[spectre] Call for papers - Phenomenology of Digital Technologies

[Tincuta Heinzel]

STUDIA
UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI
PHILOSOPHIA Series
ISSN 1221 – 8138
launches a
CALL FOR PAPERS

The topic for the third issue in 2010 is

Phenomenology of Digital Technologies


CALL FOR PAPERS
Studia Philosophia proposes an international debate on the phenomenon  
of art, technology and scientific development in the present digital  
era, focusing on the impact of the digital media in our lives.
Today’s digital technologies have created a new model of understanding  
different aspects of reality. The change they produced compels us to  
reconsider the conditioning of our modern lives while their potential  
demands to be explored. Penetrating and transforming everyday cultural  
practices and spaces, they are defining our present paradigm.  
Communication technologies and portable media devices are today  
omnipresent and are increasingly ubiquitous and personalized.

By capturing and transforming the analog signal in digital form, we  
are today capable to deal with information of all kinds brought to a  
common denominator. The digitalization allows us to treat and to carry  
different types of data with the same efficiency, but also to  
intermingle them. After a period when the attention was focused on the  
structures of digital, today we are facing a much more general concern  
related to the possibilities offered by the interposition between  
analogue and digital data. With the digitalization we assist to a  
phenomenon of automation which penetrates the very aspects of our  
lives. Their alliance today with the spectrum of nano- and bio- 
technologies is about to induce majors changes in the way we deals  
with matter and identity.
If the matematization defined modernity, we also notice today a re- 
evaluation of phenomenological aspects. What kind of models are we  
using today in perceiving and understanding our environment? In which  
way these models are to be found in the technological development? Can  
the phenomenological approach and description bring light to the study  
of digital structures? What are the means phenomenology provides for  
the study of the digital technologies and their implications? Which  
are the potential and the limits of the phenomenological method in the  
field? Are there new models that impose themselves in the analysis of  
our highly technological world?
By trying to answer all these questions, we intend to identify the  
relevance of the phenomenological approach and method in the research  
of digital technologies. Our goal in this special issue is to bring  
together papers that explore the different ways in which philosophy,  
aesthetics, cognitive science and computer sciences can be combined to  
offer a novel perspective on digital technologies. Prospective authors  
are encouraged to take into account the following areas:

1. Digital Technology and Common Experience:
* digital and new media art
* imaging and sound technology
* digital-being
* virtual and mixed realities
* augmented reality and augmented virtuality
* digital fiction and digital reality
* simulation and interactivity
* techno- and telepresence
* portable technology and technosomatics
* phenomenological exploration of the digital

2. The Process of Digitalization:
* data systems and models
* data structures and databases
* digitalization and digital literacy
* digital phenomenon
* techniques of representation and visualization
* digitalization and codification of experience
* codification and automation
* codification and materialization
* soft computation
* philosophy of science and phenomenotechnique

The papers and reviews will be selected from the submitted proposals  
on the basis of double blind peer reviews. Authors should address the  
papers before September 1st, 2010 and will be notified on the results  
via email by October 22, 2010.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for submissions: September 1st, 2010.
Notification of acceptance: October 22, 2010.
Publication: December 2010


Papers should be written in English, French or German should not  
exceed 75.000 characters and should be accompanied by a short abstract  
written in English (maximum 700 characters).
Submitted papers should be sent by e-mail to the Editorial Staff: studia at hiphi.ubbcluj.ro 
  in “.doc” or “.rtf” format as attachments only.
INDICATIONS FOR THE AUTHORS
For the submission of the papers, please follows the guidelines  
specified on the journal’s blog: http://studiaphilosophia.wordpress.com/indication/

JOURNAL PRESENTATION
The series Philosophia of Studia Universitatis Babeş – Bolyai (ISSN  
1221-8138) is a peer reviewed journal devoted to promote a high level  
of academic research in the field of philosophy and related fields; it  
strives to foster a strong collaboration among senior and junior  
researchers from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and from abroad.


Since 1955, academic journal Studia Philosophia, issued by the  
Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of History and Philosophy, has  
been representing an open arena for promoting research endeavours.  
Senior, as well as junior academics, have found in Studia Philosophia  
a way of expressing their preoccupations by publishing academic  
articles that have focused mainly on the European experience and  
perspectives in various fields of philosophical research.
For more information please contact:
Editor-in-chief: Associated Professor Ion COPOERU :  
copoeru(at)hotmail.com




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