[ecrea] CFP: Mediating War and Technology, abstracts due 11/15

> Call for papers: Mediating War and Technology
> ICA Preconference sponsored by the Communication 
> History Interest Group Boston, May 26, 2011
>
> This ICA pre-conference brings together 
> communication and history scholars for an 
> exchange of ideas concerning war, technology, 
> media, and history. War and technology are 
> established themes in the fields of history and 
> communication, though hoped-for connections 
> between scholars in both fields have been slow 
> in coming. Careful attention to how historical 
> methods can assist communication scholars in 
> their understanding of these broad themes will 
> offer to pre-conference attendees and presenters 
> alike valuable tools for more thoroughly working 
> history into the field of communication.  At the 
> same time, historians will gain new insight into 
> archival texts through the application of 
> communications theory and methodology, leading 
> to exciting developments in both fields. The 
> pre-conference will feature invited speakers from both fields.
>
> Submitted papers should connect with ideas 
> related to the history of war and technology. 
> The following illustrations of topics 
> suggest?but are not intended to limit?topics suitable for paper submissions:
>
> -- The role of recording media (including 
> photography, audio technology) in chronicling atrocity and war;
> -- The history of war journalism, as it relates 
> to issues in the history of technology;
> -- The history of information warfare;
> -- The history of the study of communication, as 
> affected by war and technology;
> -- Considerations of transportation as related 
> to the history of war and technology;
> -- New media and war, including perspectives on surveillance;
> -- The changing roles of technology in the history of battlefield censorship;
> -- Media technology as a variable in home-front morale;
> -- Geopolitical advantage as related to media developments;
> -- The role of military initiatives and 
> investment in the evolution of civilian media technology;
> -- The international circulation of propaganda in wars hot and cold; and
> -- Comparative studies of conflict, technology and media
>
> We also encourage multi-media presentations and 
> other non-traditional scholarly formats that 
> explore preconference themes in novel ways.
>
> Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted no 
> later than November 15, 2010. Send abstracts to 
> David Park at: 
> <mailto:(park /at/ lakeforest.edu)>(park /at/ lakeforest.edu) 
> .  Authors will be informed whether abstracts 
> have been accepted by December 10, 2010. 
> Completed papers will be due by May 1, 2011.
>
> The pre-conference will take place on Thursday, 
> May 26, 2011, at the Westin Boston Waterfront, the site of the ICA conference.
>
> Organized by
> -- Sharrona Pearl, the Annenberg School for 
> Communication, University of Pennsylvania
> -- Jefferson Pooley, Muhlenberg College
> -- David W. Park, Lake Forest College

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