Disability Studies Quarterly www.dsq-sds.org <http://www.dsq-sds.org/> CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Technology & Disability Guest Editors: Gerard Goggin, PhD, University of Queensland Christopher Newell, PhD, University of Tasmania An electronic journal focusing on disability studies research Disability Studies Quarterly is a refereed online publication of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). The 24-year-old journal has established a multidisciplinary and international forum for social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It is published four times per year at <http://www.dsq-sds.org/> www.dsq-sds.org. Scope: Authors are invited to submit scholarly papers based on original research for peer review, as well as research in progress, pilot studies, and commentaries/essays. DSQ also accepts submissions of disability-oriented fiction, poetry, and review of books, films, videos, and theatre. DSQ represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that comprises multidisciplinary disability studies. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability, and to promoting full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society. Special Theme issue on Technology & Disability Whether in the home, at work or leisure, technology plays an important role in the lives of people with disabilities, and also in the way that disability is conceived, experienced, and framed in society. A wide range of technologies are adopted, consumed, and used by people with disabilities in unexpected and innovative ways. There are many contests over the meaning and implications of technology, as, for instance, in the case of the 'bionic ear'. There are also specific cultural and social codings of technology/disability that remain little recognized and examined, and political and economic discourses that have been little studied. For instance, disability is often invoked as a warrant for development of new technologies, from biotechnology to information and communication technologies, and 'smart homes' - yet these technologies often create new forms of exclusion for people with disabilities. In this special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly, we wish to provide a timely, interdisciplinary reconsideration of the connections between technology and disability. Rather than providing publicity, news, or reviews of new technologies or equipment, the issue seeks to investigate the deeper yet still neglected social, cultural, and disability rights aspects of technology and people with disabilities. In this light, we welcome submissions on topics such as (but not restricted to): * histories of disability and technology * case studies and re-examinations of 'classic' disability technologies, such as the wheelchair, prosthesis, hearing aid, and so on * case studies of 'new' technologies, including digital technologies, communication and media technologies, biotechnologies, 'smart home', medical technologies, and cochlear implant * theoretical investigations regarding disability and technology (for instance: how do theories of technology/disability interact with other theories of technology, whether Heideggerian, social shaping of technology, materialist, actor-network theory, feminist, and so on) * analyses of technology policy and practice * studies of disability and technology design. To submit papers: Potential contributors are encouraged to familiarize themselves with previous issues of Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ), and to discuss their ideas with the Guest Editors. Gerard Goggin, PhD, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia. Email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] OR Christopher Newell, PhD, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Australia. Email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] If you would like to submit a paper to the journal, please prepare your manuscript in accordance with the DSQ style guide, and send an electronic copy of manuscript to the guest editors at the above addresses. To submit papers on disk, mail to: Christopher Newell, PhD, Medical Education Unit School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 99, Hobart, Tasmania,7001, Australia. Submission deadline: 1 December 2004 ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.