Call for papers
Updated: November 28, 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS: Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference
Hosted by the New Political Communication Unit, Department of Politics
and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London.http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-2-0-conference/
April 17-18, 2008.
Has there been a shift in political use of the Internet and digital new
media - a new Web 2.0 politics based on participatory values? How do
broader social, cultural, and economic shifts towards Web 2.0 impact, if
at all, on the contexts, the organizational structures, and the
communication of politics and policy? Does Web 2.0 hinder or help
democratic citizenship? This conference provides an opportunity for
researchers to share and debate perspectives.Potential themes could include (in no particular order):
- Theorizing Web 2.0.
- Changes in political journalism, news production, and consumption.
- Social networking (MySpace, Facebook) and election campaigning.
- Citizen activism from the local to the transnational.
- Blogs, wikis, and user-generated content.
- Changing social, cultural, and political identities.
- Social software and social media: design, technologies, tools, and
techniques.
- Social network analysis.
- Surveillance, privacy, and security.
- Security, foreign policy and international communication.
- Hacktivism.
- Radical transparency.
- The impact of online video.
- E-government, web 2.0, and new models of public service delivery.
- New models of social and political organization.
- 'Little brother' phenomena.
- Political life in virtual worlds.
- Netroots versus the war room model of election campaigning.
- New challenges for media regulation.
- Collaborative production of political knowledge networks.
- Changing party, interest group, and social movement strategies.
- Web 2.0 and political marketing.
- Collective intelligence, smart mobs, crowdsourcing.
- Fragmenting audiences, the long tail, and the political economy of web
2.0 media.
- Civil society, civic engagement, and mobilization.
- Web 2.0, ICT4D and the changing digital divide.
- The politics of intellectual property.
- Hyperlocalism.
- The political aesthetics of Web 2.0.
Journal of Information Technology and Politics special issue
Conference presenters will be invited to submit their papers to a peer
review process for publication in a special issue of the new Journal of
Information Technology and Politics. http://www.jitp.net.
Submitting a paper or panel proposal
Paper proposals should be submitted via the secure online form at:
http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/web-2-0-conference-form/
Please include:
1. Name and title.
2. Institutional affiliation and mailing address.
3. Email address.
4. Title of proposed paper and abstract of up to 300 words.
5. Please state if you are a graduate research student.Full panel proposals are also welcome. If you would like to propose a
panel of three papers on a common theme, with or without a discussant,
please email the proposal to the Conference Convenor: Dr. Andrew
Chadwick (Andrew.Chadwick@rhul.ac.uk).**Deadline for all proposals: November 2, 2007**
Further information, including details of further keynote speakers and
plenary sessions will be released in early autumn. Details of
accommodation packages will be released early in 2008.
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About the New Political Communication Unit
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Led by the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal
Holloway, University of London, the New Political Communication Unit was
created in the Spring of 2007. Our research agenda consists of three
strands:Comparative and international political communication: the Internet's
impact on political mobilization, campaigning and identity; the
relationship between media, war, new security challenges and conflict;
audience reception studies in the context of the proliferation of media;
the dynamic between citizens' changing uses of media and a transforming
news environment; citizen journalism; technology and mobilities.Communication and comparative governance: e-government, e-democracy and
the changing interface between representative institutions, public
bureaucracies and citizens; changing organizational practices shaped by
new patterns of communication.Comparative and international communication policy: Internet and new
media governance and regulation; privacy, surveillance and security, the
political economy of new media; cultural diversity policy; digital
divide and development issues.We offer a taught Masters stream in New Political Communication and PhD
supervision in our areas of expertise.The Unit's network inside Royal Holloway incorporates academic staff
from the Department of Politics and International Relations, the
Department of Media Arts, the School of Management, the UNESCO Centre
for ICT4D in the Department of Geography, the Department of Psychology
and the Department of Computer Science.Our external networks include scholars and practitioners in a wide
variety of organisations and countries.For more information, please visit http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk
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About Royal Holloway
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Royal Holloway is one of the major Colleges of the federal University of
London and is among the elite group of ten university institutions whose
departments all hold the top three ratings for research, with scores of
4, 5 and 5*. Our beautiful parkland campus is about 15 minutes by taxi
from London Heathrow airport, and about 35 minutes from central London
by train. For further information visit: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/
CFP: Joystick Soldiers: The military/war video game reader
Edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne
The editors seek essays on military/war-themed video games which
explore the multifaceted cultural, social, and economic linkages
between video games and the military. The collection will feature
scholarly work from a diversity of theoretical and methodological
perspectives, including: close textual readings of military-themed
video games; critical histories of game production processes and
marketing practices; and reception studies of video war gamers,
fandom, and politically resistant game interventions. As there is no
other collection of its kind, Joystick Soldiers will make a
significant contribution to the breadth of work shaping the
burgeoning field of game studies, complementing analyses concerning
the Military-Entertainment Complex, and offering diverse insights on
how modern warfare has been represented and remediated in
contemporary video games. The editors invite junior as well as
established scholars to submit, and welcome cross-disciplinary work
from sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, history, military
studies, psychology, economics, media studies, visual communication,
graphic arts and game design, education, and so forth.
