CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS -- STUDIES IN NEW MEDIA

CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS -- STUDIES IN NEW MEDIA

Series Editor: John Allen Hendricks, Ph.D.

Series Editor Email: jhendricks@sfasu.edu

Publisher: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield

Deadline: Rolling Deadline

ABOUT THE SERIES:

This series aims to advance the theoretical and practical understanding
of the emergence, adoption, and influence of new technologies. It
provides a venue to explore how New Media technologies and Social
Networking Sites (SNS) are changing the media landscape in the
twenty-first century. Single authored, Multi-authored, and Edited book
proposals will be considered.

Books included in this series focus on topics such as:

- Online Gaming

- New Media and research methodologies

- Media technologies

- Theory development

- Video games

- Mobile content

- Policy development

- Media usage and psychology

- Political usage

- Social media technologies

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:

Scholars interested in having a proposal considered should contact the
series editor:

John Allen Hendricks, PhD

Chair/Professor

Stephen F. Austin State University

Department of Mass Communication

PO Box 13048, SFA Station

Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3048

(936) 468-4001
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Rhetorical Questions discusses Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance

Brian Amsden, b08924@yahoo.com

Rhetorical Questions (podcast) discusses the controversy surrounding Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance with Drs. Katherine Lavelle, Meredith Bagley, and Robin Boylorn

Rhetorical Questions has released Episode 10: Slaying While Black. The show features interviews with Drs. Katherine Lavelle, Meredith Bagley, and Robin Boylorn. We discuss the controversy surrounding Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 performance, attending to the role of context, post racialism, and intersectionality. The show, along with previous episodes, is available at www.rhetoricalquestions.org.

Rhetorical Questions seeks to offer rhetorical analyses of social and political phenomena in a form accessible to popular audiences (and suitable for undergraduate students). It launched in April 2015. You can follow the show on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/rhetqs) and Twitter (@RhetQs), and you can subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. Links are available on our website, rhetoricalquestions.org. Direct email inquiries to rhetoricalquestions@yahoo.com.

Brian Amsden, Clayton State University

Open Rivers

From the Staff of Open Rivers:

On behalf of the editorial board and staff of Open Rivers, I invite you to take a look at Issue 2: Imagining Water, hot off the virtual presses!

Find the journal at http://openrivers.umn.edu

We're very proud of this issue, and think you'll find the content thought-provoking.  We have features on water and the landscape of race by Richard M. Mizelle, Jr, a piece by Christopher Morris on the varying and perhaps changeable meanings of terms such as "disruption" and "resilience," and a reflection from Patrick Hamilton on how his early familiarity with water has fueled his work on climate change.

The issue also includes our usual columns on primary sources, teaching and practice, reviews, and more.  Look especially for ecohydrologist Kate Brauman's discussion of what large data set can and can't tell us and for Kirk MacKinnon Morrow's reflections on the teaching opportunities offered through tours of Dakota sacred sites.

Please note, all the content in this issue is available for download as PDFs, both the issue in full as well as individual articles.  We hope this facilitates using the material for teaching and in wider distribution.

As always, we welcome your comments and queries.  Please do feel free to circulate to friends and colleagues who are committed to examining and working with the intersections of rivers, water, equity and landscape.  We are always open to new writers and ideas for stories, so do stay in touch!

Public Understanding of Science May 2016; Vol. 25, No. 4

Public Understanding of Science
May 2016; Vol. 25, No. 4
Essay Competition
Results of the essay competition on the ‘deficit concept’
Martin W Bauer

The lure of rationality: Why does the deficit model persist in science communication?
Molly J. Simis, Haley Madden, Michael A. Cacciatore, and Sara K. Yeo

In science communication, why does the idea of the public deficit always return? Exploring key influences
Brianne Suldovsky

In science communication, why does the idea of a public deficit always return? How do the shifting information flows in healthcare affect the deficit model of science communication?
Henry Ko

In science communication, why does the idea of a public deficit always return?
Gitte Meyer

In science communication, why does the idea of a public deficit always return? The eternal recurrence of the public deficit
Carina Cortassa

In science communication, why does the idea of a public deficit always return?
Beth G. Raps

Articles
Dynamic development of public attitudes towards science policymaking
Keisuke Okamura

Evaluating elements of trust: Race and class in risk communication in post-Katrina New Orleans
B.F. Battistoli

Experimenting with distributed approaches – Case study: A ‘national-level’ distributed dialogue on bioenergy in the United Kingdom
Marta Entradas

A failed platform: The Citizen Consensus Conference travels to Chile
Sebastián Ureta

Edited Collection: Women in STEM on TV

Edited Collection: Women in STEM on TV. Abstracts Due 5/15/2016

full name / name of organization: 

Ashley Carlson, University of Montana Western

contact email: 

ashleylynncarlson@gmail.com

A major publisher has shown interest in an edited collection on the portrayal of Women in STEM fields on television. I am currently soliciting chapter proposals for this collection.

