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Conference on Rhetorical Dimensions
of Electronic Texts

        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 The Electronic Journal of Communication which is sponsored by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship.  Complete information about the conference is posted at its web site:  <http://faculty.washington.edu/barbwarn/rhetconf>.

        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, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics has received wide recognition. Hayles' interests include work in critical theory, semiotics, and textual analysis.

        All submitted papers must conform to the "Instructions for Authors" for The Electronic Journal of Communication <http://www.cios.org/www/ejcauthors.htm>.  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.

Barbara Warnick
Department of Communication
Box 353740
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

barbwarn@u.washington.edu
VM: (206) 543-6066
Dept office: (206) 543-2660
Fax:  (206) 685-1841
http://faculty.washington.edu/barbwarn/