[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: M/C Journal 'jam' issue (10/16/06; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

                           M/C - Media and Culture
                      http://www.media-culture.org.au/
              is calling for contributors to the 'jam' issue of

                                 M/C Journal
                    http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which
contains all the issues released so far, at
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>.


                           Call for Papers: 'jam'
                   Edited by Lawrence English & Jo Tacchi

What is Jam? How can we understand this cultural and culinary condiment?
How does it exist on its own right? Can it exist without attachment,
without some form of boundary giving this amorphous blob some understood
form and shape?

As a condiment, the notion of jam exists attached to a more solid form -
wedged between two pieces of bread or contained within a jar. Its
creation (via various processes and transformations from raw material
into something consumable, even desirable), housing, marketing and
consumption all shape our understanding of this widely used, yet
somewhat 'formless' term. Is it through this series of conditions (and
many more not noted above) that we understand the ideas of 'jam' - that
is, by association? Equally, the term applies to a variety of artistic
procedures and situations - from work with sound and visual arts to
online applications and a broader 'cultural' application. These are the
experiences and conditions of 'jam' and 'jamming' that this issue aims
to uncover and explore. Is jamming always underprepared and underdefined
in advance? Ironically, if one 'preserves' it, can it still be
considered 'jam'?

Is there still a currency for this term? Have the popular uses of 'jam'
in a cultural, musical and art setting rendered it less effective? How
might it be reinvigorated and where does the future path of jam
potentially lie?

Submit your essays of 1000-1500 words in length to the editors at
jam at journal.media-culture.org.au.

Article deadline:     16 Oct. 2006
Issue release date:   20 Dec. 2006



M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in
1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the
meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues
of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions
page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal
articles are blind peer-reviewed.

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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2006:

'filth':    article deadline 30 August 2006,  release date 1 November 2006
'jam':      article deadline 16 Oct. 2006, release date 20 December 2006

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M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>.
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M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there.
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                                                      Dr Axel Bruns

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  General Editor                              editor at media-culture.org.au
  M/C - Media and Culture                http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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