CFP: Science, Technology and Society in the Digital Era: An Epistemological and Socio-cultural Analysis

Submission deadline: October 1, 2018

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The journal The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab announces a call for papers for a special thematic issue “Science, Technology and Society in the Digital Era: An Epistemological and Socio-cultural Analysis.”

We invite philosophers, science studies researchers and other scholars investigating the role of the new digital and information technologies in contemporary science, technology and society.

The submissions are expected in terms of but not limited by the following topics:

1. Digital society, digital culture, digital thinking, digital aboriginals – are all these real-life, existing in fact phenomena or still catching metaphors? An epistemic analysis of varied conceptual depictions and interpretations of the “digital” is welcomed 

2. Transformations in education in the era of digital technologies: epistemic, socio-cultural and ethical aspects

3. Digital scholars in the digital world: scientific communication in the online space

4. Digital Humanities and the studies on using and interpreting digital and information technologies in the humanities

5. Transformations of social processes and social structures under the influence of digital and information technologies

6. Epistemic aspects of media reality

7. Sociology of the digital space

The preliminary extended abstracts containing 500-700 words + keywords + info on author/s, affiliation/s and e-mail address/es are expected for the first-round expertise up to October 1, 2018. References do not count toward the word limit.

E-mail: [email protected]

Notification of acceptance will follow in November, and submission of 1st drafts is foreseen for January 2019. All papers will be subjected to double blind peer review, and publication is foreseen in 2019.

The languages of publication: English, Russian.

An article’s recommended size is from 4000 to 7000 words. Book and other thematic reviews are invited. The standard size of a review is about 3000–5000 words.

«The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, which appears in a printed version, along with the current journal issues being available at Philosophy Documentation Center.

http://www.digital-scholar.unn.ru/en/home-page/

The journal publishes papers in the areas of philosophy and science studies.

 It welcomes papers that aim at investigating, analyzing and interpreting varied issues of science and education, culture and society, including the challenges of their transformation influenced by new information and digital technologies, as well as case studies on researchers’ in labs.

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