We are looking for submissions that address a wide range of topics
from diverse methodological approaches, including but not limited to:
--Use of games for training, recruitment, propaganda (serious games)
--Video games and military ideology (or Military-Entertainment Complex)
--Representing / playing soldiers, terrorists, & civilians
--Global reception of America's Army and other "pro-US" war games
--Production of war video games
--War video games across genres (e.g., FPS, RTS, RPG)
--Playing war video games of past & near-future conflicts
--War game mods and other user-generated content
--Machinima as social commentary on war (e.g., Red vs. Blue)
--Games and resistance (non-combat games, in-game protests, diplomacy
as alternative to force)--Game for peace
--Networked war games in different spaces (LAN parties, on-line, mobile).
--War games and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
We are interested in defining "military/war" video games widely, but
not so widely as to be useless for critical analysis. The following
is a partial list of war video games we hope to include, but
submissions for scholarly work about other games are welcome, for
example games based on past wars (Battlefield 1942; Call of Duty,
etc) and non-US based games.
--Marine Doom
--Counter-Strike & its mods
--America's Army & America's Army: Rise of a Soldier
--Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
--Close Combat: First to Fight
--Conflict: Desert Storm II - Back to Baghdad
--FA-18 Operation Desert Storm
--Freedom Fighters
--Full Spectrum Warrior & Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
--Kuma War
--Ghost Recon 3: Advanced Warfighter
--Operation Flashpoint: Resistance
--Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
--Sniper Elite
--SOCOM
--Under Siege, Under Ash, and Special Force
Please submit a 500 word abstract and short bio (100 words max) by
September 17, 2007 in Rich Text Format (RTF) to Nina Huntemann and
Matthew Payne at joysticksoldiers@gmail.com. We expect final papers
will not exceed 5000-7000 words and will be due December 10, 2007.
Feel free to repost this CFP on relevant lists. Please contact us if
you have questions about potential essays or the book project in
general.
--
Sarah Projansky
Associate Professor
Gender and Women's Studies Program
Unit for Cinema Studies
University of Illinois
911 S. Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-2990 (office)
Hello,
My name is Jennifer Huynh Thi Anh Morrison and I am the 2007-2008 chair of the WSCA Intercultural Communication Interest Group. Our next conference meeting will be February 15-19, 2008. I have included our call for papers below and have attached the file to this email. The deadline is September 1, 2007. If you know any one who would be interested in this division and would possibly submit a paper, please forward this email to them.
I appreciate your time and support. My hope is that this call will reach those who have never heard of our organization to bring more diversity to the conference and the interest group.
Again, thank you for your support and I look forward to seeing you at the conference.
Regards,
Jennifer Huynh Thi Anh Morrison
Western States Communication Association
Intercultural Communication Interest Group
Call for SubmissionsConference Theme: Engaging Through Service
Denver/Boulder Convention
February 15-19, 2008
Competitive Papers (deadline: received by 9/1/07)* Submit to Interest Group
Program Proposals (deadline: received by 9/1/07) Submit to Interest Group
Workshop Proposals (deadline: received by 9/1/07) Submit to Sue Pendell, Sue.Pendell@colostate.edu
Pre-conference Proposals (deadline: received by 9/1/07) Submit to appropriate coordinator outlined in WSCA Denver/Boulder Convention call (http://www.westcomm.org/conventions/wsca-2008-Denver/call2008.pdf)Special Note: WSCA program planning uses only one deadline for all competitive papers, programs, workshops and pre-conference proposals.
COMPETITIVE PAPERS:
- All authors are encouraged to send their papers to the Intercultural Cultural Communication Interest Group for competitive selection. Papers should reflect the conference theme and may include research reports employing any methodology, theoretical developments, critical analysis as well as critiques. Please submit each paper to only one interest group only.
