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[Barry Wellman]

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    Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:44:42 -0600
    From: Brian Rusted <rusted at UCALGARY.CA>
Reply-To: IVSA International Visual Sociology Association <IVSA at PDOMAIN.UWINDSOR.CA>
 Subject: Call for Papers on Digital Visual Research
      To: IVSA at PDOMAIN.UWINDSOR.CA

VISUAL STUDIES
Call for Papers
Special Issue
 Digital and New Media Research

Visual Studies invites submissions for a special issue on the role of
digital and multimedia in visual research. Technological changes
associated with such  new  media are having significant impacts on the
practice of Visual Sociology and critical, interpretive research on
visual culture. Transformations are occurring in fieldwork practices,
research dissemination, and in the social practices associated with
visual media. This issue will address the implications of these changes
in terms of method, theory, and subject in visual research.

The issue seeks articles that might include (but are not limited to) the
following:

1. The role of digital media as tools in field or research settings,
including
a. multimedia ethnography
b.  digital  elicitation
c. participatory research and camcorders
d. database management tools, qualitative analysis software, etc.
2. The status of multimedia formats (Web/CD/DVD etc.) in the
representation and dissemination of visual research.
a. digital museums, archives, and object oriented repositories
b. interactive field/web sites
c. multimedia and the politics of representation
3. Research on the social uses of new media technologies (web, digital
home mode, gaming, etc.).
a. subcultures identified through digital visual practice
b. social impact of digital technology on professional visual practices
c. critical accounts of the visual construction of digital practices
d. digital technology and new social movements.
e. new media or digital media artworlds

Visual Studies is a Routledge journal published twice a year on behalf
of the International Visual Sociology Association. The journal provides
a key resource where issues of a visual nature, whether they be
epistemological, methodological, empirical, symbolic, or ethical may be
aired and debated. It includes articles on a broad cross-section of
topics and is interested in all work that is visually oriented. The
cross-disciplinary and multi-modal nature of the journal is reflected by
the coverage of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, media
studies, visual culture, symbolic interaction, documentary photography
(moving and still images) information technology, visual literacy,
visual intelligence, and communication studies. It is expected that
visual material will support or form the basis of submissions. There may
be opportunities for online links to multimedia components of submitted
articles.

For questions about this issue, please contact the guest editor at the
address below. Submission deadline is September 1, 2003.

Dr. Brian Rusted
Faculty of Communication & Culture
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta CANADA T2N 1N4

Fax: 403-282-6716
Office: 403-220-7766
email: rusted at ucalgary.ca

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