[Please circulate - apologies for cross posting]
--- Call for Papers – the Fibreculture Journal – Mobility, New Social Intensities, and the Coordinates of Digital Networks, 2004 http://journal.fibreculture.org/ :: fibreculture:: has established itself as Australasia's leading forum for discussion of internet theory, criticism, and research. The Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. Papers are invited for the ‘Mobility, New Social Intensities and the Coordinates of Digital Networks’ Issue of the Fibreculture Journal, to be published late in 2004/early in 2005. The issue will be co-edited by Larissa Hjorth and Andrew Murphie. There are guidelines for the format and submission of contributions at <http://journal.fibreculture.org/> . These guidelines need to be followed in all cases. Contributions should be sent electronically, as attachments, to Andrew Murphie at <a.murphie_at_unsw.edu.au>, or Larissa Hjorth at <larissahjorth_at_hotmail.com>. The deadline for submissions is September 22, 2004. MOBILITY, NEW SOCIAL INTENSITIES, AND THE COORDINATES OF DIGITAL NETWORKS From stirrups to satellites, the invention of new forms of technically-assisted mobility has always created new intensities within the social. Each invention has also required a new idea of what it might be to be human, along with new tensions as older cultural practices and social forms are challenged. The contemporary mobility of digital networks is no exception. This issue of the Fibreculture Journal will be concerned with documenting, and thinking about, the new mobile intensities allowed by digital networks. We are very interested in receiving contributions dealing with mobile telephony. However, we are also interested in contributions that deal with related or other forms of digital mobility. In addition to mobile telephony, contributions might include discussions of wireless networking, the folding of the Internet into other technical networks, or the complexity of relations between older and newer social networks when both are brought into the coordinates of digital networks. * How does mobility change these networks? How are relations within these networks transformed? * What new forms of social and cultural expression are made available by the new mobilities? * How are older forms of social regulation, discipline and control attempting to adapt to the new mobilities? * Can we still talk of “the social” in the same manner as we used to? What kinds of social theory are adequate/inadequate to the new social intensities of mobility? Does social theory need to be re-invented in the light of new mobile multitudes? * Do mobile networks create new forms of “immobile intensity”, in which relatively stationary positions within the networks are brought new intensive experience? * How is mobility transforming our relation to screens? What does it mean when screens/images are networked and mobile? * How are gender and sexuality expressed within the new mobilities? * How is mobility transforming work? Education? Politics? * Is mobility transforming the configurations of cultural memory? * How does mobility change the way institions are organised? The Fibreculture Journal is especially interested in contributions that investigate the tensions between older and newer notions of the social/social practices played out within the new mobility of the network. -- "Opposites Extract" - Paul D. Miller, Rhythm Science Dr Andrew Murphie Senior Lecturer School of Media and Communications University of New South Wales, 2052 Sydney, Australia web:http://mdcm.arts.unsw.edu.au/homepage/StaffPages/Murphie/ phone: 93855548 fax: 93856812 =============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP_at_english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin_at_english.upenn.edu ===============================================Received on Tue Jul 06 2004 - 01:10:10 EDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Thu May 17 2007 - 17:04:59 EDT