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Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
<http://www.digitalicons.org/>http://www.digitalicons.org/
**Call for proposals for the Special Issue War, Conflict and
Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction ( Autumn 2010)**
Wars, conflicts and commemoration occupy the minds of today's users
of new media across the globe, especially those in Russia, Eurasia
and Central Europe: from digital accounts of 'wars on terror' to
virtual museums of political terror under communism; from cyberwars
against websites and databases to computer war games; from on-line
anti-war organising to virtual memorials to WWII soldiers; from
photo-and video- reporting on warfare in Kosovo, Chechnya, Gaza or
Georgia to flash-mobs of political protest or racist incitement;
from digitalised personal memories and family histories to YouTube
clips featuring victorious presidential speeches.
The aim of this special issue is to explore the ways wars and
conflicts are mediated, commemorated, reported and discussed on the
Internet as well as in other forms of new media, including mobile
phones, digital broadcasting and computer games. What is the role of
new media in understanding, representing, negotiating and
remembering (or forgetting) war and terror? What is the status of
testimony, evidence and reportage in the age of digital
reproduction? What practices of memory do new information and
communication technologies entail? What structures of feeling
operate in on-line reports and debates around military operations
and human suffering? How can digital mediations of conflict bring
people and communities together, while tearing others apart? And
lastly, how can the embodied, physical violence intensify in digital
interactions, and how can it be resisted?
This special issue of Digital Icons aims to create a forum for
scholars working in the fields of war, conflict, commemoration,
digital media, and new media, while simultaneously addressing
linguistic, cultural, historical and political aspects of new media
use in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe. We invite original
articles that focus on one or more countries of the region, or on
their diasporas. We also welcome theoretical essays, reflection by
media practitioners on their own practices, contributions from
artists and authors, and reviews of relevant projects, books and events.
Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2010
Anticipated date of publication: October 2010
Please contact Adi Kuntsman
<mailto:(warconflictcommemoration /at/ googlemail.com)>(warconflictcommemoration /at/ googlemail.com)
or DI editors
<mailto:(editor /at/ digitalicons.org)>(editor /at/ digitalicons.org) to discuss
your submission.
When submitting your work, please include the following information:
a biographical statement (100-120 words in English) and an
abstract/description of the submission (or the first paragraph of
the essay if appropriate) (about 150 words in English).
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Dr. Adi Kuntsman
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
The University of Manchester
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
<http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html>http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html
http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com
