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Seminal Works
by AJ Kelton 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Looking for suggestions on seminal works in any of the following areas. I'm sure there are tons of readings, and I'm happy to receive suggestions on good articles, but I'm specifically looking for those handful of works that would be considered core to the concepts: - pre-internet comparisons of efficacy between traditional (face-to-face) and courses offered in others modes (correspondence, television, etc...) - the digital divide - "no significant difference" - characteristics of online students (especially if comparing to face-to-face students) thx aj -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2015 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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MECCSA: Theorizing Digital Divide. Extended deadline
by Massimo Ragnedda 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Glenn W. Muschert and I are proposing a panel on “Theorizing Digital Divides” for the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MECCSA) conference that will be hold at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), in January 2015. We have now extended the deadline for proposal submission to the 1st September 2014. We plan to propose one or more panel session(s) at MECCSA on the topic of “Theorizing Digital Divides,” which we intend to use as point(s) of departure for an edited volume on the same topic. The intention is to create panels as an opportunity for colleagues to present their papers, and of course to have the opportunity to meet in person. We intend the panel(s) not merely as sets of talks with limited interaction among panelists, but rather as interactive opportunities for us to examine our common theme. The aim is to promote lively dialogue among experts, and to offer a venue for fruitful and satisfying discussion of how we theorize digital divides. Each session is 90 minutes, and in order to increase the interaction with the audience, we will make every attempt to limit the number of participants for each session. The final number of sessions will depend on the number of participant, and we will try to avoid parallel session in order to increase the interactivity and the discussion. As we mention, we also plan an edited volume on the topic of Theorizing Digital Divides, and we anticipate the conference sessions on this theme as a point of departure for that project. The deadline for us to propose a panel at the conference is the 15 September 2014. Therefore, if you would like to participate in the MECCSA this conference, we request that you please send us the details of the authors/participants and a brief abstract of 150-200 words. We would need to receive proposals to contribute to the MCCSA by the *1**st** September 2014* at the latest (emailed to Massimo Ragnedda – ragnedda(a)gmail.com and Glenn Muschert – muschegw(a)MiamiOH.edu) One point that might be obvious, however which perhaps bears clarification, is that participation in the MCCSA conference panel does not imply, nor is it contingent upon, final acceptance of a manuscript for the proposed volume on theorizing digital divides. While the MECCSA panels and the planned volume may complement one another, they are nonetheless separate projects. In particular, acceptance for publication in the edited volume will require successful peer and editorial review prior to publication. We mention this simply to be clear, and to avoid any potential confusion. In organizing a number of session at the same conference, it is ultimately our intention to provide venues for those interested in digital divide studies. In all, we hope to have a number of sessions which will be of interest to you and other scholars, and we will be happy to bring together numerous innovative and dynamic scholars. For now, please feel welcome to be in contact if you have any questions or concerns. -- Massimo Ragnedda Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda Twitter: @massimoragnedda

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are you teaching "It's Complicated"?
by danah boyd 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Many of you have mentioned in passing that you're teaching my new book in your fall classes (*thank you*!!!). If you are, I was wondering if you'd be willing to send me a copy of your syllabus? One other question: If you are teaching my book, are you encouraging students to buy it or are you sending them to the free version? (I'm fine either way but, as you can imagine, folks are asking me how giving away my book is impacting classroom adoption and I have _zero_ clue.) danah

