[ecrea] Call for Chapters - Digital Leisure Cultures

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical Perspectives (Routledge)

Deadline for abstracts: Friday 28th November 2014



Following the 2014 Leisure Studies Association annual conference – 
hosted at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), Professor David 
McGillivray, Professor Gayle McPherson and Dr Sandro Carnicelli are 
co-editing an edited collection on Digital Leisure Cultures.



The collection considers what the digital age means for our 
understandings of leisure culture in the 21st century, placing emphasis 
on the changing nature of leisure cultures brought about, intensified, 
or accelerated in a digital world. The digital turn in leisure has 
opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate 
and be entertained – opportunities that have transformed what we 
recognise as leisure pastimes and activities. People communicate with 
each other in different ways, more intensively and at greater speed. 
Technological advances enable people to create and distribute music, 
videos, images and ideas on a handheld device at the touch of a button 
or swipe of a touchscreen (Solis, 2012). Offering critical consideration 
of the ‘costs’ associated with digital leisure cultures on individuals – 
as well as organisations and societies – the book offers vital 
intervention into debates within Leisure Studies (including sport, 
tourism, and events sectors) about the extent to which the digital turn 
has led to something wholly positive. Does it free us up from the limits 
of our analogue lives or are we have simply caught up in a web of 
surveillance, control and corporately controlled leisure – the darker 
side of digital?



Proposed structure

The book will explore a range of conceptual issues brought to the fore 
by the digital turn using leisure culture case studies. Each chapter 
should detail its theoretical trajectory and provide at least one case 
study exemplar that will explain its relevance for a specified leisure 
culture (e.g. sport, event, music, tourism, culture).  The book will be 
divided into three main parts:



·         Producing digital leisure cultures

·         Consuming digital leisure cultures

·         Regulating digital leisure cultures



Each part will be supplemented with a series of sub-themes (or topics), 
which could include (but are not restricted to):

·         Resistance

·         Surveillance

·         Acceleration

·         Control

·         Ownership

·         Privacy

·         Commodification and commercialization

·         Digital divides

·         Morality and ethics

·         Moral panics

·         Risk

·         Fandom

·         Health and the body

·         Social media and digital storytelling

·         Experiences



Submission guidelines

We are looking to form a proposal for a book of approximately 12-16 
chapters and authors are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 350 
words (excluding indicative references) in a Word document to be emailed 
to David McGillivray (david.mcgillivray /at/ uws.ac.uk) by Friday 28th 
November, 2014.



Abstracts should include the following information:

·         Proposed article title

·         Proposed author names and affiliations

·         Part (production, consumption, regulation) and theme being 
addressed

·         Purpose/aim of the chapter

·         Principal body of literature/theoretical framework

·         Indicative case study

·         Key findings/conclusions

·         Some key dates (estimations)



Submission of abstracts: Friday 28th November 2014

Submission of full chapters (pending approval of proposal): March 2015

Publication: end of 2015



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Dr Lesley-Ann Dickson



Research Assistant - Creative Futures Institute

School of Media, Culture and Society

University of the West of Scotland

Paisley Campus

MAKE Space

A Block, Barbour Building

Paisley, Renfrewshire, PA1 2BE

(lesley-ann.dickson /at/ uws.ac.uk)  / www.creativefutur.eu /  @CreativeFutur



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