CALL FOR PAPERS:
Inaugural issue

Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology. Inaugural issue


Outside the Frame is a journal dedicated to examining emergent theories
concerning how technology is transforming the way we currently think of
or

practice scholarship in the Arts and Sciences.  We are specifically
interested in theoretical works that approach texts and technology from
an interdisciplinary perspective.

Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:

Autonomous agents/Autonomous Media
Digital Publishing and the place of Authorship
Digital Rhetoric and Queer Studies
Ethics of Online Communities
Feminism, Cyberculture, and the Appended Self
Identity, Representation, and Embodiment
Multicultural Communication
Posthuman vs. Postmodern
Remdiating Narratives
Secondary Orality and the Digital Environment
Semiotics and Cybernetic Discourse
Teletheory, Grammatology, and the Logic of New Media
The Plight of Film: Digital vs. Celluloid
Materiality/Immateriality of Electronic Texts

We are also looking for reviewers for the following texts:

Art, Performance, Media: 31 Interviews by Nicholas Zurbrugg, editor

The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan
Sterne

Can the Subaltern See?: Photography as History by Fernando Coronil

Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender by
Bernice L. Hausman

The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace by Vincent Mosco

Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers by Pablo J.
Boczkowski

Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video by
Catherine Russell

Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television by
Jeffrey Sconce

Image Ethics in the Digital Age by Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, and
Jay Ruby, editors

Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Changes by Wai Chee
Dimock and Priscilla Wald

Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture by Lauren
Rabinowitz and Abraham Geil

Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy by Greg
Elmer

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System,
1880-1980 by Venus Green

Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living by Richard Doyle


Due date for submissions for articles and reviews: June 1, 2004


Submissions to the Journal should contain a short 200 word abstract, be
between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, double-spaced and should follow
Outside the Frame guidelines (to be found at
http://www.textsandtech.org/~outsidetheframe).

Any queries about  submissions for the inaugural issue are welcome. To
submit a paper or to query
about a subject, please contact Anthony Crisafi at
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To query about a review, please contact Rebecca Middlebrook, Reviews
Editor at [log in to unmask]
In accordance with the Submission  Guidelines, all
material must be submitted via email.  Other queries may be sent to the
following address:

Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology
Department of English
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Fl 32816