CALL FOR PAPERS
Click and Kin: Transnational Identity and Quick Media
An edited collection by May Friedman (Ryerson University) and Silvia
Schultermandl (University of Graz)
We are looking for original chapters which take up the themes of transnationalism,
family, kinship, and subject-formation mediated through new media technologies.
The collection investigates phenomena of second orality, new literacy, and quasiembodied modes of encounter within migration, nationalism and citizenship,
including themes of indigeneity and colonialism. Chapters should explore a
transnational sensibility (Friedman and Schultermandl, 2011) which honors the
ambiguity of borders, families, and identities and views "a lack of fixity as
simultaneously inevitable and rich in possibility." We are interested in discussing
new and shifting understandings of how we inhabit and interact through time and
space; how we re-think identity and our ideas of close and far relations, both in terms
of kinship and physical distance; of how the emergence of new media technologies
generates new perspectives on bifurcated and hybridized lives.
Possible contributions may include, but are not limited to discussions of the
following:
- negotiations of national, cultural, and ethnic identities through both familial and
extra-familial media connections such as in chat rooms and blogs
- implications of plummeting long distance telephone costs
- limitations of the digital divide and bans on technology in various jurisdictions
- effects of real-time connectivity through media such as IM, skype, twitter
- face-to-face technologies such as skype and video messaging
- quasi-embodied technologies such as second life or gaming technologies that
create an alternate virtual embodiment
We invite 500-word chapter abstracts of critical scholarly, creative, and
autoethnographic essays. Deadline is extended to March 1, 2013. Please send
abstracts to May Friedman (may.friedman@ryerson.ca) AND Silvia Schultermandl
(silvia.schultermandl@uni-graz.at).
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May Friedman
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work, Ryerson University
350 Victoria St. Toronto ON M5B 2K3
Office: 216-E Eric Palin Hall
416-979-5000, x2525
may.friedman@ryerson.ca