Technoculture, Vol. 1, 2009
A Journal for Cultural Studies of Technology
Letter from the Editors
Welcome to our first issue of Technoculture, a new journal for cultural studies of technology. Technoculture is an online refereed scholarly journal, published annually. Technoculture 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. We are
pleased to bring this issue online and are pleased you are reading it.
Since this is our first issue, we would like to discuss just what we're
about, and what kinds of articles we'd be interested in publishing in
the future.
In
2007, we co-edited a special issue
of Interdisciplinary Humanities on the subject of
Technoculture. For the first issue of a new journal, Technoculture,
the editors continued to find 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."
Successful
papers (or their equivalent in virtual media in a variety of formats) 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 suitable for TCJournal 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 and activism and the resistance to particular technologies;
- the cultural impact of technology on particular cultures or subcultures;
- technology and its affect on the production of contemporary/historical artistic works and/or the work of artists;
- the economics of technology in the humanities, social sciences or sciences;
- 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 academy.
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 number of historical periods 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.
Keith
Dorwick and Kevin Moberly, Editors
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