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Subject:      TScall for papers

_________________________________________________________________

  TECHNOLOGY STUDIES, (The Journal with Open Peer Commentaries)

               presents its FIRST Call for Papers
                            for the
             SPECIAL ISSUE ON TECHNOLOGY AND ETHICS
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TECHNOLOGY STUDIES announces a Special Issue on Technology and
Ethics, to be published in Volume 4 (1996).  TS is a
multidisciplinary, international journal published by Walter
de Gruyter, Inc. (Berlin and New York).  Volume 1 will appear in
1993.  The Editor for the Special Issue will be Grant A. Brown
from The University of Lethbridge.

The Issue on Technology and Ethics will provide a forum for
discussion of ethical issues which arise from the implementation of
specific technologies, as well as with more general concerns about
the increasingly technological nature of society.  Technology is
conceived broadly to include:  artifacts and hardware; technology
practices including human behaviour and related technology; technical
phenomena; and techniques or skills involving a significant technical
component.  Ethics is also broadly construed, including (among other
things) issues related to: rights and responsibilities (e.g. property
rights and privacy); oppression and exploitation; personal identity
and personhood; social and personal ideals; authority; risk; virtues;
and community.

Papers should address ethical and political issues likely to contribute
to an understanding of the proper use of technology, and of its role in
society.  For example:  Is advanced technology inherently "elitist" or
oppressive?  What can new technologies (e.g. in medicine and robotics)
tell us about personhood, or about ideals of human life?  Is it appropriate
for authority to be put increasingly in the hands of "technocrats"?  How
should the risks involved in technological innovation and proliferation be
assessed?  What is the most efficient or fair assignment of rights to
information, and to what degree of security must information be protected
from unauthorized use?  All papers should clearly illuminate an ethical issue
through an informed examination of a relevant technology or technologies.

Papers are expected to draw insights from more than one scholarly area.
These areas include, but are not limited to:  the arts, humanities, social
sciences, medicine, engineering, management, education, and social work.
As well, a variety of theoretical frameworks and critical perspectives are
welcome, such as:  Aristotelian; Kantian; Marxist; Rawlsian; positivist;
structuralist or post-structuralist; deconstructionism; and literary
criticism.

This Issue on Ethics will publish commentaries on selected articles in
the issue.  Commentaries will be written by notable individuals working
in the area of ethics and technology, but from a different discipline or
country than the author(s).  COMMENTARIES WILL BE PUBLISHED AS SHORT
ARTICLES ADJACENT TO THE ARTICLE ON WHICH THEY COMMENT.  We invite scholars
interested in the special issue to nominate themselves or other individuals
as reviewers or commentators.

All papers submitted to the Special Issue will be blind reviewed by at
least three (3) reviewers.  One reviewer will be from the author's home
discipline; one will represent another discipline; and the third will come
from a country other than the author's.  Papers which are deemed topically
appropriate for Technology Studies but which do not fall within the scope
of the special issue will be referred to the Editor of TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
for consideration in the normal review process.  Since authors are likely
to know referees who are experts in their area, they are INVITED TO SUBMIT
NAMES OF POSSIBLE REFEREES FOR THEIR MANUSCRIPT.  Please submit together
with your paper, the names, addresses, E-mail, phone and fax numbers of
FOUR possible referees.

Papers should conform to the American Psychological Association Style Guide
(3rd edition) prior to publication.  All submissions must be original works
which have not appeared elsewhere and which are not being considered for
publication in any other outlet at the same time.  Please prepare your
manuscripts to allow for an anonymous review process.  Each manuscript
must have a concluding section entitled IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND
MANAGEMENT.  As well, the paper's relationship to the subject of
TECHNOLOGY must be made clear.


    D E A D L I N E  FOR  S U B M I S S I O N S:  February 15, 1993


Please submit five (5) copies of your paper, a self-addressed postcard to
acknowledge receipt and a self-addressed envelope to communicate reviewers'
comments to:
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