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Jeffrey Weinstock | 1 Nov 2005 14:38
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UPDATE: South Park and Popular Culture (Collection; 11/20/2005)

Deadline for submissions extended to November 20th, 2005:

South Park and Popular Culture.  Contributions are invited for a collection 
of academic essays on the animated program, South Park.  Possible topics 
include, but are not limited to, South Park and historical, political, and 
televisual context; representations of race, gender, sexual orientation, 
class, or disability; constructions of childhood and parenthood; viewership 
practices; indecency and pornography; the carnivalesque; South Park and the 
academy; South Park and youth culture.  400-word proposals and C.V.s should 
be submitted by Nov. 20th, 2005 to the editor, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, 
Department of English, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 
(Jeffrey.Weinstock <at> cmich.edu).

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Imre Szeman | 1 Nov 2005 16:35
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Two Jobs at NYU

http://education.nyu.edu/dcc/Home/search.php

Job #1

The Department of Culture and Communication at New York University
invites applications from outstanding scholars of interpersonal
communication and social interaction whose work focuses on diverse
cultures and technology.

Responsibilities: Teach courses in areas of interpersonal communication
and social networks, language and discourse and new technologies, as
well as core departmental courses, at both graduate and undergraduate
levels; supervise graduate and undergraduate students; and have a
strong
record or potential for publication and research and external funding.

Job #2

The Department of Culture and Communication at New York University
invites applications from outstanding scholars of the history and/or
philosophy of media and communication.

Responsibilities: Teach courses in areas of history and/or philosophy
of
communication as well as core departmental courses, at both graduate
and
undergraduate levels; supervise graduate and undergraduate students;
and
have a strong record or potential for publication and research and
external funding. Applicants may include those with research interests
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Imre Szeman | 1 Nov 2005 16:42
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Postcolonial Position at Georgia State

Anticipated tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in
postcolonial cinema and/or race and ethnicity in media beginning August
2006. Ph.D. required. Additional areas of expertise might include
globalization, critical documentary studies, and gender studies. The
successful candidate will teach in a doctoral program in moving image
studies, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in film/video.
Send letter of application, vita, transcripts, evidence of teaching
effectiveness and three letters of recommendation to Ted Friedman,
Chair, Film Studies Search, Communicataion Department, Georgia State
University, Box 4000,Atlanta, GA 30302-4000. Application review will
begin 12/1/05. Georgia State University is an EEO employer.

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david silver | 1 Nov 2005 21:32

new reviews in cyberculture studies (november 2005)

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ ) for NOVEMBER 2005
include:

[1]

Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements, eds. Wim van de Donk, 
Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon, and Dieter Rucht (Routledge, 2004)

Reviewed by: Arthur L. Morin, Associate Professor in the Department of 
Political Science and Justice Studies and Director of the Master of Liberal 
Studies Program at Fort Hays State University.

[2]

Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, by Graham Meikle (Routledge, 
2002)

Reviewed by: Roberta Buiani, Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Programme in 
Communication and Culture at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Reviewed by: Victor Pickard, PhD student in the Institute of Communications 
Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

[3]

Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy, by Greg Elmer 
(MIT Press, 2004)

Reviewed by: Timothy D. Ray, Assistant Professor of English at West Chester 
University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA.
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Sandra Braman | 1 Nov 2005 21:49
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Re: new reviews in cyberculture studies (november 2005)

David, just curious -- You mentioned that something
like 7 or 8 people asked to review COMMUNICATION
RESEARCHERS AND POLICY-MAKING -- did
MIT Press decline to provide the books?

Thanks --

Sandra

david silver wrote:

> New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ ) for 
> NOVEMBER 2005
> include:
>
> [1]
>
> Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements, eds. Wim van 
> de Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon, and Dieter Rucht (Routledge, 
> 2004)
>
> Reviewed by: Arthur L. Morin, Associate Professor in the Department of 
> Political Science and Justice Studies and Director of the Master of 
> Liberal Studies Program at Fort Hays State University.
>
> [2]
>
> Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, by Graham Meikle 
> (Routledge, 2002)
>
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Sandra Braman | 1 Nov 2005 22:38
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apologies to the list

Apologies to the list for a message intended only for David Silver.

david silver wrote:

> New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ ) for 
> NOVEMBER 2005
> include:
>
> [1]
>
> Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements, eds. Wim van 
> de Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon, and Dieter Rucht (Routledge, 
> 2004)
>
> Reviewed by: Arthur L. Morin, Associate Professor in the Department of 
> Political Science and Justice Studies and Director of the Master of 
> Liberal Studies Program at Fort Hays State University.
>
> [2]
>
> Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, by Graham Meikle 
> (Routledge, 2002)
>
> Reviewed by: Roberta Buiani, Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Programme 
> in Communication and Culture at York University, Toronto, Canada.
>
> Reviewed by: Victor Pickard, PhD student in the Institute of 
> Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
>
> [3]
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Jay Hamilton | 2 Nov 2005 17:35
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CFP: Political Violence in the Media Spotlight

hi, everyone:

Thought I'd pass this on.

