Currents in Electronic Literacy (ISSN 1524-6493) is now accepting
submissions for its Spring 2001 issue, which will focus on Disability
Studies and Accessibility issues. Completed articles are due on November
1, 2000.
Disability studies is an emerging area of interdisciplinary investigation
which calls attention to the important implications of our interest in the
intersections of technology with literary and cultural studies, rhetoric
and composition, and teaching. Although we are interested in articles on
all aspects of disability studies, we are particularly interested in the
way that the rapidly expanding interest in multimedia raises important
issues of access and participation for students and faculty who have
disabilities, and in the way that electronic media construes or effaces
questions of disability and the abled or disabled body. Although our
focus for this issue will be disability studies and accessibility issues,
we will also consider submissions on any aspect of electronic literacy for
the Spring 2001 issue.
Currents is an electronic journal for the scholarly discussion of issues
pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. We seek to publish
work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading,
writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to:
literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition,
languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and
education. You can see our Spring 2000 issue and our archives at
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/.
Currents is published by the Computer Writing and Research Lab of the
Division of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin.
The e-journal is published twice annually (spring and fall), and replaces
Computer Writing, Rhetoric, and Literature as the official e-journal of the
CWRL.
We are especially interested in work that takes advantage of the hypertext
possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication format, as well as
in articles concerning the use of emergent electronic technologies. To
this end, we gladly accept articles with graphics, sound, and hyperlinks
submitted as HTML documents. We ask, however, that such submissions take
into account reader-access issues, and that they routinely incorporate such
accommodations as the inclusion of <alt> tags in any image and the use of
content tags (e.g., citation <cite> and emphasis <em> tags) instead of the
corresponding physical markup tags (e.g., italics <i> and bold <b>tags)
whenever possible.
We are also pleased to publish essays in more traditional formats. Please
submit these essays either in HTML format, Word 97/98 format, or Rich Text
Format (RTF). We accept electronic submissions by email at
ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu as well as on 3.5" floppy or Zip by post at:
Currents in Electronic Literacy
c/o Computer Writing and Research Lab
Parlin 3, University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
All submissions should adhere to MLA style guidelines for citations and
documentation, which may be found online at
<http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm>. Currents reserves all copyrights to
published articles, and we require all of our articles to be housed on our
Web server.
If you have any questions, please contact Melynda Nuss, Coordinating
Editor, at ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu.
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