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Monitors: A Journal of Human Rights and Technology
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:17:31 -0600
From: Bret Benjamin
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Monitors A Journal of Human Rights and Technology
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~monitors/
Call for Papers/Projects
We are now accepting papers/projects/proposals for the inaugural edition of Monitors: A Journal of Human Rights and Technology. As far as we are aware this journal is the first to encourage both activist and academic approaches to the broad concerns of human rights by focusing specifically on the impact of technological advance. Monitors is intended to fill a gap in contemporary human rights scholarship (understood as a mix of theory and practice) by using new information technologies to analyze the various forms of oppression/repression and human rights violations that have always accompanied the advancement of technology. Monitors will be a forum where the medium of the World Wide Web itself connects and enables the changing nature of information, documentation, activism, and human rights.
With this call for projects for the inaugural issue of Monitors, we encourage submissions that focus on technology as it pertains to the evolving discourses surrounding human rights. Because initially Monitors will be available only as a web publication, we look forward to receiving submissions that both utilize web technology and question the utility of that technology for scholars and activists. As such, we envision the scope of this journal to include, but not be limited to, these possible topics:
prisons and political prisoners; torture and disappearance; cultural narratives of technology and human rights; travel, tourism and technology; transnational/mulitnational corporate expansion; developing markets; labor rights and exploitation; development projects; transfer of technology; enviro/eco-politics; pollution and industrial/resource management; medicine and health services; genetic engineering and social engineering; States and NGOs; population control; exploitation, representation and appropriation of indigenous peoples; privatization of human rights and resources; military research and development; communications technologies and control; internet as activist resource; urgent action; theoretical/philosophical treatments of technology and human rights.
Please send submissions and inquiries before March 31, 1996 to: Monitors@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu or snailmail to: Monitors c/o Joseph Slaughter PAR 108 Department of English University of Texas @ Austin Austin, Texas 78712
Please email us before sending web projects so that we can arrange for the easiest method of submission.
(editors: Bret Benjamin, Bill Parades-Holt, Joseph Slaughter)
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