[ecrea] Subject line: CFP: Mediating War and Technology

> Jeff Pooley, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Media & Communication
> Muhlenberg College
> 2400 Chew St., Allentown, PA 18104
> 484-664-3677
> jeffpooley.com
>
>
> Subject line: CFP: Mediating War and Technology
>
> Call for papers: Mediating War and Technology
> ICA Preconference sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group
> Boston, May 26, 2010
>
> This ICA pre-conference brings together communication and history
> scholars for an exchange of ideas concerning war, technology, media, and
> history. War and technology are established themes in the fields of
> history and communication, though hoped-for connections between scholars
> in both fields have been slow in coming. Careful attention to how
> historical methods can assist communication scholars in their
> understanding of these broad themes will offer to pre-conference
> attendees and presenters alike valuable tools for more thoroughly working
> history into the field of communication.  At the same time,
> historians will gain new insight into archival texts through the
> application of communications theory and methodology, leading to exciting
> developments in both fields. The pre-conference will feature invited
> speakers from both fields.
>
> Submitted papers should connect with ideas related to the history of war
> and technology. The following illustrations of topics suggest—but are not
> intended to limit—topics suitable for paper submissions:
>
> -- The role of recording media (including photography, audio technology)
> in chronicling atrocity and war;
> -- The history of war journalism, as it relates to issues in the history
> of technology;
> -- The history of information warfare;
> -- The history of the study of communication, as affected by war and
> technology;
> -- Considerations of transportation as related to the history of war and
> technology;
> -- New media and war, including perspectives on surveillance; 
> -- The changing roles of technology in the history of battlefield
> censorship;
> -- Media technology as a variable in home-front morale;
> -- Geopolitical advantage as related to media developments;
> -- The role of military initiatives and investment in the evolution of
> civilian media technology;
> -- The international circulation of propaganda in wars hot and cold;
> and
> -- Comparative studies of conflict, technology and media
>
> We also encourage multi-media presentations and other non-traditional
> scholarly formats that explore preconference themes in novel ways.
>
> Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted no later than November 15,
> 2010. Send abstracts to David Park at:
> (park /at/ lakeforest.edu) . 
> Authors will be informed whether abstracts have been accepted by December
> 10, 2010. Completed papers will be due by May 1, 2011.
>
> The pre-conference will take place on Thursday, May 26, 2011, at the
> Westin Boston Waterfront, the site of the ICA conference.
>
> Organized by
> -- Sharrona Pearl, the Annenberg School for Communication, University of
> Pennsylvania
> -- Jefferson Pooley, Muhlenberg College
> -- David W. Park, Lake Forest College