[ecrea] Reminder 'Social Media - Social Memory' - Special Issue Media, Culture & Society

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Media, Culture and Society (MCS)

'Social Media-Social Memory. Remembering in digitally networked times'

Guest editors:
Christian Pentzold (Chemnitz University of Technology / Alexander von 
Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin)
Christine Lohmeier (University of Munich)

Media, Culture & Society editors:
Emily Keightley (Loughborough University)
Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow)


Media and memory are often closely intertwined. From the very start of 
human culture, media have been employed to fix, share and store 
expressions and impressions of individual and collective experiences. 
Taking this continuing twin relation as its point of departure, this 
special issue seeks to showcase empirical research that studies the 
interplay of contemporary media, social change and acts and artifacts of 
memory.

The editors are seeking contributions that investigate commemoration, 
remembrance and memory work as an essential thread in the social and 
material patterns of modern culture.

We are especially interested in empirically grounded submissions that 
address, but are not limited to, the following questions:

-  What can we learn about the interplay of individual and collective memory
and the affordances of a media ecology that is more and more digitally 
networked and increasingly mobile and locative?
-  How may we conceptualize and investigate memory taking account of the 
dynamics of digitisation, networking and mediatization?
-  Which methods and approaches are most appropriate for the study of 
memory work and digital and connective media?
-  How are memories materially and semiotically mediated?
-  How does memory travel? How can we conceptualise and study memory 
work in quotidian mobilities as well as in a range of contexts such as 
transcultural/transnational western and non-western movements, 
post-colonial contexts, diasporas and the general flows of peoples, 
goods and ideas?
-  What are the dynamics of (counter-)hegemonic discourses of memory in 
current mediascapes?
-  What can we learn about how mediated memories are realised in respect 
of power, class, ethnicity, religion and gender?

Please submit an 800 word abstract and a 100 word biographical note to 
both guest editors, Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier, as an 
e-mail attachment (.rtf, .doc, .pdf) no later than 16 November, 2012. 
Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by the end of November 
2012. Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes 
and references, be in conformity with Media, Culture & Society style 
guidelines and should be submitted by 1 May, 2013. For specific 
manuscript submission guidelines, please go to: http://mcs.sagepub.com/

Important dates

Deadline for abstracts          16 November 2012
Full paper submission          1 May 2013
Revised paper submission        31 August 2013
Issue publication              Summer 2014

If you have any queries, please contact the guest editors:

Christian Pentzold, Chemnitz University of Technology / Alexander von 
Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin,
(christian.pentzold /at/ phil.tu-chemnitz.de)

Christine Lohmeier, University of Munich,
(christine.lohmeier /at/ yahoo.co.uk)

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