Submit a paper to our open panel:) The Normal Vices and Violences of Data Jeremy Hunsinger Wilfrid Laurier University Florence Chee Loyola University Chicago https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php The normal vices and violences of data is a panel that attempts to confront what is accepted as normal and everyday about data, but should not be accepted as providing for better technoscientific futures. The panelists confront the normal vices and violences of data. Normal violence is a seemingly acceptable form of violence because of its everyday occurrence (Cerulo, 1998; Dutton, 2013; Hunsinger, 2020). Usually discussed as part of domestic relationships, normal violence is a form of abuse against the other. Generalized, in society, we can see subtle ‘normal violence’ occurring everyday, as physical altercations, mental anguish, pervasive anxieties, emotional violences, or otherwise (ibid). Similarly, normal vices are those that are seemingly acceptable elements of vices, be they minor anti-social behaviours, profiteering and greed, or similar things we accept as part of everyday life, but we should not. There are many violences and vices involved with data, the use and abuse of personal data/identities, the fraudulent representation of data, the use of data to generalize in manners not warranted, the objectification of people via data, the racialization of data, the undermining of democracy, and the undermining of science/technology. In this panel, we want to confront these issues directly with evidence of their existence, combined with a critique of those practices. We invite authors to expose issues in technoscience, to discuss them openly, and to share the normal violences and vices that we should not accept. We also want to discuss the ethics, or lack thereof, of participating in these everyday violences. References: Cerulo, K. A. (1998). Deciphering violence: The cognitive structure of right and wrong. Routledge. Dutton, D. G. (2006). Rethinking domestic violence. UBC Press. Hunsinger, J. (2020). On the Current Situation: Normal Violences, Pandemics, Emergencies, Necropolitics, Zombies, and Creepy Treehouses. Fastcapitalism. -- jeremy hunsinger Associate Professor, Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso