Call for Articles
Articles of 20-30 pages for a book project entitled:
Metaphors of Cyberspace: Toward Literacies in an Electronic World
Edited by Caroline Maun
Morgan State University
Abstracts due (two page descriptions): January 31, 2002
Final copy due: May 31, 2002
Metaphors of Cyberspace: Toward Literacies in an Electronic World is an
anthology of readings with supporting pedagogical materials that captures
both key moments in the history of electronic literacy and updates to the
present moment. The guiding principle in selections and supporting material
is the investigation of the electronic world as created by the human
imagination through metaphor. Cyberspace is overwhelmingly thought of as
like something else . . . a frontier, a superhighway, as space, with all of
its attendant assumptions regarding how people exist in the physical world.
Cyberspace, and the metaphors that simultaneously map it, circumscribe it,
and create it, is a dimension in which the imagination has full reign to
realize its own limitlessness.
The focus of looking at the metaphors of cyberspace is very useful in
examining many of the key issues surrounding the topic. The changing
boundaries that cyberspace and the Internet have made possible have effected
communities, identity, co-modification, marketing, economy, education, and
countless other areas of our lives. How we experience such basic
environmental bedrocks as time and space have been effected by the uses of
the Internet. Metaphors of Cyberspace will provide resources and guidance
for teachers and students to explore fully the implications of the new
domains and will help them to map future landscapes for discovery.
Possible topics:
What is Cyberspace
Aesthetics of Cyberspace
Cyberspace and the Social World
Search Engines
Cyberspace and Education
The Digital Divide
Gender and the Net
Cyber Selfhood
Cyber Commerce
For consideration, send abstracts or full articles in MLA style by the
deadlines cited above to:
Dr. Caroline Maun
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
Department of English and Language Arts
Morgan State University
1700 E. Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD 21251-0001
443-885-4141
fax 410-319-3166
All electronic submissions should be in Microsoft Word format.
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