Project Scope: This collection of essays will examine the portrayal of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields in recent television series. The significant gap between the numbers of women and men enrolled in post-secondary science and engineering programs and employed in these fields has garnered a great deal of public attention in the past few years, and a number of efforts to address the gender gap are underway. However, these efforts have largely focused on the educational setting, through programs such as the National Girls Collaborative Project and Girls Who Code. This project aims to examine how television, one of the most pervasive forms of popular media in the United States, is contributing to the public perception of women in STEM. Of particular interest are television series from the past two decades featuring characters in fields where women are underrepresented.

Some possible themes or topics include:
- Gender Imbalance in Education and the Workplace
- Gender Stereotypes
- Emotion v. Reason
- Workplace Discrimination
- Work/life Balance
- Children's Programming
- Specific fields/professions, such as computer programming, engineering, etc.

Some possible primary texts include:
- Annedriods (2013)
- Arrow (2012)
- The Big Bang Theory (2007)
- Bones (2005)
- Criminal Minds (2005)
- CSI Cyber (2015)
- Eureka (2006)
- Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
- Marvel: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)
- Mythbusters (2003)
- NCIS (2003 – present)
- Project Mc2 (2015)
- SciGirls (2010)
- Scorpion (2014)
- Stargate SG1 (1997) & Atlantis (2004)
- X-Files (1993 and recently revived)
- TV Advertising

Please contact me with questions or for more information.

For consideration, please submit a 500-word proposal and a CV to Ashley Carlson (ashleylynncarlson@gmail.com) by May 15th, 2016. Accepted essays should be 5,000 – 7,000 words long and will be due September 1st, 2016.

CFP: Celebrating our Visual Culture

CFP: Celebrating our Visual Culture

full name / name of organization: 

Chitrolekha International Magazine on Art and Design

contact email: 

editor@chitrolekha.com

The Chitrolekha Magazine (www.chitrolekha.com is inviting articles, essays and photo essays on the visual culture right from the prehistoric to the modern times. Submissions can be made on the following topics/areas (not exclusive but suggestive):

New Perspectives on the origin of Art
Issues in the History of Art
Religious Architecture and Philosophy
Aesthetics of Town-planning
Paintings—history, forms and evolution
Sacred sculptures—interpretations of the iconographies.
Religious movements and the production of art objects
Theories of Art
Artisans—conditions and creations
Foreign influences and their incorporation
Ethnography, ethnicity and creation of art as a symbolic assertion
The science of art—technology, techniques, experiments and materials.

We cordially invite your opinions, suggestions for inclusion of other topics and contributions to the topics.

Word-limit: 2000-5000 words (including notes and references)

Style-sheet to follow: APA

Contact: Tarun Tapas Mukherjee & Sreecheta Mukherjee ateditor@chitrolekha.com and ttm1974@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: We follow continuous publication model. Articles/essays submitted with us with be published online once the review process is finished.

CFP: Animal Studies

CFP: Animal Studies

full name / name of organization: 

The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

contact email: 

editor@rupkatha.com

Calls for Papers
Vol. VIII, No. 3, 2016
www.rupkatha.com

We are inviting papers on the selected focus area of Animal Studies and other general topics.

Focus Area:
Animal Studies: Ethics, Aesthetics, Sports, Civilization and Biodiversity

General Areas:

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Arts
Digital Humanities: Arts, Literature and the Digital Media
Cultural Studies
Emerging Critical Theories involving Interdisciplinary Studies
Performance Studies
Gender Studies: critical discussion, case study, survey.
Aesthetic Studies: critical discussion, case study, computational analysis
Astro-aesthetics, Architecture and Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy.
Environmental Studies and the theories of Evolution
Visual Arts (including photography )
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Education
Megalith & Rock Art Studies
Molecular Aesthetics

Word Limit: Papers should be between 3000-5000 words.

Style Sheet: APA

Submission Deadline: May 30, 2016
Tentative Publication: Last week of June, 2016

Contact: Please send your submission to editor@rupkatha.com and to the publisher at submission@rupkatha.com.
See Submission Guidelines: http://rupkatha.com/submissionguidelines.php
Indexing and abstracting: The journal is included into the many prestigious directories, databases and lists like Scopus, EBSCO, DOAJ etc.

