Call for article submissions for a special edition of the print journal
_Text Technology_:
EXPLORING "WEBTEXTUALITY": WHAT MAKES THE WORLD WIDE WEB A UNIQUE TEXTUAL
OBJECT?
As the World Wide Web has become the most prevalent form of digital
publication and expression over the past five years, the question "What is
a World Wide Web text?" has become proportionately problematic. There are
theoretical, philosophical and practical matters to consider, let alone the
World Wide Web's assault on the "sacredness" of text. _ Text Technology _
is, therefore, interested in publishing an interdisciplinary consideration
of the present meanings and problems associated with "webtextuality" in a
special issue dedicated to this matter.
This special issue of _ Text Technology _ will collect work by scholars,
teachers and professionals currently involved in studying and using the
World Wide Web who share a common interest in defining the WWW as a unique
textual object. Since _Text Technology_ is published for academics
and professionals and is international in scope and readership, we
encourage submissions from a broad range of perspectives.
Nonetheless, each submission should in some way address the unique ways
that the World Wide Web is used to create, analyze, store or translate
texts and meaning. To avoid the perils of technological myopia, essays
should also address the ways that new textual forms made available by the
World Wide Web modify, challenge, or integrate versions of "traditional"
text types including, but not limited to, verbal texts, visual texts,
animation and oral/aural texts.
In particular, _Text Technology_ hopes to receive articles that attempt to
define webtextuality by placing it in dialogue with other forms of
electronic and traditional text production and analysis.
Authors who would like to contribute to this special edition of _Text
Technology_ should submit 2-page abstracts by August 15th. Authors of
accepted papers will be notified by August 31st. Completed manuscripts are
due December 10th.
Please direct all correspondence regarding this special edition via email to
Sean Williams, Contributing Editor
seanw@u.washington.edu
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Sean D. Williams
Departments of English and Technical Communication
University of Washington * Box 354330 * Seattle, WA 98195
seanw@u.washington.edu * http://staff.washington.edu/seanw
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