[SIGCIS-Members] CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening A Guest Series for Sounding Out!, Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

[Jennifer Stoever]

Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
*A Guest Series for *Sounding Out!
*guest edited by Kathryn Huether*Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14,
2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to:
kathryn.huether at gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

We invite submissions for a guest series on Hate and NonHuman Listening,
which critically examines how artificial intelligence and algorithmic
systems are increasingly tasked with listening to, moderating, and at times
amplifying hate—whether through speech, sound, or silence.

This series begins with Todd Presner’s *Ethics of the Algorithm
<https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691258966/ethics-of-the-algorithm?srsltid=AfmBOop6sK1i3trj-PgcGI_mbiqpU5yLfPr5A7Kt8tLDICkUnkbv1c3O>*
(2024),
which asks what it means to use algorithms ethically. We expand that
question to consider how algorithms *listen*—especially when asked to
interpret, flag, or police harmful content. What happens when the
complexities of human hate, trauma, and protest are processed through
systems which were not designed to understand them? And what are the
consequences when such systems fail?

>From hate speech moderation on social platforms to surveillance
technologies deployed under the guise of safety, AI now plays a defining
role in deciding which voices are heard, which are silenced, and which are
misheard altogether. Dr. Saadia Gabriel <https://saadiagabriel.com/>’s
research shows how AI often misflags nonstandard English, AAVE, and protest
language as harmful—while overlooking overt hate speech. Similarly, Tonia
Sutherland’s *Resurrecting the Black Body
<https://www.ucpress.edu/books/resurrecting-the-black-body/paper>* (2023)
foregrounds the archival and technological violence that structures digital
afterlives, asking how systems listen to (or erase) Black life and death.

We invite critical essays (~1200 words) that explore the entanglements of
hate and NonHuman listening.

Topics might include:

The racialized failures of AI speech recognition and hate speech detection
- Algorithmic misinterpretation of protest, dissent, or trauma as hate
- Deepfake audio, synthetic voices, and AI-generated propaganda
- Moderation, erasure, and the sonic politics of platform-based listening
- Archival violence and the ethics of algorithmic listening to Holocaust
testimony or genocide
- How NonHuman listening extends colonial, carceral, and nationalist logics
- Creative resistance to algorithmic infrastructures of hate and
misrecognition

At a time when AI-driven systems structure public discourse—amplifying some
voices, silencing others, and often failing to understand the very nature
of harm—this series offers a critical space to ask: how is hate being
listened to today? And who gets to define it?Please submit a proposed title
and abstract (300–350 words) by Monday, July 14, 2025, to
kathryn.huether at gmail.com. Selected contributors will be notified by the
end of July.

CFP: Hate and NonHuman Listening, Due 14 July 2025
<https://soundstudiesblog.com/cfp-hate-and-nonhuman-listening-due-mon-july-14/>

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Dr. Jennifer Lynn Stoever (hear name <https://namedrop.io/jenniferstoever>)
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Author of The Sonic Color Line <http://nyupress.org/books/9781479889341/>
(NYU Press, 2016)
Associate Professor of English
State University of New York at Binghamton
Located on the unceded land and water of the Onoñda'gegá'  (Onondaga) People

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