CFP First Monday

[Ann Weatherall]

The special issue sounds amazing.  However, I would have thought the list would have asked for the androcentric language to be edited out (i.e. 'mankind' to 'humanity' or something similar).  It is rather worrying to me at least that the hard earned gains of feminist langauge activists have been so easily lost.

Ann Weatherall

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From: International Gender and Language Association [GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] on behalf of Anna Foka [anna.o.foka at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Monday, 2 June 2014 8:41 p.m.
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Subject: [GALA-L] CFP First Monday

Hello there,

Could you please circulate this below?

Special Issue of First Monday
Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology, and Practice.

Deadline: August 1st 2014<https://webmail.vuw.ac.nz/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx>

Summary: Digital gender research tends to fall into one of two camps. In one camp, utopians view the Internet as a mean to liberate mankind from the social shackles of gender. They hail the capacity of IT to democratize the production of our increasingly digital world and to enable bodily transcendence. In the other camp, dystopians view the Internet as the realm of white masculinity. They stress the link between IT and hegemonic masculine scripts, whereby many women and men are excluded from participation and marginalized. While these broad narratives have offered key insight into production of online gender, they are challenged by the ubiquity and pervasiveness of IT. Following the social and mobile revolution, the role of the digital in the production of gender is indeed becoming increasingly complex. As the ongoing digitalization of society blurs the lines between “virtual" and “real", new perspectives are needed to understand how digital technologies both shape and becomes shaped by the production of gender. In this vein, this special issue seeks to move beyond the notion of digital gender as gender online and instead direct attention towards how the digital intermingles with the social in the making and unmaking of social categories and associated forms of oppression. On the one hand, we invite research that uncovers how particular sites and online technologies help challenge or maintain normative views of gender. On the other hand, we invite research that uncovers how particular material properties of digital technology affect the (un)making of such views. To facilitate this turn, we also call for theoretical and methodological contributions that can aid scholars investigate these issues.

For more information:http://www.humlab.umu.se/cfpfirstmonday

Viktor Arvidsson

Department of Informatics
Swedish Center for Digital Innovation
Umeå Centre for Gender Studies
Umeå University
SWEDEN

Dr. Anna Foka, Umeå University. Sent from Astarte, my iPhone.

On 1 jun 2014, at 14:06, "E. Hidalgo Tenorio" <ehidalgo at UGR.ES<mailto:ehidalgo at UGR.ES>> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

Could you please post this CFP? Thanks a lot in advance!

Encarna

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Dr E. Hidalgo Tenorio
Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics
Depto. Filologias Inglesa y Alemana
Fac. Filosofia y Letras
Edificio Anexo, Planta 3º, Despacho F28
Campus de Cartuja s/n
18071, Granada
España
+34 958241000 (Ext. 20251)

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Topic: The construction of Otherness in Ireland

Draft title: “Irish history is not a closed shop”: A multidisciplinary approach to post-Mary Robinson Ireland

Executive summary:
In line with the general consensus that interdisciplinarity contributes towards understanding the complexities of phenomena, this project is designed to examine, from various perspectives, the old and new discourses generated in a changing society such as Ireland, which has recently witnessed spectacular transformations. In the last decade or so, the condition of some minorities has markedly improved; that is the case, for instance, of women, who have started holding down power positions, and homosexuals, who, after persecution, are beginning to enjoy equal legal status like the rest of Irish citizens. Similarly, the economic boom and the subsequent social turmoil have encouraged alternate notions of Irishness based on Ireland’s contemporary heterogeneity, which would have been unthinkable half a century ago. This is mainly derived from the present growing migrant intake, leading to the coexistence of white Catholic Irish descendants with other ethnicities and religious backgrounds in a now multicultural society. Furthermore, the impact of technology on education or business has shaped the Republic to such an extent that there remains less of the traditional rural nation the country has been renowned for. Lastly, in an almost rigid political landscape, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gale and Labour have given space to other parties with new agendas and persuasions demanding renovated ways of selling their ideas to the electorate. In this context, images of less privileged groups are continually generated; in some cases, these are moulded as a result of prejudice towards them and for fear of those who are different. Their demonisation, as represented, for example, through discourse in the media, is one of the consequences of the new social panorama in Ireland. With things the way they are, there is considerable interest in scrutinising the (discriminatory) viewpoints held by a number of individuals regarding Muslims, homosexuals, immigrants, prostitutes, the poor, and the Travellers, to mention but a few. The latter justifies a joint effort by a multidisciplinary team, which must face the challenge posed by the texts under analysis. The corpus will mainly consist of films, documentaries, news articles, political speeches and debates produced over the last fourteen years, as well as posters, videos, tweets and other multimodal materials used in the most recent election campaigns. These may reveal underlying ideologies present in both verbal and non-verbal communication. For our purposes, we will rely on corpus-based CDA (Baker, Gabrielatos and McEnery 2013), social actors analysis (van Leeuwen 2008), multimedia content analysis (Divakaran 2009), or appraisal theory (Martin and White 2005). Other approaches will be welcome, though. One of the aims will be to detect how evaluative language can reflect the mentality ingrained in this particular society. Attention will also be paid to the construal of candidates’ public personae as well as that of the subjects of their discursive practices (Fairclough 2003). Finally, by focusing on different modes of filmic theory (Branigan 1984; Marks 2000; Naficy 2001; Nichols 2001), and studying metaphorical, modality or transitivity patterns (Lakoff & Johnson 1980; Forceville 1996; Halliday & Matthiessen 2004), certain strategies of domination and subordination may be uncovered that are a manifestation of the Irish reality at this moment in time.

Areas of analysis:
Sociolinguistics, anthropology, multimodality, sociology, musicology, cultural studies, discourse analysis, political communication.

Date of abstract submission:
1 July 2014

Year of publication:
2015
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