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Hi, just a reminder of our call for papers - see below. The deadline has
now been extended till 15 September.
<p>regards
<br>Sue Yell
<p><b>Call for Papers</b><b></b>
<p><b><i>Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture</i></b>
<br><b>Special Issue, 39.3, 2006</b><b></b>
<p><b>'Question Time: Modalities of Knowledge in an Information Culture'</b>
<p>Editors: Paul Atkinson, Simon Cooper & Sue Yell, Monash University,
Gippsland Campus
<p>This issue takes as its starting point the information gathering and
surveillance capacities of ICTS, and their applications in a range of institutions
and media genres. It invites papers to address the implications of these
capacities and their applications in an
<br>information culture. In what ways does the current proliferation of
television and radio questionnaires and quizzes and of
<br>organisational audits (e.g. in universities, research assessment exercises,
publication outputs, student evaluations) contribute to a
<br>‘flattening’ of knowledge? Does the design and performance of
these programs and audits reduce knowledge, agency and the
<br>conception of the future into a choice between variables? Does
the development and application of new technologies capable of
<br>tracking and cataloguing social practices represent a historically
unprecedented compartmentalisation of knowledge? Is there a
<br>privileging of only those events that can be captured by electronic
databases and the corresponding drive to find new means of
<br>inscribing social practices and phenomena? Are there relations
to be drawn between an apparent flattening of knowledge and an apparent
fashion for flattening organisational arrangements (e.g. changing managerial
structures)?
<p>Contributors are invited to address issues associated with these changes
to knowledge structures, in particular:
<br>· the link between media genres, communication technologies
and knowledge structures (including online databases and search
<br>engines such as Google);
<br>· the proliferation of quiz shows as well as television and
radio programs that use quizzes as a means of interacting with their
<br>audiences;
<br>· new forms of auditing and testing and their role in surveillance;
<br>· the rise of the new audit culture as a means of assessing
academic and research activity (research assessment exercises in the
<br>UK, New Zealand and Australia, publication outputs, and student evaluations).
<br>· The journalistic staples of newspaper polling and opinion
polls, etc.
<p>Southern Review invites contributions (4000-6000 words) on the theme
of “Question Time”. Papers may be submitted as
<br>attachments to an email, and should be double-spaced in A4 format and
accompanied by an abstract (maximum 100 words).
<br>Referencing is author-date (notes for contributors and full details
of house style are available on request).
<p>The general aim of Southern Review, an interdisciplinary journal, is
to focus on the connections between communication and
<br>politics. Southern Review is interested in communication and cultural
technologies, their histories, producers and audiences,
<br>policies and texts. It welcomes articles that connect these areas either
to arenas of legislative or parliamentary politics, to
<br>governance of social organizations and the institutions they constitute,
or to broader negotiations of power.
<p>paul.atkinson@arts.monash.edu.au
<br>simon.cooper@arts.monash.edu.au
<br>sue.yell@arts.monash.edu.au
<p><b>Extended deadline: 15 September 2006</b>
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<p>--
<br>Dr Susan Yell
<br>Head, Communications & Writing
<br>School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences
<br>Monash University
<br>Gippsland Campus, Churchill, VIC 3842
<br>AUSTRALIA
<p>ph. 61 3 5122 6442 or 9902 6442
<br>fax 61 3 5122 6359 or 9902 6359
<br>email sue.yell@arts.monash.edu.au
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