SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
Media Ecological Orientations to Philosophy and Philosophical Problems
Guest Editor: Corey Anton
I am pleased to announce this final Call for Papers, as part of a special issue within the new series for The Review of Communication. This particular issue explores important connections between media ecology and philosophy. Media ecology is sometimes understood as a philosophical and/or historical approach to media studies and culture, but the extent to which media ecology provides re-invigorated orientations to philosophy and philosophical problems seems far less appreciated.
Accordingly, this special issue seeks to address how philosophical problems, issues, and practices (e.g., mind-body relations, meaning of causality, theory of mind, free will and determinism, ?is? versus ?ought,? theological positions and speculation, deductive logic, etc.) have their roots in communicative technologies and media forms. It also seeks to further clarify and solidify the position of media ecology within communication studies. Topics of interest include: How does media ecology relate to (and/or differ from) philosophy (and/or) certain branches of philosophy? How have money, the alphabet, forms of literacy, calendars, clocks, mirrors, telescopes, microscopes, telegraphy, computers, etc., wittingly or unwittingly, shaped and informed ancient and/or contemporary problems and practices? How many (and which) philosophical problems are displaced condensates originating from one or more communication technology? In what ways does media ecological thought inform com
munication theory, the philosophy of communication, and philosophy more broadly?
As stated in the charge by the new editor, Ramsey Eric Ramsey, each of the special issues within the new Review of Communication series ?will be a detailed defense of why such an exploration is undertaken and its place in the variegated study of communicative praxis.? Ideally, this special issue on media ecology could be used within graduate seminars as a valuable resource for beginning scholars to learn about key concepts and methodologies and to see examples of the type of scholarship their own work might try to emulate.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 15, 2016
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the ScholarOne Manuscripts site for Review of Communication: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.
Manuscripts should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. (2010) with endnotes. Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word (.doc or .dox) using a 12-point common font, should be double-spaced, and should not exceed 9,000 words including tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes.
Manuscript cover pages should be submitted as a separate file and include: (1) title of the essay; (2) any acknowledgments (if applicable, supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies), including the history of the manuscript if any part of it has been presented at a conference or included as part of a thesis or dissertation; (3) author bio(s) of not more than 100 words each.
Manuscripts should include: (1) the title of the essay; (2) an abstract of not more than 200 words; (3) a list of 3?6 suggested keywords; (4) an accurate word count (including endnotes).
Authors of accepted manuscripts will be responsible for clearing the necessary reproduction rights for any images, photos, figures, music, or content credited to a third party (including content found on the Internet), that fall outside of the fair use provisions described in US copyright law. Images, figures, and other ancillary materials should be submitted as separate files and conform to the Review of Communication instructions for file size and format (see below).
? Please provide the highest quality figure format possible.
? Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color.
? Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file.
? Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g., CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
? All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g., Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labeled (e.g., Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
? Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.
? The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic (e.g., Figure1, Figure2a).
To inquire about this special issue, contact
Corey Anton
Communication Studies
School of Communications
Grand Valley State University
210 LSH, 1 Campus Drive
Allendale, MI 49401
antonc@gvsu.edu
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