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[ecrea] CfP - The Poster - Issue 5.1- Lies, Damn Lies and Alternative Truth
Thu Nov 16 23:01:13 GMT 2017
This is the Second Call for Papers
Issue 5.1- Lies, Damn Lies and Alternative Truth
Introduction.
The Poster, the journal of rhetoric in the public sphere, is making a
call for: • Papers, Artist / Designer Monographs
• Image and Photo Essays
• Reviews
• Opinion Pieces: from a variety of subject areas and interdisciplinary
perspectives With the aim of developing new understandings of the on the
subject of the mechanisms and operation of: Alternative Truth, Outright
Lies, Spin and Propaganda in the Age of Putin and Trump; told through
visual rhetorics.
Context
Civil society finds itself living in the the (Trump) Tower of Babel. We
inhabit an increasingly divided society, divided through a lack of a
common worldview, with communication technologies promotinh the daily
creation of alternative canons of truth with the ease of a child's
kaleidoscope making patterns. This facile and joyful fecundity in social
myth making brings deep problems for traditional political
communication, because as Habermas notes: 'Every act of reaching mutual
understanding is confirmed by a rationale consensus; otherwise it is not
a "real" act of reaching understanding, as we say. Competent speakers
know that any de facto consensus attained can be illusory; but their
basis for the concept of an illusory (or simply forced) consensus is the
concept of a rationale consensus. They know that an illusory consensus
must be replaced with an actual one if communication is to lead to
mutual understanding. As soon as we start communicating, we implicitly
declare our desire to reach an understanding with one another about
something. If consensus―even about a difference of opinion―can no longer
be reasonably expected, communication breaks down.' (p. 450 (Truth and
Seeing from Preliminary studies in the theory if communication action
(2001) from Theorising Communication. 2007))
In this world of floating values the hope for political consensus of the
Habermas model seems to be receding into the Net.
What does this mean for communicators, designers, artists, theorists and
propagandists when our rhetorical barbs lose their edge through simple
miscomprehension? When disbelief in the shootings at Sandy Hook is
replaced by a belief in the Bowling Green Massacre, how will political
communication happen?
Call
Areas of interest for studies of visual political communication include
(but are not limited to):
Is a social disconnect with the normative narratives that mass
communication depends on rendering propaganda speechless?
Is the rise of the Digital Public Sphere killing consensus politics, or
saving us from a weight of overbearing myths?
Does the disruption of large scale mono-cultures by online communities
mark an end for 20th century models of mass propaganda? Are the
subalterns taking control?
What happens to informed democratic systems when the rulers and the
ruled fundamentally inhabit different worlds, shaped by different idea.
Universal Translators: Are there communications methods that can speak
across the divides? Can we Mass Customise political communication to
speak the same truth, in different tongues, to all audiences at once?
The relationship between culture and technology has shaped political
communication since the time of the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda
Fide, and now emergent communications tools have widened the grasp and
increased the reach of a political message. The rise of the Net has
given individuals and small groups the same grasp and reach as the
largest power-block: and the possibilities for technically mediated
political communication keeps growing.
More than timely, it has become imperative, for researchers to examine
the complex interplay between the means and methods of political
communication and the possibility of a normative consensus in the
political world.
Details
Multimodality is a key element to understanding the use of images in
combination with other forms of mediated communication. We therefore
encourage scholars from both social and political science, as well as
cultural studies, arts, and communication studies, to submit proposals
for work for publication. The journal is looking for: Full papers of
7000-9000 words plus illustrations on the issue’s theme (for double
blind peer review). Rich illustration of the text is welcomed.
Theoretical papers as well as methodological discussion are welcome, but
preferably in combination with empirical analysis of imagery. Case
studies, comparisons across culture, or historical studies are invited.
Artist / Designer Monographs. Extended scholarly pieces addressing the
issue’s theme (for double blind peer review). 10000 – 25000 words plus
extensive illustrations.
Image and Photo Essays composed of illustrations, photographs, diagrams
or schematics that use visual languages to communicate their point of
view on this edition’s themes. Textual support may be added, if it is
felt necessary.
Reviews of relevant books, exhibitions and political gatherings (the
editors would be more than happy to publish a good review of the U.S.
Republican or Democratic party conferences, a Congressional
investigation, or a demonstration).
Timeline
Initial Abstracts/Statements of Intent (250 words) due Friday 15th of
December 2017. Selected contributors will be informed in the following
week. Full manuscripts due Monday 19th of February 2018.
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