Undergrad journal seeks excellent student writing and multimodal compositions: Queen City Writers

Undergrad journal seeks excellent student writing and multimodal compositions

full name / name of organization: 

Queen City Writers

contact email: 

qcwriters@gmail.com

Queen City Writers is a refereed journal that publishes essays and multimedia work by undergraduate students affiliated with any post-secondary institution. We are currently seeking submissions for the fall 2016 issue; we operate on a rolling deadline basis and will consider students’ works as we receive them.

Our three reviewed sections include Inquiry, 2,500-5,000 word critical essays informed by research; Multimedia, video, audio, or mixed media pieces of 15 minutes or less and accompanied by an artist’s statement that explains purpose, motivation, discussion of medium, and so on; and Storming the Gate, featuring 1,250 to 2,000 word essays by first-year writers in any discipline. We also publish reviews of works relevant to our focus; snapshots of writers and/or their experiences; and comments or responses to work in current issues. We seek thought-provoking pieces from any disciplinary perspective that explore questions and problems related to:
Writing
Rhetoric
Reading
Pedagogy and teacher-training
Literacy
Popular culture and media
Community discourses
Multimodal and digital composing

For a full explanation of our focus and submission guidelines, please seehttp://qc-writers.com/submissions/. For more information or to see the type of work we publish, see us at http://qc-writers.com/.

Philosophy & Social Criticism TOC Republicanism, Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Politics Beyond Borders. The Republican Model Challenged by the Internationalization of Economy, Law and Communication

May-June, 2016; Vol. 42, No. 4-5

Annotations

Introduction Republicanism under scrutiny Volker Kaul

Republicanism and Islam The long crisis of the nation-state and the rise of religions to the public stage Manlio Graziano The crisis of Arab states, ethics and citizenship Georges Corm Violent Islamism beyond borders: Can human rights prevail? Micheline Ishay The crisis of the republican model (the state-nation) and its religious outcomes: A case study of the Great Middle East Mohamed Haddad States and communities competing for global power Riva Kastoryano

Republicanism in Turkey and France: Challenges and Responses The Kurdish struggle and the crisis of the Turkishness Contract Barış Ünlü From system integration to social integration: Kurdish challenge to Turkish republicanism Cemil Boyraz and Ömer Turan The republican ideal of freedom as non-domination and the Rojava experiment: ‘States as they are’ or a new socio-political imagination? Can Cemgil Republican conception of liberty in early republican Turkey and its contemporary implications Boğaç Erozan ‘République and laïcité’: What is at stake in contemporary France? Philippe Gaudin

Republicanism, Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy Cultural pluralism? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Between transparency and surveillance: Politics of the secret Giovanna Borradori The right to politics and republican non-domination Albena Azmanova Digital spaces, public places and communicative power: In defense of deliberative democracy Regina Kreide Two cheers for the impunity norm Max Pensky

Writing "is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time."

"Writing allows even a stupid person to look halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little each time.  It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it.  All it takes is time."  --Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday (128)

ASHR Symposium, May 26-27, 2016

ASHR Symposium, May 26-27, 2016

The American Society for the History of Rhetoric will hold its biennial symposium on Thursday, May 26 and Friday, May 27 at the Hilton Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia just prior to RSA.  The theme is "Rhetoric in situ." Attendance is free for ASHR members (memberships range from $20-$60--for membership information go to http://ashr.org/membership/join-ashr/).  More information on the symposium is available on the ASHR website (http://ashr.org/symposia/upcoming-symposium/).

The schedule is as follows:
Thursday, May 26, 2016

8:00 Coffee

8:15 Welcome Remarks, Kathleen S. Lamp, ASHR President

8:30-10:00 Session I: Composition and Context
Chair: Tara Wambach, University of Minnesota
Michele Kennerly, Penn State University, "Socrates, Ex Situ?"
Jeffry Davis, Wheaton College (IL), "The Institutio Oratoria's Composing Narrative-In Situ"
Cory Geraths, Penn State University, "Christianity In Situ: Nag Hammadi, Gnosis, and 'Heretical' Rhetoric"
James J. Murphy, University of California, Davis, "An Intercontinental Latin Rhetoric of the Sixteenth Century: The Rhetorica Christiana (1574) of Diego Valades"Katie Homar, University of Pittsburgh, "Parliamentary Orators In and Out of Situ: William Hazlitt's Eloquence of the British Senate"

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:15 Session II: Memory and Remembering
Chair: Susan Jarratt, University of California, Irvine
Jordan Loveridge, Arizona State University, "Memory, Sensation, and Civic Identity in the Stained Glass of Chartres Cathedral"
Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University, "A Rhetoric of Engaged Spectatorship at the Site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire"Courtney Rivard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Collecting Disaster in Situ: The Smithsonian's September 11th and Hurricane Katrina Disaster Archives"

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:45 Keynote I: Richard Leo Enos, Texas Christian University, "The Archaeology of Ancient Rhetoric: The six most astounding discoveries in the last 100 years!"

