[Air-L] CFP: Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media

[Katerina Diamantaki]

Dear all,
I am looking for any research/papers on why CMC groups or virtual 
communities fail, mostly in terms of internal group dynamics and issues of 
trust, identity, interaction. Your help is greatly appreciated
K. Panou


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From: "Robin Reid" <Robin_Reid at tamu-commerce.edu>
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Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media


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> Symposium title: Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media April 30-May 2, 2009
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> The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University
> (http://resi.tamu.edu/
> <https://libarts.tamu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://libarts.tamu
> .edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://resi.tamu.edu/> ) convenes a
> symposium every other year, and the proposed theme for the 2008-2009
> year is Shifting Terrains: Inequalities in the 21st Century, and the
> symposium itself is to focus on Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media.
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> The explosion of work on New Media (including the Internet, mobile
> devices, Web 2.0) and the juxtaposition and overlap between 'old' media
> (radio, television, film, and mass-print media) and New Media is a rich
> field of cultural production and scholarly research in which scholars of
> race and ethnicity have not been particularly well-represented.
> However, there are cutting edge scholars who do indeed explore various
> aspects of race/ethnicity and (New) Media (including audience/fan
> studies, representations of racial and ethnic identities in a variety of
> media, identity-focused online communities, etc.).
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> We invite such scholars to submit papers with the intention of
> presenting work that deals with these topics during a 2 1/2 day
> interdisciplinary symposium, with several keynote speakers, including
> Dr. Lisa Nakamura and Dr. Henry Bial. We intend that a number of these
> papers will be compiled into an edited volume intended for publication,
> and that all papers and participants will have the opportunity to upload
> their papers on our developing interactive website for scholarly
> exchange on working papers.
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> Submissions: 500 word abstracts or full papers of no more than 8000
> words (including notes and references) should be submitted to:
> gatson at tamu.edu and resi at tamu.edu by December 31, 2008.  Submissions
> will be reviewed by an organizing committee, and authors will be
> notified of acceptance/rejection by March 15, 2009.
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> *Please note person posting the call is not one of the organizers and
> reply to them.  Thank you*
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> Robin Anne Reid
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> Professor, Literature and Languages
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> Texas A&M University-Commerce
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> Commerce TX 75429
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> Arts
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> Tolkien at Kalamazoo
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> President, Internation Association of Audience and Fan Studies
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> "There is nothing so unsure as the plans we make that rely upon the
> sensible behavior of another human being." Gordianus the Finder, in
> Steven Saylor's The Triumph of Caesar
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