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
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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