[ecrea] Book Chapters CfP | Miscommunication: Errors, Mistakes, and the Media

*Book Chapters CfP*


*Miscommunication: Errors, Mistakes, and the Media*

Editors: Maria Korolkova (University of Greenwich) and Timothy Barker 
(University of Glasgow)

*Aims & scope *

Mistakes and miscommunications occupy a special place in media theory, 
and for the field of media archaeology in particular, posing a range of 
important questions. /What happens to discourse when media machines do 
not operate in the way they were intended? What happens when 
communication systems break down and start to deliver misleading 
information? What are the conditions for the error in 21//^st //century 
media? And what can attention to the possibilities for the experience of 
miscommunications tell us about 21//^st //century media and culture in 
general?/

These questions pose a problem for media archaeology and identify a need 
for this field to be expanded beyond its own paradigm to uncover the 
ways in which errors and miscommunications address historical and 
contemporary cultural techniques. This book invites contributions that 
investigate new methods, topics and themes around the idea of 
miscommunication at the interface of media archaeology and fields of 
cultural studies, art history, philosophy, film studies, sound studies, 
and conflict studies, where an investigation of errors, mistakes and 
falsity can provide new ways to understand creative and epistemological 
processes. We argue that the potential for mistakes in any communication 
system creates a specific agency – an ‘energy of delusion’ in the worlds 
of Viktor Shklovsky, or as Umberto Eco describes it a ‘force of falsity’ 
– that awaits its reconsideration in the 21^st century.

This book aims to provide an opportunity to rethink media and 
communication theory – as well as philosophies of mediation – by asking, 
what happens when communication systems break down? What are the new 
political economies of noise? What happens when political communication 
becomes non-dialectical? How can we rethink digital media theory by 
looking at mistakes in programs? Break-downs, mistakes, hacks, and quick 
fixes, might allow us to reconsider questions relating to media 
determinism – these phenomena open up lines of flight and show us the 
potential for users to find a way to live with programs. They give us a 
way to rethink pessimistic versions of post-history by showing the 
points at which systems can be changed. An exploration of 
miscommunication also offers a new way to think about the conditions of 
contemporary political communication and the exploitation of information 
systems.


We are currently inviting authors to submit chapter proposals related to 
these broad aims and at least one of the themes below:

·       Media Archaeology of Mistakes/Miscommunication

·       Non-dialectic media: Rethink contemporary media beyond the 
dialectical model of communication

·       Errant research methodologies in media studies

·       Noise and media: (a) Exploring the aesthetics of noise; (b) 
thinking about noise as productive

·       Errors and glitches: in video games; art; music/sound art

·       Post-truth communication

·       Rethinking the post-digital

·       Miscommunication and mistakes on social media

·       Media philosophical description of errant communication

·       Aesthetics of imperfection

·       Gender as miscommunication

·       Digital death as mistake in continuity of communication

·       Textuality, technology and miscommunication

·       Intentional miscommunications: frauds, forgeries, fakes

·       Crisis/disaster/war miscommunications

·       Waste and leakage

·       Misinterpretation

·       Creativity as miscommunication

·       Madness, lunacy, and miscommunication

*Abstract Submissions*

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Abstracts of 300 words (excluding references) are invited for chapters 
of between 6,000-8,000 words. Along with your abstract, please include a 
brief biographical note of around 100 words. Abstract should be 
submitted to (m.korlokova /at/ gre.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.korlokova /at/ gre.ac.uk)> and 
(timothy.barker /at/ glasgow.ac.uk) <mailto:(timothy.barker /at/ glasgow.ac.uk)> *by 
1*^*st* *October 2018*.


*Important dates*

1 October 2018: Submission of abstracts
15 October 2018: Notification of abstract acceptance
1 March 2019: Full chapter submission due
15 March – 1 June 2019: Chapters sent out for review and authors asked 
to revise texts, if required.
1 August 2019: Final chapters ready for publication



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