[Air-L] Call for Papers: Special Issue of Media, Culture and Society (MCS)

[kelly boudreau]

Via Christian Pentzold, Chemnitz University of Technology / Alexander
von Humboldt
Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin,


*******

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Media, Culture and Society (MCS)

'Social Media-Social Memory. Remembering in digitally networked times'

Guest editors:
Christian Pentzold (Chemnitz University of Technology / Alexander von
Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin)
Christine Lohmeier (University of Munich)

Media, Culture & Society editors:
Emily Keightley (Loughborough University)
Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow)


Media and memory are often closely intertwined. From the very start of human
culture, media have been employed to fix, share and store expressions and
impressions of individual and collective experiences. Taking this continuing
twin relation as its point of departure, this special issue seeks to
showcase empirical research that studies the interplay of contemporary
media, social change and acts and artifacts of memory.

The editors are seeking contributions that investigate commemoration,
remembrance and memory work as an essential thread in the social and
material patterns of modern culture.

We are especially interested in empirically grounded submissions that
address, but are not limited to, the following questions:

-   What can we learn about the interplay of individual and collective
memory
and the affordances of a media ecology that is more and more digitally
networked and increasingly mobile and locative?
-   How may we conceptualize and investigate memory taking account of the
dynamics of digitisation, networking and mediatization?
-   Which methods and approaches are most appropriate for the study of
memory work and digital and connective media?
-   How are memories materially and semiotically mediated?
-   How does memory travel? How can we conceptualise and study memory work
in quotidian mobilities as well as in a range of contexts such as
transcultural/transnational western and non-western movements, post-colonial
contexts, diasporas and the general flows of peoples, goods and ideas?
-   What are the dynamics of (counter-)hegemonic discourses of memory in
current mediascapes?
-   What can we learn about how mediated memories are realised in respect of
power, class, ethnicity, religion and gender?

Please submit an 800 word abstract and a 100 word biographical note to both
guest editors, Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier, as an e-mail
attachment (.rtf, .doc, .pdf) no later than 16 November, 2012. Authors of
accepted abstracts will be notified by the end of November 2012. Manuscripts
should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, be in
conformity with Media, Culture & Society style guidelines and should be
submitted by 1 May, 2013. For specific manuscript submission guidelines,
please go to: http://mcs.sagepub.com/

Important dates

Deadline for abstracts          16 November 2012
Full paper submission           1 May 2013
Revised paper submission        31 August 2013
Issue publication               Summer 2014

If you have any queries, please contact the guest editors:

Christian Pentzold, Chemnitz University of Technology / Alexander von
Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society,
Berlin,christian.pentzold at phil.tu-chemnitz.de
<http://webmail.aoir.org/src/compose.php?send_to=christian.pentzold%40phil.tu-chemnitz.de>

Christine Lohmeier, University of
Munich,christine.lohmeier at yahoo.co.uk
<http://webmail.aoir.org/src/compose.php?send_to=christine.lohmeier%40yahoo.co.uk>

****



--
Christian Pentzold

Lecturer, Chemnitz University of Technology
Research Associate, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society,
Berlin

christian.pentzold [at]
phil.tu-chemnitz.dehttp://www.medkom.tu-chemnitz.de/mk/personen_pentzold.php