Dear List Members,
I am hoping that list members could forward this CFP to those in their networks with overlapping interests at the early-stages of their academic career. See Also is a new graduate open access journal, and I am hoping to get some interdisciplinary scholarship with this call.
Thanks,
Blake
Call for Papers:
See Also: the UBC iSchool Student Journal Special Section – Queerly Seeking Information
Since the 2000s there has been a variety of scholarship associated with queer people and their information practices and spaces (Bryson, 2007; Bryson et al. 2007; Downing, 2013; Gieseking, 2015; Gieseking, 2014; Marshall et al, 2015). This has been theoretical, practitioner-based, and a myriad of other ways that best illustrate this population’s information needs and practices. The scholarship, from within and outside of information studies, demonstrates that queer people have unique relationships with information and the associated technologies. There have been questions pertaining to the mobilization of queer knowledge, the (un)fun gay in social media, democratization of knowledge through queer archives, queer social networks, queering of big data, and the ways LGBTQ people seek information (Bryson, 2007; Bryson et al. 2007; Bryson & MacIntosh, 2010; Hermida & Bryson, 2010; MacIntosh & Bryson, 2008). As the profession of librarianship has become more aware and engaged with critical theory through the critical librarianship movement, it is necessary for further development from those within and outside of the field engaged in information studies (Drabinski, 2008; Drabinski, 2013). Furthermore, there have been advancements in technology (i.e., different applications) and new areas of scholarship (i.e., big data) it is necessary to provide fresh insight about these topics. With a queer population or theoretical framework, there is the opportunity to trouble and/or provide further perspectives on these timely topics.
See Also is welcoming, for the first time, a special edited section targeted for papers from within or outside of the UBC iSchool community. This special edition is interested in themes related, but not limited, to queer: information seeking; community engagement, social networks, archival practices, cyberspaces, big data, arts-based material, and experimental theory or creative expressions. There are a variety of submissions that will be accepted: works in progress, research proposal, interventions or manifestos, empirical or theoretical papers, projects related to professional practice, and creative projects (not limited to: art, photography, poetry, creative writing). Authors can be from other iSchools, Information Studies or other social science programs, public/population health, the humanities, STEM, or community-based/independent scholars.
To be considered for this CFP, a 200 – 300 word abstract must be sent by August 1, 2016 to Blake Hawkins, guest section editor, ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). By August 8, 2016 you will receive a response from the guest section editor, and a final draft will be expected by October 1, 2016. Papers can vary in length, in consultation with the guest section editor. See Also is an open access journal and the articles are under a Creative Commons license.
Contact Information:
Blake Hawkins (@blake_w_hawkins)
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University of British Columbia, iSchool
Guest section editor, See Also
Work Cited
Bryson, M. (2007). New media and sexual subcultures: Critical perspectives on research problematics, possibilities, and practices. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, 3(4), 109-118.
Bryson, M., MacIntosh, L., Jordan, S., & Lin, H.L. (2007). Virtually queer?: Homing devices, mobility, and un/belongings. Canadian Journal of Communication, 31(3), 791-815.
Bryson, M., & MacIntosh, L. (2010). Can we play ‘Fun Gay’?: Disjuncture and difference, and the precarious mobilities of millennial queer youth narratives.International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 23(1), 101-124.
Downing, G. 2013. “Virtual Youth: Non-Heterosexual Young People’s Use of the Internet to Negotiate Their Identities and Socio-Sexual Relations.” Children’s Geographies 11 (1): 44–58.
Drabinski, E. (2008). Queering Library Space: Notes Toward a New Geography of the Library. Thinking Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies
Drabinski, E. (2013)“Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction.”<http://www.jstor.org/action/showArticleInfo?doi=10.1086%2F669547> Library Quarterly.
Gieseking, J. (2015) Useful Instability: the Queer Social and Spatial Production of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Radical History Review [Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings issue], (122): 25-37; <http://bit.ly/jjgorg-rhrlha>
Gieseking, J. (2014) Notes from Queer(ing) New York: Refusing Binaries in Online Pedagogy. Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, 1(5).<http://bit.ly/jgorg-jitp>
Hermida, A., & Bryson, M. (2010). Complexities of networked media within the transitive spheres of globalization. New Media & Society. 12, 855-861.
MacIntosh, L. & Bryson, M. (2008). Youth, MySpace, and the interstitial spaces of becoming and belonging. Journal of LGBT Youth: The Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Research, Policy, Practice, and Theory. 5(1), 133-145.
Daniel Marshall, Kevin P. Murphy, and Zeb Tortorici (2015). Editors' Introduction: Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings Radical History Review (122): 1-10
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