Mark Pegrum Editor, Special Issue of "Mots Pluriels", no.18/19: "The Net: New Apprentices & Old Masters" / "Internet: Nouveaux horizons, vieilles hégémonies"
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Official announcement of the launch of
"THE NET: NEW APPRENTICES & OLD MASTERS" / "INTERNET: NOUVEAUX HORIZONS, VIEILLES HÉGÉMONIES"
Guest Editor: Mark Pegrum
Part 2 / 2ème partie
Today we are launching the second volume of the "Mots Pluriels" special double issue on the Internet. Following on from the previous volume, a collection of essays on theories and practices of the Net around the world, this second volume considers the Net as it intersects with various important discourses of our time. In the current charged international climate, as we consider the role the Net has played in recent events, the role it continues to play around the world, and the ways in which it is linked to wider issues, these studies which give voice to discourses of Otherness are more timely than ever.
The contents page can be found at http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901index.html. For the next two months, it will also be accessible on the principal "Mots Pluriels" homepage at http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/. Below is a list of the essays included, with a direct link to each piece:
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EDITORIAL
[English version] A getting of wisdom? by Mark Pegrum http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901edito1.html
[French version] Sage? de Mark Pegrum http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901edito2.html
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SECTION 1: RACE AND ETHNICITY / RACE ET ETHNICITÉ
The reification of race in cyberspace: African American expressive culture, FUBU and a search for 'beloved community' on the Net by Kim Hester-Williams http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901khw.html
Language, identity, and the Internet by Mark Warschauer http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901mw.html
Blancheur virtuelle et diversité narrative de Joe Lockard http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901jl.html
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SECTION 2: GENDER AND SEXUALITY / SEXE ET SEXUALITÉ
Women and sex entertainment on the Internet: discourses of gender and power by Marjorie Kibby http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901mk.html
Queer manifestations on the Internet: the evolution of legal obstacles and legal freedoms by Michael Walker-Thørsvedtt http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901mwt.html
Samantha, among others by Julian Dibbell http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901jd.html
Local meanings in global space: a case study of women's 'Boy love' web sites in Japanese and English by Mark McLelland http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901mcl.html
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SECTION 3: RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY / RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITÉ
The Word online? Text and image, authority and spirituality in the Age of the Internet by Charles Ess http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901ce.html
From shepherd to weaver: seeking God in cyberspace by Joshua Hammerman http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901jh.html
Space, spirit and self by Margaret Wertheim http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901mwh.html
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SECTION 4: KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING / SAVOIRS ET APPRENTISSAGE
eBlack: a 21st century challenge by Abdul Alkalimat http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901aa.html
Academic masters, mistresses and apprentices: gender and power in the real world of the web by Jill Arnold and Hugh Miller http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901jahm.html
Reforming the Information Age: formalism and philology on the Net by Patrick Finn http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901pf.html
Being there: using ethnology in the study of electronic communities by Mark Giese and Bette J. Kauffman http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901mgbk.html
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SECTION 5: (RE)THINKING (A)NEW / (RE)PENSER, (RE)COMMENCER
MS scars by David Porush http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901dpIndex2.html
The avatar and the power grid by Michael Heim http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901mh.html
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SECTION 6: INTERVIEW
Entretien avec Huguette Bertrand, poète passionnée par l'Internet proposé par Jean-Marie Volet http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901hb.html
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Randy Kluver Information and Communication Management FASS 3, #04-16 National University of Singapore Singapore, 117570 (65) 874-8755, fax (65) 779-4911