[Air-l] Fwd: Call for Papers Special Issue: 'Digital and New Media Research'

[Steve Jones]

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>VISUAL STUDIES
>Call for Papers
>Special Issue:
>'Digital and New Media Research'
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>Visual Studies invites submissions for a special issue on the role
>of digital and
>new or multimedia in visual research. Technological changes associated with
>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 not limited to) the
>following:
>The role of digital media as tools in field or research settings, including:
>multimedia ethnography; 'digital' elicitation; participatory research and
>camcorders; database management tools, qualitative analysis software, etc.
>The status of multimedia formats (Web/CD/DVD etc.) in the representation and
>dissemination of visual research: digital museums, archives, and
>object oriented
>repositories; interactive field/web sites; multimedia and the politics of
>representation.
>Research on the social uses of new media technologies (web, digital home mode,
>gaming, etc.): subcultures identified through digital visual
>practice; social impact
>of digital technology on professional visual practices; critical
>accounts of the
>visual construction of digital practices; digital technology and new social
>movements.
>Visual Studies is a Routledge journal published twice a year on behalf of the
>International Visual Sociology Association. The journal provides the
>key resource
>where issues of a visual nature, whether it 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 will be
>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. Visual material that supports or forms the basis of submissions is
>encouraged. If the submission warrants, there may be opportunities for online
>links to multimedia components.
>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,
>Alberta CANADA T2N 1N4. Tel: 403-220-7766. Fax: 403-282-6716. email:
>rusted at ucalgary.ca