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From: "Mason Dixon"
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[call] Call for Articles
[call] Call for chapters: Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media
and queer sexualities
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[call] Call for Articles
From: sachiko hayashi
Call for Articles:
On-line journal Hz (www.hz-journal.org) is accepting articles on New
Media, Net Art, Electronic Music, Sound Art for its next issue.
Earlier published and unpublished articles in English are welcomed.
Please send your submissions to hz-journal@telia.com . Dead-line: 15
May, 2005.
Hz is published by Fylkingen, a non-profit art organization in
Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been promoting new and
experimental art forms throughout its history. For more information,
visit www.fylkingen.se/fylkeng.html or
www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html
For inquiry, please contact hz-journal@telia.com
Sachiko Hayashi/Hz
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[call] Call for chapters: Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media
and queer sexualities
From: "O''Riordan, Kate"
Call for Chapters (edited book)
Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities
Edited by Kate O'Riordan and David J Philips
Introduction
This edited collection will bring together crucial examinations of the
intersecting fields of sexuality and the internet, and will provide an
overarching contextualisation and consolidation of cyber/queer practices
and theories.
In the early to mid-1990s, the repercussions of queer theory were being
engaged across academic feminism and lesbian and gay studies. At the
same time, the internet was emerging as a key structuring device for
academic networks, and as an important area of study. With the advent
of the commercial web in 1994 the internet intersected with popular
culture, and key questions of modernity - identity, community,
governance, time and space - intersected with the web as it unfolded
across multiple social domains. Whilst the mid-1990s wasn't the
beginning of internet research, cybercultural studies, or queer, it was
a period of sustained attention and excitement in relation to identity
and the web. Since then, there has been intense collision and
collaboration between queer theory and cyberculture, as the imagined
ideal queer subject and the imagined ideal cybersubject came to occupy
the same ground.
Moving on from and challenging this formulation, the book aims both to
document queer internet practices and to limn their theoretical
implications at the intersection of the fields of queer, technology, and
communication studies. Drawing on interviews with central actors,
analyses of internet activity, syntheses of critical debates, and both
new and historical research, the collection will provide both an
overview and an in depth analysis of these engagements.
We invite papers for consideration that complement either of the
proposed sections of the book:
Section 1 will provide theoretical contextualisations, histories and
political economies of queer/communication technology intersections.
Section 2 will showcase new and innovative work on queer sexuality and
the internet that offers new insight, whilst also showing evidence of a
rigorous connection to historical and theoretical context.
Suggested topics and themes include (but are not limited to):
- Sexual identities practices and communities
- Art and activism
- Consumption
- Political economy
- Representation
- Performativity
- Queer theory
Target Market and Readership
The book aims to provide a contribution to course materials for
postgraduate and undergraduate work in digital/new media/internet and
communication studies, queer theory, cultural and gender studies. The
collection also aims to support postdoctoral researchers by providing a
consolidation and bridging of existing and new work in the field.
Deadlines
Submission of 400 word abstract along with a CV: 1st of July 2005.
Authors notified: 1st of August 2005
Draft chapters: 1st November 2005
Editors
Kate O'Riordan, Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics,
Lancaster University, http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/staff/oriordan.htm
k.oriordan@lancaster.ac.uk
David Phillips, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas
at Austin, http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/phillips, djp@mail.utexas.edu