This is a reminder that the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is seeking submissions of articles or multimodal projects on the theme "Disability as Insight, Access as the Function of Design." The deadline is just around the corner, with full article manuscripts (or multimodal equivalent) due April 15th 2015.
See the full call-for-submissions description below. If you have any questions or would like to discuss a potential submission with the issue editors, contact Andrew Lucchesi ([log in to unmask]) and/or Sushil Oswal ([log in to unmask]).
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Issue 8 of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Special Topic: Disability as Insight, Access as the Function of Design
Issue Editors: Sushil K. Oswal, University of Washington, and Andrew J. Lucchesi, The Graduate Center, CUNY
http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#issuecall
JITP welcomes work that explores critical and creative uses of interactive technology in teaching, learning, research, and the workplace. For this issue, we invite submissions from both senior and emerging scholars under the linked themes of disability and access as generative focuses for technological design and pedagogical innovation.
In this issue of JITP, rather than approaching disability as a problem to be solved, we seek proposals for projects that imagine, explore, and underscore the positive gains to be had by embracing disability perspectives on accessible designs. We draw on Elizabeth Sanders and Pieter Jan Stappers's conception of future-minded generative design research and ask contributors to propose projects that would inform and inspire future designers, teachers, and researchers to shape digital tools, methodologies, and environments which de-center ableistic visions of technology, composing processes, curricular content, and access itself.
We seek submissions of critical narratives that underscore the contributions disability makes in stretching the boundaries of design while asserting a central place for accessibility, inclusivity, and bodily difference. We also welcome topics that challenge or reconceptualize the traditional notions of assistive technologies and accessible designs whether or not they necessarily address the topic from the perspective of Disability Studies. Rhetorical analysis of technology, accessibility, and disability can also be a productive area of exploration.
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Suggested topics may include but are not limited to:
- What does it mean to compose multimodally with accessibility in view as a person with or without disability? What might it look like to design inclusive user interactions in social virtual spaces? What complexity, creativity, or obfuscations are visible in today's social media compositions at the intersections of gender, race, and disability?
- What novel disability and accessibility scholarship projects have been made, or are possible by virtual Social Networks? What new knowledge is possible through assistive-technology-related disability and accessibility research for universal users?
- Besides the functional innovations, what possibilities for play and improvisation are possible through assistive technologies and related research? How do such play and improvisation stabilize existing knowledge and directionally change the generation of new knowledge?
- Development of assistive technology tools or applications for "mainstream" purposes; rhetorics of assistive technologies; rhetorical histories of assistive technologies morphing into "mainstream" products; rhetorics of, or analyses of, consumer mobile technologies as assistive technologies; visions of assistive technologies for able-bodied users.
- Analyses of new models of Universal Design; benefits and/or analyses of disabled-centered participatory designs; position papers on innovative, crowd-sourced designs by and for the disabled.
- Generative research methods for evaluating accessible designs, products, and pedagogies; profiles or analyses of digital tools for disability activism, or community building; or experiments in fostering accessibility in learning, work, and research environments in college and beyond.
- We invite both textual and multimedia submissions employing interdisciplinary and creative approaches in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Besides scholarly papers, the proposed submissions can consist of audio or visual presentations and interviews, dialogues, or conversations; creative/artistic works; manifestos; or other scholarly materials.
All JITP submissions are subject to an open peer review process. The expected length for finished manuscripts is under 5,000 words. Submissions received that do not fall under the special issue topic but do fall under JITP's broader themes will still be considered for publication in Issue 8.
Important Dates
Submission deadline for full manuscripts for this Fall 2015 Issue is April 15, 2015. When submitting using our Open Journal Systems software, under "Journal Section," please select the section titled "Issue 8: Special Issue."
Full submission guidelines available here:
http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit
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