Born
Digital: [Contemporary Art and Education]
précis by June 15, 2009
&
Digital Generation
précis by Nov 16, 2009
educationalinsights.ca Call For Papers for 2010
Teresa Dobson, Academic Editor
Michael Boyce, Managing Editor
Educationalinsights.ca, an online, international, peer-reviewed,
education journal based at The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada, is looking for research, critical theory, electronic
literature and rich media pieces that investigate, represent, and
reflect upon the influence of digital tools, environments, and
distribution systems upon cultural production within social, artistic
and pedagogical contexts.
We are offering two themes for investigation in our 2010 publishing
cycle: Please send your précis relating to either subject matters
to Educational.Insights@ubc.ca
Questions Related to both Investigations:
As a focus on critical investments, although these are separate
issues of the journal, we see them as inter-related. In that
regard, here are some questions (which are certainly not exhaustive,
nor meant to be restrictive) we have with respect to consideration
of both concerns:
- How is the question of being born digital (or of being a
digital native, or being a member of a digital generation)
posed, framed, produced and determined? That is, what are the
critical parameters that provide for, inform and guide such
a question to begin with? And according to what assumptions
are these investigations able to be treated as either or both
a general concern or as specific to a particular area of interest?
- How do these terms: digital native, digital generation, digital
literacy, etc., work to reinforce, within the critical purview,
a course of action, whether related to pedagogy, administerial
policy, or cultural practices and production? How are the modes
of inquiry an opportunity to mobilize what agenda, what set
of policy, or ideology, towards what effect in which areas
of interest?
- What is involved in producing the digital as an environmental
element— particularly as it stands (presumably) in contrast
and distinction to a condition with absolute alterity: the
analogue. Does the distinction hold water? What
is analogue culture? And if that sounds strange to the
ear, then what is it that makes Digital Culture sound so familiar?
- What opportunities do cultural practices inscribed as ‘new’
and fundamentally different in their comprehensive constitution
(by both their production and their consumption) present to
their practitioners—particularly as heralds of the form?
- In the measure that cultural and institutional practices
in relationship with digital tools, applications and content,
is constitutive of a new type of literacy, formulated through
reciprocity or hegemonic transference or some variance of a
communications system, does it thereby also constitute new
forms of pedagogy?
Generally, we support submissions using an original approach,
which avoid excessive commentary on any canon, and we encourage
efforts to express the matter within the structure of the medium
itself. That being said, we expect rigorously critical investigation
within the parameters of any play. For more details please consult
our guidelines.
Deadlines Précis
Please submit your précis by the following dates:
Born Digital : June 15, 2009
Digital Generation : November 16, 2009
Deadlines Final Piece
Please submit your final piece according to the following dates:
Born Digital : November 16, 2009
Digital Generation : May 15, 2010 |