Introductory remarks: Robert Hariman, Northwestern University

12:45-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3:45 Session III: Places and Spaces
Chair: Brittany Knutson, University of Minnesota
Megan Eatman, Clemson University, "In This Place: Rethinking Spectacle at the Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment"
Yun Ding, Tennessee Tech University, "Return to the Scene: Rhetoric in situ as a Methodological Recommendation"
Allison M. Prasch, University of Minnesota, "(Re)(Situ)ating Rhetoric in Place"
Christopher Adamczyk, RPI, "The Rhetorical Battle for Atlanta's Past"
Special Response: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University

3:45-4:00 Break

4:00-5:15 Keynote II: Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles, "Reading Augustan Rome: Materiality as rhetoric"
Introductory remarks: Kathleen Lamp, Arizona State University

6:15-7:45 Reception-Location TBA

Friday, May 27, 2016

8:00 Coffee

8:15-9:15 Session IV: Identity and Belonging
Chair: Keith Miller, Arizona State University
Erin Chandler, University of Montevallo, "The Trope of the Southern Patriot: Establishing Anne Braden's Rhetorical Ethos as Southern Social Gospeler"
Tiffany Kinney, University of Utah, "Figuring the Materiality of Context: Tracing the Conversation between Sonia Johnson and the Mormon Church."
Heather Hayes, Whitman College, "Doing Rhetorical Studies In Situ: The 'Citizen Becoming' in Jordan"

9:15-9:30 Break

9:30-10:45 Keynote III: Dave Tell, University of Kansas, "Whose Emmett Till: Reflections on Geography, Race, and Memory"
Introductory remarks: Scott Stroud, University of Texas

Popular Communication, Volume 14, Issue 2, April-June 2016

Popular Communication, Volume 14, Issue 2, April-June 2016 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

This new issue contains the following articles:

Articles

The online place of popular music: Exploring the impact of geography and social media on pop artists’ mainstream media attention

Marc Verboord & Sharon van Noord

Pages: 59-72 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2015.1019073

Dismantling of the star machine: New media and the shifting balance of performance and production in piano competitions

Michael Lang & Harmeet Sawhney

Pages: 73-85 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2016.1153100

Symbolic and cued immersion: Paratextual framing strategies on the Doctor Who Experience Walking Tour

Ross P. Garner

Pages: 86-98 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2016.1153101

Desired, yet unwanted: Hugo’s gypsy bodies in popular media

Adina Schneeweis

Pages: 99-110 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2015.1053605

Escaping to the country: Media, nostalgia, and the new food industries

Michelle Phillipov

Pages: 111-122 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2015.1084620

Announcement: Issue 9: Intoxication - just published by NANO: New American Notes Online

Announcement: Issue 9: Intoxication - just published by NANO: New
American Notes Online

Dear CRTNET Readers,

(Apologies for cross-posting)

NANO: New American Notes Online, [www.nanocrit.com] a peer-reviewed
interdisciplinary humanities journal, published by City Tech-CUNY, has
officially published Issue 9: Intoxication. This special issue is the
result of a collaboration between guest editors Ingrid Walker
(University of Washington, Tacoma) and Alexine Fleck (Community College
of Philadelphia), the seven article authors, and NANO's editorial team:
Sean Scanlan, Ruth Garcia, and Rebecca Devers.

This special issue of NANO asks whether intoxication is a zone of
defiance or expanded consciousness or narcotized stupor, or perhaps some
combination of these. The guest editors remark that this issue "seek[s]
to reconceptualize intoxication through a series of multidisciplinary
analyses. The analyses included here explore the possibilities of
understanding intoxication as an intentional performance and a
transgression of cultural norms. By reflecting on what intoxication can
offer to the user and/or what it might provide as a lens to scholars,
these pieces open up a very different dialogue about this relatively
unexamined state of being."

