Philosophy and Technology’s special issue on Countercultures of Data

Guest Editor: Anna Lauren Hoffmann,

School of Information – University of California, Berkeley

“25 years ago, Sandra Harding—in her influential book Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives—detailed and extended critical debates surrounding knowledge production and practices in science and technology. Collectively, these “countercultures of science” confronted the “problematics, agendas, ethics, and consequences” of scientific and technological production head on. Today, these same perspectives offer insight into the realm of data science, as philosophers, scholars, and practioners alike grapple with ethical questions in a world where discourse, design, and governance increasingly revolve around “big” data and quantifiable knowledge.”

The journal of Philosophy and Technology “addresses the expanding scope and unprecedented impact of technologies, in order to improve the critical understanding of the conceptual nature and practical consequences, and hence provide the conceptual foundations for their sustainable developments. The journal welcomes high-quality submissions, regardless of the tradition, school of thought or disciplinary background from which they derive.

This special issue will bring together rigorous conceptual and theoretical perspectives on what might best be called—following Harding—emerging “countercultures of data.” In particular, this issue will further critical and philosophical thinking about the theories, methods, institutions, and technological arrangements that underwrite or support data science in various industries and forms. Combined, contributions to the special issue will put forward a more realistic assessment of possible futures for a data driven world.”

We invite submissions related (but not limited) to:
Race and Data Science
Theories of Property, Labor, and Data
Political Economies of Data
Data and Imperialism
Feminist Perspectives on Data Science
Data, Bodies, and Disability
Data, Infrastructure, and the Environment
Data, Philosophy, and the Law
Communities and Data
Data and Queer Subjects
Data and/as Human Subjects in Research
Data Science and Epistemic Justice

Timetable for Submissions

• October 24, 2016: Deadline for paper submissions
• December 21, 2016: Deadline reviews papers
• February 6, 2017: Deadline revised papers

Submission Instructions

• Authors go to: https://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/default.aspx
• The author (or a corresponding author for each submission in case of coauthored papers) must register into EM.
• The author must then select the special article type: “COUNTERCULTURES OF DATA” from the selec\on provided in the submission process. This is needed in order to assign the submissions to the Guest Editor.

For any further information please contact: Anna Lauren Hoffmann –
annalauren@berkeley.edu