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Issue 23: General Issue
Imagine there’s no audit. It might be easy if we try. Are audit culture and performance management suffocating research in the humanities, rather than energising it? Are they pushing the work of publication toward an emphasis on pressured writing, ranking, measuring citations and h-indexes and so on? Does anyone actually read the work of others anymore, or are they just too busy publishing their own more immediate thoughts in order not to perish. Is publishing an encouragement to think, or to engagement with the community of scholars and beyond, or it is just a matter of scoring points for interested parties? Does audit work against inventiveness in publishing? Does it especially work against open access and online publishing? Does audit, ironically, take the “communication” and even sometimes the “scholarly” out of scholarly communication? Is research audit dehumanising research in the humanities? More people I talk to these days seem to…
CFP: Digital and Networked Media – Contemporary Issues and Events
CFP: Digital and Networked Media- Contemporary Issues and Events https://fibreculturejournal.org/ https://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-contemporaryissuesevents Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only abstract deadline: August 8, 2014 article deadline: September 10, 2014 publication: December, 2014 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal Email correspondence for this issue: a.murphie@unsw.edu.au The Fibreculture Journal invites submissions for the Digital and Networked Media—Contemporary Issues and Events issue. The issue will be published in 2014 so please note that the deadlines are short and final. It will suit authors with already close-to-finished, high-level papers that are ready for submission and looking for publication in 2014. The Editors are looking for work that discusses key contemporary issues and events in digital and networked media, and/or work that engages in transversal critique in areas related to digital and networked media. Although we will accept articles of usual…
CFP – Issue 24 Fibreculture Journal: Entanglements- activism and technology
[please circulate] Call For Papers- June 2014_Entanglements: Activism and Technology (PDF) https://fibreculturejournal.org/ https://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp_entanglements/ —- Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only Issue Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted) Article deadline: November 3 2014 Publication aimed for: February 2015 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal Email correspondence for this issue: p.shea@qub.ac.uk This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as the bringing together of different philosophies requires the negotiation of acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony. In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea…
CFP – Issue 23 Fibreculture Journal: Creative Robotics: Rethinking Human–Machine Configurations
[please circulate] Call For Papers 2014: Creative Robotics (PDF) https://fibreculturejournal.org/ CFP – Issue 23 Fibreculture Journal: Creative Robotics: Rethinking Human–Machine Configurations —– Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only Editors: Petra Gemeinboeck, Jill Bennett and Elena Knox abstract deadline: April 25, 2014 article deadline: July 31, 2014 publication aimed for: November, 2014 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: petra@unsw.edu.au “If one thinks of a classic ‘upstairs/downstairs’ scenario, it is no longer clear where the robots will be lodging” (Turkle, 2010) We are on the verge of a robotic revolution, a revolution that has long been foreshadowed by science fiction such as Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots) in 1920 and Isaac Asimov’s first collection of stories I, Robot in 1950. Today, robots are infiltrating our everyday lives, in the form…
New Issue: Issue 22 Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet
We have a habit (becoming a running quip), in the FCJ management group, of proclaiming that we feel we’ve turned a corner with the launch of each new issue. Speaking personally, I think I’m finally coming to terms with the fact that each issue presents a unexpected series of corners and that the act of negotiating them continually makes and remakes the journal. Each time we think we have the circuit well mapped out, documented and with all contingency accounted for, some unexpected challenge emerges. As we progress through the production of coming issues I will remind myself that in the end, the remarkable distributed effort that goes into publishing, all of it volunteered, inevitably results in a substantial contribution in the theory and analysis of media and technical cultures. Moreover, I will remind myself that, in the determination to make that contribution, and in the drive to realise it,…
‘Cyber-safety’: what are we actually talking about?
By Glen Fuller, University of Canberra This article was written by Fibreculture editor Glen Fuller and originally published by The Conversation. It has some relevance to Issue 22:Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet that Glen co-edited with Jason Wilson and Christain McCrea and is republished here with permission under a CC-BY-ND licence. Please see The Conversation for terms and conditions of republishing this article. The rise of social media tools and accessories has allowed us to be “always on” and “always connected”. The impact of this technological change is primarily social, and so far our communities have not come to terms with what these changes mean. The increased degree of contact poses a number of serious challenges for established social norms of civility. The federal government’s current discussion paper about cyber-safety is concerned with the “cyber-safety” of children. As Paul Fletcher, parliamentary secretary to communications minister Malcolm Turnbull,…
A Quiet Period and a Vital Future
In 2013 The Fibreculture Journal celebrated its 10th year in operation. It was, for the most part, a year of self-assessment, rebuilding and rejuvenation as we welcomed a new editorial team and dealt with a number of outstanding legal and organisational hurdles – all of which, I am glad to report, we have almost cleared. We have also worked hard to bring you a new issue FCJ: Issue 22 Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet which has (as all issues do) presented a new set of challenges and asked important questions regarding the act of online publishing, criticism and analysis, and the dynamic of online discourse. We collectively thank the issue editors, reviewers and contributors for their patience as we worked through a lengthy period of review and development. Upload of that issue has been temporarily delayed as we await for one final legal clearance but it should…
Issue 22: Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet
Troll Theory? We only talk about trolls inside a polemic. To aver that someone is trolling is to allege that their participation conceals the aims of their disruption; by implication, they are to be excluded or dismissed. The Internet’s folk wisdom for trolls says: ‘Do not feed them!’ This remedy rests on a belief that acknowledgement and interaction are the barest matters of subsistence in an attention economy. To call out a troll is thus to recognise who ought or ought not speak or be listened to. Since to describe an interlocutor as a troll is to invite a third party to put them beyond the pale, the charge is often contested. We can understand this as, at once, an artefact of agonistic politics and as an attempt to avoid it. It is reassertion of the ‘table manners’ (Arditi, 2006) of liberal civility; like any such insistence it can be a way…
FCJ-163 Olympic Trolls: Mainstream Memes and Digital Discord?
Tama Leaver Curtin University [Abstract] Introduction During 2012, the Australian and international press frequently deployed the accusation of ‘trolling’ as part of a wider moral panic about supposedly anonymous online abuse facilitated by social media. The term trolling has been applied to a range of activities, many of which are simultaneously labelled abuse, (cyber)bullying and general mischief. Despite clear early work on trolls in Usenet discussion groups (Donath, 1999), there is surprisingly little detailed research on trolling, and what exists is largely focused on the provocative and ephemeral internet image board 4chan, and the related Anonymous movement (Phillips, 2011b; 2012a). As 4chan has been a hotbed for the creation of online memes—jokes and images, often combining text and visuals, following a particular style or grammar, which are rapidly spread across the internet—memes and trolling have often been tied together. However, this paper focuses on a more banal example of memes…
FCJ-159 /b/lack up: What Trolls Can Teach Us About Race
Tanner Higgin Independent Scholar [Abstract] I hate racists (even if I sometimes play one on the internet). Paulie Socash (Phillips, 2012) Closing Pools, Posing Questions I’d been a fringe observer of 4chan and /b/ for years, aware but ignorant of its pleasures and horrors. Then in a particularly aimless night of YouTube browsing, I watched something that plunged me into the /b/ abyss. It was a player made World of Warcraft (WOW) machinima video featuring a white human avatar dressed in plain clothes and a wide brimmed hat. This wasn’t remarkable, but what followed him—a group of dark skinned human avatars—was. Couched in a Benny Hill sensibility, the video featured a pack of ‘slaves’ who chased and were chased by the ‘slave master’ through the city of Stormwind to crowds of (one can assume) perplexed, entertained, and offended onlookers. The ‘slave chase video’ as I refer to it (it’s long…
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