[ICTs-and-Society] Reminder: CfP: Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory?

[Delia Dumitrica]

Reminder: The submission deadline for the special issue of the Canadian
Journal of Communication (Digital Technologies and Social Transformations:
What Role for Critical Theory?) is coming up on December 1, 2013.

For more information on the call for papers, please visit:
http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/announcement/view/197

We invite authors to submit papers exploring the use of critical theory in
research on digital technologies with reference to diverse themes and
cases, including, but not limited to studies of:

- Digital technologies and democratic/economic empowerment (e.g.
destabilizing authoritarian regimes; alleviating the democratic deficit;
including marginalized or disenfranchised groups; new forms of politics,
etc.);
- Digital technologies and the state (e.g. security; cybercrime; public
policy; governance, etc.);
- Digital technologies and power in everyday life (e.g. cyber-identity;
sociability; social ties; social capital; networks; mundane Panopticism;
etc.);
- Digital technologies and relations of production (e.g. immaterial labor;
knowledge creation/mobilization; big data; cloud computing; cultural
production; etc.);
- Digital technologies in social sciences (e.g. critical thinking; modes
of learning; evaluation and monitoring of scholarly labor, gamification,
etc.).

Extended abstracts (600 words) will be accepted until December 1, 2013.
Abstracts should explicitly discuss how the role of power/ critical theory
will be addressed in the context of the respective argument/ case. Please
include a prospective title, 5-7 keywords and a short bio-note about
yourself. We welcome abstracts in either English or French.

To submit your abstract, or for any further queries regarding this special
issue, please contact the issue editors directly: cjcissue at ucalgary.ca


Dr. Delia Dumitrica
Department of Communication and Culture
University of Calgary