[ecrea] cfp Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC), Volume 10 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC), Volume 10 2014

Special issue - The Internet and the Material Turn

New materialist approaches are emerging across the social sciences and 
other disciplines, and express a renewed concern with matter and 
material processes.  Scholars such as Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, 
Gilles Deleuze, Karen Barad, Manuel DeLanda and others have contributed 
to this emergence through the development of various new ways of 
thinking about materiality.  This issue of WPCC is concerned with what 
insights new materialist approaches might provide into the Internet and 
its uses, where the Internet is understood to be a heterogeneous 
arrangement of situated people, machines and associated technologies 
rather than simply a placeless “cyberspace”.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

* New materialist analyses of social networking
* Non-human agency and the Internet (e.g. bots)
* The Internet and the materiality of electronic waste
* New materialist perspectives on Internet software and hardware
* The Internet and the posthuman
* Limitations of new materialist approaches to the Internet

A 250 word abstract, full contact information for the corresponding 
author, and a biographical note (up to 75 words) on each of the authors 
should be submitted by no later than February 15, 2014.  Authors of 
accepted abstracts will be notified on February 28,  and will then be 
invited to submit a full paper by May 31.

Complete manuscripts should be prepared in English in MS Word and adhere 
to the Manuscript Submission Guidelines; they should be 6000 - 8000 
words, including notes and references. Papers should be accompanied by 
an abstract of 100-150 words and up to six keywords. The manuscript must 
contain a separate title page that should include: the title of the 
manuscript; the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s); full 
contact details of the author(s); the author's brief biographical 
statement. An invitation to submit a full paper does not constitute a 
commitment for publication; all papers will be subject to anonymous peer 
review following submission.
Please send your abstract as an e-mail attachment to the issue editor, 
John Hondros at: (j.hondros /at/ westminster.ac.uk) .

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2014
Deadline for completed manuscripts: 31 May 2014


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