*Call for Papers for Philosophy and Technology’s special issue on Information Societies, Ethical Enquiries* * * *GUEST EDITORS* Elizabeth Buchanan & Mariarosaria Taddeo *INTRODUCTION* The experiences of individuals living in contemporary information societies are tightly interwoven with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Social, recreational and professional lives cannot be separated from online activities and interactions. At the same time, ICTs in particular, and informational infrastructures in general, have become crucial for the welfare, governance and security of societies themselves. The so-called information revolution has profoundly changed individual, societal, and professional lives. Such changes have generated an extensive policy vacuum concerning both the regulation of new aspects of individuals’ existence and the management of information-dependent societies. Discussions and analyses focusing on both conceptual and applied ethical issues concerning the changes prompted by the information revolution are incontrovertibly deemed a crucial, if not necessary, step in the process of filling such a vacuum. A series of conferences on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) organised over the past decade by the International Society for Ethics & Information Technology (INSEIT) has propelled complex and confounding ethical problems related to the information revolution to the fore by fostering discussion and debates and disseminating possible solutions to these problems. Following the organization of the eleventh CEPE, held at Autónoma University, in Lisbon (Portugal), from July 1st-3rd 2013 ( http://www.cepe2013.com), a special issue of Springer’s Philosophy & Technology is planned . *TOPICS* We solicit the submission of philosophically-oriented papers that investigate topics such as trust in digital environments; security in the cyber sphere and its relation to individual rights such as privacy, anonymity and freedom of speech; ethical implications of online surveillance; and the conceptual and ethical issues related to governance in the information societies. Areas of relevance include information and computer ethics, (philosophy of) law, political sciences, Internet studies, cyber security and STS. *The special issue is open to:* • Authors who presented a paper at CEPE 2013 are invited to submit an original, recently revised, version of their paper. • Other interested authors are invited to submit original papers related to the topics mentioned above. • Papers submitted for this Call must not have been published previously in academic journals or article collections. However, submissions may be new elaborations of ideas previously developed in such publications, as long as they represent new, original papers. * * *TIMETABLE* *November 1, 2013*: Deadline papers submissions *December 1, 2013*: Deadline reviews papers *January 15, 2014*: Deadline revised papers *2014*: Publication of the special issue *SUBMISSION DETAILS* To submit a paper for this special issue, authors should go to the journal’s Editorial Manager http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/ The author (or a corresponding author for each submission in case of co- authored papers) must register into EM. The author must then select as article type: "SI on Information Societies, Ethical Enquiries” from the selection provided in the submission process. This is needed in order to assign the submissions to the Guest Editors. Submissions will then be assessed according to the following procedure: New Submission => Journal Editorial Office => Guest Editor(s) => Reviewers => Reviewers’ Recommendations => Guest Editor(s)’ Recommendation => Editor-in-Chief’s Final Decision => Author Notification of the Decision. The process will be reiterated in case of requests for revisions. * * *For any further information please contact:* Elizabeth Buchanan: buchanane@uwstout.edu Mariarosaria Taddeo: M.Taddeo@warwick.ac.uk -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html