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FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue
by Axel Bruns 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you: > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Monday, 11 August 2014 9:44 > To: Axel Bruns > Subject: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11 Aug. 2014 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'counterculture' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'counterculture' Edited by Rob Garbutt, Jacqueline Dutton, and Johanna Kijas The seeds of the global counterculture sprouted in the 1960s, flourished into the 1970s and for some the counterculture continues to frame their daily lives. Its challenge to the functionalist culture characterised by formal education, career, marriage and mortgage yielded a range of experiments, some failures and short-lived and others long-lasting and now almost mainstream. Whatever the outcome, the intent was not one possible future for one's life but a future of possibilities, along with a commitment to social and environmental sustainability. The counterculture was, therefore, intensely biopolitical in the sense that it was and is a politics of life, one's own life and life on planet earth more generally. The counterculture was also contested from the beginning. The "counter" has been absorbed into consumer culture and commodified with ease. The love of transgression often saw the politics of power-relations overlooked. And despite being "counter", a relationship with the "mainstream" has always been necessary. In the 1970s and 80s, the counterculture was alive in academic discussions, but recently it has been relatively dormant. This issue is designed to stimulate reflection and discussion of the counterculture in Australia and beyond. Areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to: * indigenous peoples and the counterculture * urban and rural countercultures * countercultural festivals * back to the land movements * utopian experiments * media and the counterculture * alternative: food, medicine, energy, architecture, childbirth, spirituality, sexuality, lifestyles … * the mainstream and the counterculture * contemporary manifestations of the counterculture * intentional communities * the counterculture and consumption * competition, cooperation and the counterculture * global and peripheral countercultures * the "counter" in counterculture * the counterculture and environmental movements * hippies Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Please send any enquiries to counterculture(a)journal.media-culture.org.au. All articles must be submitted through the M/C Journal site. Article deadline: 10 Oct. 2014 Issue release date: 10 Dec. 2014 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2014: 'gothic': article deadline 20 June 2014, release date 20 Aug. 2014 'illegitimate': article deadline 15 Aug. 2014, release date 15 Oct. 2014 'counterculture': article deadline 10 Oct. 2014, release date 10 Dec. 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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AoIR Book Award
by Kendall, Lori 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

I am delighted to announce two things concerning the AoIR book award. First, in light of her generous and various contributions to the Association of Internet Researchers, we are naming our book award for Nancy Baym. Second, I would like to announce that the 2014 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award will go to Dr. Mark Andrejevic for "Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing What We Think and Know" (Routledge). The following is from this year’s book award committee, Andrew Herman (chair), Jean Burgess, and Susanna Paasonen: “In a year when the committee was blessed with a cornucopia of many fine books that were well worth reading, the members were unanimous and unambiguously enthusiastic in their decision to give the award to Dr. Andrejevic’s book. The book’s virtues are many, but the committee was particularly impressed by the nuanced theoretical sophistication, analytical originality, rhetorical clarity, and political commitment that Dr. Andrejevic brought to bear on the extremely important and timely issue of “big data” in a variety of forms and practices. There are, no doubt, many books being written at this moment on the topic of big data, but we feel that Infloglut will help set the theoretical agenda for critical internet scholars working in this area for some time to come.” As part of the award, we look forward to a featured presentation by Dr. Andrejevic at IR15 in Daegu in October. Meanwhile, please join me in congratulating him on his award! Lori Kendall AoIR President

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Drone selfies, a Google challenge and the horrors of visuality: Photomediations Machine
by Joanna Zylinska 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

