[ecrea] CFP - Digital Engagements – When the Virtual Gets Real

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Volume 4, Issue 2: Digital Engagements – When the Virtual Gets Real
Guest editor Teresa Mangum is now accepting one-page proposals at
(iapublic /at/ syr.edu)<mailto:(iapublic /at/ syr.edu)>.
Full submissions will be accepted between August 1, 2016 and February
1, 2017 via the Open Journal Systems (OJS) submissions
portal<https://ojs.syr.edu/index.php/public/index>.
To submit, register and
login<https://ojs.syr.edu/index.php/public/index> to the OJS portal.
Contact (ojsinfo /at/ syr.edu)<mailto:(ojsinfo /at/ syr.edu)> for username,
password, or general assistance with OJS.
For this special issue of PUBLIC<http://public.imaginingamerica.org/>,
we invite artists, activists, designers, and scholars to explore the
potential of digital technologies and practices to inspire creative,
interactive, collaborative work for public engagement and the pursuit
of social justice. The issue asks how engagement–the affective and
embodied knowledges people gain in their everyday lives–can animate
our virtual lives.
Technologically enhanced projects–digital archives and scholarship,
social practice art, site specific installations, performance-based
technologies, mobile applications, social media, and emerging
experimental forms–are often touted as the new public commons. But how
are artists, designers, and scholars committed to civic engagement
creating virtual spaces that are interactive, a necessary condition
for publicly engaged arts and scholarship?
We know the bad news. Virtual spaces have been hit by
cyber-bullies–“Gamergate” is just one example. Digital access can be
blocked by commercial gate-keeping. Gender, class, age, and other
differences impact access to technology. What are the alternatives?
Social media connects artists, academics, activists, and a broad
public across the globe. Visualizations cut across language
communities. This special issue of PUBLIC seeks to document, question,
reflect upon, and advance projects in the digital arts and humanities
that are designed not simply to be “in public” but also to engage
diverse audiences and inspire collective action.
Possible Topics
We invite contributors to discuss the impact of projects that embody
“digital engagements,” moving beyond description to the value,
limitations, and potential impact of projects and practices. To
suggest a few of the innumerable questions the issue might address–
How can technologies activate diverse audiences, muster and support
communities, and promote democratic practices? What new forms of
collaboration are emerging in digital work? When does technology
inhibit, change, or inspire cross sector partnerships–including
campus/community partnerships–and how are artists, designers, and
scholars tackling those obstacles? How are people from rural areas,
inner cities, and developing regions participating in digital arts and
humanities projects? How are artists, activists, scholars, designers,
and developers overcoming social, economic, and technical obstacles?
We also welcome projects focused on innovative research methods,
syllabi, assignments, et cetera, at any level and proposals for
reviews of studies, sites, art works or installations, conferences,
blogs, etc. More generally, how do the resources and limits of
virtuality change the assumptions and practices of artists, designers,
and humanists?
Format
Submissions can take diverse forms as long as they are linked to the
theme of the issue. For example, discussions of principles and
practices might be critical pieces in multiple media, single or
collaboratively authored, narrative or interview format. Reflective
case studies might link to online projects that ask what “engagement”
means practically and philosophically in existing projects. Feel free
to propose experimental or collaborative formats that capture your
work most vividly. We can accept a wide variety of formats for
consideration; if you have any questions, please contact the guest and
design editors.
Submission Process
We are currently accepting one-page description of the topic and
format you are considering. Please email proposals to
(iapublic /at/ syr.edu)<mailto:(iapublic /at/ syr.edu)>  Full submissions are due
February 1, 2017 for peer review through our online submission portal
at ojs.syr.edu<http://ojs.syr.edu/>. The guest editor and design
editors will work with authors of accepted submissions through a
process of revision and digital design in preparation for publication.
Contact guest editor Teresa Mangum
((teresa-mangum /at/ uiowa.edu)<mailto:(teresa-mangum /at/ uiowa.edu)>) if you have
questions or submit proposals directly
(toiapublic /at/ syr.edu)<mailto:(iapublic /at/ syr.edu)>.
Journal Information:
Mission Statement<http://public.imaginingamerica.org/about>
Editorial 
Policies<http://public.imaginingamerica.org/about/journal-information/editorial-policies/>
Submissions 
Guidelines<http://public.imaginingamerica.org/about/journal-information/submissions/>
Peer Review 
Process<http://public.imaginingamerica.org/about/peer-review-process/>

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