How are artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems increasingly used to listen to, moderate, and sometimes amplify hate—through speech, sound, or silence?
This new Call for Proposals of a special issue of the legendary blog SOUNDING OUT! listens to how LLMs now decide which voices are heard, which are silenced, and which are misunderstood.
Guest editor Kathryn Huether invites essays (~1200 words) that explore the effects, the workings, and the historical backgrounds of this worrying and now almost expected use of non-human listening to simply generate more hate, aggression and all forms of oppression.
Your essay could listen to things like:
– deepfake audio, synthetic voices, and AI-generated propaganda
– creative resistance to hate and misrecognition caused by algorithms
– how speech recognition and hate speech detection by AI actually fortify the racialization of voices and articulations
– how non-human listening effectively reproducers and normalizes colonial, prison and nationalist ideas
Submission Deadline:
***Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT***
Full text of the CfP:
(selected contributors will be notified by the end of July)