We have the pleasure to announce eight new contributions to the curated online space Photomediations Machine: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net - IOCOSE investigate what a drone would do if war and terror were over: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/drone-selfies/ - Jack Carvosso’s images of spontaneous feats of balance cast a new light on the everyday: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/sorry-i-was-miles-away/ - Google takes on the challenge to respond to artist Guido Segni’s 'Pics or it didn't happen' request: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/pics-or-it-didnt-happen/ - The visual corruption of the idea of Terra Australis by Perth-based artist Mike Gray: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/07/31/corrupt/ - An investigation of how science and art have attempted to capture human thought in images: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/digital-thought-imaging/ - Pasi Väliaho’s video essay explores a secret behind a photograph from a concentration camp: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/stills-from-a-film-that-was-ne… - An artist 'grows' images in a petri dish, using liquid colours and materials: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/the-petri-dish-project/ - Rob Coley argues that current mechanisms of omnipresent control demand a new study of visuality: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/the-horrors-of-visuality/ ************************************************ PHOTOMEDIATIONS MACHINE http://www.photomediationsmachine.net Photomediations Machine is a curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced and engaged. Photomediations Machine adopts a process-based approach to image making by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political flows of mediation that produce photographic objects. Showcasing theoretical and practical work at the intersections of art and mainstream practices, Photomediations Machine is both an archive of mediations past and a site of production of media as-we-do-not-know-them-yet. Photomediations Machine is non-commercial, non-profit and fully open access. Curated by Joanna Zylinska and Ting Ting Cheng, Photomediations Machine has an International Advisory Board which includes Katherine Behar, Lisa Cartwright, Alberto López Cuenca, Asbjørn Grønstad, Richard Grusin, Sarah Kember, Max Liljefors, Melissa Miles, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. Mitchell, Luiza Nader, Nina Sellars, Jonathan Shaw, Katrina Sluis, Marquard Smith, Hito Steyerl and Bernadette Wegenstein. It is a sister project to the online open access journal Culture Machine (http://www.culturemachine.net) established in 1999. Website: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net Follow us on Twitter: @Photomediations Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photomediations.machine Submissions invited: http://photomediationsmachine.net/submissions/ -- Professor Joanna Zylinska Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.joannazylinska.net Curator of Photomediations Machine http://www.photomediationsmachine.net

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re porn, rights, emancipation course
by Sandra Braman 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Charles, Patrick Burkart's book PIRATE POLITICS (MIT Press 2014), on the Pirate Party, might provide a good course reading for its unique look at how what started as copyright battles turned into an actual political party active at the European Union level precisely because those involved took a liberatory stance towards their rights. Sounds like a great class; thanks for sharing so much detail about it. One could actually address much, if not all, of communication law through the lens of pornography. You could find cases involving not only what you've listed so far, but also defamation, antitrust, and so on. The dimension of pornography that makes it particularly valuable as a focus for a course encouraging people to think about their communication rights from a liberation perspective is that, in US law at least, "community standards" are relied upon to determine when something should be considered unacceptably obscene rather than acceptably pornographic for adults. It is thus the one opening in the law for discussion of how to determine just what a speech community should be deemed to be and for the rights of what we might think of as speech communities. It would be great to see someone fully develop that side of pornography law through the kind of lenses you are using in this course. The other issue worth looking at re porn would be not just the jurisdictional problem when it comes to what happens online (which country's laws should govern), but the fact that so much of the law is becoming globalized itself. When laws are harmonized, which can happen through many different kinds of processes, they become like each other across state lines irrespective of differences in national legal systems or political forms. To what extent has pornography law become globalized? Don't know if anyone has addressed that question yet, but one would expect this area of communication law to be among those most resistant to globalization because cultural differences here are so profound. Sandra Braman

