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Dear colleagues,
This is a second call for contributions. Further details are below.
Please circulate widely
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Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
/http://www.digitalicons.org/forthcoming/
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**Call for contributions to the Special Issue _War, Conflict and
Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction _( Autumn 2010)***
Wars, conflicts and commemoration occupy the minds of today's users of
new media across the globe, especially those in Russia, Eurasia and
Central Europe: from digital accounts of 'wars on terror' to virtual
museums of political terror under communism; from cyberwars against
websites and databases to computer war games; from on-line anti-war
organising to virtual memorials to WWII soldiers; from photo-and video-
reporting on warfare in Kosovo, Chechnya, Gaza or Georgia to flash-mobs
of political protest or racist incitement; from digitalised personal
memories and family histories to YouTube clips featuring victorious
presidential speeches.
The aim of this special issue is to explore the ways wars and conflicts
are mediated, commemorated, reported and discussed on the Internet as
well as in other forms of new media, including mobile phones, digital
broadcasting and computer games. What is the role of new media in
understanding, representing, negotiating and remembering (or forgetting)
war and terror? What is the status of testimony, evidence and reportage
in the age of digital reproduction? What practices of memory do new
information and communication technologies entail? What structures of
feeling operate in on-line reports and debates around military
operations and human suffering? How can digital mediations of conflict
bring people and communities together, while tearing others apart? And
lastly, how can the embodied, physical violence intensify in digital
interactions, and how can it be resisted?
This special issue of Digital Icons aims to create a forum for scholars
working in the fields of war, conflict, commemoration, digital media,
and new media, while simultaneously addressing linguistic, cultural,
historical and political aspects of new media use in Russia, Eurasia and
Central Europe. We invite original articles that focus on one or more
countries of the region, or on their diasporas. We also welcome
theoretical essays, reflection by media practitioners on their own
practices, contributions from artists and authors, and reviews of
relevant projects, books and events.
*Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2010
Anticipated date of publication: October 2010*
Please contact Adi Kuntsman [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
or DI editors [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
to discuss your submission.
When submitting your work, please include the following information: a
biographical statement (100-120 words in English) and an
abstract/description of the submission (or the first paragraph of the
essay if appropriate) (about 150 words in English).
--
Dr. Adi Kuntsman
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
The University of Manchester
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
_http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html_
_http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com_
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