[ecrea] CFP – Communication and New Materialism

*CFP –  Communication and New Materialism*

/communication +1/ invites submissions for its upcoming issue, 
Communication and New Materialism.

Given the recent emergence of new perspectives in critical theories, 
such as Object-Oriented Ontology, Speculative Realism, Alien 
Phenomenology, Flat Ontology, and associated research programs, this 
issue seeks to explore the implications of these perspectives for the 
study of communication and media. We use the term, New Materialism, 
broadly to include all the aforementioned as well as other related 
perspectives in the hope to be as inclusive as possible and to encourage 
diverse voices and analytic angles that focus on the forms and processes 
of mediation across different fields. We are particularly interested in 
works that engage with the theoretical underpinnings of New Materialism 
to challenge the text-centered approaches in media and communication 
studies.

Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by December 7^th 
, 2012 to (communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com)>.

Upon invitation, full text submissions will be due April 5^th , 2013, 
with expected publication in July, 2013.

*About the Journal*

The aim of /communication +1/ is to promote new approaches to and open 
new horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary 
perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that 
seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of 
theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both 
established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social 
sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship, 
/communication +1/ sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to 
create is a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these 
experiments.

/communication +1 /is an open access journal supported by University of 
Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication

http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/

*Editors*

Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Editor in Chief

Zachary J. McDowell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Managing Editor

*Advisory Board*

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom

Greg Wise, Arizona State University

Kuan-Hsin Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University

For more information about the project in general, as well as short 
pieces, lectures, and interviews, visit communicationplusone.org 
<http://communicationplusone.org/>.

For more information or to participate in the communicationplusone.org 
<http://communicationplusone.org/> project, please email 
(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(communicationplusone /at/ gmail.com)>


best,

Zach

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Zachary J. McDowell
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Wikipedia Teaching Fellow 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Writing_As_Communication_Spring_2012>
Managing Editor: communication +1 <http://www.communicationplusone.org/>