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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 14:16:36 -0800 From: Bill Dutton

Call For Papers: Information, Communication and Society

SPECIAL ISSUE, VOL 4:4: WORK, DIFFERENCE AND THE NEW MEDIA INDUSTRIES

What are the impacts of the new media industry on work, organisation and identity?

Media representations of workers in the new media sector suggest a workforce which is young, hip, urban, and diverse. Is this an accurate characterisation of these new media workers? How are they organised? How do they forge their notions of identity? What kinds of workplace cultures are formed in the new media sector? What roles do they play in the creation of new media products?

This special issue will bring together the emerging research on the new media sector including dot.coms, incubators, and other multimedia start-up companies. Papers are invited from a wide range of perspectives which focus on one or more of the following themes:

  • qualitative or quantitative studies of new media workers including
    • web designers, systems engineers, graphic designers, and testers.
  • discourses of identity and difference in the new media industries
  • power and inequality in new media work
  • methodological and ethical challenges of researching new media
    • industries
  • cross-national studies
  • collaborative work with dot.com companies
  • the importance of play in work, and the work of play in new media
  • strategies of subversion and resistence of new media workers
  • work patterns; changing boundaries between home and work

    • Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2000

    Potential authors are encouraged to contact the Special Issue Editor with inquiries about the topic of the special issue.

    Special Issue Editor:

    Nina Wakeford Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford GU2 5XH

    email n.wakeford@soc.surrey.ac.uk

    For general questions about the journal, submissions and style, authors should visit the journal website http://www.infosoc.co.uk

    William H. Dutton, Professor Annenberg School for Communication University of Southern California University Park, Los Angeles California 90089-0281 USA Tel/fax (310) 379-9250 Web: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~wdutton/ ```