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Journal of Communication Inquiry
Call for 2006 Theme Issue: Political Violence in the Media Spotlight

The Journal of Communication Inquiry invites submissions for its 2006 
theme issue. This issue will be devoted to scholarship on media and 
political violence. Whether in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, 
or elsewhere, politically motivated violence has been a prominent 
feature of the twentieth century and certainly remains so in the 
twenty-first century. Political violence is not simply a widely utilized 
concept within academic discourse, but is an international reality with 
multiple ramifications.

In popular American discourse, September 11, 2001 is often cited as the 
catalyst for American interest in “terrorism,” though as history 
teaches, the act of employing the fear tactic toward political goals is 
an ancient practice. Terrorism is but one designation attributed to 
political violence phenomena. Far from being a neutral term, terrorism 
is an ideologically loaded label that typically comes with an agenda or 
at least connotes a very explicit value judgment. Since “political 
violence” encompasses a vast array of acts, actors, and causes yet does 
not carry the same shades of illegitimacy that “terrorism” bears, this 
theme issue seeks articles that are not necessarily devoted to 
“terrorism” per se, but rather the phenomenon of political violence in 
general.
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T. J. Rogers | 2 Nov 2005 21:09

New Orleans HIV/AIDSPlease distribute widely

Please distribute widely

I just wanted to get the word out about an important online fundraiser going
on for an AIDS service organization in New Orleans

Like many in New Orleans, NO/AIDS Task Force, one of the oldest and largest
AIDS service organizations in the Gulf South, was greatly affected by
Hurricane Katrina. Some of our facilities were badly damaged, our staff,
clients and volunteers were displaced all around the country and our largest
yearly fundraiser, our annual NO/AIDS Walk was cancelled. The cancellation
of the 16th annual NO/AIDS Walk means a loss of hundreds of thousands of
dollars at a time when the agency needs it the most. 

NO/AIDS needs your help more than ever. The Task Force is asking for help in
replacing their lost Walk with a Virtual Walk, which runs from Oct 12 to Dec
16. Instead of walking with your feet, you're asked to walk with your
keyboard. It's easy for you - and vital for NO/AIDS! The Task Force is
asking anyone concerned about the fight against AIDS, to join them by
registering at www.noaidstaskforce.org as an individual, starting a team or
joining a team. Once you're registered, you will be able to turn your email
into a powerful fundraising tool. NO/AIDS is also accepting general
donations through the virtual walk site.

NO/AIDS Task Force is struggling to get its doors open to services for their
clients and anyone infected or affected by HIV/AIDS as they return to the
New Orleans area. They have already reopened their medication disbursement
program and are also offering client services, food distribution and mental
health services on a limited basis, and intend to continue adding services
in the coming weeks. These efforts depend greatly on the success of the
Virtual Walk.  Please join in the efforts to help NO/AIDS and the clients
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ltenzer | 2 Nov 2005 22:08
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Social Text Conference, Nov. 10

Please note the following conference, to take place at Rutgers University
on November 10. This event is open to the public and all are welcome:

Social Text
The Critical Sexualities Initiative
The Department of Women's & Gender Studies

invite you to celebrate the publication of

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What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?

Thursday, 10 November 2005
3:30-7:30pm

Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Department of Women's & Genders Studies

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Douglass Campus
162 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ
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Please join us for a reception and two roundtable
discussions.  Eleven contributors to this Social
Text special issue will participate, along with
coeditors David L. Eng (Rutgers), Judith
Halberstam (USC), and José Esteban Muñoz (NYU).
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Michael Williams | 3 Nov 2005 03:23
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CFP: Invisible Culture journal issue

** Call for Papers: please post (apologies for cross postings) **
The online journal Invisible Culture
<http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html>
is seeking papers for an upcoming issue on the theme of The Symptom.

Jacques Lacan famously described the ego as the symptom of man. In  
psychoanalytical theory, the subject is the symptomatic psychical  
effect of the tension between binary oppositions, such as desire and  
jouissance, lack and plenitude, soma and psyche, self and other, man  
and woman, gay and straight, black and white, actual and virtual,  
animal and human. In a general way, the symptom is a formation  
whereby the repressed seeks to return in the present; as Freud  
observes, "... a thing which has not been understood inevitably  
reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has  
been solved and the spell broken."

This CFP enlists papers that engage with, question and interrogate  
the full range of definitions and cultural/social manifestations of  
the symptom (and its subject), and also those that identify or posit  
new ones, from historicist and psychoanalytic perspectives. For both  
psychoanalysts and historicists, the symptom demands interpretation,  
which entails an interrogation of the disparity between a symptom's  
manifest (visible) content and its latent (invisible) content. How  
does the symptom speak and what does it want to communicate? What  
motivates its production, and what is its function? How does the  
symptom articulate the impasse – or the difficulties – that inhere in  
binary relationships? Given that a symptom cannot be erased, but only  
replaced by another symptom, can we speak of bad or negative  
symptoms, and good or positive symptoms, or posit that some symptoms  
are more ethical and life-enhancing than others? Indeed, is it
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