[ecrea] CFP: mobile trash

CFP: MOBILE TRASH
EDITED BY MÉL HOGAN & ANDREA ZEFFIRO (JANUARY 2016)

For this special issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media [wi.mobilities.ca 
<http://wi.mobilities.ca>], we are gathering contributions that address 
the idea of ‘mobile trash.’

The intention of this issue is to reconfigure the concepts of ‘mobile’ 
and ‘mobilities’ in relation to trash, by its various definitions and 
formations, from new materialism, feminism, media ecology, media 
archaeology, and queer frameworks.

We’re especially interested in short pieces (2500 words) and creative 
interventions that explore mobile trash as pollution, fumes, compost, 
satellites, e-waste, toxins, bodies, drones, viruses, hacks, landfill, 
etc. We welcome pieces that poetically engage the politics of trash and 
speak to its borders, transitions, movements, materialities, shifts, 
contagions, ecologies, permutations, mutations, and invisible transferences.

The online issue goes live January 2016 and will be accompanied by a 
print-on-demand issue.

If interested, please send us a 300 word abstract to 
(info /at/ technotrash.org) <mailto:(info /at/ technotrash.org)>

Include your name, personal URL, and title of submission.

TIMELINE
/ Deadline for abstracts: Nov 1, 2014.
/ We will let you know if your project is selected by Feb 1, 2015.
/ Final submissions due: Sept 1, 2015.
/ Issue goes live: January 1, 2016.

Wi: journal of mobile media (pronounced wī) was founded in 2006 as 
in-house publication of the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN) and 
has since operated under the aegis of the Mobile Media Lab. The Lab has 
two nodes, one in Montreal (www.mobilities.ca 
<http://www.mobilities.ca>) and one in Toronto (www.mobilemedialab.ca 
<http://www.mobilemedialab.ca>). Wi is an open- access peer-reviewed 
experimental journal. The mandate of the journal is to create an 
interdisciplinary international dialogue for scholars to explore the 
 “term” mobilities in all of its many manifestations, although the 
history of the journal indicates an emphasis on the connection of 
mobilities research to media studies, the media arts and communications. 
We are particularly interested in publishing works that use media 
(images, sounds, animations) as a major component of their articles, 
although this is not a requirement. http://wi.mobilities.ca/

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Mél Hogan
Assistant Professor of Communication
Illinois Institute of Technology