Reminder: The submission deadline for the special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication (Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory?) is coming up on December 1, 2013. For more information on the call for papers, please visit: http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/announcement/view/197 We invite authors to submit papers exploring the use of critical theory in research on digital technologies with reference to diverse themes and cases, including, but not limited to studies of: - Digital technologies and democratic/economic empowerment (e.g. destabilizing authoritarian regimes; alleviating the democratic deficit; including marginalized or disenfranchised groups; new forms of politics, etc.); - Digital technologies and the state (e.g. security; cybercrime; public policy; governance, etc.); - Digital technologies and power in everyday life (e.g. cyber-identity; sociability; social ties; social capital; networks; mundane Panopticism; etc.); - Digital technologies and relations of production (e.g. immaterial labor; knowledge creation/mobilization; big data; cloud computing; cultural production; etc.); - Digital technologies in social sciences (e.g. critical thinking; modes of learning; evaluation and monitoring of scholarly labor, gamification, etc.). Extended abstracts (600 words) will be accepted until December 1, 2013. Abstracts should explicitly discuss how the role of power/ critical theory will be addressed in the context of the respective argument/ case. Please include a prospective title, 5-7 keywords and a short bio-note about yourself. We welcome abstracts in either English or French. To submit your abstract, or for any further queries regarding this special issue, please contact the issue editors directly: cjcissue@ucalgary.ca Dr. Delia Dumitrica Department of Communication and Culture University of Calgary