The Fibreculture Journal

Issue 23: General Issue

By FCJManager ⋅ December 3, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

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…

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CFP: Digital and Networked Media – Contemporary Issues and Events

By FCJManager ⋅ July 28, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

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…

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CFP – Issue 24 Fibreculture Journal: Entanglements- activism and technology

By FCJManager ⋅ June 19, 2014 ⋅ One comment

[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…

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CFP – Issue 23 Fibreculture Journal: Creative Robotics: Rethinking Human–Machine Configurations

By FCJManager ⋅ March 21, 2014 ⋅ One comment

[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,…

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New Issue: Issue 22 Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet

By FCJManager ⋅ March 3, 2014 ⋅ 51 comments

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…

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‘Cyber-safety’: what are we actually talking about?

By FCJManager ⋅ March 3, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

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…

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A Quiet Period and a Vital Future

By FCJManager ⋅ February 10, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

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….

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Issue 22: Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet

By FCJManager ⋅ December 30, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

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…

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FCJ-163 Olympic Trolls: Mainstream Memes and Digital Discord?

By FCJManager ⋅ December 30, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

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…

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FCJ-159 /b/lack up: What Trolls Can Teach Us About Race

By FCJManager ⋅ December 30, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

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…

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