[eccr] Call for chapters: Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities

>Call for Chapters (edited book)
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>Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities
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>Edited by Kate ORiordan and David J Philips
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>Introduction
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>This edited collection will bring together crucial examinations of the 
>intersecting fields of sexuality and the internet, and will provide an 
>overarching contextualisation and consolidation of cyber/queer practices 
>and theories.
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>In the early to mid-1990s, the repercussions of queer theory were being 
>engaged across academic feminism and lesbian and gay studies.  At the same 
>time, the internet was emerging as a key structuring device for academic 
>networks, and as an important area of study.  With the advent of the 
>commercial web in 1994 the internet intersected with popular culture, and 
>key questions of modernity  identity, community, governance, time and 
>space  intersected with the web as it unfolded across multiple social 
>domains.  Whilst the mid-1990s wasnt the beginning of internet research, 
>cybercultural studies, or queer, it was a period of sustained attention 
>and excitement in relation to identity and the web.   Since then, there 
>has been intense collision and collaboration between queer theory and 
>cyberculture, as the imagined ideal queer subject and the imagined ideal 
>cybersubject came to occupy the same ground.
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>Moving on from and challenging this formulation, the book aims both to 
>document queer internet practices and to limn their theoretical 
>implications at the intersection of the fields of queer, technology, and 
>communication studies.  Drawing on interviews with central actors, 
>analyses of internet activity, syntheses of critical debates, and both new 
>and historical research, the collection will provide both an overview and 
>an in depth analysis of these engagements.
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>We invite papers for consideration that complement either of the proposed 
>sections of the book:
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>Section 1 will provide theoretical contextualisations, histories and 
>political economies of queer/communication technology intersections.
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>Section 2 will showcase new and innovative work on queer sexuality and the 
>internet that offers new insight, whilst also showing evidence of a 
>rigorous connection to historical and theoretical context.
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>Suggested topics and themes include (but are not limited to):
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>·        Sexual identities practices and communities
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>·        Art and activism
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>·        Consumption
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>·        Political economy
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>·        Representation
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>·        Performativity
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>·        Queer theory
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>Target Market and Readership
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>The book aims to provide a contribution to course materials for 
>postgraduate and undergraduate work in digital/new media/internet and 
>communication studies, queer theory, cultural and gender studies. The 
>collection also aims to support postdoctoral researchers by providing a 
>consolidation and bridging of existing and new work in the field.
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>Deadlines
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>Submission of 400 word abstract along with a CV: 1st of July 2005.
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>Authors notified: 1st of August 2005
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>Draft chapters: 1st November 2005
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>Editors
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>Kate ORiordan, Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, 
>Lancaster University, http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/staff/oriordan.htm
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><mailto:(k.oriordan /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>(k.oriordan /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)
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>David Phillips, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas 
>at Austin, http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/phillips, (djp /at/ mail.utexas.edu)
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