Thinking Online
CALL FOR PAPERS
'Thinking Online' is to be a compedium of Net criticism, positioning
itself (as Geert Lovink has put it) 'within the Net, inside the software
and wires'. Papers included in the collection will focus on divergent
Net protocols - Muds, Moos, the Web, IRC, virtual worlds and so forth -
and attempt to develop a theoretic, critical and/or aesthetic means of
approach to those protocols.
The purpose of the volume is twofold: to provide an exposition of new
and seminal online technologies, and to outline a series of potent
critical methodolgies for examining them. 'Thinking Online' is planned
as an accessible but in-depth resource, primarily for the academic
community.
Significant interest in this collection has been shown by a good
academic publisher, and the editorial team are now in the stage of
submitting a formal proposal. For this we require ten solid abstracts,
outlining plans for papers of approximately 6,000 - 7,000 words.
Abstracts emailed to the adress below before 5th August, 1997 will be
considered for inclusion within the proposal. Successful applicants will
be notified by email and will be comissioned to produce a complete
paper. Commission fees will be made available by the publishers for this
project.
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Thinking Online
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'Net criticism… positions itself within the Net, inside the software
and wires…[It] tries to formulate criteria about the politics,
aesthetics, economics and architecture of multimedia and computer
networks.'
–Geert Lovink, Lecture at ICC Tokyo, 19.12.96.
Call For Papers : 'Thinking Online'
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Type: discussion