CFP: Technoculture, Vol. 2, 2010
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.
In 2008, we issued a call for Vol. 1 of Technoculture,
and once again received abstracts from all over the world; the range of
subjects and of disciplines is quite exciting and we look forward to
issuing Vol. 1 on schedule on Oct. 1, 2009. It should be quite exciting
and thoughtful.
For our second issue, 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.
Successful
papers (or their equivalent in virtual media in a variety of formats)
for Vol 2. 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;
- recycling and the growth of green culture, and its costs;
- 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 intersections 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.
In
addition, we seek creative works (poetry, fiction and creative
non-fiction in a variety of media) and original art work that explore
the role of technology in our lives. Inquiries are welcome.
PLEASE NOTE: 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.
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, 2009; requests to review relevant books on
this topic may be sent to both addresses as well.
Length of
final articles: 25-30 double-spaced manuscript pages OR their
equivalent in other formats such as webtexts, Flash, etc.
Calendar:
- Initial request for full length drafts due from the editors by November 30, 2009
- drafts of full articles due from authors, March 31, 2010; drafts are sent out to peer reviewers at this stage
- Responses/acceptances/requests for revision due from editors, June 15, 2010
- Final revisions due August 15, 2010
- Expected publication date of Vol. 2: October 15, 2010.
Keith
Dorwick and Kevin Moberly, Editors
Last Modified: March 11, 2009
Webspinner: kdorwick at yahoo dot com
