New Media and Colonialism: New Colonial Media?
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Film, Television, and Media Studies in the Humanities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 31687
Special Issue Editors
Interests: postcolonial studies; settler narratives
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This proposed Special Issue for the journal Humanities will focus on new media, colonialism, settler colonialism, and global studies, with the aim of bringing together a variety of scholarly approaches.
Recent global scholarly debates have brought increased attention to the question of the ‘coloniality’ of new media. Indigeneity and colonial subjection alike are both being discussed in these ‘new’ arenas.
We are interested in the following questions, and more:
- Have new media become a battleground where digital colonialism is being enforced?
- In what ways are new media used to articulate and protect indigeneity? Are they being used to create a global indigenous community?
- Have new media contributed to real-world decolonization, beyond a few celebrated examples, and have these decolonizing passages been more than transitory?
- Has the emerging field of critical data studies faced the question of the coloniality that is inherent to datafication processes but neglected to explore the futurity of “digital natives”?
- Have new media opened spaces for expression by colonized subjects, or have they deepened the digital divide that re-enshrines the division separating colonizer and colonized?
- Are some “new media” more conducive to decolonial ends than others?
- How do digital technologies differ across the globe? Why might some technologies be more useful to some communities than to others?
Please send an abstract of 250 words describing your work on new media and coloniality by January 10, 2022. Accepted papers will need to be completed by mid 2022. An initial presentation of these ideas will take place at the ACLA annual conference at the National Taiwan Normal University, June 15-18, 2022.
Prof. Dr. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Dr. Lorenzo Veracini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- new media
- colonialism
- settler colonialism
- global studies
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