>Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 >From: Anne Hieber <watkinsr@usfca.edu> >Subject: Call for Essays: Social Justice Movements and the Internet > >Call for Papers > >PEACE REVIEW JOURNAL > >Special Issue: Social Justice Movements and the Internet > >Editors: Bernadette Barker-Plummer and Dorothy Kidd, University of San >Francisco > >Writers Deadline: April 1, 2001 > >Peace Review Journal, an international and multidisciplinary journal of >peace, social justice and human rights, is seeking papers for a special >issue on Social Justice Movements and the Internet. > >The Internet has been hailed as a new and potentially radical force for >social change movements. It seems to offer the ability to connect, share >information, communicate, publish, and organize more cheaply and quickly >than ever before. But is the Net really a significant force for progressive >political practice? How are social justice movements using the Net and with >what results? > >In this issue of Peace Review we are seeking essays, case studies, and >critical assessments that address the role(s) --potential and actual -- of >the Internet in progressive political practice. > >Topics might include, but are not restricted to: > >o Case studies of the role(s) of the Internet in social justice campaigns - >e.g. the IMF protests in Washington and Prague, the MAI protests in Europe, >the WTO protest in Seattle, the international campaign of dockers, the >Zapatista uprising in Mexico and so on. > >o The use of the Net by established public interest or social movement groups. > >o Historical assessments of the net's role in social change. > >o Internet access issues. Who is able to access and use the Net in >organizing and who cannot? > >o The political economy of the net - e.g. how do the military underpinnings >of the net and the increasing commercial presence there affect its >potential as a social change resource? > >o Understanding Cyber -movements. What is Cyberfeminism? Or Cyber-Leninism? >How do we understand movements that exist on the net as their primary >location? > >o Analyses of movements to democratize the Net itself - e.g. the Free >Software Movement and the Open Code movement > >o Labor patterns and labor organization among Net and information workers > >CONTACTS AND QUESTIONS: > >Dorothy Kidd or Bernadette Barker-Plummer (Editors) >Department of Media Studies >University of San Francisco >2130 Fulton Street >San Francisco >CA 94117 >(415) 422 6680 >barkerplum@usfca.edu >kiddd@usfca.edu > >PEACE REVIEW WRITER'S GUIDELINES > >Peace Review is a transnational journal distributed in more than 40 >nations. It is intended for a wide readership both inside and outside of >academia and across the peace and social justice movements, so please try >to avoid speaking in the voice of any particular national culture or >politics and avoid unnecessary jargon. We seek short (maximum 3500 words), >readable essays. >Manuscripts (2 copies, double-spaced) MUST be sent BOTH on paper and on >computer disk using Microsoft Word or WordPerfect or text format to: > >Dorothy Kidd or Bernadette Barker-Plummer (Editors) >Department of Media Studies >University of San Francisco >2130 Fulton Street >San Francisco >CA 94117 > >Include a 1-2 sentence professional biography of yourself, and your email >address, if available. Manuscripts and disks cannot be returned. >When writing your Essays, please observe the following: (1) We need a short >title--we do NOT run titles divided by a colon. (2) We do not run figures >or tables but can run drawings or photos. (3) We do not run subheadings but >we do make periodic breaks in the text using drop-caps (in the style of >literary journals). To indicate where you would like breaks, skip an extra >line in the text. (4) We do not run footnotes or endnotes but we do print >"Recommended Readings" at the end of each essay, if the author so desires. >It should be a short list, and appear in the following format: >Books >Parkin, Sara. 1994. The Life and Death of Petra Kelly. London: Pandora. >Articles >Fagan, Richard R. 1983. "Theories of Development." Monthly Review >(September): 1324. > >Chapters >Tunnell, Kenneth D. 1992. "Worker Insurgency and Social Control," in >Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed.), Violence in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press. > >All essays run in the journal will be thoroughly edited to meet our >requirements for style, length, and good English. If your essay needs >extensive editing, we will ask you to resubmit it. 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