Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media

CALL FOR PAPERS Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media is a new, quarterly international journal that publishes innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within interactive media. The journal serves as a premiere outlet for ground-breaking work in the field of game studies. Games and Culture's scope includes the socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions of gaming from a wide variety of perspectives, including textual analysis, political economy, cultural studies, ethnography, critical race studies, gender studies, media studies, public policy, international relations, and communication studies. Other arenas include the following: Issues of gaming culture related to race, class, gender, and sexuality Issues of game development Textual and cultural analysis of games as artifacts Issues of political economy and public policy in both US and international arenas Of primary importance will be bridging the gap between games studies scholarship in the United States and in Europe. One of the primary goals of the journal is to foster dialogue among the academic, design, development, and research communities that will influence both game design and research about games within various public contexts. A second goal is to examine how gaming and interactive media are being used outside of entertainment, including in education, for the purposes of training, for military simulation, and for political action. Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media invites academics, designers and developers, and researchers interested in the growing field of game studies to submit articles, reviews, or special issues proposals to the editor. Games and Culture is an interdisciplinary publication, and therefore it welcomes submissions by those working in fields such as Communication, Anthropology, Computer Science, English, Sociology, Media Studies, Cinema/Television Studies, Education, Art History, and Visual Arts. All submissions are peer reviewed by two or more members of the distinguished, multi-disciplinary editorial board. Games and Culture aims to have all papers go through their initial review within three months of receipt. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in Word or Word Perfect format and conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Fifth Edition) and should not exceed 10,000 words in length. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be returned to the author(s). All submissions are to be formatted for 8½" × 11? paper with 1½" margins. All copy, including captions, footnotes, tables, and references, must be typed double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font. An abstract of no more than 150 words, 4-5 keywords, and a brief biographical statement for each author must accompany each submission. The abstract and keywords should be placed on a separate page immediately after the title page. All figures, tables, charts, and other artwork should appear at the end of the manuscript and must be cited in the text with appropriate descriptive headings. All artwork must also be submitted in high-resolution electronic form. (High-resolution images should come in a separate file from the manuscript). Submit manuscripts to:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/games

Intercom 2012 :: XXXV Congresso Brasileiro

XXXV Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação será realizado de 3 a 7 de setembro de 2012 na Unifor - Universidade de Fortaleza, em Fortaleza - CE. Tema central: Esportes na Idade Mídia - diversão, informação e educação Prazo para submissão de trabalhos: 29 de junho Prazo para inscrição no Congresso: 26 de junho

CFP: Emerging Methods for Digital Media Research

Emerging Methods for Digital Media Research, Special Themed Issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, (JOBEM), March 2013.

Guest Editors: Jean Burgess (QUT), Axel Bruns (QUT), Larissa Hjorth (RMIT) ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (http://cci.edu.au/)
Editor: Zizi Papacharissi

With the rise of big data¹, locative media, and smartphones, existing media and communication studies methods are being recombined, reconfigured and replaced alongside their objects of study. This special issue of JOBEM seeks to expose new research methods for understanding the changing nature of the content industries, the impact of digital media on the practices of creative workers, and the experiences and practices of everyday users of digital media technologies.



We welcome papers based in the humanities and social sciences that reflect on, discuss or critique current methodological trends in digital media research, shedding light on the following questions:

1. Where are the emerging methodological gaps - are there pressing research problems that require the development of new methods, techniques and tools?

2. Where are there needs for new combinations of methods, within or across disciplines?

3. What are the implications for future pedagogical models in internet, media and communication studies, including doctoral education and other forms of research training?

We especially welcome papers grounded in the experience of conducting empirical digital media research. However we will give preference to papers that contextualise, historicise, and reflect on current methodological trends; rather than simply report on the applications or results of new methods.

Abstracts of 250 words are due by 31 March, 2012. Depending on the number of abstracts received, we may shortlist submissions at this stage. Please email your abstract and a list of 3 or 4 suggested peer reviewers to: jobem.edm@gmail.com.

Full articles of no more than 7000 words should be submitted on or before 1 August, 2012 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hbem (select ³Special Issue: Emerging Digital Methods² as a manuscript type). Manuscripts should conform to the guidelines of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
(http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0883-8151&linktype=44
).

Revista Eco-Pós

http://www.pos.eco.ufrj.br/ojs-2.2.2/index.php?journal=revista

Mundo Imagem: Fotografia e Experiência
Este número da Revista Eco-Pós explora como a fotografia permeia nossa vivência contemporânea. Enfocando uma variedade de práticas fotográficas contemporâneas e o uso de diversos dispositivos visuais, queremos discutir as relações entre: fotografia e experiência subjetiva; fotografia e práticas políticas; fotografia e vigilância; fotografia e memória.
Data final para submissão de artigos: 30 de abril de 2012

Massas, Multidões e Mídias
Enfocando produções culturais modernistas e contemporâneas, neste número da revista Eco-Pós queremos analisar as representações da massa e da multidão nos meios de comunicação, pensamento social e produções artísticas. Destacamos, neste sentido, as seguintes temáticas: a relevância da multidão urbana na fotografia pública e na propaganda política modernista; as noções ambivalentes sobre as massas entrevistas como consumidores domesticados ou como potência revolucionária; as novas acepções sobre as multidões e as práticas sociais das culturas digitais.
Data final para submissão de artigos: 01 de junho de 2012

