Call for Proposals (CFP):
*Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society, Vol. 2*
August 15, 2012 publication date
Abstracts for Critical Articles Due June 15, 2011
Drafts of Creative Works Due October 1, 2011
Reviews Due May 15, 2012 ([log in to unmask])

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Website: http://tcjournal.org
ISSN 1938-0526
Inquiries: http://tcjournal.org/drupal/inquiries

We seek papers from a broad range of academic disciplines that focus on
issues that could be briefly summed as
“technology and society,” or, perhaps,“technologies and societies.”
Successful papers for Technoculture
(http://tjcournal.org) should focus on the ways humanists read technology in
a range of historical periods and of
academic and artistic disciplines as the subject of their work or as a
special case of cultural studies.
Topics could include depictions of technologies that treat a wide range of
subjects related to the humanities. For
this second issue, we are especially interested in historical approaches
that focus on "dead" or outdated
technologies though articles and creative works on any technological subject
are appropriate.
These subjects might include:
• Representations of technology in popular culture including movies and
television
• Fan reactions and appropriations of science fiction TV series, films and
novels
• Cultural uses of technology in a variety of cultures (not just the U.S.)
• Old technologies and their uses
• Ideological approaches to the understanding of a given technology or
technologies
• Artistic reactions to technology (technology as a subject for the arts)
• Use of technology by artists
• Social media
• War Equipment
• Games, game equipment, and gamers
• Visions for new technologies (either critical articles that look toward
the future or creative works)

In particular, we are interested in a conception of “technology” and the
“humanist impulse” that pushes beyond
contemporary American culture and its fascination with computers; we seek
papers that deal with any
technology or technologies in any number of historical periods from any
relevant theoretical perspective.
Please note: We are not interested in “how to” pedagogical papers that deal
with the use of technology in the
classroom.
Scholarly/critical papers should use the latest MLA citation style. Creative
works including poetry and creative
non-fiction are of interest to us. We will publish art work and media in a
variety of media (but designed for
display on a computer monitor) including still images, video or audio.
Inquiries are welcome at http://tcjournal.org/drupal/inquiries.
Calendar
Please submit article proposals/abstracts for critical articles (the
"journal article") by June 15, 2011. The editorial
staff will then request full length drafts from those abstracts still under
consideration. Length: For print texts, we
seek 6,000 to 7,500 word manuscripts. Creative works in any genre may vary
wildly and may be submitted via
our web submission form by October 1, 2011.

Creative Works Due:
October 1, 2011 for immediate review.

Calendar for Critical Works:
Article Proposals/Abstracts Due: June 15, 2011.
Requests for Full Length Drafts from Editorial Staff to Authors: July 1,
2011.
Full Drafts to Editors for Comment and Peer Review: October 1, 2011.
Comments from Peer Reviewers Due: November 15, 2011.
Comments to Authors: Dec 1, 2011.
Revisions Due from Authors: Mar 1, 2012.
Comments from Peer Reviewers (Round Two), for those article submissions
noted as needing major revision:
May 1, 2012.

Final Revisions Due: July 1, 2012.

Publication: August 15, 2012.

Call for book reviews
The editorial staff of Technoculture is currently seeking book reviews at
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accepts submissions for its book review section on a rolling basis all year
round. However, in order to be
included in the current issue, submissions will have to reach the editorial
staff by May 15, 2012.
The books reviewed should focus on cultural studies of technology and be
published within the last two years of
the May 15, 2012 deadline. All book reviews should be between 500 and 1000
words. They should be submitted
in rtf or web equivalent such as flash or html and include the complete
details of the book (author(s), publisher,
date of publication). Please include a brief bio of the reviewer (no more
than 50 words).


Marthe

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Marthe Reed
Director of Creative Writing
Assistant Professor
English Department
UL Lafayette
337-482-5503
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