CFP: Writing in a Digital Age: Surveillance, Privacy, & Writing Infrastructures
Dear Colleagues, We're announcing a CFP for a webtext collection on topics surrounding surveillance, privacy, and writing infrastructures. The invitation for interdisciplinary proposals includes projects that intersect writing classrooms, communities, and cultures. If interested, please go to this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0NLr285sb3uSzFmWkp5blBoMVE A sample of what we're interested in include: * how writing educators, WPAs, and administrators address ways surveillance and privacy impact student & faculty composing acts and student identity formation. * how community members respond to local to national events where acts of sur- and sous-veillance occur to protect the interests of those in authority and those of the citizenry, e.g., Ferguson, Flint, and online. * ways surveillance impact culture(s) and influence daily habits and/or lives as it connects to digital rhetoric and writing, e.g., algorithmic discrimination, fitness trackers, Internet of Things objects, social media habits, intellectual property. * how digital rhetoric and writing scholars/educators inform public and private industries to make reforms to surveillance practices. <mailto:digitalwriting@protonmail.com>The deadline for 500-word proposals of webtexts is October 17, 2016. Notifications to authors will occur on December 19, 2016 and draft chapters are due April 17, 2017. Queries and submissions: digitalwritingatprotonmaildotcom / digitalwriting@protonmail.com Sincerely, Estee Beck, PhD Assistant Professor of Professional & Technical Writing/Digital Humanities Department of English The University of Texas at Arlington estee.beck@uta.edu Les Hutchinson Doctoral Student Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Michigan State University 434 Farm Lane Rm 237 East Lansing, MI 48824 Twitter: @techairos _________________________________________________________________ Estee Beck, Ph.D. ? Assistant Professor, English ? The University of Texas at Arlington
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Beck, Estee