<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><b style="font-size:12.8px">CFP: “Data Cultures, Culture as Data” – Special Issue of Cultural Analytics</b><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Guest editors – Amelia Acker & Tanya Clement, University of Texas at Austin</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><i style="font-size:12.8px"><br>“Mathematically, visually, and narratively, it matters which figures figure figures, which systems systematize systems” Donna Haraway Environmental Humanities 6 (2015), p. 160.</i><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Data have become pervasive in research in the humanities and the social sciences. New areas, objects, and situations for study have developed; and new methods for working with data are shepherded by new epistemologies and (potential) paradigms shifts. But data didn’t just happen to us. We have happened to data. Karen Barad writes that “We are responsible for the world in which we live not because it is an arbitrary construction of our choosing, but because it is sedimented out of particular practices that we have a role in shaping” (102).</span><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br>Yet where is our agency in that responsibility? What is the role we play in the data cultures/culture as data we form around sociomaterial practices? How can we better understand how these practices effect, and affect, the materialization of subjects, objects, and the relations between them? How can we engage our data culture in practical, critical, and generative ways?<br><br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">In every field, boundaries have been drawn between data and human as if making meaning with data is innocent work, but these boundaries are never innocent. Questions are emerging about data cultures and culture as data—urgent questions that range across concerns with the datafication of culture including the codification (or code-ification) of social and cultural bias; the integrity of data and of human agency, subjectivity, and identity. This special issue of Cultural Analytics invites responses to these concerns.</span><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br>We invite submissions related (but not limited) to:<br><br>*Proximity and distance between the creation of data and its collection<br>*The nature of data as object or content<br>*Modes of data circulation; dissemination and preservation<br>*Data audiences<br>*Histories and imaginary data futures<br>*Data expertises and folkways<br>*The environmental impact of data work<br>*Data and technological progressivism<br>*Data Accessibility and ethics<br>*Data ontologies<br>*The cultivation, taming, cleaning, and standardization of data<br>*The ethical and social implications of data mining<br>*The cultures, communities, and consciousness of data production<br>*Data literacies<br><br>Cultural Analytics is looking for<br>Research or theory articles (7,000 to 8,000 words)<br>Data reviews or Case studies of datasets (2,000 to 3,000 words, including visualizations or demonstrations)<br><br>Opinion pieces (4,000 to 5,000 words)<br><br>Timetable for Submissions<br>Deadline for abstracts (250-500) -- early <span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">November 15, 2017</span></span></span></span><br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Deadline for paper submissions – </span><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">June 15, 2018</span></span></span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Deadline review papers – </span><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">August 15, 2018</span></span></span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Deadline revised papers – </span><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">October 15, 2018</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br>Publication of special issue <span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">December 1, 2018</span></span></span></span><br><br>Send abstracts and submissions to:<br><a href="mailto:cultures.data@gmail.com" target="_blank">cultures.data@gmail.com</a><br><br>About the journal<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cultural Analytics is an open-access journal dedicated to the computational study of culture. Its aim is to promote high quality scholarship that intervenes in contemporary debates about the study of culture using computational and quantitative methods. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief is Andrew Piper.</span><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br>Contact<br>For more information please contact: Amelia Acker aacker [at] <a href="http://ischool.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" style="">ischool.utexas.edu</a> </span></font><span class="gmail-m_-4552321369006397975gmail-im" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> </span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#888888" face="wf_segoe-ui_normal, Segoe UI, Segoe WP, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" size="2"><b>Jessica Meyerson</b></font><br><font color="#212121"><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"></span></font></span><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Research Program Officer</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px">Educopia Institute</span></font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px"><a href="http://educopia.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://educopia.org</span></font></a></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Working from Austin, TX</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="mailto:katherine@educopia.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px"><span name="searchHitInReadingPane">jessica</span>@educopia.org</span></font></a> | <font size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:12.79px">512-864-4575</span></font></span></div></div></div></div>
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