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<b><font face="Calibri" size="4">Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only</font></b></p>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Calibri" size="4">Issue Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess</font></strong></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted)<br>
Article deadline: November 3 2014<br>
Publication aimed for: February 2015</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at:<br>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4"><b>Email correspondence for this issue: <a href="mailto:p.shea@qub.ac.uk" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 105, 153); text-decoration: none; outline: none; ">p.shea@qub.ac.uk </a><br>
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This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as the bringing together of different
philosophies requires the negotiation of acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea that frictions between technologies and activists may ultimately enhance the ability of activists to take more control of their projects, create new ethical spaces
and subvert technologies, just as it may also result in tension, conflict and hostility.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">By dwelling in between and within these frictions and entanglements – through strategic and tactical media discourses as well as the very concept of an activist politics within technology – this special issue will elucidate the
context-specific nature, constraints and possibilities of the digital environments that are co-habited by activists from proximate fields including social movements, human rights, ecological and green movements, international development, community arts and
cultural development.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">Past issues of the Fibreculture Journal have examined activist philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and the push back against precarious
new media labour. Our issue extends this work by revealing the conflicting debates that surround activist philosophies of technology.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">Submissions are sought that engage specifically with the ethics, rationales and methods adopted by activists to justify selecting, building, using, promoting or rejecting specific technologies. We also encourage work that considers
the ways in which these negotiations speak to broader mythologies and tensions embedded within digital culture – between openness and control; political consistency and popular appeal; appropriateness, usability and availability.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">We invite responses to these provocations from activists, practitioners and academics. Critiques, case studies, and multimedia proposals will be considered for inclusion. Submissions should explore both constraints and possibilities
caused by activism and its digital technology entanglements through the following themes:</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">Alternative technology versus appropriate technology</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">Pragmatism and technology choice</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">The philosophies and practices of hacking technologies</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">Activist cultures and the proprietary web</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">Digital privacy and security breaches and errors</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">Uncovering and exposing technology vulnerabilities</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">Technology and e-waste</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">The philosophies of long/short term impact</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">Authenticity and evidence</font></li></ul>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">Initial submissions should comprise 300 word abstracts and 60 word biographies, emailed to <a href="mailto:p.shea@qub.ac.uk" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 105, 153); text-decoration: none; outline: none; ">p.shea@qub.ac.uk</a> and <a href="mailto:t.notley@uws.edu.au" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 105, 153); text-decoration: none; outline: none; ">t.notley@uws.edu.au</a></font></p>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Calibri" size="4">References:</font></strong></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">Tsing, A. 2005 Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press.<br>
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The Fibreculture Journal (</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); "><a href="http://fibreculturejournal.org/">http://fibreculturejournal.org/</a></span><b>) </b>is a peer
reviewed international journal, associated with Open Humanities Press (<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); "><a href="http://openhumanitiespress.org/">http://openhumanitiespress.org/</a></span>),
that explores critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and
the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability.</font></p>
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