[csaa-forum] Call for short papers for Feminist Media Studies

[Melissa Gregg]

Two topical issues!

>
> CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS
> Feminist Media Studies,Commentary and Criticism Section
>
> Co-Editors
> Jane Arthurs (jane.arthurs at blueyonder.co.uk)
> Usha Zacharias (usha.zacharias at gmail.com)
>
> We invite short essays for the Commentary and Criticism section of  
> Feminist Media Studies on either of the topics below. Please  
> contact us as soon as possible to express your interest in  
> contributing so that we can
> plan the issue. The final deadline to receive completed essays of  
> around 1500 words is January 7, 2007.
>
> BEYOND GLOBAL WARMING: ENVIRONMENT, MEDIA, AND NEW GENDER POLITICS
>
> Recently, the global warming debate has renewed new and old media  
> focus on the environment and environmental issues. Given women's  
> differentiated access to and control over resources, global warming is
> clearly a gender issue as well. While ecofeminists have long  
> contended that the metaphors and practices of dominance over nature  
> extend to those over women, colonized races and other species,  
> feminist media
> scholarship on the environment is still a marginalized field of  
> study. Can we really integrate non-anthropomorphic arguments to  
> feminist approaches to communication? We invite reports of works in  
> progress, reflections on new media as a site for feminist  
> intervention in this
> field, thoughts on the productivity of transnational approaches,  
> and general essays regarding gendered approaches to any  
> environmental issue, going beyond or addressing global warming.
>
> RESEARCHING WEB 2.0: INTERNET SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE DEMISE OF  
> GENDER?
> How do we theorize gender in the context of the rise of  
> participatory, interactive internet interfaces, such as social  
> networking sites, blogs and even e-governance? What implications  
> does the rise of social networks on the internet, such as Facebook,  
> Orkut, Myspace etc have on
> feminist approaches to media and the internet starting from Donna  
> Haraway's cyborg? How empowering are these new media "architectures  
> of participation" that enable new forms of many-to-many publishing?  
> Are
> web-based communities truly different because, as Manuel Castells  
> suggests, they operate in a new "space of flows"? We invite reports  
> of works in progress, speculations, debates, and arguments  
> regarding the
> opening up of these new media orbits.
>
> Contributors should follow the Harvard style of reference and  
> guidelines for submission of manuscripts outlined on our  
> website,http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14680777.asp. The  
> title page of the manuscript must contain the complete mailing  
> address, institutional affiliation, and full contact information  
> including phone and fax numbers of the author(s). Submissions must  
> be saved and e-mailed as a Word attachment to both  
> jane.arthurs at blueyonder.co.uk
> and usha.zacharias at gmail.com.
>
>
>
>

Dr. Melissa Gregg
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Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
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