<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Two topical issues! <BR><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Feminist Media Studies,Commentary and Criticism Section</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Co-Editors</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Jane Arthurs (</SPAN></FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Times New Roman; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">jane.arthurs@blueyonder.co.uk</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">) </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Usha Zacharias (</SPAN></FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Times New Roman; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">usha.zacharias@gmail.com</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">)</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">We invite short essays for the Commentary and Criticism section of Feminist Media Studies on either of the topics below. Please contact us as soon as possible to express your interest in contributing so that we can </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">plan the issue. The final deadline to receive completed essays of around 1500 words is January 7, 2007. </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">BEYOND GLOBAL WARMING: ENVIRONMENT, MEDIA, AND NEW GENDER POLITICS</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Recently, the global warming debate has renewed new and old media focus on the environment and environmental issues. Given women's differentiated access to and control over resources, global warming is</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">clearly a gender issue as well. While ecofeminists have long contended that the metaphors and practices of dominance over nature extend to those over women, colonized races and other species, feminist media</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">scholarship on the environment is still a marginalized field of study. Can we really integrate non-anthropomorphic arguments to feminist approaches to communication? We invite reports of works in progress, reflections on new media as a site for feminist intervention in this</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">field, thoughts on the productivity of transnational approaches, and general essays regarding gendered approaches to any environmental issue, going beyond or addressing global warming.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">RESEARCHING WEB 2.0: INTERNET SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE DEMISE OF GENDER?</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">How do we theorize gender in the context of the rise of participatory, interactive internet interfaces, such as social networking sites, blogs and even e-governance? What implications does the rise of social networks on the internet, such as Facebook, Orkut, Myspace etc have on</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">feminist approaches to media and the internet starting from Donna Haraway's cyborg? How empowering are these new media "architectures of participation" that enable new forms of many-to-many publishing? Are</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">web-based communities truly different because, as Manuel Castells suggests, they operate in a new "space of flows"? We invite reports of works in progress, speculations, debates, and arguments regarding the</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">opening up of these new media orbits.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Contributors should follow the Harvard style of reference and guidelines for submission of manuscripts outlined on our website,</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14680777.asp"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Times New Roman; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14680777.asp</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">. The title page of the manuscript must contain the complete mailing address, institutional affiliation, and full contact information including phone and fax numbers of the author(s). Submissions must be saved and e-mailed as a Word attachment to both </SPAN></FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Times New Roman; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">jane.arthurs@blueyonder.co.uk</SPAN></FONT></A><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">and </SPAN></FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Times New Roman; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">usha.zacharias@gmail.com</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">.</SPAN></FONT><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "></FONT> </DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Dr. Melissa Gregg</DIV></SPAN><DIV>ARC Postdoctoral Fellow</DIV><DIV>Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies</DIV><DIV>Fourth Floor, Forgan Smith Tower</DIV><DIV>The University of Queensland </DIV><DIV>QLD Australia<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>4072</DIV><DIV>CRICOS provider number: 00025B</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>p + 61 7 3346 9762</DIV><DIV>m + 61 4 0859 9359</DIV><DIV>f + 61 7 3365 7184</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=16194&pid=16136">http://cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=16194&pid=16136</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.homecookedtheory.com">http://www.homecookedtheory.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>