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Ethical Space Second Call for Papers: Ethical implications of Snowden revelations The unauthorised release of documents from the National Security Agency by dissident contractor Edward Snowden has raised a new set of ethical questions for the media, politicians, the national security state and the public. Snowden has revealed that, as a result of the pervasive nature of modern electronic communications, we have sleepwalked into the mass surveillance state, capable of documenting the citizens’ every electronic communication and much, much, more. This surveillance state is far more extensive that anything that could have been conceived by the Stasi. Yet the publication of Snowden’s material by leading news organisations has been challenged not only by the states concerned, but also others parts of the news media, the academy and the public in those countries. Some have found mass surveillance reassuring and others felt able to ignore the Snowden disclosures. Ethical Space is planning a special double issue at the end of 2015 to examine the ethical issues in this contested discourse. This could include ethical issues around mass surveillance, the secret state, privacy and the media publication of the Snowden revelations. Ethical Space’s editors believe the implication of Snowden’s revelations is so profound that it needs multidisciplinary response. In addition to the journal’s existing and established media based community, the editors solicit papers from other disciplines including intelligence studies, political studies, criminology, psychology, law and computing. They could include the ethical issues of new concepts such sousveillance. For example, we are interested in whether the collective knowledge of a mass surveillance state will alter the citizen’s behaviour and what would the consequence of that might be, a question on the ethics of social engineering, that might be best answered by a behavioural psychologist. Was the collection of data by the NSA network legal for each country involved? A lawyer may be best able to answer. What part has ‘patriotism’ played in media coverage of this global story? What are ethics of patriotism? Expression of interest can be registered by submitting a 250 word abstract by the 31 March 2015. Please send abstracts to [log in to unmask] Ethical Space website: http://www.communicationethics.net/espace/ Publication guidelines can be found at: http://www.communicationethics.net/espace/index.php?nav=guide Editors, Professor Richard Keeble and Donald Matheson, have invited Paul Lashmar, of Brunel University, who specialises in the relationship between intelligence agencies and the media, to be guest editor of this issue. www.paullashmar.com -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------