Inke Arns on Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:38:31 +0100 |
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Dear all, this comes to you from <http://www.vptech.demon.co.uk/lengell/> and looks like a call for papers... please pass on... Best, Inke ------------------------ Call for Essays for an Academic Text Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations in the New Ablex Publishing Co. Series "Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium" Essays are solicited for Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations. This book will examine how post-socialist East Central and South-Eastern Europeans access new communication technologies, the role of computer mediated communication (CMC) and the Internet, and culturally-specific discourses that emerge through and about new technology in East Central and South-Eastern Europe. The book will be distinguished by a diverse exploration of cybernetic civic discourse, including for example, how CMC connects East Central and South-Eastern Europe to the world, how digital media art articulates new cultural and creative freedoms once forbidden by the Soviet regime, and how development of technologies in the 'West' may be leaving behind the economically disenfranchised 'East.' The book will also explore the communication gaps between 'East' and 'West' as well as between specific ethnicities and regions within the 'New Europe.' As the series addresses communication in the Third Millennium all chapters should have a futuristic focus. Chapter essays should utilize civic discourse/communication as the base (cybernetic civic discourse intersected with either interpersonal, intercultural, ethnocultural, multicultural, international, multinational, development, organizational, media or global civic discourse/communication). Deadline for submission of one-page (250 word) abstract, preferably by e-mail: May 15, 1998 Deadline for submission of essays: September 15, 1998 Essay Submission Details: The best 20 blind-reviewed essays will be included in Culture and Technology in the New Europe. Each submitted work (18 double spaced manuscript pages plus references) should have an accompany sheet with the title of the essay, name of the individual author(s), institutional affiliation, 40 word abstract, 40 word biographical statement of each author, and key terms selected by the author(s) for inclusion in a subject index. Each author should include a vita. The concept of civic discourse/communication needs to be integrated in each chapter. The latest APA style for citations and references is required. Both 3 hard copies and 1 disk are required. About the Editor and Series Editor: The editor, Fulbright Scholar Dr Laura Lengel, has research experience in Central, Eastern and Western Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and the Americas. She researches and lectures in international and intercultural communication, culture and technology, and research methodologies. The Series Editor of "Civic Discourse in the Third Millennium" is Dr Michael Prosser, Kern Professor of Communications of Rochester Institute of Technology and author/editor of eight books on international and intercultural communication. Abstracts and inquiries should be sent to: Laura Lengel, PhD Department of Communications The American International University in London 1 St. Albans Grove London W8 5PN ENGLAND Phone: 011-44-171-603-3292 e-mail: lengell@vptech.demon.co.uk i n k e . a r n s _____________________________________ 49.(0)30.3136678 | inke@berlin.snafu.de | new URL soon at V2 http://www.snafu.de/~inke ____________________________