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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><br></span></div>CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Critical Studies in Media Communication</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Special Issue: Digital Labor, Below-the-Line</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Submission deadline: January 12, 2015</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Final drafts due: April 12, 2015</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Publication: August 2015</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">The work required to produce the web and to fill the media devices that increasingly </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">occupy 21st century life is often difficult to see. With a click content appears, images </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">proliferate, and text, sound and video streams across our screens. However, behind the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">screen exists a globally distributed network of people who toil to create, manage, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">distribute, promote and update digital content. Their labor reflects new modes of </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">production and shifting divisions of labor that characterize media production in a digital </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">economy.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">For this special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication, issue editor Nina</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Huntemann seeks papers that explore digital media workers “behind the screen.”</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Submissions should advance scholarship about invisible labor in the digital media</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">industries, and should principally consider the labor produced by those engaged in below-the-</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">line work. </span><div>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Cultural producers in such positions might include social media interns,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">web content editors and copywriters, online community managers, video game</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">playtesters, 3D animation modelers and riggers, texture artists, video loggers, and digital </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">content asset managers. In addition to workers involved in cultural production, this </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">special issue also invites papers that consider the labor of those working to create and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">maintain the digital media infrastructure, such as hardware assembly line workers, miners </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">in raw materials extraction, technical support staff (e.g. Genius Bar/Geek Squad), and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">security personnel at data centers.</span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">The editor is particularly interested in manuscripts that consider the special issue theme at </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, nation/region, sexual orientation, class, and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">ability.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">To discuss possible submissions, please email the issue editor Nina Huntemann at</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<a href="mailto:nhuntemann@suffolk.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">nhuntemann@suffolk.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">About the Journal</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) publishes scholarship in media and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">mass communication written from a Cultural Studies and critical perspective. Research </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">articles selected for publication make a substantial contribution to existing literature in </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">media studies, provide novel theoretical insights that have the potential to stimulate </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">further research, and serve as foundational contributions for debates within and beyond </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">the field of communication. While each essay is well researched, primary emphasis is on </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">the theoretical contribution the essay makes through the development of concepts, terms, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">and ideas that move the field in new and exciting directions.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Submission Details</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">All manuscripts must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Association (6th edition, 2010) and should not exceed 7,000 words including references,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">notes, figures, and tables. Shorter pieces will be considered. Essays significantly longer</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">than 7,000 words may be returned. All submissions should be made online at Critical</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">Studies in Media Communication’s ScholarOne Manuscripts site. Please see the journal</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px">website for the complete submission instructions for authors.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Associate Professor Tania Lewis, </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">School of Media & Communication, </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">RMIT University, </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Australia</span><div>
<a href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tania-lewis" target="_blank">www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tania-lewis</a><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>Digital Ethnography Research Centre: <font color="#500050"><a href="http://www.digital-ethnography.net/" target="_blank">www.digital-ethnography.net/</a></font><div>
<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Beyond Behaviour Change: </font><a href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/ahuri/beyondbehaviour" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">www.rmit.edu.au/ahuri/beyondbehaviour</a><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>PhD Scholarships</b></span></div><div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Sustainable Urban Precincts Project (see Project 1.2)</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">
<a href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/scholarships/supp" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.rmit.edu.au/scholarships/supp</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Research Projects</b> </div>
<div><a href="http://www.ethicalconsumption.org/" target="_blank">www.ethicalconsumption.org/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.telemodernities.org/" target="_blank">www.telemodernities.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Publications</b><br></div></div></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://rmit.academia.edu/TaniaLewis" target="_blank">https://rmit.academia.edu/TaniaLewis</a></font></div>
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