- Competitive paper should not have been presented previously at another conference, be accepted for publication, or have been published.
- Submitted papers should include:
- A detachable title page (i.e., saved as a separate word document) with title of paper, names of all authors, and their addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and affiliations. This information should be included for each author and each author should double-check it for accuracy.
- A 250-500 word abstract of the paper (with title appearing on this page).
- A maximum of twenty-five pages of text (not including references and appendices)
- No information should appear in the paper that identifies the author(s) beyond that which appears on the title page.
- Student/Debut Papers: The Intercultural Communication Interest Group welcomes student and debut papers. If your paper is a student or debut paper please note this on the title paper under the title of the paper. In addition, please indicate whether each author is a bachelors, masters, or doctoral student.
- ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS OF COMPETITIVE PAPERS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 1, 2007.
- Intercultural Communication Interest Group (ICIG) AUTHORS SHOULD SUBMIT COMPETITIVE PAPERS ELECTRONICALLY. Submitted competitive papers should include two separate attachments:
- A title page (requirements above)
- The paper (with abstract, references and appendices)
- Attach the submitted paper as a Word or RTF document and send it to Jennifer Huynh Thi Anh Morrison at: jmorris3@du.edu
PROGRAM PROPOSALS:
Program proposals should focus on a unifying theme relevant to research, theory or instruction in the area of intercultural communication. Programs may consist of a chair, individual presenters, and a respondent; however round-table discussions, performance venues, or other unique formats are also encouraged. In alternative program formats, respondents may be included or omitted as appropriate. Innovative program proposals, especially those that provide opportunities for engaged interaction among participants and attendees, are encouraged. Programs co-sponsored with other interest groups are also welcome.
Program proposals should include the following:
A detachable title page (i.e., saved as a separate word document) with title of program, names of all participants, and their addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and affiliations. Again, this information should be included for each participant and each participant should double-check it for accuracy.
Proposals should include
Program title, rationale for the program, and a brief description of each presentation.
Equipment needed for the panel ñ Please note that equipment availability is extremely limited. To read more about the use of audio-visual equipment, please see the WSCA policy on Audio-Visual Equipment at Conventions (http://www.westcomm.org/aboutus/pp07.pdf)
No information should appear in the proposal that identifies the participant(s) beyond that which appears on the title page.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS OF PROGRAM PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 1, 2007.
Intercultural Communication Interest Group (ICIG) AUTHORS SHOULD SUBMIT PROGRAM PROPOSALS ELECTRONICALLY. Submitted program proposals should include two separate attachments:
- A title page (requirements above)
- The proposal (requirements above)
Attach the submitted program proposal as a Word or RTF document and send it to Jennifer Huynh Thi Anh Morrison at: jmorris3@du.edu
Call for PapersJournal of Global Mass Communication
Special Issue on Comparing Media Systems Reconsidered
Guest Editor: Thomas Hanitzsch, University of Zurich
th.hanitzsch@ipmz.uzh.ch
Submission deadline: 1 January 2008
The study and comparison of media systems is a large and growing area of research. In more than fifty years, since the Four Theories of the Press paved the way for a new generation of researchers, scholars have sought to describe, compare and classify national media systems across cultures and over periods of time.
Communication research has witnessed the rise of competing paradigms and different approaches. The range in which researchers articulate their views stretches broadly from large-N studies with an overly general perspective to idiosyncratic small-N analyses with a more culture-specific focus. By and large, this can be seen as reflecting the divide between universalistic approaches and cultural relativism, as well as etic and emic views. At the same time, with the end of the cold war, the onward march of globalization and the rise of new communication technologies, it has become easier than ever before to debate on paradigms and perspectives in comparative media systems research across national, paradigmatic and disciplinary boundaries.
For this special issue, the Journal of Global Mass Communication seeks innovative research papers that focus on comparative media systems research. This includes articles from a historical and critical perspective, meta-analyses of existing research, as well as new empirical studies and work on theory building. All theoretical and empirical approaches are welcomed. Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to:
Contextualized reviews concerning the state of the art of comparative media systems research from a historical perspective;
Innovative efforts to establish common denominators of concepts that are able to capture culturally diverse media systems;
Methodological challenges and problems posed by the comparison of media systems that operate within distinct cultural contexts;
New attempts to map national media systems onto a grid of predictive structural dimensions;
New empirical evidence that contributes to theory-building or challenges established theories.
