CFP: Technoculture, Vol. 1, 2009
A Journal for Cultural Studies of Technology
Editors:
Dr. Keith Dorwick, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (kdorwick at yahoo dot com)
Dr. Kevin Moberly, St. Cloud State University (kamoberly at stcloudstate dot edu)
Call for Papers:
Print version of call in Adobe PDF
In
2007, we co-edited a special issue
of Interdisciplinary Humanities on the subject of
Technoculture,
and received over 46 abstracts for eight slots on a wide variety
of subjects from all over the world. As a result of that high level of
interest, we felt that there was a real need to start a new journal so
that
scholars working on the intersections of culture and technology could
have another venue to
publish their work.
For the first issue of a new journal, Technoculture, we seek papers from a broad range of academic
disciplines that focus on issues that could be briefly summed as
"technology and society," or, perhaps, "technologies and societies." Technoculture is an online refereed scholarly journal, published annually, which will include online forums for sections of the journal such as letters to the editor, and for each article or review published, making Technoculture
a highly interactive journal with the ability for readers to comment on each section. In addition, we will provide fora for
announcements of interest to academics who study technology and its
impact on society; and job announcements in this growing field. (For those who would like to see this in action, we have a mockup of the site available).
Successful
papers (or their equivalent in virtual media in a variety of formats) for this debut issue should focus on the ways
humanists read technology in a range of historical periods and of
academic and artistic disciplines as the subject of their work or as a
special case of cultural studies. Topics for this debut issue could
include depictions of technologies that treat a wide range of subjects
related to the humanities and social sciences.
These subjects might include:
- historical studies of technology;
- literature, film, theater, and television as technologies;
- music;
- sports;
- activists, activism and the resistance to particular technologies or their use;
- the cultural impact of technology on particular cultures or subcultures;
- technology and its effect on the production of contemporary/historical artistic works and/or the work of artists;
- the economics of technology in the humanities;
- computer/video gaming;
- sex, sexuality and gender issues;
- accessibility and disability;
- spirituality and religion and their insections with technology;
- hypertext;
- social network software;
- web 2.0;
- the
disappearance of a given technology or technologies and what that
disappearance/disappearances means/mean for the archival issues that
surround the humanities.
In particular, we're interested in a conception of "technology" and the "humanist
impulse" that pushes beyond contemporary American culture and its
fascination with computers; we seek papers that deal with any
technology or technologies in any historical period from any
relevant theoretical perspective. We are not interested in "how to" pedagogical papers that deal with the use of technology in the classroom. Style should be jargon free and accessible to a general audience as well as to scholars in a number of disciplines.
We publish
scholarly/critical papers in citation styles relevant to the home
discipline of their authors. In addition, we seek creative works
(poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction in a variety of media) and
original art works that explore the role of technology in our lives.
Length of final articles: 25-30 double-spaced manuscript pages OR their
equivalent in other formats such as webtexts, Flash, etc.
Inquiries are welcome.
Submit
abstracts to both kdorwick at yahoo dot com and kamoberly at
stcloudstate dot edu in RTF or via URL for consideration by October 15, 2008;
requests to review relevant books on this topic may be sent to both
addresses as well.
Calendar:
- Initial request for full length drafts due from the editors by November 30, 2008
- drafts of full articles due from authors, March 31, 2009; drafts are sent out to peer reviewers at this stage
- Responses/acceptances/requests for revision due from editors, June 15, 2009
- Final revisions due August 15, 2009
- Expected publication date of Vol. 1, 2009: October 15, 2009.
Keith
Dorwick and Kevin Moberly, Editors
Last Modified: May 5, 2008
Webspinner: kdorwick at yahoo dot com
