fyi Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 _____________________________________________________________________ ----- Forwarded message from Brian Rusted <rusted@UCALGARY.CA> ----- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:44:42 -0600 From: Brian Rusted <rusted@UCALGARY.CA> Reply-To: IVSA International Visual Sociology Association <IVSA@PDOMAIN.UWINDSOR.CA> Subject: Call for Papers on Digital Visual Research To: IVSA@PDOMAIN.UWINDSOR.CA 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 multimedia in visual research. Technological changes associated with such 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 are not limited to) the following: 1. The role of digital media as tools in field or research settings, including a. multimedia ethnography b. digital elicitation c. participatory research and camcorders d. database management tools, qualitative analysis software, etc. 2. The status of multimedia formats (Web/CD/DVD etc.) in the representation and dissemination of visual research. a. digital museums, archives, and object oriented repositories b. interactive field/web sites c. multimedia and the politics of representation 3. Research on the social uses of new media technologies (web, digital home mode, gaming, etc.). a. subcultures identified through digital visual practice b. social impact of digital technology on professional visual practices c. critical accounts of the visual construction of digital practices d. digital technology and new social movements. e. new media or digital media artworlds Visual Studies is a Routledge journal published twice a year on behalf of the International Visual Sociology Association. The journal provides a key resource where issues of a visual nature, whether they 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 is 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. It is expected that visual material will support or form the basis of submissions. There may be opportunities for online links to multimedia components of submitted articles. 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 Calgary, Alberta CANADA T2N 1N4 Fax: 403-282-6716 Office: 403-220-7766 email: rusted@ucalgary.ca ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Judith J. Friedman, Dept. of Sociology, Rutgers University, 54 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway,NJ 08854. 732.247.9791 FAX 732.445.0974