Editorial Information
The Journal of Global Mass Communication is a new journal (edited by Arnold De Beer of Stellenbosch University in South Africa) devoted to the analysis of mass communication in a global context. Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original works which have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in other journals. Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, taking cognizance of the special issue’s focus. All submissions should follow the APA style and be submitted in MS Word. U.S. English is to be used. Send all submissions to the Guest Editor Thomas Hanitzsch at th.hanitzsch@ipmz.uzh.ch The journal aims for a turn-around review time of six weeks.
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Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities
January 11 - 14, 2008
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio
Honolulu Hawaii, USA
Submission Deadline: August 23, 2007
Sponsored by:
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
The Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance
Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org
The 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held from January 11 (Friday) to January 14 (Monday), 2008 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, and the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome.
Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts & Humanities are Invited):
*Anthropology
*American Studies
*Archeology
*Architecture
*Art
*Art History
*Dance
*English
*Ethnic Studies
*Film
*Folklore
*Geography
*Graphic Design
*History
*Landscape Architecture
*Languages
*Literature
*Linguistics
*Music
*Performing Arts
*Philosophy
*Postcolonial Identities
*Product Design
*Religion
*Second Language Studies
*Speech/Communication
*Theatre
*Visual Arts
*Other Areas of Arts and Humanities
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.
Submitting a Proposal:
You may now submit your paper/proposal by using our new online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see: http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm
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Call for Papers: Latina/o Performativities
>A Special Issue of Text and Performance Quarterly
>Guest Editors: Bernadette Marie Calafell, University of Denver and
>Shane Moreman, California State University, Fresno
>
>Part of the appeal and possibility of Performance Studies work is
>that it can be articulated from many different theoretical and
>methodological perspectives. The study of performance takes these
>different conceptions and blends them into deeper understandings of
>the ordinary and the extraordinary of life. Similar to Performance
>Studies, the work of Latina/o Studies draws from a variety of
>theoretical and methodological perspectives to center and articulate
>the experiences of Latina/os, the United States' largest "minority" group. While the
>work of Performance Studies and Latina/o Studies have both been
>integral in creating a space for the study of identities and
>communities that challenge traditional academic canons, there still
>remains much work to be done within the nexus of Performance and
>Latina/o Studies.
>
>To inspire and encourage new perspectives out of this nexus, we
>offer this special issue of TPQ specifically devoted to multiple
>sites of Latina/o performance (i.e., everyday life, performance
>ethnography, popular culture, performance art, theater, personal
>narrative). We seek to showcase Performance Studies work that takes
>up the identities, communities and cultural issues of Latina/os and
>this group's relationship to and impact upon reality both within and
>without the academy. This special issue will further our understandings of the
>ways in which performers negotiate discursive plurality(s) in
>multiple sites.
>In addition to furthering the existing theories of performances of
>identity, hybridity, mestizaje, and biculturalism, this special
>issue will both complement and confront the criteria of performance
>and performance theory.
>
>Submissions that cover a range of approaches to and analyses of
>performance will be favored. When speaking of Latina/o
>performativity or latinidad, one often necessarily must address
>language, citizenship, im/migration, biculturalism, assimilation,
>etc. As performance is becoming an important way to understand and
>critique exploration and embodiment of latinidad, this special issue
>will, in turn, demonstrate how latinidad is shaping the way
>performance can be understood and utilized. As a result, this
>special issue will enlarge and enhance the scope of performance as
>it is now researched and re-presented. Especially welcomed are
>essays that attend to these issues particularly
>around themes of memory performance/performance and memory, diaspora
>and migration, feminisms, popular culture, the (im)possibilities of
>performances of latinidad or pan-Latina/o affiliations, queerness,
>and the politics of immigration, and citizenship. Manuscripts from
>a wide range of interdisciplinary, theoretical, and methodological
>perspectives, including performance ethnography, rhetorical theory
>and criticism, performative writing, and personal narrative.
>
>Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the MLA Handbook
>for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. (2003). To facilitate the
>blind, peer review process, no material identifying the author(s) of
>submitted manuscripts should appear anywhere other than the title
>page, which should include: (a) the title of the paper, (b) the
>author's name, position, institutional affiliation, address,
>telephone and fax numbers, and email address; (c) any
>acknowledgements, including the history of the manuscript and if any
>part of it has been presented at a conference or is derived from a
>thesis or dissertation; (d) a close word count. The first page of
>the manuscript itself should include the title
>of the paper, an abstract of 100 words, and a list of five suggested
>key words. Manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout and should
>be no longer than 9000 words, inclusive of notes and reference matter.
>Please submit an electronic copy in RTF or Word format to
>bcalafel@du.edu. Also, send four hard copies of the manuscript by
>October 1, 2007 to:
>
>Bernadette Marie Calafell
>Department of Human Communication
>University of Denver
>2000 East Asbury Ave.
>Sturm Hall, Suite 200
>Denver, CO 80208
>
>
>Bernadette Marie Calafell, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor
>Human Communication Studies
>University of Denver
>2000 E. Asbury Ave.
>Denver, CO 80208
>Tel: 303-871-4322
>Fax: 303-871-4316
>Bernadette.Calafell@du.edu
>http://portfolio.du.edu/bcalafel
CRESC Annual Conference 2007
5-7 September 2007, University of Manchester
Re-thinking Cultural EconomyThe term 'cultural economy' is deployed as part of a claim about the importance of culture both to understanding what is happening to economic and organisational life, and to effective practical interventions in the worlds of production and consumption.
There are many ways of thinking about cultural economy which, like any umbrella heading, covers a multitude of distinctive and often non-reducible developments. These include the culturalisation of a range of activities previously considered preponderantly "economic"; as well as the growth of the so-called 'cultural industries' and the importance of 'creativity' and 'knowledge' to contemporary economic success. Within the social sciences and humanities, the 'cultural turn' has led to a new preoccupation with the analysis of cultural forms and a realisation that culture was not limited to a particular sphere or set of activities - the arts, the cultural industries - but was basically to be found everywhere. While in consultancy rhetoric and managerialist programmes of organisational reform, organisational ethics and employee identities are perhaps re-configured to express a 'New Spirit of Capitalism'.
Equally there is a need for re-thinking cultural economy understood as the assumptions and claims of those working in this new and contestable field. Scholars from the humanities, social sciences, organisation and management studies are raising fundamental questions about how to understand power and privilege, effect and affect in present day capitalism. How do constructivist oriented forms of knowledge relate to older general, structural analyses of capitalism? How do the discursive and performative relate to more traditional ideas of mechanics and causal logic? How do "critical" scholars evaluate ascendant practices like management or evaluate epochal claims about network societies?
This Conference seeks to assess where the various debates about culture and economy and cultural economy have got to, and to explore where they may be going in the future. Discussion and debate will be structured around parallel streams of themed session papers as well as plenaries that address the following themes:
· Finance and Financialisation
· Consumer Culture, Branding and Marketing
· New Spirits of Capitalism: materiality, ethics and identities
· Theorising Culture, Economy and Cultural Economy
· The Cultural Economy of Management, Managerialism and New Organisational Elites
· Difference, Money and Borders
Please submit either (a) 250 word abstracts for individual papers, or (b) proposals for panels including 3 papers by 31 March 2007. Guidelines and Proposal Forms are available from
http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference/guidelines.htmland should be sent to: CRESC Conference Administration
178 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, Manchester
M13 9PL
Tel: +44(0)161 275 8985 / Fax: +44(0)161 275 8985/
cresc@manchester.ac.uk/ <mailto:cresc@manchester.ac.uk/>
Dear Mass Comm Division Members,The ICA Mass Communication Division's dissertation award, named in honor of the late Dr. K. Kyoon Hur, is designed to encourage and acknowledge the best in doctoral research and dissertation writing in mass communication.
Nominations for the 2007 award are invited from programs and institutions granting PhD in any aspect of mass communications. The rules for this year's competition are as follows:
1. Dissertations completed between November 1, 2004, and October 31, 2007 (inclusive), are eligible for consideration. Completion means that the final examination (dissertation defense) has been held and passed.
2. The dissertation advisor, graduate program director, or the student may make nominations. A letter MUST accompany student self-nominations from the advisor attesting to the quality of the work.
3. The following materials MUST be submitted with the nomination:
(a) a cover letter with the name, address, telephone, and e-mail address of the nominee and his or her advisor(s),
(b) a manuscript that acts as an integrated summary of the thesis or dissertation not exceeding 30 (thirty) pages excluding references, tables and figures. Full theses or dissertations or chapters of theses or dissertations will not be accepted for review. The paper should clearly identify and include the rationale, theoretical framework, research questions, relevant literature, methods, results, and conclusions. The submitted paper should include a cover sheet that contains only the title and the abstract. Care should be taken to mask the identity of the author within the text of the paper.
4. All materials must be received by March 1, 2007, and should be sent to (electronic sumission is preferred):Robin Nabi
Department of Communication
5838 Ellison Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106