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Re: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc.
by Nathan Fisk 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hello Charles, For an easier/shorter/supplemental read, I would suggest chapter 8 out of Kimmel’s “Guyland” (Kimmel, M. S. (2008). Guyland: the perilous world where boys become men. New York: Harper.). He does a good job of setting up pornography consumption as a performance of masculinity for (white, college educated) 18-24 year olds. Softcore/lad magazines (Maxim, Sports Illustrated) become a form of reassurance, violent pornography becomes a form of compensation/revenge fantasy in the wake of civil rights movements. More generally, he notes the ways in which different demographic groups consume pornography for different, and culturally situated reasons. Has sparked a number of uncomfortable and interesting discussion in my undergraduate courses. -Nate Fisk On Aug 7, 2014, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis > pornography / privacy etc. (Charles Ess) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:49:04 +0200 > From: Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > To: Air list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation > vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc. > Message-ID: <D0092640.9F36A%charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Dear all, > > I teach a MA course titled "Pornography, Protection, Power" which is > centrally focused on questions of who / what _should_/_could_ (both huge > questions, of course) attempt to regulate Internet-facilitated > communication vis-a-vis _possible_ limits to free expression, e.g., > pornography, libel, "clear and present danger" tests in the U.S. > (especially since 9/11), and so on (and, rest assured, with a thousand > historical / cultural / political caveats). > > As I've come to structure the course, I focus on the theme of emancipation > as a core norm - one that underlies primary justifications of democratic > polity and correlative norms of equality, privacy, and freedom of > expression (among others). The course includes: > > A) a good dose of readings on pornography - as a "classical" limit on > freedom of expression - including diverse cultural and historical > observations, with a particular focus on the now long debate over porn as > legitimately protected either free expression and/or as emancipatory in > its own right; > > B) a good dose of readings on democratic polity, with specific attention > to the central importance of freedom of expression for both individual > self-development and democratic debate and processes more broadly; > a particular focus here is on the rights of children in all of this, as > brilliantly exposited by my colleague Elisabeth Staksrud in her _Children > in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights_ (2013); > > C) a very strong dose of readings (primarily from Mansell and Raboy, The > Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy) on the history of > efforts (initially in "Western" countries) to regulate communication > media, beginning with print - and highlighting the contrasts between such > efforts as new media technologies emerge, beginning with the telegraph and > telephone / broadcast media / and then the rise of the Internet as > challenging / blurring earlier definitions and regimes; > > D) a large theme here is the broad shift, starting ca. 1970s away from > national-state centered support and control of broadcast media (especially > in the European and Scandinavian contexts with their strong traditions of > public service broadcasting) towards neo-liberal de/re-regulation of media > - leading to an ever increasing ownership and control of media by private > companies and multinational corporations, with Google, Apple, Facebook, > and others as the primary / usual suspects; > > E) some readings on copyright, copying, and creativity (where efforts to > define and protect patents and copyright inspire [largely futile] efforts > to regulate / control file-sharing, etc.); and > > F) a small unit on "liberation technology," as reflected in contemporary > work on circumventing state censorship of the Internet in any number of > countries (using Walid Al-Saqaf's _alkasir_ software as a primary example > from the Arabic-speaking world). > > WHAT I'M ASKING HELP WITH ... > 1) any additional readings that you might suggest, as either primary or > optional? > For example, in the direction of policy readings, I've been working > through Sandra Braman's _Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power_ > (MIT: 2012), which is just terrific, especially for articulating the U.S. > side of things, and will add some selections to supplant the current > readings as more E.U./Scandinavian-oriented. But I'm sure more good > material is "out there" to be considered > > 2) suggestions for case-studies, especially suited for in-class debate? > For example, I am thinking of beginning with Facebook - both the recent > study on 600,000+ users, coupled with the upcoming class-action lawsuit > spearheaded by the Austrian law student Max Schrems. The idea is to call > attention to a current, real-world conflict between (perceived) users' > rights (as articulated and, ideally, defended by liberal-democratic > regimes) and corporately-owned Internet-based communication venues. So > specific resources here would be helpful - > As would suggestions for other case-studies that would be suited > especially for in-class analysis, discussion, and debate. > Edward Snowden's case is an obvious candidate, along with Wiki-leaks - > again, useful resources would be appreciated - > But I'm sure there are other, more country-specific cases that would be > very pertinent and lively for the students. > > With a thousand thanks in advance for reading this far and for any > suggestions you may have to offer - > > - charles ess > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations > <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> > Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations > <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> > > My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: > http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 > > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 121, Issue 8 > ************************************* >

