Dear all,
The follow call for papers should be of interest to list members.
Thanks
Kirstie
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Special Issue of The Communication Review: Surveillance and
Communications
Guest Editors: Kelly Gates and Shoshana Magnet
We invite submissions for a special issue of The Communication Review on
the contribution of communications research to the study of
surveillance.
The age of informatics has resulted in the proliferation of new
technologies of surveillance. Surveillance remains one of the key means
by
which modern institutions interact with and govern their
constituencies. This special issue of The Communication Review will
examine the multiple connections between communications and
surveillance. We hope to foster dialogue on the interconnections
between
communications theory and surveillance studies. Has communications
theory
helped to expand the study of surveillance through attention to the
socio-cultural ramifications of surveillance practices? Can
communications
theory broaden the study of surveillance through its attention to the
importance of surveillance technologies as information and
communication technologies, as well as visual media and sound
reproduction
systems?
The special issue will address such questions as: How do communicative
practices, media technologies, and surveillance practices intersect?
What
insights does communications theory and research bring to the study of
surveillance as a modern institutional practice?
We are particularly interested in connections between surveillance
studies
and critical race and feminist theories, as well as theoretical
investigations of the ways in which surveillance techniques are used to
mark and classify bodies based on social
inequalities. How are forms of discrimination coded into and
perpetuated
by surveillance strategies?
We are also interested in the intensification of surveillance in the
neo-liberal economy. How is the expansion of new surveillance
technologies
informed by the logic of privatization? How has "informationalized
capitalism" encouraged the development of new practices and technologies
of
surveillance? How do particular surveillance strategies contribute to
the
conflation of consumption and citizenship?
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
The relationships between surveillance and communication theory
The differential application of surveillance strategies based on
social inequalities
Surveillance technologies as markers of identity
Surveillance and media interactivity
Surveillance and the digitization of visual media
Surveillance and copyright enforcement
Market research surveillance and consumer citizenship
Surveillance and reality television
Surveillance forms and cinematic "practices of looking"
Papers should be between 7500 and 8000 words long and must be received
by
May 1st, 2007. Please email them to: Andrea Press and Bruce Williams,
Editors, The Communication Review, c/o Tanya Omeltchenko, Managing
Editor,
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