From: Phil Graham
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 08/11/00 12:05
Subject: Fwd: New Media Research: Journal CFP: new media  industries

>From the New media research list.

Phil

>Mailing-List: ListBot mailing list contact
[log in to unmask]
>Delivered-To: mailing list [log in to unmask]
>Reply-To: "New Media Research" <[log in to unmask]>
>X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:30:53 -0700
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: nina wakeford <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: New Media Research: Journal CFP: new media industries
>
>New Media Research
>
>Call For Papers: Information, Communication and Society
>
>SPECIAL ISSUE, VOL 4:4:
>
>WORK, DIFFERENCE AND THE NEW MEDIA INDUSTRIES
>
>What are the impacts of the new media industry on work,organisation and
>identity?
>
>Media representations of workers in the new media sector suggest a
>workforce which is young, hip, urban, and diverse. Is this an accurate
>characterisation of these new media workers? How are they organised?
How do
>they forge their notions of identity? What kinds of workplace cultures
are
>formed in the new media sector? What roles do they play in the creation
of
>new media products?
>
>This special issue will bring together the emerging research on the new
>media sector including dot.coms, incubators, and other multimedia
start-up
>companies. Papers are invited from a wide range of perspectives which
focus
>on one or more of the following themes:
>
>- qualitative or quantitative studies of new media workers including
web
>designers, systems engineers, graphic designers, and testers.
>- discourses of identity and difference in the new media industries
>- power and inequality in new media work
>- methodological and ethical challenges of researching new media
industries
>- cross-national studies
>- collaborative work with dot.com companies
>- the importance of play in work, and the work of play in new media
>- strategies of subversion and resistence of new media workers
>- work patterns; changing boundaries between home and work
>
>Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2000
>
>Potential authors are encouraged to contact the Special Issue Editor
with
>inquiries about the topic of the special issue.
>
>Special Issue Editor:
>
>Nina Wakeford
>Department of Sociology
>University of Surrey
>Guildford GU2 5XH
>
>email [log in to unmask]
>
>For general questions about the journal, submissions and style, authors
>should visit the journal website http://www.infosoc.co.uk
>
>
>______________________________________________________________________
>To unsubscribe, write to [log in to unmask]
>
>Taking Care of Business is always a snap when you shop with the
>world's largest seller of office products.  From pencils to PDAs,
>Office Depot has what you're looking for, plus FREE delivery on all
>orders over $50.  Click here to start saving:
>
>
>http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/Office_Depot

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
Opinions expressed in this email are my own unless otherwise stated.
Phil Graham, Lecturer (Communication), Graduate School of Management
University of Queensland, Ph:  617 3381 1083; Fax:  617 3381 1083;
Mobile 0401 737 315; homepage: www.uq.edu.au/~uqpgraha
"You can tell when death is approaching; everything starts to fall into 
place" -
Der Willersdorf
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%