[Air-l] New Media & Society CFP: Special issues and themed sections

[Steve Jones]

NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY

SPECIAL ISSUES AND THEMED SECTIONS

CALL FOR PROPOSALS


New Media & Society (NM&S) is soliciting proposals for forthcoming 
special issues or themed sections. A themed section on multimedia was 
published in 2000, another on cultural attitudes and information 
technology in 2001 and one on the internet in China will appear in 
the June 2002 issue. The journal editors invite proposals for 
forthcoming special issues and themed sections, starting with 2003. 
NM&S aims to publish one special issue or themed section per year, 
preferably in the June or September issue. Each themed section should 
consist of about three to four article-length contributions and an 
editorial by the guest editor. Any topic suitable for an article in 
NM&S is appropriate; however, preference will be given to topics not 
yet extensively addressed in the journal.

Proposals should include a brief description of the topic (c. 300 
words). When contributions to the special issue or themed section are 
to be selected from a conference or other scholarly meeting, please 
provide details of the event. If contributors to the proposed special 
issue or themed section have already been selected, please provide 
short biographical notes about the authors and abstracts of their 
contributions. Similar notes should also be provided for the person 
proposing the theme issue, indicating his or her expertise on the 
topic.

For the theme selected for 2003, manuscripts should be available for 
double-blind peer review (following normal journal procedure) by 
October 2002. Manuscripts should then be revised and ready for 
production by mid-December 2002 for the June 2003 issue and mid-March 
2003 for the September 2003 issue. The guest editor is responsible 
for soliciting and processing the reviews of articles, and for 
recommending manuscripts for publication. The final decision 
regarding publication of manuscripts, however, rests with the editors 
of NM&S. The guest editor will be expected to prepare an editorial 
introducing the themed section.

Proposals for special issues and themed sections may be submitted by 
email to any of the four editors of NM&S (addresses below) and should 
be received no later than 30 March 2002. Proposed guest editors will 
be notified of the editors' decision by 30 April 2002. 

NM&S Editors
Nicholas W. Jankowski N.Jankowski at maw.kun.nl
Steve Jones sjones at uic.edu
Leah Lievrouw llievrou at ucla.edu
Roger Silverstone r.silverstone at lse.ac.uk