[csaa-forum] extended deadline for CFP on 'Question Time'

[Dr Susan Yell]

Hi, just a reminder of our call for papers - see below. The deadline has
now been extended till 15 September.

regards
Sue Yell

Call for Papers

Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture
Special Issue, 39.3, 2006

'Question Time: Modalities of Knowledge in an Information Culture'

Editors: Paul Atkinson, Simon Cooper & Sue Yell, Monash University,
Gippsland Campus

This issue takes as its starting point the information gathering and
surveillance capacities of ICTS, and their applications in a range of
institutions and media genres. It invites papers to address the
implications of these capacities and their applications in an
information culture. In what ways does the current proliferation of
television and radio questionnaires and quizzes and of
organisational audits (e.g. in universities, research assessment
exercises, publication outputs, student evaluations) contribute to a
‘flattening’ of knowledge?  Does the design and performance of these
programs and audits reduce knowledge, agency and the
conception of the future into a choice between variables?  Does the
development and application of new technologies capable of
tracking and cataloguing social practices represent a historically
unprecedented compartmentalisation of knowledge? Is there a
privileging of only those events that can be captured by electronic
databases and the corresponding drive to find new means of
inscribing social practices and phenomena?  Are there relations to be
drawn between an apparent flattening of knowledge and an apparent
fashion for flattening organisational arrangements (e.g. changing
managerial structures)?

Contributors are invited to address issues associated with these changes
to knowledge structures, in particular:
· the link between media genres, communication technologies and
knowledge structures (including online databases and search
engines such as Google);
· the proliferation of quiz shows as well as television and radio
programs that use quizzes as a means of interacting with their
audiences;
· new forms of auditing and testing and their role in surveillance;
· the rise of the new audit culture as a means of assessing academic and
research activity (research assessment exercises in the
UK, New Zealand and Australia, publication outputs, and student
evaluations).
· The journalistic staples of newspaper polling and opinion polls, etc.

Southern Review invites contributions (4000-6000 words) on the theme of
“Question Time”. Papers may be submitted as
attachments to an email, and should be double-spaced in A4 format and
accompanied by an abstract (maximum 100 words).
Referencing is author-date (notes for contributors and full details of
house style are available on request).

The general aim of Southern Review, an interdisciplinary journal, is to
focus on the connections between communication and
politics. Southern Review is interested in communication and cultural
technologies, their histories, producers and audiences,
policies and texts. It welcomes articles that connect these areas either
to arenas of legislative or parliamentary politics, to
governance of social organizations and the institutions they constitute,
or to broader negotiations of power.

paul.atkinson at arts.monash.edu.au
simon.cooper at arts.monash.edu.au
sue.yell at arts.monash.edu.au

Extended deadline: 15 September 2006



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Dr Susan Yell
Head, Communications & Writing
School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences
Monash University
Gippsland Campus, Churchill, VIC 3842
AUSTRALIA

ph. 61 3 5122 6442 or 9902 6442
fax 61 3 5122 6359 or 9902 6359
email sue.yell at arts.monash.edu.au

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