Syndicate: Culture and Technology in the New Europe

[Inke Arns <inke@berlin.snafu.de>]

Dear all,

this comes to you from <http://www.vptech.demon.co.uk/lengell/> and looks
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Best, Inke
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Call for Essays for an Academic Text 

Culture and Technology in the New Europe: 
Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations 
in the New Ablex Publishing Co. Series "Civic Discourse for the Third
Millennium" 

Essays are solicited for Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic
Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations. This book will
examine how post-socialist East Central and South-Eastern Europeans access
new communication technologies, the role of computer mediated communication
(CMC) and the Internet, and culturally-specific discourses that emerge
through and about new technology in East Central and South-Eastern Europe. 

The book will be distinguished by a diverse exploration of cybernetic civic
discourse, including for example, how CMC connects East Central and
South-Eastern Europe to the world, how digital media art articulates new
cultural and creative freedoms once forbidden by the Soviet regime, and how
development of technologies in the 'West' may be leaving behind the
economically disenfranchised 'East.' The book will also explore the
communication gaps between 'East' and 'West' as well as between specific
ethnicities and regions within the 'New Europe.' As the series addresses
communication in the Third Millennium all chapters should have a futuristic
focus.
Chapter essays should utilize civic discourse/communication as the base
(cybernetic civic discourse intersected with either interpersonal,
intercultural, ethnocultural, multicultural, international, multinational,
development, organizational, media or global civic discourse/communication). 

Deadline for submission of one-page (250 word) abstract, preferably by e-mail:
May 15, 1998 Deadline for submission of essays: September 15, 1998 

Essay Submission Details: 
The best 20 blind-reviewed essays will be included in Culture and
Technology in the New Europe. Each submitted work (18 double spaced
manuscript pages plus references) should have an accompany sheet with the
title of the essay, name of the individual author(s), institutional
affiliation, 40 word abstract, 40 word biographical statement of each
author, and key terms selected by the author(s) for inclusion in a subject
index. Each author should include a vita. The concept of civic
discourse/communication needs to be integrated in each chapter. The latest
APA style for citations and references is required. Both 3 hard copies and
1 disk are required. 

About the Editor and Series Editor: 
The editor, Fulbright Scholar Dr Laura Lengel, has research experience in
Central, Eastern and Western Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and
the Americas. She researches and lectures in international and
intercultural communication, culture and technology, and research
methodologies. The Series Editor of "Civic Discourse in the Third
Millennium" is Dr Michael Prosser, Kern Professor of Communications of
Rochester Institute of Technology and author/editor of eight books on
international and intercultural communication. 


Abstracts and inquiries should be sent to: 
Laura Lengel, PhD 
Department of Communications 
The American International University in London 
1 St. Albans Grove 
London W8 5PN ENGLAND 
Phone: 011-44-171-603-3292 
e-mail: lengell@vptech.demon.co.uk 



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