CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS
Feminist Media Studies,Commentary and Criticism Section
Co-Editors
Jane Arthurs ([log in to unmask])
Usha Zacharias ([log in to unmask])
We invite short essays for the Commentary and Criticism section of
Feminist Media Studies on either of the topics below. Please contact us as
soon as possible to express your interest in contributing so that we can
plan the issue. The final deadline to receive completed essays of around
1500 words is January 7, 2007.
BEYOND GLOBAL WARMING: ENVIRONMENT, MEDIA, AND NEW GENDER POLITICS
Recently, the global warming debate has renewed new and old media
focus on the environment and environmental issues. Given women's
differentiated access to and control over resources, global warming is
clearly a gender issue as well. While ecofeminists have long contended
that the metaphors and practices of dominance over nature extend to
those over women, colonized races and other species, feminist media
scholarship on the environment is still a marginalized field of study.
Can we really integrate non-anthropomorphic arguments to feminist
approaches to communication? We invite reports of works in progress,
reflections on new media as a site for feminist intervention in this
field, thoughts on the productivity of transnational approaches, and
general essays regarding gendered approaches to any environmental
issue, going beyond or addressing global warming.
RESEARCHING WEB 2.0: INTERNET SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE DEMISE OF GENDER?
How do we theorize gender in the context of the rise of participatory,
interactive internet interfaces, such as social networking sites,
blogs and even e-governance? What implications does the rise of social
networks on the internet, such as Facebook, Orkut, Myspace etc have on
feminist approaches to media and the internet starting from Donna
Haraway's cyborg? How empowering are these new media "architectures of
participation" that enable new forms of many-to-many publishing? Are
web-based communities truly different because, as Manuel Castells
suggests, they operate in a new "space of flows"? We invite reports of
works in progress, speculations, debates, and arguments regarding the
opening up of these new media orbits.
Contributors should follow the Harvard style of reference and guidelines
for submission of manuscripts outlined on our website,
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14680777.asp. The title page of
the manuscript must contain the complete mailing address,
institutional affiliation, and full contact information including
phone and fax numbers of the author(s). Submissions must be saved and
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