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VISUAL STUDIES Call for Papers Special Issue: 'Digital and New Media Research'

Visual Studies invites submissions for a special issue on the role of digital and new or multimedia in visual research. Technological changes associated with new media are having significant impacts on the practice of Visual Sociology and critical, interpretive research on visual culture. Transformations are occurring in fieldwork practices, research dissemination, and in the social practices associated with visual media. This issue will address the implications of these changes in terms of method, theory, and subject in visual research. The issue seeks articles that might include (but not limited to) the following: The role of digital media as tools in field or research settings, including: multimedia ethnography; 'digital' elicitation; participatory research and camcorders; database management tools, qualitative analysis software, etc. The status of multimedia formats (Web/CD/DVD etc.) in the representation and dissemination of visual research: digital museums, archives, and object oriented repositories; interactive field/web sites; multimedia and the politics of representation. Research on the social uses of new media technologies (web, digital home mode, gaming, etc.): subcultures identified through digital visual practice; social impact of digital technology on professional visual practices; critical accounts of the visual construction of digital practices; digital technology and new social movements. Visual Studies is a Routledge journal published twice a year on behalf of the International Visual Sociology Association. The journal provides the key resource where issues of a visual nature, whether it be epistemological, methodological, empirical, symbolic, or ethical may be aired and debated. It includes articles on a broad cross-section of topics and is interested in all work that is visually oriented. The cross-disciplinary and multi-modal nature of the journal will be reflected by the coverage of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, visual culture, symbolic interaction, documentary photography (moving and still images) information technology, visual literacy, visual intelligence, and communication studies. Visual material that supports or forms the basis of submissions is encouraged. If the submission warrants, there may be opportunities for online links to multimedia components. For questions about this issue, please contact the guest editor at the address below. Submission deadline is September 1, 2003. Dr Brian Rusted, Faculty of Communication & Culture, University of Calgary, Alberta CANADA T2N 1N4. Tel: 403-220-7766. Fax: 403-282-6716. email: rusted@ucalgary.ca