*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE CYBER ORIENT JOURNAL

CyberOrient is devoted to research on the impact of cyberspace and its representation on the Middle East, North Africa and wider Islamic world in Asia. Our last special issue provides a critical insight into digital layers of revolutions, digital communication, and dissidence in the Middle Eastern and North African region.

We are a peer-reviewed journal with two issues per year and we invite scholars in any field to contribute articles or serve as guest editors. With a rapid turn-around time, CyberOrient can publish online in a timely fashion.


What to Submit

Submissions are welcome from scholars in any discipline. Text style follows the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. For further information, consult the Publishing Style Guide of the American Anthropological Association.

*CFP* “MATERIALIZING DIGITAL FUTURES: TOUCH, MOVEMENT, SOUND AND VISION”, CHAPTER BOOK

As the technological climate continually evolves, the implications for society and individuals are being drawn in stark relief. Globally, personal and industrial data collection, data sharing and increased self-tracking practices using social media applications on mobile screen devices that are linked to wearable devices or recorded data from ingestible sensors are becoming more prevalent. Today, small mobile screens together with computer networks and various networked digital technologies (such as smartphones and tablets or ‘phablets’) make it possible for individuals, corporations and governments to accumulate, curate and distribute data and information on an unprecedented scale. Algorithms and big data are increasingly shaping our socio-cultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Important questions are arising that concern the human impacts of emerging digital technologies as the advent of ‘big data’ (and small data) technologies and social media have inexorably altered the boundaries between private and public life, and profoundly altered our sense of self.

*CFP* “RETHINKING DIGITAL MYTHS. MEDITATION, NARRATIVES AND MYTHOPOIESIS IN THE DIGITAL AGE”, CONFERENCE

“Rethinking Digital Myths. Mediation, Narratives and Mythopoiesis in the Digital Age”

USI Università Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

January 30th-31st 2020

The term “myth” resonates widely in the foundations of European cultural and media studies, particularly in the intellectual legacy of French semiotician Roland Barthes, who described “modern mythologies” as the dominant ideologies of our time (Barthes 1957). More recently, Vincent Mosco emphasised how, in the last decades, the myth of the digital revolution still animates individuals and societies by providing new paths “that lift people out of the banality of everyday life” (Mosco 2004, 3). Little attention, however, has been given to the question of what makes myths of the digital age different to mythologies of the past, and also how and to which extent these myths permeate contemporary societies. This is an important gap if one considers that myths have characterised the most diverse cultures across thousands of years, from ancient Greece with its narratives of gods and metamorphosis, to contemporary Silicon Valley in which the myth of singularity envisions transcendence and immortality as the result of the development of digital technologies.

*CFP* "LA DOCUMENTACIÓN DE TELEVISIÓN: VENTAJAS Y RETOS EN EL ENTORNO DIGITAL", REVISTA DOCUMENTACIÓN DE LAS CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN

Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información (ISSN 0210-4210, ISSN-e 1988-2890) es una revista anual que publica artículos de investigación y trabajos técnicos sobre las Ciencias de la Información y Documentación aplicadas a la Comunicación Social y sus especialidades: Internet e información digital, Periodismo, Televisión, Radio, Cine, Fotografía, Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas. Se trata de una de las revistas de Documentación más antiguas en España, editada desde la Unidad Docente de Biblioteconomía y Documentación de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. La revista dispone de dos secciones: Artículos y Reseñas.

La digitalización de los archivos de las televisiones es una realidad desde hace más de una década, tiempo suficiente para comenzar a obtener conclusiones sobre lo que este cambio tecnológico ha significado. En este volumen monográfico queremos recoger reflexiones y ejemplos sobre diversos aspectos fundamentales de la gestión de estos fondos documentales en el entorno digital, desde diferentes puntos de vista, para mostrar de qué manera la denominada "revolución digital" ha influido en la gestión, preservación y reutilización de la Documentación de Televisión.