[Commlist] Call for visual essays: Special Edition of Digital Culture and Education on 'Shelfies'

SPECIAL EDITION - VISUALISING THE SHELFIE MOVEMENT: DOCUMENTING DIGITAL 
MATERIALITIES
Edited by Yasemine Allsop, Natalia Kucirkova, Jennifer Rowsell, 
Ekaterina Rzyankina, and Sumin Zhao

Covid-19 has transformed the way we work. With domestic space now 
positioned up front and centre in daily working life, the humble home 
bookshelf has been transformed into a professional platform. Heightened 
online time has invited novel habits and trends such as taking, sharing 
and appreciating shelfies. This special issue invites visual essays on 
ideologies, ontologies, and epistemologies circulating in shelfies 
within formal and informal contexts.
Shelfies throw into relief ways of being, thinking, and valuing (or not) 
spaces. What objects are foregrounded and backgrounded in shelfies? What 
is visible and invisible? In what ways are shelfies political, 
affective, hermeneutic, and contested?
Visual responses to the shelfie movement have the potential of opening 
up a new lens for conducting and interpreting research. In addition, 
visual articles give (more) room to present and theorise people’s 
relationships with the liminal spaces we move in and out of during and 
post-COVID.
We invite visual essays that explore responses to shelfies as both trend 
and lived practice. Some ideas for possible topics include: The form and 
function of shelfies; Shelfies as cultural, social, and economic 
signifiers; The semiotics of shelfies; Shelfies as affect; Shelfies as 
posthuman; Shelfies and the home-work dichotomy; Shelfies as liminal 
spaces; The politics of shelfies; Shelfies and social media; Shelfies 
and wellbeing; Shelfies and identity; The presentation of the shelf in 
everyday life; The shelf life of shelfies; Blurring, editing, and 
augmenting shelfies; The curation of shelfies; Online and offline 
shelfies; and, The post-COVID legacy of shelfies.
While theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches continue to 
diversify in these new normal times, we invite scholars to use visuals 
and words in combination in order to unpack the multimodal dynamism of 
the shelfie.
For this call, we ask that you submit your abstract to 
(Jennifer.Rowsell /at/ bristol.ac.uk) by January 15th, 2021. We will send out 
decisions by March 1, 2021. Remember that these are visual articles, so 
you will need to account for both written text and how you will design 
your articles visually.

TIMELINES December 2020 – Put out call for abstracts

March 2021 – Decide on abstracts and send out invitations

June 2021 – Due date for visual essays

September 2021 – Due date for reviews

November 2021 – Final visual articles complete

December 2021 – Editorial written

January 2022 – Go live with special issue

For more information about Digital Culture and Education, please visit 
www.digitalcultureandeducation.com, or read our latest editions at 
www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/browse-journal

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