A special-themed issue of Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN
Guest Editor: Adam Gallimore (University of Warwick)
Journal Editor: Matthew Freeman (University of Nottingham)
http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow

Deadline for Abstracts: 1 October 2013

This special issue of Networking Knowledge seeks to address issues of time and technology in popular culture, media and communication by exploring and examining a range of debates about the temporal and the technological across several disciplines, approaches, and research areas.

Issues of technological advancement and application need constant revision and reassessment given the ongoing nature of its processes.  Modernity has progressively been perceived through the demands and implications of time, and technology has had a massive impact on a wide range of time-based media and forms of communication.   This issue aims to contribute to larger debates concerning time—such as its representation, experience, or perception—by linking it directly to questions of technology.  This will be valuable in terms of opening out the field to examine an array of subjects that have yet to receive sufficient critical or scholarly attention.  These include issues of time and technology relating to cinematic technologies (3D, digital filmmaking, exhibition forms), New Media, memory, genre, and representation (gender, race, sexuality).  Meanwhile, the growth of social media forums and blogging applications has made it easier for individuals to create their own personal timelines that incorporate and document changing technologies, making it another subject of major contemporary significance.

This issue encourages contributions that engage with contemporary discourses around time and technology, with the central purpose of examining the impact of particular technologies on the representation and perception of time in cinema, television, and other media.  Possible topics and themes might include, but are not limited to:

• Issues of time and memory
• Perceptions and representations of time and technology
• Digital/analogue evolution in relation to temporality (HD, 3D, sound)
• Cinematic/televisual time in relation to technology
• Time/technology and genre
• Time/technology and narrative
• Time/technology and gender/race/sexuality
• Time/technology and New Media
• Time/technology and social media
• Time/technology and the archive
• Technology and ‘liveness’
• Technological determinism and temporality
• Franchises and revivals (retrospectives, remakes, reboots, re-enactments)
• Technology and ephemerality/duration

Time and Technology in Popular Culture, Media and Communication invites articles of 5,000 to 6,000 words from postgraduate students and early career researchers across the humanities and social sciences.

Please send abstracts of up to 300 words along with a 50-word biography by 01st October 2013 to Adam Gallimore (a.h.gallimore@warwick.ac.uk) and Matthew Freeman (aaxmaf@nottingham.ac.uk).  Articles will be due on 01st February 2014.  Please contact the editors for further information.

Adam Gallimore
PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Film and Television Studies
The University of Warwick
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