Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for the cross-posting. Just a gentle reminder re: the Special
Edition on Digital Scholarship and the Public Intellectual. It's less than 2
weeks to the deadline, so still plenty of time to submit your abstract for
our open journal.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts. Further information is provided
below.
Call for papers: Journal of Applied Social Theory
(JAST)<http://socialtheoryapplied.com/journal/index.php/journal>
Special edition: Digital Scholarship and the Public Intellectual
Editors: Cristina Costa, University of Strathclyde & Mark Murphy, University
of Glasgow
Almost three decades after its invention, what’s the contribution of the
World Wide Web to academia? What has changed? More important even, how has
it transformed the academic profession, the academy itself and the audiences
it aims to serve and inform?
Even though popular and informal media are ripe with descriptions of how the
web is either a potential space of intellectual participation and production
or a tool of disruption, the contribution of social theory to the debate of
digital scholarship practices is still minimal. This is no less curious
given that the study of technology has occupied theorists across the social
sciences for centuries, and areas of inquiry such as ‘careers’,
‘professional identities’ and ‘Higher Education leadership and policy’ to
name a few are well established. Yet, links with the digital are far less
frequent.
Hence, there is a need to enhance our empirical and critical understanding
of the digital and its relation to academia and intellectual practices by
exploring how and which social theories can provide analytical and
methodological instruments to explain this emergent phenomenon.
This special edition aims to explore the contribution social theory can make
to the understanding of the paradigm shifts brought about by and developed
on the digital.
We seek contributions that might help theorise such paradigm shifts in areas
such as:
* The digital public sphere
* Digital scholarship and the democratization of knowledge
* The future of scholarship
* Means of production and dissemination of knowledge
* Professional identities and recognition
* The rise/decline of the public intellectual
* The contribution of digital scholarship to the civil society
* Tensions between open and closed academic systems
* Learning cultures
* Communication, argumentation and debate
* Management and governance
* Impact agendas
* Systems of accountability and regulation
* The politics of access
* Pedagogy and curriculum design
* etc.
Submissions
Abstracts and full manuscripts will be reviewed by the Journal of Applied
Social Theory’s editorial board.
Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit full manuscripts by
30 October 2015 (review of manuscripts will take place in November 2015).
The special edition will be published online in December 2015. (This special
edition might also result in a published book).
All contributions should be original and should not be under consideration
elsewhere.
Please send us a 400 word abstract by July 31, 2015.
Papers should not exceed 8000 words.
For further information and authors’ guidelines please see JAST’s
website<http://socialtheoryapplied.com/journal/index.php/journal/about/submi
ssions>
Submission of abstracts is done by registering with
JAST<http://socialtheoryapplied.com/journal/index.php/journal/user/register>
and using the submission
link<http://socialtheoryapplied.com/journal/index.php/journal/about/submissi
ons> (please choose relevant Section: Special edition: Digital Scholarship
and the Public intellectual)
The Journal of Applied Social Theory (JAST) is published in Open Access. For
further information please see The JAST’s Copyright
Notice<http://www.socialtheoryapplied.com/journal/index.php/journal/about/su
bmissions#copyrightNotice>
<http://www.socialtheoryapplied.com/journal/index.php/journal/about/submissi
ons#copyrightNotice>
Questions regarding this Call for Papers may be sent to the co-editors of
this special edition:
Dr Cristina Costa [[log in to unmask]] & Dr Mark Murphy
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Summary of Deadlines:
Submission of abstract: 31 July 2015
Notification of acceptance: August 2015
Submission of full paper: 30 October 2015
Peer review of papers: November 2015
Publication of special issue: December 2015
Dr Cristina Costa
Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning Course Leader PgCert/PgDip in
Educational Technology Coordinator of the Masters' in Education (Full Time)
Co-editor of Social Theory Applied<http://socialtheoryapplied.com/>
(Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/SocialTheoryApplied>)
Co-editor of the Journal of Applied Social
Theory<http://socialtheoryapplied.com/journal>
University of Strathclyde
School of Education
Level 5 Lord Hope Building
141 St James Road
Glasgow
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My latest/ in press publications
Articles:
Costa, C (2014) The Habitus of digital Scholars. Research in Learning
Technology. Vol.21, 1-17 Costa, C. (2015). Outcasts on the inside: academics
reinventing themselves online. International Journal of Lifelong Education,
0(0), 1–17. doi:10.1080/02601370.2014.985752 Costa, C. (2015). Double
gamers: academics between fields. British Journal of Sociology of Education.
doi:10.1080/01425692.2014.982861
Books:
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (in press). Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research:
The art of application. Palgrave Macmillan.
Murphy, M., & Costa, C. (in press). Theory as Method in Research: On
Bourdieu, education and society. Routledge. Retrieved from
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138900349
The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC015263
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