Call for Papers: Special Issue on Pandemic Secrecy

Secrecy and Society, an open access peer-reviewed journal, invites submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2, exploring “pandemic secrecy” amidst the COVID-19 crisis, including secrecy’s relationship with:

• accountability
• agency (regulatory)
• capture
• censorship
• conspiracy theories
• disaster and risk communication
• ethics
• freedom of information
• informed consent
• intellectual and academic freedom
• knowledge production
• language and framing
• patents
• policies
• political communication
• record keeping, data collection, and official statistics
• research and peer review
• technology
• theoretical aspects of pandemic secrecy

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work from researchers and scholars outside the U.S. Pseudonyms are acceptable. Book reviews are also sought for this special issue.

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2024

Issue Published: December 31, 2024

Visit style guide for submission guidelines: link to Style Guide. Contact the team at secrecyandsociety@gmail.com for further enquiries.