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<div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica">Conference on
Rhetorical Dimensions<br>
of Electronic Texts<br><br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>On April
25-26, 2003, a conference on "Criticism and Social Action:
Rhetorical Dimensions of Electronic Texts" will be held at the
University of Washington, Seattle. The purpose of the conference is
to bring senior scholars in the humanities working on critical analysis
of new media texts together with early-career faculty and doctoral
students doing work in the same area. Eight of the papers presented
at the conference will be published in 2004 in a special issue of <i>The
Electronic Journal of Communication</i> which is sponsored by the
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship. Complete
information about the conference is posted at its web site:
<<a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/barbwarn/rhetconf" eudora="autourl">http://faculty.washington.edu/barbwarn/rhetconf</a>>.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The
conference as a whole will focus on critical studies of new media texts
and their social impacts. The keynote speaker for the conference
will be N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of English at the University of
California at Los Angeles. Her 1999 book, <i>How We Became
Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics</i>
has received wide recognition. Hayles' interests include work in critical
theory, semiotics, and textual analysis.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>All
submitted papers must conform to the "Instructions for Authors"
for <i>The Electronic Journal of Communication
<</i><a href="http://www.cios.org/www/ejcauthors.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.cios.org/www/ejcauthors.htm</a><i>></i>.
Deadline for submission is January 15, 2003; papers must be submitted in
triplicate and received by that date to be assured of
consideration. Papers should be submitted to Barbara Warnick,
Department of Communication, Box 353740, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA 98195. If you have questions, please contact Warnick at
barbwarn@u.washington.edu.<br><br>
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Barbara Warnick<br>
Department of Communication<br>
Box 353740<br>
University of Washington<br>
Seattle, WA 98195<br><br>
barbwarn@u.washington.edu<br>
VM: (206) 543-6066<br>
Dept office: (206) 543-2660<br>
Fax: (206) 685-1841<br>
<a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/barbwarn/" eudora="autourl">http://faculty.washington.edu/barbwarn/<br>
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