Imaginando o real: novos realismos
Bonecos hiper-reais; obras de arte imersivas; narrativas autobiográficas; ficções audiovisuais que se vestem de documentais; documentários que se querem amadores; vídeos caseiros na televisão; imagens de vigilância nos espaços de arte. O moderno e naturalizado regime estético do realismo, hoje, atravessa as fronteiras das mídias e torna-se um pilar importante para se entender como o nosso mundo hiper-mediatizado imagina a realidade que o cerca e desloca o próprio estatuto da experiência real.
Experiência estética, ética pedagógica e proposições morais se imbricam de forma privilegiada nos inúmeros novos realismos, no cinema, nos jogos interativos, na fotografia, no romance, no teatro, nas galerias de arte e na mídia de massa. Esta edição da Revista Eco-Pós quer abordar essas novas apropriações do real, na emergência de um re-atualizado imaginário realista que dá visibilidade a uma realidade que se molda, em larga medida, a partir dos registros estéticos que dela se produz.
Data final para submissão de artigos: 30 de setembro de 2012

En route to dOCUMENTA (13)

On June 9, 2012, dOCUMENTA (13) will open to the public in Kassel. Since it was established in 1955, documenta has been regarded as a key international exhibition of contemporary art worldwide and a moment of reflection on the relationship between art and society. It takes place every five years, and runs for 100 days.

http://d13.documenta.de

11th World Congress of Semiotics

Congress theme: Global Semiotics: A Bridge Linking Different Civilizations
Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing， China
Dates: 5 – 9 October, 2012


deadline: June 30, 2012.

http://www.semio2012.com

DIGITHUM: THE HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

http://digithum.uoc.edu

Issue 14 call for papers (English, Catalan and Spanish)

Download call for papers: http://www.onlinecreation.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/digithum-call-for-papers-november11-en1.pdf

Deadline for submission of originals: 1 March 2012

Publication date: May 2012

Subject: Academic research into Wikipedia: Beyond English Wikipedia and towards comparative perspectives

This year saw the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia. In 2011, following its creation 10 years ago, Wikipedia became one of the world’s 10 most visited
websites and one of the most active virtual communities. It currently has around 20 million articles – 3.7 million of which are in English: the most popular version. It has
some 365 million regular readers, around 90,000 regular editors – all voluntary – and hundreds of thousands of people who contribute anonymously.
Wikipedia is one of the numerous examples of mass online collaboration projects to follow in the footsteps of open-source software production and its modus operandi.
Some authors see this new type of collaboration as representing an innovative form of social production, given that it operates on the edges of the market and its rules,
functions successfully without many hierarchical organisational structures or command management systems and is developed thanks to the cooperation of thousands – or, in
some cases, millions – of geographically dispersed people working voluntarily and without expecting any direct remuneration. The term commons-based peer production
was proposed recently to conceptualise this practice (Benkler, 2006).
Since about 2005, there has been growing interest from the scientific community, and in particular from the field of social and human sciences, in researching this historically
unprecedented phenomenon. A recent review of the scientific bibliography on Wikipedia has identified over 2,100 scientific articles and 38 doctoral theses with Wikipedia and/or its sister projects as their object of analysis. However, this volume of scientific production has focused excessively on the English version of Wikipedia when
Wikipedia is now available in 279 different languages. Consequently, the current bibliography does not pay sufficient attention to the dynamics and peculiarities of versions of Wikipedia in other languages, which makes a comparative analysis showing the contrasts and similarities between the different communities difficult.
The aim of this Digithum issue is to bring together articles that explore all aspects of Wikipedia – and other related projects – which may prove relevant from a social and
human science research perspective. As well as the subjects that have been the focus of the scientific studies to date – motivation and type of participants, organisation and
governance, regulatory structure, publishing dynamics, content quality and reliability, teaching uses, the role of technology, etc., (Okoli 2009) – proposals for new problems
and objects of analysis will also be welcome. The theory and discipline may be linked to any field of social and humanistic research: political science, sociology,
anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), economics, etc.
Articles should have an empirical basis and use established qualitative or quantitative research methods in social and human sciences. Papers whose empirical focus is on
versions other than those in English will be especially welcome and, in particular, those that present comparative studies showing contrasts and similarities between different
size projects and/or projects in different languages, including Catalan. However, we will not be excluding papers about the English version.

Bibliography

Benkler, Y. 2006. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.Yale University Press: Yale.
Lovink, Geert and Nathanel Tracz (eds.). 2011. Critical Point of View. A Wikipedia Reader. Institute of Network Cultures: Amsterdam.
Okoli, C., 2009. A Brief Review of Studies of Wikipedia in Peer-Reviewed Journals. In: 2009 Third International Conference on Digital Society. p 155–160.

Issue coordinators

Eduard Aibar, lecturer, Arts and Humanities department, and IN3 researcher, UOC
Mayo Fuster Morell, postdoctoral fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

Publication guidelines

Articles must not exceed 5,000 words and must contain the following information:
+ Title
+ Abstract (200 words) containing the basic aspects and results of the paper.
+ Keywords (between 4 and 6)
+ Body of the article, divided into sections and subsections
+ Bibliography
To ensure a blind review of articles, the following documents should be submitted
separately:
+ Author’s details (name and surname, professional affiliation, professional postal address, e-mail)
+ Brief CV (100-200 words) and photograph
Articles may be submitted in Catalan, Spanish and English.
For more information, please visit the Author Guidelines section of the website
(http://www.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/digithum/about/submissions#authorGuidelines).