Call for Papers: M/C 'scan' Issue

Ugh - it's been a week full of fiddly stuff so far: plenty of work and no end to it. At least I've been able to post the call for papers for the next issue of M/C Journal:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 26 May 2005

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
            is calling for contributors to the 'scan' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains all the issues released so far, at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>.

                         Call for Papers: 'scan'
                   Edited by Joshua Green and Adam Swift

The scan is both the quick glance and the measured study, it is a survey of the exterior and an interrogation of hidden interiors. Practices of scanning are a response to the increased number of things to consider and the reduced amount of time to consider them. Scanning demarcates that which is seen as relevant, interesting and important into ever increasing 'to do' lists, at the same time dismissing that which is not. These questions of importance or relevance are often decided through cursory glances and greater consideration is regularly left for 'later'. Scanning engages questions about surveillance, about the way in which we surveil our self and our surrounds, and about the way we submit our self and our surrounds to surveillance by others. In many ways scanning has an impact on the way in which authority is practiced, in creative practice, scholarship and daily life.

This issue invites reflections on the 'scan', on the activities of watching, surveilling, reporting and recording. We invite creative interpretations of the act of scanning and contributions from a wide variety of fields to explore its practices, limitations and potentials. Send 1000-1500 word articles to scan@journal.media-culture.org.au.

For more information: scan@journal.media-culture.org.au

Article deadline:        1 July 2005
Issue release date:   24 August 2005

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed.

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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2005:

'review': article deadline 26 August 2005,  release date 19 October 2005
'affect': article deadline 21 October 2005, release date 14 December 2005 

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M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>.

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M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there.

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M/C Reviews is available at <http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/>.

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