[ecrea] cfp: LiNQ- The Digital and the Local

Call for Papers: LiNQ Themed Issue: The Digital and the Local

In the last twenty-five years, technology has made an enormous impact on 
the way we communicate, often with largely unforeseen consequences. From 
the perspective of its impact on narrative communication, digital 
technology has begun to augment, alter, and introduce new practices of 
producing, sharing and reading and analysing texts. David M Berry (2011, 
12) argues that ‘computer code enables new communicative processes, and 
with the increasing social dimension of networked media the possibility 
of new and exciting forms of collaborative thinking arises.’

In this issue, themed at the intersection between the digital and the 
local, we ask–What does this mean for the representation of regional 
culture? Are producers on the margins of vibrant metropolitan cultures 
able to be networked into these places, or are the big cities of our 
world increasingly concentrated into a few networked hubs that still 
leave artists, storytellers, and the places that nurture and sustain 
them in far-flung places as cultural vagabonds on the outer or 
periphery of “where it’s at”?

Certainly, digital tools are having an impact on texts in various ways. 
Some digital tools allow for immersive, interactive, game-like 
experiences, while others augment real-world spaces. Digital tools 
foster collaborative, audience-driven, and social approaches to 
producing and making sense of texts (Berry 2011; Bartscherer and Coover 
2011). Digital tools allow texts to be published, annotated and 
hyperlinked in new ways, and bring to light archival texts previously 
unavailable or difficult to source. Digital tools are also transforming 
the way research data is visualised (Wankel and Carter 2013), in the 
manner often mediating research. However, questions of access, 
marginalization (Page and Thomas 2015), digital mediation, data 
commodification, and the diminishing gap between public and private 
plague the generative possibilities of digital tools.


This year, our annual themed issue of LiNQ, a 45 year-old peer reviewed 
literary and creative writing journal associated with the Department of 
English at James Cook University Australia, is called The Digital and 
the Local. For this December 2015 issue, we invite explorations of the 
possibilities and potentials of texts in a digital realm, and as a 
regional journal, we are particularly interested in questions of the 
local. We call for academic articles and creative submissions (fiction, 
creative nonfiction, essays, and poems) that could address but are not 
limited to:

-Locative literature and the digital environment,
-Regional producers and consumers of literature in regional locales as 
researched through or connected by digital technology,
-Questions of the human in the digital environment,
-Questions of the real in the digital environment,
-Ethical questions and the production and consumption of digital texts,
-Identity construction and digital tools,
-The nature of, and interaction between, real, virtual and symbolic spaces,
-Audience-driven texts such as fan-fiction and mash-ups
-Collaborative text production activities,
-Social reading and writing of texts using digital tools,
-Transmedia and multimedia storytelling,
-Digital publishing practices,
-The impact of digital tools on the construction of texts,
-The production of multimodal texts
-Interdisciplinary understandings of digital texts,
-The changing nature of academic writing, research methods and notions 
of the university as a result of digital technology,
-The nature of teaching text production and composition using digital tools
-The impact and ethics of digitising archival materials, oral 
narratives, images, objects and other texts previously unavailable or 
difficult to access
-Innovative digital methods for analysing, interpreting and visualising 
textual data.

This year, LiNQ is moving fully to a digital platform. This shift means 
new possibilities in publishing digital writing and for creative writing 
submissions; we welcome work of this kind provided it is presented in a 
format that does not require additional input from editors. For example, 
provide editors with a link to an already-constructed website, or 
multimedia outputs hosted elsewhere.

Submissions should be no longer than 6000 words. Include a brief 
abstract of the article or creative submission (no more than 75 words) 
and a 50-word biographical note. Book reviews of no longer than 1000 
words are also welcome.

Follow MLA citation style and format. All contributions should be 
submitted as a Microsoft Word file, double-spaced 12pt font. All images 
used must be with permission only.

Suitable papers will be double-blind peer reviewed.

Hard-copy submissions are not accepted and will not be returned.

See our submission instructions at
http://www.linqjournal.com/contribute/<https://3c-lxa.mail.com/mail/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linqjournal.com%2Fcontribute%2F>

Submissions close July 31, 2015 for our December 2015 issue.

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