang.suetzl AT uibk.ac.at> Research Project
> > "Media Activism" at the University of Innsbruck
> >
> > Abstracts and Submissions
> >
> > Potential authors are requested to provide an extended abstract (max.
> > 1,000
> > words) by January 31, 2011.
> > Abstracts may be submitted in the native language of the author though
> > an English translation of this abstract must be included if the chosen
> > language is not English. IRIE will publish articles in English,
> > French, German, Portuguese or Spanish. The author(s) of contributions
> > in French, Portuguese, or Spanish must nominate at least two potential
> > peer
> reviewers.
> >
> > Abstracts will be evaluated by the guest editors. The authors will be
> > informed of acceptance or rejection by February 8, 2011.
> >
> > Deadline for the final article (usually ca. 3,000 words or 20,000
> > characters including blanks) is April 30, 2011..
> > All submissions will be subject to peer review. Therefore the
> > acceptance of an extended abstract does not imply the publication of
> > the final text by July, 2011, unless the article has passed the peer
> > review.
> >
> > All submissions should be sent by email with ‘IRIE Submission’ in the
> > header
> > to: wolfgang.suetzl AT uibk.ac.at
> >
> >
> >

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