CALL FOR PAPERS: OUR DATA, THEIR DATA. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND SOCIAL 
PRACTICES OF PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE

Deadline for manuscript submission: April 15th, 2018

We invite research notes, articles, essays and book reviews that 
explore make visible and intelligible emerging practices of 
surveillance, their impact on privacy, and the roles of algorithms in 
social life. We welcome texts from multiple disciplines and genres.

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In light of persistent debates and recent revelations on the life of 
personal data beyond common intuitions and knowledge, we invite 
reflections on how to understand new ways of generating, harvesting, 
protecting and using personal data in the online and physical 
environments.

Papers may address broader questions such as:

How can we notice and understand the circuits of our personal data?
What have we learned from specific, personal incidents involving our 
digital traces, and from our experiences of dealing with settings and 
policies?
What tools and approaches can we use to gain control or, if we so 
choose, deliberately relinquish control over our data?
What concepts highlight and model emerging practices of surveillance 
and users’ resistance?
How do digital technologies and online media shape our understanding of 
privacy? What role do designers play in developing an ethics of privacy 
or surveillance?
How is privacy socially stratified on various lines of inequality – 
including gender, age, race and social class?
 From China to the US and Europe, how do various governments, 
corporations and social actors enforce different regimes of surveillance 
& privacy for their citizens, consumers and users?
We also invite reviews and critical discussions of books dedicated to 
digital selves, surveillance and privacy, and algorithmic regulation – 
including, but not limited to the following:

Brunton, F. and Nissenbaum, H., 2015. Obfuscation: A user’s guide for 
privacy and protest. MIT Press.
Cheney-Lippold, J., 2017. We are data: Algorithms and the making of our 
digital selves. NYU Press.
Eubanks, V., 2018. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, 
Police and Punish the Poor. St. Martin’s Press.
O’Neil, C., 2017. Weapons of math destruction: How big data increases 
inequality and threatens democracy. Broadway Books.
Schneier, B., 2015. Data and Goliath: The hidden battles to collect 
your data and control your world. WW Norton & Company.
Turow, J., 2017. The aisles have eyes: How retailers track your 
shopping, strip your privacy, and define your power. Yale University 
Press.


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Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology