CfP: Present Difference: The Cultural Production of Disability

C F P – and the organisers are ‘keen to have a games strand’.

Present Difference: The Cultural Production of Disability

Manchester Metropolitan University

in Conjunction with BBC Northwest and the Cultural Disability Studies
Research Network

Wednesday 6th Friday 8th January 2010

This conference seeks to address the contemporary cultural production of
disability within and across local and global contexts. Its focus is
upon representation both in the sense of the production and circulation
of particular narratives, ideas and images of disability and
non-disability, and in the sense of the participation of disabled
cultural practitioners in the production of culture.

We invite proposals from all stakeholders in the mass mediated
production of disability across a variety of themes and from a diversity
of perspectives within this disparate field of enquiry.

Submissions are invited from both disabled and non-disabled media
producers and policy makers, creative practitioners, disability
activists and academics.

Suggested themes include but are not limited to:

policy and practice, television, film, radio, literature, life writing,
journalism, comedy, advertising, new media, social networking, theatre,
art, popular music, animation, gaming and marketing and publicity in the
charity and voluntary sectors.

Topics to include (but are not limited to):

* How do different mediums construct the relationship between
disability and non-disability, human variation and human difference?

* In what ways do and have policy makers responded to the call
for inclusive practices and representations of human variation?

* What is the relationship between genre and the discursive
relations of dis/ability?

* What is the role of the audience in the recognition and
construction of dis/ability?

The conference aims to be as varied and inclusive as possible so
suggested formats include but are not limited to: Roundtables, Forums,
Debates, Panels, Posters, Creative Pieces, DVDs, Websites and Media and
Art projects in progress. Sessions will be timetabled for 1hr 30mins.

Abstracts (max 250 words) and biographical notes (max 150 words) for
individual and/or group papers, panels or alternative formats to be sent
by Friday 10th April 2009 to presentdifference@yahoo.co.uk.

Enquiries to: Dr Lucy Burke, Manchester Metropolitan University,
l.burke@mmu.ac.uk If you are interested in attending the conference,
please contact l.burke@mmu.ac.uk with your contact details and email
address

MEDIDA-PRIX

Der MEDIDA-PRIX feiert heuer sein zehnjähriges Jubiläum. Angehörige von Hochschulen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz sind eingeladen, sich mit innovativen Projekten, die sich die nachhaltige Verankerung von digitalen Medien in der Hochschullehre zum Ziel setzen, am MEDIDA-PRIX 2009 zu beteiligen.

http://www.medidaprix.org/

Call for Film and Television Reviews

>’A Call for Film and Television Reviews’
>
>‘Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies’ is
>currently accepting
>new submissions of film and television reviews.
>
>If accepted, the reviews will be included in Scope, a peer-reviewed online
>journal edited by staff and students in the Institute of Film & Television
>Studies at the University of Nottingham. It is published three times
>a year, in
>February, June and October. As our title suggests, Scope provides a forum for
>discussion of all aspects of film and television history, theory and
>criticism.
>
>Scope is keen to publish original review-essays of between 2000-3500 words
>and shorter reviews of 1000-2000 words. Scope welcomes reviews of past or
>current films from any type of cinema. These include but are not
>restricted to
>British films, Hollywood, world cinema, independent films, documentaries and
>made-for-TV movies. Similarly, Scope welcomes reviews of television
>programmes from anywhere in the world, from popular series to obscure one-
>offs, past or present. Whatever the subject, Scope welcomes original
>perspectives and opinionated writing.
>
>Scope is particularly keen to publish reviews of films and television that
>remake, adapt or otherwise reuse material from past texts. In the cinema,
>examples include Hollywood remakes of World cinema, such as The Ring (2002)
>and movies that adapt television series, such as Get Smart (2008). In
>television, examples include shows that translate programmes for a new
>national market, such as The Office: An American Workplace (2005), shows
>that adapt material from the cinema, such as the animated series Robocop:
>Alpha Commando (1998), and spin-offs from original TV shows such as The
>Bionic Woman (1976). In addition to these examples, Scope welcomes all
>approaches to adaptation in its broadest sense.
>
>All reviews and inquiries should be sent to Alex Symons, the editor
>of film and
>television reviews: aaxas@nottingham.ac.uk
>
>
>Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
>Institute of Film and Television Studies,
>The University of Nottingham,
>University Park,
>NG7 2RD
>http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/index.php

Call for Manuscripts: Redefining Mass Media in the age of YouTube

>Special Issue
>Call for Manuscripts
>
>The Journal of Visual Literacy (JVL) invites manuscripts for
>a special issue on “Redefining Mass Media in the age of
>YouTube: Photographic, Cinematic, and Pixilated Visuals,
>from Classic Modes to Cybersphere.” As our culture evolves further
>into the social restructuring and advancing technologies of the 21st
>century, older distinctions between various “mass” media evaporate.
>Virtually any visual content is now available on the Internet
>(legally or not), simultaneous with or shortly after its entry into
>the Zeitgeist. Fine art and news photos; film clips and entire films;
>TV ads, program clips, and series episodes; animated PowerPoint
>presentations and music videos; and other still or motion visual
>imagery all are available, worldwide and largely for free, along
>with blogs and more sophisticated reviews of this avalanche of
>content, allowing access to more visual information packaged in
>traditional “mass media” formats than ever before in human history.
>We seek manuscripts that explore empirical, theoretical, practical,
>or applied aspects of visual literacy and technological media in their
>traditional applications as well as in their appearance/ interactions/
>extensions into the new global environment of the Internet. Topics
>in the area of classic to contemporary mediated visuals include but
>are not limited to:
>• migration of print and broadcast journalism to the Internet
>• fragmentation of films and TV episodes on YouTube and
>loss of original context
>• trends in TV programming to compete with the Internet
>• televisual images evolving with home digital theatre
>environments
>• merging of entertainment media images with
>political campaigns
>• adaptations from one medium to another (including the
>growing presence of video games as cinema content)
>• intersections & identity in photography & computer graphics
>• visual analysis and/or theoretical and critical explorations
>of any of these media
>
>Manuscript Guidelines
>1. Digital Submission of Manuscripts is encouraged.
>Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced for 8.5 x 11 inch,
>A4, or equivalent paper, and be 10-25 pages in length.
>Please include:
>• 1 digital copy (MSWord or RTF file with separate
>graphic files)
>• list of 4 or 5 keywords
>• 100-word abstract
>• names and contact information for all authors (include
>names, highest degree, mailing address, phone, fax,
>e-mail, and institutional affiliation as appropriate.)
>2. Headings, tables, figures, and references should be formatted
>according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological
>Association (5th ed.). Improperly formatted or incompletely
>documented articles (especially for citations and reference lists) will
>be delayed until the author makes corrections. Please be precise in
>matching citations within the text and reference list.
>3. Please send graphics as stand alone files. An electronic version or
>camera-ready version of each figure, table, or graphic should be
>submitted in highest resolution and quality available, and in an
>appropriate aspect ratio to fit the journal (maximum 4.25 inches
>wide by 7.25 inches tall print area including legible labels). We can
>reduce / resize original photographs, slides, or electronic versions
>as appropriate. (Be aware that graphics that are suitable for web
>publications generally are not suitable for print journals.)
>4. Manuscripts will be sent to at least three referees for critical review,
>comment, and recommendation. Referees will be asked to make a
>judgment regarding the quality and appropriateness of the manuscript
>for publication in JVL. Based on the referees’ recommendations, the
>Editor will decide to publish the manuscript as submitted, publish
>the manuscript with suggested revisions, or reject the manuscript for
>publication. In all cases the author will be notified of the decision,
>and in the event the manuscript is rejected, a summary of the reasons
>for that decision will be forwarded.
>Redefining Mass Media in the Age of YouTube:
>Photographic, Cinematic, and Pixilated Visuals,
>from Classic Modes to Cybersphere
>Journal
>o fVisual Literacy
>JVL reflects the eclectic nature of the membership
>of the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA)
>and publishes articles on a wide variety of topics. JVL is a
>refereed, scholarly journal that provides an open forum in
>which researchers and practitioners can explore the evolving
>field of visual literacy, the field that John L. Debes first called
>“languages and literacies.” Debes, a Kodak employee, was
>primarily concerned with the interchange of visual and verbal
>information, thus literacy encompasses reading of images and
>other forms of information, not just text. As society places
>increasing emphasis on visual communication to provide
>information and entertainment for all ages of learners,
>throughout all socioeconomic levels, in all walks of life, visual
>literacy becomes increasingly important.
>JVL encourages interdisciplinary authorship and assures
>authors of copyright protection for all contributions in both
>print and electronic forms. Although our budget limits us to
>black and white images in print, color images can be placed
>online. While the JVL remains a print journal for the historical
>record, authors are encouraged to consider creative ways to
>supplement their manuscripts with electronic imagery that goes
>beyond the capability of the JVL’s typical print form. Please
>feel free to discuss your creative ideas with the Guest Editor.
>Send Special Issue Manuscripts by May 15, 2009 to
>Dr. Ken Burke, JVL Guest Editor
>Film Studies
>Mills College
>5000 MacArthur Blvd.
>Oakland, CA 94613 USA
>Email: ninak@mills.edu FAX: 510-430-3314
>For more information regarding the Journal of Visual Literacy,
>including regular issue submissions, visit http://plato.ou.edu/~jvl
>

CfP: Mini-track: IT Cultures and Values: Occupational and Organizational

>Please consider participating in our Minitrack in San Francisco,
>California by sending your work (full paper or research in progress)
>and/or participating as reviewer. This is the call:
>
>Call for Papers and Reviewers for the AMCIS 2009 Mini Track:
>
>IT Cultures and Values
>
>
>
>Under the Track: Social Issues in IS
>
>Mini-track: IT Cultures and Values: Occupational and Organizational
>
>
>
>Description:
>
>The goal of research on culture and IT is diverse in both context and
>method. Rather than focusing on cross-cultural studies that compare IT
>development and use in different countries, the focus of this mini-track
>is to provide a forum for research that seeks to understand the values
>and assumptions embedded in both the technology, and the human group
>served by the technology (i.e. the occupational group, the organization,
>the society). This mini-track was initiated in 2008, capturing the
>attention of researchers who look for an opportunity to promote the
>understanding, research, and theorization of cultural issues related to
>information and communication technologies. We encourage you to
>participate.
>
>
>
>Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
>
>
>
>* Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) cultures: the IT
>culture, the information culture, the digital culture, the online
>culture and the geek culture
>
>* Organizational culture and ICTs
>
>* IT values in organizations and the society
>
>* IT culture and system conflicts within organizations and the
>society
>
>* Impact of IT cultures on occupational, organizational and
>societal use of IT
>
>* Conflict resolution and culture change at the organizational and
>societal levels
>
>* The IT Workforce’s enculturation
>
>* IT cultural issues and modern society
>
>* Methodological issues conducting IT culture research
>
>* Organizational culture and IT case studies, ethnography, mixed
>methods
>
>* An assessment of software for supporting culture studies work
>
>* Ethnography and culture in virtual environments
>
>* Mixed, qualitative, and quantitative approaches of the study of
>culture and IS.
>
>* IT Culture and education
>
>* Linking culture and information sharing
>
>* Culture as more than end-user studies
>
>
>
>Papers Due: February 20, 2009
>
>Notification of Acceptance: April 2, 2009
>
>Camera Ready Copy Due: April 20, 2009
>
>
>
>Please contact the Mini-track chairs if you would be able to participate
>as reviewer or if you have any questions about this mini-track:
>
>Indira R. Guzman, Tui University, iguzman@tuiu.edu
> 1-714-816-0366 Ext.2026
>
>Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown, Syracuse University, mlbrow03@syr.edu
>1-315-443-1892
>
>Conference web site: http://amcis2009.org/

CfP: The Media, Religion and Culture Working Group

>Please also visit the site www.unigre.it/iamcr/ for detailed informations
>
>The Media, Religion and Culture Working Group
>
>invites proposals for papers
>to be presented at the IAMCR Conference
>in Mexico
>21st-24th of July 2009.
>
>Religion and the Media
>
>Since we as a working have an agreement with a publisher to edit a
>sort of Handbook for Religious Communication, we agreed already in
>Stockholm and in the group correspondence afterwards that we want to
>discuss particularly the outline of this handbook and also the first
>ideas for chapters. The convenor will set up sessions open to all
>interested persons, dedicated to these discussions.
>Everybody who wants to become involved with this handbook is invited
>to discuss the general book outline, and especially to suggest a
>chapter’s subject which she or he are capable of contributing to the book.
>
>There is hardly an established canon of research in this wide field,
>but some nuclei in the current research agenda can still be identified.
>
>Firstly, there are descriptive studies of various social or media
>phenomena, which come and go with the phenomena themselves.
>Televangelism, fundamentalism, and missionary campaigns at large form
>one cluster of favourite research, the common denominator of which
>are media as instruments of religious activity. Another cluster is
>the treatment of religious subjects (in the double sense of the word)
>in secular media. Most prominently figures news reporting, casting
>religious life into narratives; but fictional, documentary, or a
>combination of both approaches in film, television entertainment,
>theatre have also considerable interest for research.
>
>Secondly, on the more theoretic side, we find topics closer to the
>very core of the constitution of the public sphere. Religion has
>proved to be functional for all kinds of legitimisation or
>delegitimization. Religion has been brought into a relationship with
>violence, but also with social reconciliation, which also concerns
>media (at least marginally).
>
>This working group invites proposals for papers dealing with the
>complexities of religious agencies in the magnet field of public
>opinion; it has many interesting constellations, and there are a
>number of different scientific approaches to this interrelation,
>theoretical, semiotic, empirical (or a combination).
>
>This working group continues to be interested in quality papers
>treating media in central religious communication processes, from
>community building to proclamation, art to expression of faith,
>apologetic and propagandistic media usage and reception.
>
>All approaches are welcome for proposed papers, provided they offer
>good quality and interesting, novel perspectives in their respective
>methodological nature.
>
>Send your 500 words abstract by February 16, 2009
to ehrat @ unigre.it. Presenters will be advised by March 29, 2009 of the
>acceptance of their paper proposals. The full text of accepted papers
>must be submitted no later than 15th of June 2009.
>
>http://www.iamcr2009mexico.unam.mx/index01.html
>

CfP: *European Datawars: Fighting Terrorism through Data *

>University of Amsterdam, 11-12 June 2009
>
>/Confirmed participants/: *Louise Amoore*
>(Durham University); *Kirstie Ball* (Open
>University); *Debbie Lisle* (Queen’s University
>Belfast); *Luis Lobo-Guerrero* (Keele
>University);* Beate Roessler* (University of
>Amsterdam); *Marieke de Goede* (University of Amsterdam)
>
>After 9/11, many European states adopted a
>so-called “intelligence-led approach” to
>combating terrorism. This approach stresses
>proactive and sometimes massive information
>gathering and data exchange in order to prevent
>and preempt terrorist attacks. Two important
>characteristics of this approach are: increased
>cooperation with private authorities to obtain a
>wide range of information and a strong belief
>that terrorism can be prevented through smart
>technologies. These technologies, often
>initially designed for commercial purposes,
>allow law enforcement and intelligence agencies
>to ‘connect the dots’ through profiling, data
>mining, social network analysis, risk analysis
>and other predictive technologies.
>
>This workshop explores questions relating to the
>implications for ethics, responsibility and
>political decision of the new data-led approach
>to fighting terrorism in Europe. Critics have
>highlighted the impact of counter terrorism
>policy on principles of liberal governance such
>as respect for human rights, rule of law,
>individual freedom and democratic rule.
>Furthermore, important theoretical issues can be
>raised in this context, for example with regard
>to public-private security cooperation, the
>constitution of ‘Europe’ through these
>practices; the relation between sovereignty and
>governmentality and the politics of risk and
>preemption in the war on terror. A continued
>debate is needed, on the one hand to better
>understand the practices in the intelligence-led
>fight against terrorism, and on the other hand
>to identify the possibilities, limits and
>consequences of the fight against terrorism through data.
>
>We welcome paper proposals from researchers
>across the social sciences and the humanities
>that reflect on both the theoretical
>implications and the practical manifestations of
>European datawars.

Possible themes are:
>· Ethics, responsibility and justice in European datawars
>
>· Privacy, security and human rights
>
>· Risk, prevention, preemption
>
>· Datawars and surveillance
>
>· Private authorities, states and the European Union
>
>· Constituting Europe through datawars
>
>Abstracts of 200-300 words should be sent to
>Mara Wesseling, University of Amsterdam
>(M.Wesseling@uva.nl) by March 1.
We will select
>contributions by March 20. Paper drafts should
>be submitted by May 15 2009. Work in progress is welcome.

>MA Programme Director
>School of Law & Government
>Dublin City University
>Glasnevin
>Dublin 9
>Ireland
>
>Tel. +353 1 700 6472
>E-Mail. maura.conway@dcu.ie

Call for Papers: The Ends of Television

>Call for Papers:
>
>The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
>(ASCA) and the Department of Media Studies of
>the Universiteit van Amsterdam invite papers for a 3-day conference on
>
>The Ends of Television
>Logics/Perspectives/Entanglements
>
>Monday June 29 – Wednesday July 1 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
>
>Keynote speakers:
>Joke Hermes (InHolland, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
>Toby Miller (University of California Riverside)
>Anna McCarthy (NYU)
>
>Conference theme:
>Is TV as we know it dead? Does TV Studies have
>any relevance in a world of media convergence?
>Are we at risk of becoming gravediggers of an
>obsolete medium rather than innovators in a
>cross-medial regime? The conference will address
>some of the central frames through which TV has
>been analyzed to test their relevance in an age
>where digitalization and convergence is
>redrawing the boundaries of media and of
>disciplines. Rather than accept the narrative of
>obsolescence or the nostalgia of seclusion, the
>conference aims at seriously analyzing both the
>contemporary specificity of TV and the
>challenges thrown up by new developments in
>technology and theory. For example: What is the
>specificity of the TV image in an environment
>suffused with moving images? Has the spectator
>of TV changed in a media world that begs
>“interaction”? How does the relevance of
>ideology-critique and propaganda fare in the age
>of surveillance? Is the educational role of TV
>obsolete with the triumph of market logics?
>
>Depending on how these and other questions are
>answered, TV Studies must rethink its own status
>as a discipline, beginning with its own position
>vis-à-vis Film Studies and New Media Studies. Do
>such separations still hold analytical purchase?
>What old concepts need reformulation, and what
>areas of study (e.g. cultural studies,
>philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political
>science, art history) can we both borrow from and enrich?
>
>Contributions are invited which take a stand on
>the relevance of TV, and TV Studies, through
>substantial and close analyses of specific dimensions of television:
>
>(Medium) Specificity
>If we are witnessing the end of TV as we know
>it, what is it being replaced with? What form
>will TV take in the future, and what are its
>aesthetic qualities? What is the ontology of the
>televisual image and sound once it has been
>digitized? How does the aural experience of
>contemporary television sets enhance or affect
>television watching? If “flow” and “liveness”
>was what distinguished TV from film in the 20th
>century, how does this hold true in the 21st?
>What effects does the change from flow and
>liveness to the archive have for our
>understanding of the medium? How do TV, film and
>new media relate to each other in the new constellation?
>
>(Functional) Logics
>How does TV function? Questions of broad and
>narrow-casting, the blurring of genres and media
>(cross media), the fluidity of audiences, the
>multiple settings of TV reception, etc – all
>these dimensions point to an acceleration of
>change in the logics of TV’s mode of
>functioning. What broad changes can be
>identified in the logics of TV, and how do they
>relate to larger shifts in contemporary
>societies, technologies, and communication
>patterns? More specifically, what is the impact
>of these changes when we consider the purposeful
>use of TV? What will become of advertising when
>television goes digital? What is the
>relationship between branding and television’s
>functional logics? What becomes of propaganda in
>a multi-channel environment? In what sense has
>TV’s governmental logic changed during the last
>decade? How does media literacy function in knowledge societies?
>
>(Conceptual) Changes
>If the logics of TV are shifting, how might they
>be studied in the contemporary context? What
>new, or different perspectives can be brought to
>bear in intellectually engaging with the medium?
>Do the established (analytical) distinctions of
>production, reception, textual analysis,
>suffice? Do more dimensions need to be added, or
>do the existing distinctions need to be
>broadened, sharpened or reviewed, keeping in
>mind the changing logics of television? – e.g.
>in the context of convergence, and multimedia
>interaction, such as UGC, how do terms like
>“production” and “reception” change their meaning?
>
>(Transdisciplinary) Entanglements
>Given that the logics of television’s mode of
>functioning, and the perspectives of TV Studies
>need analysis and change, in what way do these
>changes suggest an entangled and
>cross-fertilized re-definition of the field
>itself, its ends (goals), and its future
>development? On the one hand, how might a
>reviewing of television and its modes of
>analysis enrich other disciplines (for example
>Visual Culture, a re-defined Art History, Film
>History, Media Archaeology)? On the other, what
>might TV Studies gain from strategically
>borrowing and re-working theories and concepts
>from other fields (Sociology, Political
>Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Cultural
>Analysis)? What contributions can more recent
>paradigms like cognitivism or network theory
>make? Can TV studies borrow terms from chaos
>theory like emergence, non-linearity, or
>attractors, and what do they contribute to the
>already existing theoretical vocabulary?
>
>Proposal deadline: proposals for papers and/or
>panels should be sent to asca-fgw@uva.nl before February 26 2009.
>
>Organising committee: Sudeep Dasgupta, Marijke
>de Valck, Jaap Kooijman, Jan Teurlings

CfP: Disability and Communication

>Disability and Communication:
>New Directions in Creativity and Global Citizenship?
>
>Call for papers for stream of
>
>Australian and New Zealand Communications conference
>QUT, Brisbane, 8-10 July 2009
>http://www.anzca09.org/
>
>Due date: Friday 6 Feb 2009
>
>For a second year, a ‘Disability and Communication’ stream, convened by Dr
>Fiona Kumari Campbell (Griffith) and Professor Gerard Goggin (UNSW) will
>showcase research about disability – bringing together those interested in
>making disability an integral and vibrant part of media and communications
>research, teaching, policy, and practice.
>
>In keeping with this year’s ANZCA theme theme, we call for contributions on
>(but not limited to) topics such as:
>
>* Where do critical conceptions of disability fit into current discourses of
>creativity?
>* What are the new possibilities for justice, ethics and disability from
>changes in global citizenship (not least the new UN Convention on the Rights
>of Persons with Disabilities)?
>* How do people with disabilities figure in contemporary media culture in
>Australia and New Zealand, and the Asia-Pacific region?
>* What are the new cultures of disability to be found in digital
>technologies and environments, from Second Life, through mobiles, to digital
>broadcasting, and new media technologies of disability?
>* How should media and communications studies and research respond to the
>new political and scholarly developments around disability in Australasia?
>
>Please proceed to make a direct submission through the ANZCA website:
>http://www.anzca09.org/ or contact both convenors: Fiona Kumari Campbell
>(Fiona.Campbell@griffith.edu.au); Gerard Goggin (g.goggin@unsw.edu.au)
>Final date for submission of abstracts is Friday 6 February 2009.
>

CfP: ‘Waiting to participate’

>’Waiting to participate:
>emerging modes of digital storytelling, engagement & online communities’>

>Special issue (eds) Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth
>
>Communication, Politics & Culture
>Vol.42, No.2 (2009)>(formerly Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture)
>
>What does it mean to speak of Oparticipation in the broadband society¹? What
>are the pros and cons of Oparticipation media¹? How do modes of
>participation, engagement, empowerment and exploitation change within
>different contexts and technocultures?
>
>Web 2.0 ­­ and its attendant dispersed forms of digital storytelling, user
>created content (UCC) and social practices ­­ has heralded development of
>divergent models for participation, democracy and agency. These particular
>forms of empowerment and exploitation are informed by both the local and
>regional, and much can be learnt from comparisons between regional and
>global trends. For example, how are forms of social, creative and affective
>labour involving Web 2.0 and Social Networking Systems (SNS) demonstrating
>emerging forms of intimacy, co-presence and what it means to be online? What
>theoretical and conceptual frameworks aid understanding of these practices?
>What methodologies are appropriate for researching them?
>
>This special issue of Communication, Politics & Culture seeks to investigate
>the emerging modes of communication, creative practices, and micro-politics
>occurring within the rise of Web 2.0 and the so-called user revolution. In
>this issue we seek papers exploring the limits and possibilities of online
>communities and Web 2.0 cultures, specifically drawing from cross-cultural
>examples to highlight the persistent role of the local in the far-from-even
>global phenomenon of the broadband society.
>
>Manuscripts are evaluated by the editorial committee and anonymously by
>external referees. Deadline for full papers: 25th May 2009.
>
>The maximum length of articles is
>10,000 words, shorter pieces welcome. Please follow the style guide
>available at
>http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=6wkiscqs953b1
>
>For further inquiries please email both: Gerard Goggin
>(g.goggin@unsw.edu.au) and Larissa Hjorth (larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au)