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The Review of Communication is now accepting submissions for a themed issue on communication about and within fields of surveillance. In keeping with the journal’s aims and scope, priority may be given to macro-interpretive studies. Projects can be historical, theoretical, philosophical, qualitative, quantitative, rhetorical, performance-based, or syncretic.

This themed issue will consider experiences with, responses to, adoption, adaption, transgression, and/or resistance to new surveillance technologies and logics. Contributors are encouraged to take up two key questions: How are data collection practices/data surveillance communicated to users? What is in/visible to users about data collection and use?

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• corporate surveillance projects, platform capitalism, and surveillance capitalism
• corporate partnerships with police and governing bodies (e.g., city, state, and federal use of metadata)
• phone and dashboard cameras
• home security systems
• facial recognition software
• personal tracking devices and biomedical instruments
• unintended byproducts of new surveillance devices
• performance that incorporates surveillance devices such as Ring or Nest

Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until the issue fills.

Authors should identify which themed call their paper is responding to by selecting the relevant drop-down option in ScholarOne.

Please contact the Editor before submitting a multimedia project.

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