CfP Digital Icons 4: War, Conflict & Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction

[Ellen Rutten]

*Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
*no 4 - Call for Submissions
*War, Conflict and Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction
*
Deadline: May 1, 2010Apart from general submissions and contributions to its
issue on e-governance (see www.digitalicons.org/forthcoming/), *Digital
Icons *invites submissions to its fourth issue, "War, Conflict and
Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction."Guest-edited by Dr Adi
Kuntsman (U of Manchester), DI4 explores the ways wars and conflicts are
mediated, commemorated, reported and discussed on the Internet as well as in
other forms of new media, including mobile phones, digital broadcasting and
computer games. What is the role of new media in understanding,
representing, negotiating and remembering (or forgetting) war and terror?
What is the status of testimony, evidence and reportage in the age of
digital reproduction? What practices of memory do new information and
communication technologies entail? What structures of feeling operate in
on-line reports and debates around military operations and human suffering?
How can digital mediations of conflict bring people and communities
together, while tearing others apart? And lastly, how can the embodied,
physical violence intensify in digital interactions, and how can it be
 resisted? The issue aims to create a forum for scholars working in the
fields of war, conflict, and commemoration, digital media, and new media,
while simultaneously addressing linguistic, cultural, historical and
political aspects of new media use in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe. We
invite original articles that focus on one or more countries of the region,
or on their diaspories. We also welcome theoretical essays, reflection by
media practitioners on their own practices, contributions from artists and
authors, and reviews of relevant projects, books and events.
This message serves as a call for submissions - the deadline for which is
May 1, 2010. For more information, including a more extensive thematic
outline and publication guidelines, please visit the CfP link on our website
(www.digitalicons.org/forthcoming/), or contact the DI team (
editor at digitalicons.org) or Adi Kuntsman (
warconflictcommemoration at googlemail.com).

Best regards,

The editors

Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht)
Ellen Rutten (Bergen/Amsterdam)
Robert A. Saunders (New York)
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Vlad Strukov (Leeds/London)

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