Call for Abstracts "Technoscience and the self: emotions, identities, and self-knowledge"
Hello everyone, We welcome submissions to present on our panel about *"Technoscience and the self: emotions, identities, and self-knowledge"* (Convenors: Jacopo Domenicucci, Serena Ciranna), in the context of the 10th STS Italia Conference “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring”, at the Politecnico di Milano, 11-13 June 2025 in Milan (Italy) https://stsitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/62.Technoscience-and-the-se... By capturing and analyzing actions, behaviors, facial expressions, and vocal inflections, computing technologies and computational sciences are increasingly used to explore and invest the domain of the personal. Machines, in their practical applications and scientific uses, infer moods, emotions, intentions, and identity traits about us. In this way, they enter the sphere of self-knowledge and self-expression, which is par excellence an epistemic and moral competence of the individual. How do we know ourselves and how do we construct and express our identities in this context? How might the entry of machines into the exploration of our inner life challenge the preservation of our epistemic authority over who we are and what we can know about ourselves? Can we think of us as agents capable of self- reflection, self-construction, and self-regulation? Spanning philosophy and STS, this panel will explore the epistemic and ethical issues of self-knowledge, self-expression, and identity construction from the perspective of increasingly close cooperation between machines and human individuals. We are particularly interested in papers that: • explore how our self-knowledge increasingly integrates machine perception; • explore how information from digital technologies can be internalized by our self-understanding, or, in contrast, how it can be refused and opposed; • investigate how our personal narratives and our computational identities might compete or work together; • interrogate the risks of a distinctive form of epistemic injustice emerging from these technological possibilities; • bring to the fore the specificity of diverse identities in this context (namely, along the lines of sex, gender, race, age, abilities, and intersectionality); • study the contribution of computational sciences and computing technologies to how we think about the self; • interrogate how “Artificial Intelligence” can support or hinder emotional intelligence; • focus on specific “AI companions” (“AI friends”, “AI partners”, and other bots) from the perspective of their contribution to our sense of self and emotional life. Abstracts (500 words max) are due by February 3, 2025. Further information about the submission process and key deadlines can be found here: https://stsitalia.org/call-for-abstracts/ We look forward to receiving your contributions and seeing you in Milan! Serena Ciranna (Università Federico II, Napoli) Jacopo Domenicucci (Dartmouth College) -- Serena Ciranna Postdoctoral Researcher Southern Center for Digital Transformation University of Naples, Federico II
🙏 On Fri, Jan 10, 2025, 6:42 PM Serena Ciranna via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
We welcome submissions to present on our panel about *"Technoscience and the self: emotions, identities, and self-knowledge"* (Convenors: Jacopo Domenicucci, Serena Ciranna), in the context of the 10th STS Italia Conference “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring”, at the Politecnico di Milano, 11-13 June 2025 in Milan (Italy)
https://stsitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/62.Technoscience-and-the-se...
By capturing and analyzing actions, behaviors, facial expressions, and vocal inflections, computing technologies and computational sciences are increasingly used to explore and invest the domain of the personal. Machines, in their practical applications and scientific uses, infer moods, emotions, intentions, and identity traits about us. In this way, they enter the sphere of self-knowledge and self-expression, which is par excellence an epistemic and moral competence of the individual. How do we know ourselves and how do we construct and express our identities in this context? How might the entry of machines into the exploration of our inner life challenge the preservation of our epistemic authority over who we are and what we can know about ourselves? Can we think of us as agents capable of self- reflection, self-construction, and self-regulation? Spanning philosophy and STS, this panel will explore the epistemic and ethical issues of self-knowledge, self-expression, and identity construction from the perspective of increasingly close cooperation between machines and human individuals.
We are particularly interested in papers that:
• explore how our self-knowledge increasingly integrates machine perception;
• explore how information from digital technologies can be internalized by our self-understanding, or, in contrast, how it can be refused and opposed;
• investigate how our personal narratives and our computational identities might compete or work together;
• interrogate the risks of a distinctive form of epistemic injustice emerging from these technological possibilities;
• bring to the fore the specificity of diverse identities in this context (namely, along the lines of sex, gender, race, age, abilities, and intersectionality);
• study the contribution of computational sciences and computing technologies to how we think about the self;
• interrogate how “Artificial Intelligence” can support or hinder emotional intelligence;
• focus on specific “AI companions” (“AI friends”, “AI partners”, and other bots) from the perspective of their contribution to our sense of self and emotional life.
Abstracts (500 words max) are due by February 3, 2025.
Further information about the submission process and key deadlines can be
found here: https://stsitalia.org/call-for-abstracts/
We look forward to receiving your contributions and seeing you in Milan!
Serena Ciranna (Università Federico II, Napoli)
Jacopo Domenicucci (Dartmouth College)
-- Serena Ciranna Postdoctoral Researcher Southern Center for Digital Transformation University of Naples, Federico II _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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