Call for papers
Journal Comunicação e Sociedade
(http://www.cecs.uminho.pt/journal/index.html)
Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal
Special Issue: Screens and Sociotechnical Attachments
Screens as designed interfaces play a central role in the 21st century
digital era: they mediate our daily activities, shape our cultural and
technological imagination, and have an undeniable human significance.
In this issue of Communication and Society on ?Screens and
sociotechnical attachments?, we are especially interested in computer
screens, cinema and video screens, screens incorporated in urban
spaces, as well as on those that are wearable. We focus on these kinds
of screens and related information technologies and ask what its
implications might be for the way people communicate and interact in
private and public spaces.
Areas that might be explored under this general concern include, but
are by no means limited to, the following:
- the many different roles of ?screen?,
- the changing concepts of the screen or its social history;
- the presence of screens in the urban landscape, their implications
for shared engagement and social experience;
- the interactions between ?old? semiotic resources and new technologies;
- the way screens shape perception and the logic of visual reading:
- the play out between visibility and invisibility;
- the discourses that are a part of screens experiences;
- the embodied and social nature of pleasures, as well as of the
?pains? associated with screens.
In this issue we especially encourage essays, but empirically-based
papers will be accepted as long as their results are considered
theoretically relevant.
Comunicação e Sociedade is a peer reviewed journal and operates a
double-blind reviewing process. Once a paper has been submitted it is
distributed to two reviewers who are asked to assess it on its
individual merits according to academic quality, originality and
relevance to the aims and scope of this issue.
Manuscripts should be sent by email as a Word attachment to
(j.pinheiro.neves /at/ gmail.com) by the 31st January 2010. Notification of
acceptance decisions will be communicated via email by the beginning
of March 2010.
For editorial and Manuscript Submission Guidelines please see:
http://www.cecs.uminho.pt/pdf/Normas_basicas.pdf
Working languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English
This issue on ?Screens and Sociotechnical
Attachments? will be published by July 2010.
