Fwd: CFP Special Issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication

[David Boromisza-Habashi]

Call for Papers: Electronic Journal of Communication,

Special Issue:
Social Construction:  Re-Opening the Conversation, Re-Constituting the
Possibilities

Issue Editor:  Mariaelena Bartesaghi
                     University of South Florida

Over the last five years, members of our field have intensified their
discussion  of social construction with renewed force and purpose. The
2006 National Communication Summer Institute on Social Construction,
the creation of a “Communication as Social Construction” division at
NCA, a new handbook, an edited collection, and a chapter in
Communication Yearbook, are all examples of re-engagement with the
ideas of social construction since, almost 20 years ago in their
Communication Yearbook contribution, Shotter and Gergen claimed it as
the central paradigm for Communication.

 Inviting a reflection on and reformulation of options for social
construction as a theoretical and practical approach to studying
communication as continuously emergent in relationships, constitutive
of social reality, consequential to communicators, experienced through
the bodily senses, and afforded by their material circumstances, this
special issue invites manuscripts in which authors are encouraged  to
take stock of our predicted  and actual accomplishments, consider the
tensions between the promised and actualized changes brought about by
social construction work in Communication, and project the impact of
social construction on the discipline in the next five to ten years.
The focus is not only critical, but reflexive: How do we wish to
reconstruct social construction?

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

•       the anxieties of relativism provoked by notions of the constructed world
•       the separation of discourse from materiality and embodiment
•       issues with the social construction of race, gender, sexuality
and difference
•       social construction and the limits of the discursive
•       pushing the envelope of social construction
•       social construction by any other name in practical or
theoretical applications

Papers may take pedagogical, philosophical, theoretical, interpretive,
empirical, critical, or cross disciplinary perspectives. Papers should
be approximately 7,000 words in length, excluding notes and
references, in APA form, and submitted as a MS Word document,
WordPerfect (wpd), or Rich Text (rtf) format, with MS Word preferred.
Submit as an attachment to
mbartesaghi at usf.edu by September 6, 2011. Authors who would like to
discuss paper ideas are invited to contact the editor.






-- 
David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Colorado, 270 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0270, USA
Web: http://comm.colorado.edu/people.php?id=103

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