[Air-L] CFP: Machine Communication (Deadline Soon)

[Zach McDowell]

(Apologies for cross posting)



*CFP –  Machine Communication*

*communication +1* invites submissions for its upcoming issue, Machine
Communication.



*Edited by David Gunkel and Zachary McDowell*



Within this issue we hope to explore the boundaries of communication
outside of the human, that which is inevitably radically other – the
machine. We seek articles that interrogate the implications and the various
problematics that emerge around, within, and from the engagement with the
machine. What does the machine have to say about our history, our present,
or our future?

Whether the question of human-machine interaction, machine-machine
interaction, or machines interacting with themselves, we hope to find and
collect articles probing the boundaries of concern for machine
communication.



Topics may include but are not limited to:

Algorithmic Culture – Influence of machines on human or other non-machine
culture; Robotic Automation – Drones, Robots, or other automated systems
that exist in the corporeal world and take part in a variety of tasks;
Artificial Intelligence – Either  soft-AI and its effects or hard-AI and
its possible futures / implications. Other topics might include
Cybernetics, Bioinformatics, Knowledge Representation, or various
applications of Software Theory.





Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by December 13th,
2015 to communicationplusone at gmail.com.



Upon invitation, full text submissions will be due April 5th, 2013, with
expected publication in September, 2016.



*About the Journal*

The aim of *communication +1* is to promote new approaches to and open new
horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary
perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that seeks
to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of
theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both
established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social
sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship,
*communication
+1* sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to create is a space
for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these experiments.



*communication +1 *is an open access journal supported by University of
Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication



* Editor in Chief: Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst



* Managing Editor: Zachary J. McDowell, University of Massachusetts Amherst



*Advisory Board*

Kuan-Hsing Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Bernard Geoghegan, Humboldt-Universität, Germany

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University

Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom

Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

John Durham Peters, University of Iowa

Johnathan Sterne, McGill University

Ted Striphas, Indiana University

Greg Wise, Arizona State University



For more information about the project in general, as well as short pieces,
lectures, and interviews, visit communicationplusone.org.



For more information or to participate in the communicationplusone.org project,
please email communicationplusone at gmail.com


best,

Zach

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Zachary J. McDowell
Doctoral Candidate (ABD)
Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Doctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government
<http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/people/fellows.html>
Wikipedia Teaching Fellow
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst/Writing_as_Communication_COMM375_(Spring_2015)>
Managing Editor, communication +1 <http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/>