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From: Thivai Abhor <rhetoricplace@yahoo.com> Date: December 13, 2004 11:03:16 PM EST To: CULT-STUD <cultstud-l@mailman.acomp.usf.edu> Subject: [cultstud-l] CFP: Theories/Practices of Blogging Reply-To: Cultural Studies <cultstud-l@mailman.acomp.usf.edu>

Hello everyone,

We would appreciate it if you could pass this on to interested writers/bloggers.

Thank you for your time.

Michael Benton http://www.reconstruction.ws http://dialogic.blogspot.com

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This is a call for papers for a special theme issue on “blogging” to be published as a threshold issue in the journal Reconstruction. The editors of this theme issue are looking for papers/projects/manifestos on the subject of “blogging.”

Possible topics: Theorization of the Blogosphere Blogging Manifesto Politics and/of Blogging Aesthetics of Blogs Activist Blogging Auto/Biographical Blogs New Media/Communication Theories and Blogging New Journalism Blogging Civil Rights of Bloggers Global Culture and Blogging Local Culture and Blogging Education and Blogging Gender and Blogging Race and Blogging Collective Blogs Community of Bloggers Unrealized Potential of Blogging Critiques of Blogging Representations of Space/Place on Blogs Purpose of a Unique Individual/Collective Blog Audio and Visual Blogs

We are especially interested in the experiences, theories and perspectives of those who actually blog. Feel free to propose other topics to the editors:

Michael Benton (University of Kentucky; founder of the blog Dialogic) and Nick Lewis (co-founder of the Progressive Bloggers’ Alliance and the collective blog NetPolitik)

Send all queries, proposals and manuscripts to mdbento@gmail.com

Read below about the journal Reconstruction and threshold special theme issues and their deadlines. The editors expect this issue to fill very quickly due to the importance of this subject.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN 1547-4348) <http://www.reconstruction.ws> is an innovative culture studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.

Manuscripts may be written from any number of perspectives, and with any end in mind; possible sites for articulations may focus on the urban, the rural, the natural, the social, local and global “culture,” politics, (auto)biography, medicine, the body, science, texts (music, cinema, literature), media (the internet, television), myth and religion.

Submissions are encouraged from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to: geography, cultural studies, folklore, architecture, history, sociology, psychology, communications, anthropology, music, political science, semiotics, theology, art history, queer theory, literary criticism, ecocriticism, criminology, urban planning, gender studies, etc. All theoretical and empirical approaches are welcomed.

This special issue is a threshold issue. Thresholds are about the transgressing, pushing or collapsing of boundaries; they are about the point of beginning, the entranceway and stimulation. Thus, threshold issues are dedicated to exploring an experimental theme, novel method(s) or theoretical apparatus(es) that might not normally find an audience. Rather than having firm publication dates – due to the experimental nature of their contents – threshold issues are published once a minimum number of acceptable submissions are received. If this minimum is not met by 18 months from the December 13, 2005, the approved manuscripts will be published in the next available issue of the journal.

Information on the preparation of manuscripts for submission can be found at <http://www.reconstruction.ws/style.htm>.

Reconstruction published quarterly (January, April, July, and October) and is currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

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