[Air-L] CFP: Arab Women and New Media

[Vit Sisler]

With all due apologies for cross-posting:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Arab Women in a Changing Region: Revolutionizing the Political,
Social, and Communication Landscapes

CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East
Editor-in-Chief : Daniel Martin Varisco
Guest Editor: Sahar Khamis
Submission deadline: October 1st, 2013 (Full Papers)

Aim

On the second anniversary of the “Arab Spring”, many challenges
present themselves in transitioning countries, protests still continue
in some countries, while new governments are being formed in others.
Arguably, throughout these last two years, and before, Arab women
played a critical and vital role in paving the way for the eruption of
the “Arab Spring” movements: mobilizing their fellow citizens to take
part in the revolts, documenting the unfolding events with their own
cameras and cell phones, both as citizen journalists and professional
reporters, and shaping public opinion about ongoing issues, changes,
and challenges, through the extensive use of digital media, such as
Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.

This is a call for papers, across disciplines, aiming for critical and
evidence-based evaluations of the multiple roles played by Arab women
in this changing region, both as senders and receivers of mediated
messages, through the use of different types of media before, during,
and beyond the Arab Spring, including both new, social media, as well
as other media outlets, such as satellite television channels and the
press. First-person and ethnographic accounts are welcomed, but
CyberOrient accepts contributions from any field of study and using
any methodological orientation.

About CyberOrient

CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal
published by the American Anthropological Association, in
collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in
Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical
considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the
very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as
well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle
Eastern contexts.

Submission

Articles should be submitted directly to Sahar Khamis
(skhamis at umd.edu) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler at ff.cuni.cz). The
submitted article should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including
references). It should follow the AAA style in referencing and
citations. The accepted articles will be published online with free
access in early spring, 2014.

More information can be found here:
http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682


-- 
Vit Sisler, Ph.D.

Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Arts & Philosophy
Institute of Information Science and Librarianship
New Media Studies

http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/