CFP: CyberOrient Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East

Submitted by Lauren Mathews on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 12:56

CyberOrient Online Journal has a call for papers for their special issue on problematizing cyber wars. The aim is to discuss how people might define wars in the new media-age and how new media are increasingly sites of warfare.

Topics could include:

• Significance of targeting (and bombing) telecommunications and media infrastructures
• The use of (new) media as outlets for propaganda during wartime
• The mediatization of war and the militarization of media
• The role of participatory or social media and mobile communications during and in wars
• Relationships or differences between official, military, alternative, citizen, and grass-roots (new) media uses during war and conflict
• The expanding definition of warzones; commemoration and memorialization of war in a digital age; among others.

Articles should be submitted directly to Helga Tawil-Souri (helga@nyu.edu) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler@ff.cuni.cz). The article should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the AAA style in referencing and citations. For those selected, your article would be posted online with free access in Spring 2015.

The submission deadline is January 31, 2015.

For more information and other opportunities, please refer to: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do;jsessionid=2878509F7458F1A2D4E7B20E...