The Wi: Journal of Mobile Media, an open-access, peer-reviewed experimental journal, is gathering contributions for their upcoming issue that will address the idea of ‘mobile trash.’
The goal of this journal is to create an interdisciplinary, international dialogue for scholars to explore the “term” mobilities in all of its many manifestations, although the history of the journal indicates an emphasis on the connection of mobilities research to media studies, the media arts and communications.
The intention of this issue is to reconfigure the concepts of ‘mobile’ and ‘mobilities’ in relation to trash, by its various definitions and formations, from new materialism, feminism, media ecology, media archaeology, and queer frameworks.
They are especially interested in short pieces (2500 words) and creative interventions that explore mobile trash as pollution, fumes, compost, satellites, e-waste, toxins, bodies, drones, viruses, hacks, landfill, etc.
Also welcome are pieces that poetically engage the politics of trash and speak to its borders, transitions, movements, materialities, shifts, contagions, ecologies, permutations, mutations, and invisible transferences.
The online issue goes live January 2016 and will be accompanied by a print-on-demand issue.
If interested:
- Send a 300 word abstract to info@technotrash.org
- Include your name, personal URL, and title of submission.
Deadline for abstracts: Nov 1, 2014.
Want to learn more about Wi-Journal of Mobile Media? Check out their website.
For full details about the call for papers, click here.
