Call for Special Theme Proposals for Big Data & Society
The SAGE open access journal Big Data & Society (BD&S) is soliciting proposals for a
Special Theme to be published in early 2020. BD&S is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal
that publishes
research about the emerging field of Big Data practices and how they are reconfiguring academic, social,
industry, business and government relations, expertise, methods, concepts and
knowledge. BD&S moves beyond usual notions of Big
Data and treats it as an emerging field of practices that is not defined by but
generative of (sometimes) novel data qualities such as high volume and
granularity and complex analytics such as data linking and mining. It thus
attends to digital content generated through online and offline practices in
social, commercial, scientific, and government domains. This includes, for
instance, content generated on the Internet through social media and search
engines but also that which is generated in closed networks (commercial or
government transactions) and open networks such as digital archives, open
government and crowd-sourced data.
Critically, rather than settling on a definition the Journal makes this
an object of interdisciplinary inquiries and debates explored through studies
of a variety of topics and themes.
Special
Themes can consist of a combination of Original Research Articles (8000 words;
maximum 6), Commentaries (3000 words; maximum 4) and Editorial (3000 words).
All Special Theme content will be waived Article Processing Charges. All
submissions will go through the Journal’s standard peer review process.
Past
special themes for the journal have included: Knowledge Production, Algorithms in Culture, Data Associations in
Global Law and Policy, The Cloud, the Crowd, and the City, Veillance and
Transparency, Environmental Data, Spatial Big Data, Critical Data Studies,
Social Media & Society, Health Data Ecosystems, Assumptions of Sociality
and Data & Agency. See http://journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/collections/index
to access these special themes.
Format
of Special Theme Proposals
Researchers
interested in proposing a Special Theme should submit an outline with the
following information.
- An overview of the proposed theme, how it relates to existing research and the aims and scope of the Journal, and the ways it seeks to expand critical scholarly research on Big Data.
- A list of titles, abstracts, authors and brief biographies. For each, the type of submission (ORA, Commentary) should also be indicated. If the proposal is the result of a workshop or conference that should also be indicated.
- Short Bios of the Guest Editors including affiliations and previous work in the field of Big Data studies. Links to homepages, Google Scholar profiles or CVs are welcome, although we don’t require CV submissions.
- A proposed timing for submission to Manuscript Central.
Information
on the types of submissions published by the Journal and other guidelines is
available at https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/big-data-society#submission-guidelines
.
Timeline
for Proposals
Please
submit proposals by Monday January 14, 2019 to the Managing Editor of the
Journal, Prof. Matthew Zook at zook@uky.edu. The Editorial Team of BD&S will review proposals and make
a decision by mid- to late-January 2019. For further information or discuss
potential themes please contact Matthew Zook at zook@uky.edu.