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request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc.
by Charles Ess 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Dear all, I teach a MA course titled "Pornography, Protection, Power" which is centrally focused on questions of who / what _should_/_could_ (both huge questions, of course) attempt to regulate Internet-facilitated communication vis-a-vis _possible_ limits to free expression, e.g., pornography, libel, "clear and present danger" tests in the U.S. (especially since 9/11), and so on (and, rest assured, with a thousand historical / cultural / political caveats). As I've come to structure the course, I focus on the theme of emancipation as a core norm - one that underlies primary justifications of democratic polity and correlative norms of equality, privacy, and freedom of expression (among others). The course includes: A) a good dose of readings on pornography - as a "classical" limit on freedom of expression - including diverse cultural and historical observations, with a particular focus on the now long debate over porn as legitimately protected either free expression and/or as emancipatory in its own right; B) a good dose of readings on democratic polity, with specific attention to the central importance of freedom of expression for both individual self-development and democratic debate and processes more broadly; a particular focus here is on the rights of children in all of this, as brilliantly exposited by my colleague Elisabeth Staksrud in her _Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights_ (2013); C) a very strong dose of readings (primarily from Mansell and Raboy, The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy) on the history of efforts (initially in "Western" countries) to regulate communication media, beginning with print - and highlighting the contrasts between such efforts as new media technologies emerge, beginning with the telegraph and telephone / broadcast media / and then the rise of the Internet as challenging / blurring earlier definitions and regimes; D) a large theme here is the broad shift, starting ca. 1970s away from national-state centered support and control of broadcast media (especially in the European and Scandinavian contexts with their strong traditions of public service broadcasting) towards neo-liberal de/re-regulation of media - leading to an ever increasing ownership and control of media by private companies and multinational corporations, with Google, Apple, Facebook, and others as the primary / usual suspects; E) some readings on copyright, copying, and creativity (where efforts to define and protect patents and copyright inspire [largely futile] efforts to regulate / control file-sharing, etc.); and F) a small unit on "liberation technology," as reflected in contemporary work on circumventing state censorship of the Internet in any number of countries (using Walid Al-Saqaf's _alkasir_ software as a primary example from the Arabic-speaking world). WHAT I'M ASKING HELP WITH ... 1) any additional readings that you might suggest, as either primary or optional? For example, in the direction of policy readings, I've been working through Sandra Braman's _Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power_ (MIT: 2012), which is just terrific, especially for articulating the U.S. side of things, and will add some selections to supplant the current readings as more E.U./Scandinavian-oriented. But I'm sure more good material is "out there" to be considered 2) suggestions for case-studies, especially suited for in-class debate? For example, I am thinking of beginning with Facebook - both the recent study on 600,000+ users, coupled with the upcoming class-action lawsuit spearheaded by the Austrian law student Max Schrems. The idea is to call attention to a current, real-world conflict between (perceived) users' rights (as articulated and, ideally, defended by liberal-democratic regimes) and corporately-owned Internet-based communication venues. So specific resources here would be helpful - As would suggestions for other case-studies that would be suited especially for in-class analysis, discussion, and debate. Edward Snowden's case is an obvious candidate, along with Wiki-leaks - again, useful resources would be appreciated - But I'm sure there are other, more country-specific cases that would be very pertinent and lively for the students. With a thousand thanks in advance for reading this far and for any suggestions you may have to offer - - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Call for Chapter, Book on Video Game Sex and Sexuality
by Matthew Wy. 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Call for Completed Chapter, Book Project on Video Games Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games We are looking for a single completed chapter for our edited collection. We have a signed contract with a publisher and a delivery date of January of 2015 but have lost one of our submissions due to unforeseen circumstances. So we need to replace it with a completed or mostly completed submission. The focus of the collection, as can be seen in the title, is Sex and Sexuality in Video Games. Our three sections: The (R)Evolution of Video Games and Sex - Chapters on the history of sex and sexuality in video games, including censorship, translation, and production Video Games and Sexual (Dis)Embodiment - Analyses of the body, player interaction, and sexual identity and performance in gameplay Systems/Spaces of Sexual (Im)Possibilities - Analyses and close-readings of game spaces and mechanics, with attention to sexuality and sex as mechanics, representative features, or spatial dimensions of play" If you have something you feel would fit in with one of these themes, please send it along with a short author(s) bio to Matthew Wysocki (mwysocki(a)flagler.edu) or Evan W. Lauteria (ewlauteria(a)ucdavis.edu) We are looking for submission around 5600 words.

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