<div class="gmail_quote"><div><p></p><div class="im"><b>STUDIA </b><br>
UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI<br>
<b>PHILOSOPHIA Series </b><br></div>
ISSN 1221 – 8138<div class="im">
<p>launches a<br>
<b> CALL FOR PAPERS</b></p>
<p>The topic for the third issue in 2010 is</p>
<p><b>Phenomenology of Digital Technologies</b></p>
</div><p></p><div class="im"><b> CALL FOR PAPERS</b><br>
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.<br></div>
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.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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.<br>
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?</div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p>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:</p>
<p><b>1. Digital Technology and Common Experience:</b><br>
digital and new media art<br>
imaging and sound technology<br>
digital-being<br>
virtual and mixed realities<br>
augmented reality and augmented virtuality<br>
digital fiction and digital reality<br>
simulation and interactivity<br>
techno- and telepresence<br>
portable technology and technosomatics<br>
phenomenological exploration of the digital</p>
<p><b>2. The Process of Digitalization:</b><br>
data systems and models<br>
data structures and databases<br>
digitalization and digital literacy<br>
digital phenomenon<br>
techniques of representation and visualization<br>
digitalization and codification of experience<br>
codification and automation<br>
codification and materialization<br>
soft computation<br>
philosophy of science and phenomenotechnique</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b> IMPORTANT DATES: </b></p>
<p>Deadline for submissions: September 1st, 2010.<br>
Notification of acceptance: October 22, 2010.<br>
Publication: December 2010</p>
</div></div><p></p><div><div></div><div class="h5">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).<br></div></div>
Submitted papers should be sent by e-mail to the Editorial Staff:
<a href="mailto:studia@hiphi.ubbcluj.ro" target="_blank">studia@hiphi.ubbcluj.ro</a> in “.doc” or “.rtf” format as attachments only.
<p><b> INDICATIONS FOR THE AUTHORS</b><br>
For the submission of the papers, please follows the guidelines specified on the journal’s blog: <a href="http://studiaphilosophia.wordpress.com/indication/" target="_blank">http://studiaphilosophia.wordpress.com/indication/</a></p>
<p><b> JOURNAL PRESENTATION</b><br>
The series Philosophia of Studia Universitatis Babeš – 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.</p><div class="im"><br>
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.</div><div class="im">
<p><b> For more information please contact:</b><br>
Editor-in-chief: Associated Professor Ion COPOERU : copoeru(at)<a href="http://hotmail.com" target="_blank">hotmail.com</a><br><br></p>
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