Rutgers University The Center for Cultural Analysis announces External Fellowships for 2011-12 on Public Knowledge: Institutions, Networks, Collectives What, today, is public knowledge? What forms have shared, openly accessible bodies of knowledge taken historically, and what are the prospects for collective inquiry in the 21st century? For its 25th Anniversary year, the Center for Cultural Analysis invites projects that investigate the creation and transmission of knowledge by and for a variety of publics, semi-publics, and counter-publics. We are particularly interested in institutions such as universities, museums, and libraries that are explicitly dedicated to the transmission of knowledge across generations. But we will also take up other social practices and cultural forms that serve the public good or the public interest, such as journalism, government reports, learned societies, watchdog agencies, non-governmental organizations, and free and open source software projects. Are there problems that can only be addressed through a collaborative, collective mode of inquiry? How does knowledge become institutionalized, an d how do institutions account for themselves? What are the historical precedents for the informal knowledge networks made possible by new media? Possible areas of inquiry include but are not limited to the history and prospects of the university and other learned societies; public knowledge and social media; the institutional landscape of the public sphere, including corporations and laboratories; the public domain; intellectual property and the privatization of public goods; limits to or restrictions on public knowledge. Proposals are invited from the many disciplines concerned with this topic. In 2011-12, CCA will sponsor two external fellowships with awards of $45,000. CCA also awards non-funded associate fellowships. All fellows will have access to the Center's resources during the tenure of the fellowship and will be expected to participate in and to present their work to the Center seminars, which meet regularly throughout the academic year. Applications must be postmarked by January 7, 2011. Applications can be downloaded at http://cca.rutgers.edu Center for Cultural Analysis - Rutgers University 8 Bishop Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Phone: 732-932-8426 Email: info@cca.rutgers.edu Web: http://cca.rutgers.edu -- Christina Dunbar-Hester, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism & Media Studies School of Communication & Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu email: christdh@rutgers.edu office: DeWitt 101 (185 College Ave.) phone: 732-932-7500 ext. 8180 fax: 732-932-6916