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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
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<div>We're sending out a call for papers for an IJOC special section on critical engagements with Big Data. Apologies for cross posting, and please get in touch if you'd like to contribute!</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">CFP- </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">“Big Data, Big Questions, or, Accounting for Big Data”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">International Journal of Communication</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Guest editors: Kate Crawford (Microsoft Research, UNSW) and Mary L. Gray (Microsoft Research, Indiana University) </span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Previously isolated data sets, from social media and demographic surveys to city maps and urban planning documents, are now routinely interlinked. Combining separate, often disparate,
multi-terabyte sets of information reframes our capacity to see into the behaviors of — and relationships between — people, institutions and things. Researchers in fields as varied as computer science, geography, sociology, marketing, biology, economics, among
many others, use the term “big data” to capture a wide range of activities revolving around accessing and analyzing these vast quantities of information. What are the implications of big data as a cultural, technological and analytic phenomenon? What are the
practices of big data, the underlying assumptions, and ways of modeling the world? Who gets access to it, and what effects does this produce?</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">This special section will offer a range of critical engagements with the issues surrounding big data and its related models of knowledge. We seek scholarly articles from diverse fields,
and a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches: including media studies, communication, anthropology, digital humanities, computational and social sciences, cultural geography, history, and critical cultural studies.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Possible topics include, but are not limited to:</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">What is the history (or histories) of big data and its related practices?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">What are the epistemological ramifications of big data?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">How can computational and social sciences use big data in cross-disciplinary work? What are the strengths and pitfalls of new hybrids?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">What are the ethics of big data use, be it in city management, social media research, or political campaigning?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Who gets access to big data? What are the issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, religion and geography?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">What are the labour politics of big data research?</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The International Journal of Communication is an open access journal (</span><a href="http://ijoc.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">http://ijoc.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">).
All accepted articles will be published online. The anticipated publication date for this Special Section is August 2013.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Manuscripts should conform to the IJoC author guidelines. See</span><a href="http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines</span></a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Send your abstract as your initial submission, including the title of your paper and a list of five potential reviewers with their titles and e-mail addresses by October 1, 2012 to</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span><a href="mailto:IJOCbigdata@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">IJOCbigdata@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">. Your
suggested reviewers will help streamline the peer-review process.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Timeline</span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">October 1: Abstracts due </span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">November 1: Acceptance of abstracts</span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">January 28: Articles due </span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; ">If you have any questions, please contact Kate Crawford at kate@microsoft.com or Mary Gray at mlg@microsoft.com.</span></p>
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