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Philosophy and Communication Technology

A special issue of Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 4307

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Brian L. Ott

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Department of Communication, Media, Journalism, and Film, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, USA
Interests: communication technology; media and society; critical media studies; communication and popular culture; rhetorical theory and criticism

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The international, peer-reviewed journal Philosophies invites submissions for a Special Issue devoted to exploring the philosophy of communication technology. Scholars in diverse fields acknowledge that the most central force in social change is the development and spread of new communication technologies or mediated forms. Indeed, the whole of human history and civilization can meaningfully be divided into three major eras based upon the technologies of communication that prevailed at a given time: primary orality, the literate era, and the electronic age. The literate era is often further subdivided into written (chirographic) and print (typographic) cultures, while the electronic age is often organized according to analog and digital media. Scholars further agree that technologies of communication shape both what we know (i.e., ideology) through the content of their messages and how we know (i.e., epistemology) through their structural form. In short, technologies of communication create the underlying conditions of our social world; these conditions, in turn, condition us, shaping both what and how we know.

This Special Issue invites essays exploring any aspect of the relationship between philosophy and communication technology. In the context of this special issue, communication technologies are understood to be any extension of the human sensorium. Potential topics include but are not limited to (1) historical studies related to the development of communication technologies and their role in transforming some aspect of our social, cultural, educational, religious, and/or political lives and experience; (2) explorations of ethical questions and considerations raised by new and emerging communication technologies, especially digital media, related to artificial intelligence, the proliferation of mis- and disinformation, free speech and censorship, the spread of hate speech, and other online anti-social behaviors such as bullying, doxing, or mobbing; (3) analyses of specific media texts or messages that pay attention to how the form and content of those messages foster particular habits of mind; and (4) examinations of the dynamic interplay between communication technologies and contexts, inquiring for instance into how interpersonal, family, organizational, and/or public communication is altered by changing communication technologies, and the consequences of those changes for knowledge, thought, feeling, and their expression.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 6 November 2023

Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 11 December 2023

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200-500 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editor ([email protected]) or the Philosophies editorial office ([email protected]). The guest editor will review abstracts to ensure proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Brian L. Ott
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • communication technology
  • media ecologies
  • medium theory
  • digital media
  • ideology
  • epistemology
  • media ethics
  • media history
  • human sensorium

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On Splits, Big and Little: Towards an Intensive Model of Media and Mediation
by Eric S. Jenkins
Philosophies 2024, 9(4), 102; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9040102 - 10 Jul 2024
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This essay forwards an intensive model of mediation contrasted with the extensive model implicit in much of media theory, which conceives of communication media as an extension of human faculties. An intensive model, instead, conceives of mediation as a phenomenological process of splitting [...] Read more.
This essay forwards an intensive model of mediation contrasted with the extensive model implicit in much of media theory, which conceives of communication media as an extension of human faculties. An intensive model, instead, conceives of mediation as a phenomenological process of splitting or folding affective capacities. An extensive model results in a dualistic, essentialist theory of communication media and unresolvable normative debates about the connecting or disconnecting consequences of media. An intensive model avoids these limitations by diagramming various modes of mediation and illustrating how their consequences stem from alterations to intensive properties, thereby helping constitute subjects and media objects alike rather than presuming a media bridge between pre-existing subjects and objects. The essay employs a number of examples to illustrate the extensive model, including telephone conversations, cinema, animation, and social media. The essay concludes with the division of families over QAnon conspiracies to illustrate the analytic gain from an intensive model. Full article
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Navigating the Complex Terrain of Photography and Temporality
by Liv Hausken
Philosophies 2024, 9(3), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9030060 - 30 Apr 2024
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In recent years, discourses on photography have undergone a transformative shift from a focus on the individual photograph’s connection to memory, pastness, loss, and death towards exploring photographic imagery as shared, networked, and continuously circulating in a ubiquitous present. The general claim for [...] Read more.
In recent years, discourses on photography have undergone a transformative shift from a focus on the individual photograph’s connection to memory, pastness, loss, and death towards exploring photographic imagery as shared, networked, and continuously circulating in a ubiquitous present. The general claim for the temporal dimension in this shift is that photography is no longer seen as a mere witness or reservoir of the past but instead points to or participates in an active present. Against this claim, the article argues for broadening the perspective, drawing on resources across C.P. Snow’s “two cultures”—the arts and humanities vs. the natural sciences—to develop a better conception of time and a more varied and useful selection of photographic practices. In this connection, the article provides a reading of Paul Ricoeur’s compound concept of “the third time”, cutting across the two cultures. Drawing on insights from Patrick Maynard and Kelley Wilder, basic premises for photographic practices in the natural sciences are brought into the discussions of the discursive shift from a preoccupation with photography and the past to an interest in photography and the present. The purpose of this paper is to develop a better ground for navigating intricate questions about the relationship between photography and time. Full article
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Academics’ Epistemological Attitudes towards Academic Social Networks and Social Media
by Jevgenija Sivoronova, Aleksejs Vorobjovs and Vitālijs Raščevskis
Philosophies 2024, 9(1), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9010018 - 18 Jan 2024
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Academic social networks and social media have revolutionised the way individuals gather information and express themselves, particularly in academia, science, and research. Through the lens of academics, this study aims to investigate the epistemological and psychosocial aspects of these knowledge sources. The epistemological [...] Read more.
Academic social networks and social media have revolutionised the way individuals gather information and express themselves, particularly in academia, science, and research. Through the lens of academics, this study aims to investigate the epistemological and psychosocial aspects of these knowledge sources. The epistemological attitude model presented a framework to delve into and reflect upon the existence of knowledge sources, comprising subjective, interactional, and knowledge dimensions. One hundred and twenty-six university academics participated in this study, including lecturers and researchers from different higher education institutions in Latvia. The study employed two methods: the Epistemological Attitudes towards Sources of Knowledge Questionnaire and the Epistemological Attitudes towards Sources of Knowledge Semantic Questionnaire. The data analysis involved several procedures, including exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and test statistics. By implementing these methods, the study gained valuable insights into the sources of knowledge, examining them from two perspectives. The first perspective brought attention to the differences in academics’ appraisals by discussing their understanding, approach, use, and valuations of these sources. By scrutinising the constructs of meanings, the second perspective sheds light on the anticipated knowledge which is deemed ideal, the concrete knowledge that is both social and objective, and the subjectively valuable nature of academic social networks and social media. The findings underscore the specialised knowledge and qualities that academics rely on for producing knowledge. In terms of epistemology, methodology, social science, and education, the study holds theoretical and practical implications, especially in comprehending knowledge and its sources. Full article
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