[ecrea] CFP Special issue: The Politics of Digital Visual Cultures

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: February 1, 2011
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> SPECIAL ISSUE ON: The Politics of Digital Visual Cultures
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> Guest Editor: Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary,  University of London,
> UK
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> OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
> This special issue explores the tenuous terrain of visual culture and
> image capture facilitated by new forms of information and communication
> technologies. How have new multimedia platforms, image capture and
> recording technologies facilitated event creation and the communication
> of politics in the digital age? The convergence of technologies and the
> ability to capture and upload images on the move makes the body a site
> for image capture, surveillance and witnessing. This conjoining of the
> corporeal body and mobile telephony provides new ways to communicate
> images and to circulate them to a wider audience on the internet. The
> pervasive circulation of still and moving images on the internet with
> multimedia platforms and the creation of counter-sites of visual pleasure
> calls for a re-examination of this visual culture where notions of the
> private and public are re-configured and where consumption of images and
> videos can be de-contextualised from the context of production providing
> a stage for new forms of ritualization and commemoration. The issue will
> explore the social, political and cultural impacts of this visual culture
> in different societies and communities.
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> RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
> Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited
> to) the following:
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> ·         Image and political
> communication
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> ·         Image, mobile telephone
> and protest
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> ·         Advocacy and
> campaigning through images
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> ·         Political campaigning
> and spoof videos
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> ·         Image, revolt and
> revolution
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> ·         Politics of
> pornography
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> ·         Image and humanitarian
> communication
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> ·         Visual culture and
> privacy
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> ·         Image and social
> networking
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> ·         Image, body and
> surveillance
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> ·         Image and event
> creation
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> SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
> Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this
> special issue on the Politics of Digital Visual Cultures on or
> before February 1, 2011.
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> All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another
> publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR
> MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at: 
> http://www.igi-global.com/AuthorsEditors/AuthorEditorResources/JournalDevelopmentResources.aspx
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>  All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer
> review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. 
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> Important Dates:
> February 1, 2011: Paper submission
> March 8, 2011: Review Results Returned to authors
> June 8, 2011: Submission of final papers to editor
> July 1, 2011: Submission of all materials to the publisher
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> ABOUT International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP):
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> The mission of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) is to
> define and expand the boundaries of e-politics as an emerging area of
> inter-disciplinary research and practice by assisting in the development
> of e-politics theories and empirical models. The journal creates a venue
> for empirical, theoretical, and practical scholarly work on e-politics to
> be published, leading to sharing of ideas between practitioners and
> academics in this field. IJEP contributes to the creation of a community
> of e-politics researchers by serving as a “hub” for related activities,
> such as organizing seminars and conferences on e-politics and publication
> of books on e-politics.
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> This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources
> Management Association
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> www.igi-global.com/ijep
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> Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore
> Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
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> PUBLISHER:
> The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global
> (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science
> Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information
> Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the
> publisher, please visit
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> www.igi-global.com. 
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> All submissions should be should be directed to the attention
> of:
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> Yasmin Ibrahim, Guest Editor
> (Y.Ibrahim /at/ qmul.ac.uk)
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