[Commlist] CfP Gender and Media Ecology - Explorations in Media Ecology

Call for Papers:

Invited Special Issue on “Gender and Media Ecology” to be published 
in Explorations in Media Ecology (Intellect): 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/explorations-in-media-ecology.

Guest Editors: Dr. Julia M. Hildebrand, Eckerd College, 
(hildebjm /at/ eckerd.edu) <mailto:(hildebjm /at/ eckerd.edu)>, Dr. Julia C. Richmond, 
Rowan University, (richmondj /at/ rowan.edu) <mailto:(richmondj /at/ rowan.edu)>

We welcome research contributions that explore the intersections of 
gender and media ecology. Studying media as environments and 
environments as media, media ecology explores how human-made artefacts 
shape the way we think, feel, and act (Postman, 1970, 1995). Hence, the 
term “media” includes any technology from the printed book, telephone, 
television, and the Internet, to clothing, architecture, and vehicles. 
Such media can be understood as extensions of human faculties (McLuhan, 
1964), which inherit certain “biases” and create certain “effects” for 
the human condition (Strate, 2017). This special issue seeks to advance 
the “meta-discipline” of media ecology (Nystrom, 1973) with attention to 
the gendered dimensions of such environments and extensions.

  “We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us,” argues Culkin 
through a media ecological lens (1967: 52). Yet, who is “we” and “us”? 
Media ecological work has looked into some of the roles gender plays in 
the philosophies and expressions that go into and come out of various 
media (see for example Drucker & Gumpert, 1997; Meyrowitz, 1985; 
Mumford, 1961; Paglia, 1990; Pederson, 2011; Shlain, 1998). The 
scholarship, however, is limited. This is especially the case for 
contemporary and emerging concerns in, with, and through various media, 
from revenge porn to the #MeToo movement along with other manifestations 
of gender discrimination, subversion, and emancipation.

According to McLuhan, “the hybrid or the meeting of two media is a 
moment of truth and revelation from which new form is born” (1964: 63). 
The analytical bridging of media ecology and gender studies can be such 
a revelatory meeting of two media. Here, we also include related 
research in feminist theory and feminist technoscience for producing 
fruitful frictions. What could the resulting subfields of 
“gendered-media ecology” and “feminist media ecology” contribute to our 
understanding of media as environments and environments as media?

New research into gender and media ecology is beginning to take form 
(see for example several recent panels on gender and media ecology at 
the 2019 National Communication Association Annual Convention and 2020 
Media Ecology Association Annual Convention; see also Sharma & Singh, 
forthcoming). This special issue aims to establish a forum in which the 
gendered dimensions of media extensions and environments can be 
problematized.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

·       Gender and media

·       Gendered environments and technologies

·       Gender and language

·       Gender as figure and/or ground

·       Gender biases and effects

·       Gender and the global village

·       Gender and formal cause

·       Gender and the “laws of media”

·       Gender and medium theory

·       Feminist technoscience and media ecology

·       Feminist readings of media ecology

·       Gender in the media ecology literature

·       Sexuality and media ecology

·       Intersectionality and media ecology

Read the full CfP here: 
https://www.media-ecology.org/Gender-and-Media-Ecology-CFP

Abstracts (300 words) and a short biographical note should be submitted 
by August 20 to Julia M. Hildebrand ((hildebjm /at/ eckerd.edu) 
<mailto:(hildebjm /at/ eckerd.edu)>) with the subject line “Gender and Media 
Ecology.”

Authors are not expected to pay for publication.

Important Dates:

·       Abstract submission (300 words): August 20, 2020
·       Manuscript submission: October 15, 2020
·       Notifications: November 30, 2020
·       Final manuscript submission: January 15, 2021
·       Target publication date: May, 2021


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