Table of Contents:

Issue 9: Intoxication

Guest Edited by: Alexine Fleck and Ingrid Walker

- Editor's Introduction for NANO Special Issue 9: Intoxication by
Alexine Fleck and Ingrid Walker

- Intoxication and US Culture: An Interview with Craig Reinarman by
Ingrid Walker

- Coming to (the History of) Our Senses: A New Methodology and Category
of Analysis for Drug Historians? by Kyle Bridge

- The Price of Eternal Vigilance: Women and Intoxication by Michelle
McClellan

- Intoxication as Feminist Pleasure: Drinking, Dancing, and Un-Dressing
with/for Jenni Rivera by Yessica Garcia Hernandez

- Sugar Highs and Lows: Is Sugar Really a Drug? by Kima Cargill

- "Fringes blown by the wind": High Hopes for Expanded Consciousness in
Benjamin and Brecht by Lauren Hawley

- Afterword: Intoxication as Zone of Exception by Joseph M. Gabriel

Visit the journal at: http://www.nanocrit.com

Would you like to be a guest editor for a special issue of NANO?
Interested in submitting reviews or interviews? Contact:
sscanlan@citytech.cuny.edu; editornano@citytech.cuny.edu

Sean Scanlan, founder and editor

International Journal of Listening Call for proposals for Special Fall Issue 2017 Special Issue on Listening in Mediated Contexts

Call for Papers: Special Issue - International Journal of Listening

International Journal of Listening

Call for proposals for Special Fall Issue 2017

Special Issue on Listening in Mediated Contexts

Editor-in-Chief: Margarete Imhof

Guest Editors: Dr. Debra L. Worthington & Dr. Shaughan Keaton

The growth of social media and evolving technology have significantly
impacted who people listen to as well as how and when they listen.  In
this Special Issue, The International Journal of Listening explores the
impact of social media and other technology on listening processes. The
goal of the issue is to highlight exceptional articles that explore the
nature of listening in mediated contexts. Mediated contexts are broadly
construed, including mobile phone communication, Facebook, Skype,
YouTube, Instagram or any combination of these and other popular
platforms and devices. Articles may explore the impact on or
relationship to individual communication styles, characteristics of
mediated interaction from both the sender and receiver's perception,
social cognition, as well as the impact of new technology on individual,
group and public listening processes.  Papers from various perspectives
and diverse fields are welcome:  intrapersonal/interpersonal
communication, doctor-patient communication, sports communication,
romantic relationships, education and instruction.  Papers with a
cross-cultural or international focus are particularly welcome.

Examples of themes, include:

-         Listening attitudes and behavior in social media

-         Listening in online teaching environments.

-         Social cognition and person perception in social media

-         Intercultural differences in the perception of mediated
communication

-         Supportive listening via social media

-         Individual choices between voice and short messaging

-         Medium and message reception

-         Generational differences in listening to social media messages

All full length manuscripts will be submitted through
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijl.  The length of articles should be
no more than 6,000 words (not including references and appendices). The
journal plans to publish up to six research articles in the special
issue. Additional accepted articles will be published in later issues of
the journal.

Submission deadline: October 1st, 2016

Expected publication: Fall 2017

Inquiries about the special issue should be directed to Dr. Debra L.
Worthington worthdl@auburn.edu.  Please use the following subject line:
ILJ Special Issue on Listening and Mediated Contexts.

Ethnography Book Announcements

Two new books from Routledge  in Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Series, edited by Bochner and Ellis

Order from Routledge or Amazon.

Bullied: Tales of Torment, Identity, and Youth.  Author:  Keith Berry
(to be published in early May, 2016)

In this examination of the ubiquitous practice of bullying among youth,
compelling first person stories vividly convey the lived experience of
peer torment and how it impacted the lives of five diverse young women.
Author Keith Berry's own autoethnographic narratives and analysis add
important relational communication, methodological, and ethical
dimensions to their accounts. The personal stories create an opening to
understand how this form of physical and verbal violence shapes
identities, relationships, communication, and the construction of
meaning among a variety of youth. The layered narrative

* describes the practices constituting bullying and how youth work to
cope with peer torment and its aftermath, largely focusing on identity
construction and well being;

* addresses contemporary cyberbullying as well as other forms of
relational aggression in many social contexts across race, gender, and
sexual orientations;

* is written in a compelling way to be accessible to students in
communication, education, psychology, social welfare, and other fields.
__________________

Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories. Authors:
Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis (published April 2016)

This comprehensive text introduces evocative autoethnography as a
methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous
examples from their work and others, scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn
Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect
intellectually and emotionally to the lives of readers throughout the
challenging process of representing lived experiences. Written as the
story of a fictional workshop, based on many similar sessions led by the
authors, it incorporates group discussions, common questions, and
workshop handouts. The book:

* describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative
storytelling;

* provides detailed instruction on becoming a story-writer and living a
writing life;

* examines fundamental ethical issues, dilemmas, and responsibilities;
illustrates ways ethnography intersects with autoethnography;

* calls attention to how truth and memory figure into the works and
lives of evocative autoethnographers.