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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Apologies for
Cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>'Internationalizing
Internet Studies'</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Call
for papers for a edited collection by</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Gerard
Goggin (<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Sydney</st1:PlaceName>) & Mark McLelland (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wollongong</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<br>
>From the mid-1990s onwards, the Internet has shifted fundamentally from its
co-ordinates in English-speaking countries, especially <st1:place w:st="on">North
America</st1:place>, to become an essential medium in a wide range of
countries, cultures, and languages. According to October 2005 statistics,
Chinese language now represents 14% of all Internet communication and media
use, Spanish 9% and Japanese 9%. At 35% and falling, English use is now a
minority in terms of overall online language use. However, communications and
media scholarship, especially in the Anglophone world, has not registered the
deep ramifications of this shift - and the challenges it poses to the concepts,
methods, assumptions, and frameworks used to study the Internet.<br>
<br>
The vast body of Anglophone scholarship into 'the Internet' is predicated on
research on and about English-language websites by academics and other
researchers working and publishing in English. Despite the fact that there is
also a large body of work being produced by scholars in non-English-speaking
cultures and locales, hardly any of this work is being translated and it has
had little impact on theorization of the developing fields of Internet and web
studies.<br>
<br>
The purpose of this anthology, 'Internationalizing Internet Studies', is to
acknowledge that Internet use and Internet studies take place 'elsewhere' in
various national and international contexts. We seek to uncover how
non-Anglophone uses of the Internet might challenge certain preconceived
notions about the technology and its social impacts as well as the manner in
which Internet studies is taken up, valued and taught outside the circuits of
understanding prevalent in Anglophone academia. Through bringing together
researchers whose daily experience of the Internet is mediated through
non-Anglophone languages and cultures as well as researchers situated within
the Anglophone academy whose work focuses on cultures outside North America and
<st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, we hope to promote the visibility of
work already being done outside the Anglophone world. We also aim to encourage
new work that critically engages with Anglophone Internet scholarship that is
based on research into diverse locales and draws upon a range of intellectual
traditions.<br>
<br>
Accordingly, we wish to gather together a distinctive collection of
contributors who can illuminate the key features of the Internet's
internationalization, surveying exemplary Internet language groups and
cultures. We hope to encourage explorations of the distinctive features of the
consumption and use of the Internet by various language groups, and how this
expands and questions taken-for-granted notions of Internet studies.<br>
<br>
We are also interested in contributions that reflect upon this cosmopolitan
turn in the Internet, and what it signifies for our methods, tools, and
concepts of Internet studies - and for media, communication, and cultural
theory themselves. Here we are concerned with the debate - yet to emerge - on
the internationalization of 'Internet studies'.<br>
<br>
Contributions would be welcomed, but are not restricted to, the following
topics:<br>
<br>
* non-anglophone language communities use of the Internet</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>* Asian countries and
communities use of the Internet (especially Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>* mobility and the
Internet: how the Internet is deployed by people on the move across
borders<br>
* use of the Internet by diasporic communities<br>
* Internet use by minority language speakers in majority Anglophone and other
language contexts<br>
* Indigenous use of the Internet<br>
* how particular Internet technologies (websites, peer-to-peer technologies,
blogs, social software, mobile Internet) have been shaped and are used by
different language and cultural groups<br>
* cell phone, mobile and wireless technologies and the internationalizing of
the Internet</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>* how does this change
our understanding of Internet cultures and cultural histories?<br>
* what the implications of internationalizing of the Internet for debates
concerning cultural citizenship and media diversity? (not least Internet
governance, open source and commons debates)<br>
* what are the implications of increasing 'global governance' of the Internet
for local and countercultural communities?<br>
* how is Internet studies responding to the internationalizing of the Internet
- what new concepts, methods, locations and relationships does it need?</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Timeframe:</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Please send abstracts of
no more than 500 words to both editors outlining your proposed contribution to
the edited collection by 31 January 2006. We will advise acceptance by 1 April
2006.</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
We will be holding a workshop on 'Internationalizing Internet Studies' in
Brisbane on 27 September 2006 immediately before the Association of Internet
Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference 7.0, and hope that we will be able to
invite some contributors to attend and present drafts of their full papers. (We
expect limited travel bursaries will be available for those attending from outside
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>).</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>About the Editors:</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>From January 2006, Dr
Gerard Goggin (<st1:PersonName w:st="on">g.goggin@uq.edu.au</st1:PersonName>)
will be an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Department of Media and
Communication, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sydney</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. He has
published widely on Internet and new media, including Digital Disability
(2003), Virtual Nation: The Internet in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> (2004) and Cell Phone
Culture (forthcoming 2006).</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
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Dr Mark McLelland (<st1:PersonName w:st="on">m.mclelland@uq.edu.au</st1:PersonName>)
is a Lecturer in the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Social Sciences</st1:PlaceName>, Media and Communication at the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Wollongong</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. Recent Internet-related
publications include Japanese Cybercultures (2003) and Queer Japan from the
Pacific War to the Internet Age (2005).</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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