CFP Asian Internet Histories (abstracts due 21 Feb, 2020)
‘Asian Internet Histories’ - Call for papers (abstracts due 21 Feb, 2020) Special issue of the journal Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture & Society The future is history, as the great wisdom in many Asian cultures has long taught people the importance of looking backward in time for lessons, models, inspirations, and visions for the present and the future. This special issue provides a timely opportunity to showcase and reflect upon Asian Internet histories – both in their own right, but also as part of the wider emerging and maturing field of Internet histories and Internet and digital technology research. With its great diversity of places, society, languages, cultures, infrastructures, and economy, the Asian region contains roughly half of the world’s Internet users. Since the mid-twentieth century at least, the region prefigured and then incubated a wide range of forms of Internet technologies and associated digital cultures. Some of these Internet histories have been formulated, but many aspects of Asian Internet remain to be researched, documented and represented, theorized and enacted, considered, and debates. Accordingly, we welcome papers on a wide range of aspects of the histories of Asian Internets and digital cultures, including but not limited to: * Theories, concepts, and methods; * histories of particular Internet technologies or cultures in Asian location; * co-evolution of Asian languages, scripts, and Internet technology; * histories of Internet and digital technology policy and governance in Asia; * historiographies of Asian Internet or digital technology; * histories of mobile Internet and mobile apps in Asia; * studies of distinctively ‘Asian’ Internet technologies, formats, and cultures; * the long histories of Asian Internets and digital cultures; * new histories of Asian Internet; * Internet histories of particular groups, cultures, and social identities in Asia; * Asian Internet and social imaginaries. * Inter-Asian Internet and digital histories; * Asia as method and methods for/in Asia for Internet histories, including digital and computational methods; * analysis of the implications of Asian Internet histories for international and global discussions of Internet histories, forms, and futures. We especially welcome papers that explore neglected or new aspects of Internet in Asia, or studies of understudied countries, areas, and cultures in the region. Please send a 300-500 word abstract for consideration by 21 February 2020 to the special issue editors: * Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University (gerard.goggin@ntu.edu.sg<mailto:gerard.goggin@ntu.edu.sg>); * Haiqing Yu, RMIT, Melbourne (haiqing.yu@rmit.edu.au<mailto:haiqing.yu@rmit.edu.au>); * Kwangsuk Lee, Seoul National University of Science & Technology (kslee@seoultech.ac.kr<mailto:kslee@seoultech.ac.kr>) Following notification of acceptance of abstract, full papers of 6000-8000 words will be due by Friday 3 July 2020 (with final revised papers, if accepted, due by 1 November 2020). For more information on the Internet Histories journal, and its style requirements, see: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/current \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Dr Gerard Goggin<http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=gerard.goggin>| FAHA Wee Kim Wee Professor of Communication Studies Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information<http://www.wkwsci.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/Home.aspx> Nanyang Technological University, Singapore e: gerard.goggin@ntu.edu.sg<mailto:gerard.goggin@ntu.edu.sg> publications via ORCiD<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2954-5309> ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.
Call for Papers - Excursions 10.2: Chaos "There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom." (Toni Morrison, The Nation, 2015) Classical and early modern philosophy widely privileged the “logos” i.e. the logical, organized view of the universe, which still has considerable influence on the popular as well as the scientific perception of the world through the binary “order vs. disorder.” However, modern scholarship has long ago destabilized this false dichotomy, and chaos has captured the imagination of philosophers, scientists and artists alike for many generations. Mathematicians proposed a theory of chaos which accounts for the unpredictable character of deterministic systems; quantum physicists have established the fundamental uncertainty inherent to the structure of matter; and postmodernist scholars in the humanities and social sciences are arguing for the acceptance of the ambiguity, fluidity and fragmentation of the human condition. Concurrently, environmental and social disasters, economical and political crisis, violent and unceasing conflicts inhabit our imaginaries as chaotic aspects of our daily lives. The climate emergency, the migration crisis, and the general turmoil of contemporary cities have been framed as chaos. The demands of an overgrowing market of consumption, the fluctuating network of algorithms and data, and the fluidity of the line between private and public can lead to chaos. Likewise, chaos can be found in messy teenagers’ bedrooms, non-linear thought processes, and even your own set of chaotic data. Within this scenario, Excursions invites researchers to embrace chaos and investigate the complexities of society, nature, science and being human. Is chaos a natural, universal phenomenon of "disorder" or a perspective-bound construct? What meanings and functions can we attribute to chaos in theory and practice? How can chaos aid contemporary scholarship in its quest to understand the complexity of our lived experience? In this issue, Excursions seeks to assemble a collection of articles that reflect on the concept of chaos, whether as a natural phenomenon in an objective reality or as a socially-constructed subjective phenomenon. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Chaos as a metaphysical concept or theory - Chaos as a process in the biological, physical and social world - Chaos as a theme in popular culture and political discourse - Chaos as fuel to incite change - Chaos as a source of creativity - Chaos as constructed by ideology and epistemology - Chaos as part of a research method Please submit your paper by 17 February 2020 via our website: https://excursions-journal.sussex.ac.uk/. If you have trouble with our submission system, please email us at enquiries@excursions-journal.org.uk Manuscripts should be no longer than 5,000 words, with citations and bibliography in Harvard style. More information about Author Guidelines can be found here. Alongside traditional academic articles, we also consider alternative ways of communicating research (please contact the editorial staff prior to submission). We encourage submission as soon as possible, as we accept and publish articles on a rolling basis.
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Louise Elali