The aim of this special issue is to explore the ways wars and conflicts are mediated, commemorated, reported and discussed on the Internet as well as in other forms of new media, including mobile phones, digital broadcasting and computer games. What is the role of new media in understanding, representing, negotiating and remembering (or forgetting) war and terror? What is the status of testimony, evidence and reportage in the age of digital reproduction? What practices of memory do new information and
communication technologies entail? What structures of feeling operate in on-line reports and debates around military operations and human suffering? How can digital mediations of conflict bring people and communities together, while tearing others apart? And lastly, how can the embodied, physical violence intensify in digital interactions, and how can it be resisted?
This special issue of Digital Icons aims to create a forum for scholars working in the fields of war, conflict, commemoration, digital media, and new media, while simultaneously addressing linguistic, cultural, historical and political aspects of new media use in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe. We invite original articles that focus on one or more countries of the region, or on their diasporas. We also welcome theoretical essays, reflection by media practitioners on their own practices, contributions from artists and authors, and reviews of relevant projects, books and events.
*Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2010
Anticipated date of publication: October 2010*
Please contact Adi Kuntsman warconflictcommemor ation@googlemail.com
or DI editors editor@digitalicons .org to discuss your submission.
When submitting your work, please include the following information: a biographical statement (100-120 words in English) and an abstract/descriptio n of the submission (or the first paragraph of the essay if appropriate) (about 150 words in English)
Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!
