fyi Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ Visiting Prof Schl of Information University of Arizona NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $18 Kindle $11 _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:48:05 +0000 From: Elise Paradis <elise.paradis@utoronto.ca> To: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Fwd: Call for abstracts: themed issue on body weight and digital media Any chance this could be shared with CITASA? Thank you! Elise Paradis ~ Sent while mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Esther Rothblum <erothblu@mail.sdsu.edu> Date: 2016-01-29 10:12 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Esther Rothblum <erothblu@mail.sdsu.edu> Subject: Call for abstracts: themed issue on body weight and digital media Call for abstracts: themed issue on body weight and digital media This themed issue, to be edited by Professor Deborah Lupton, focuses on the ways in which digital media and technologies are used to represent and manage body weight and size. If you are interested in contributing to this themed issue, please send Professor Lupton (deborah.lupton@canberra.edu.au<mailto:deborah.lupton@canberra.edu.au>) an article title and an abstract of 200-250 words outlining what you would propose to cover by 29 February 2016. Final submissions should be no longer than 7,000 words, including the abstract, all notes and references. In keeping with the journal’s emphasis on ‘body weight and society’, the themed issue will include contributions that address the following and related topics from a critical sociocultural perspective: · representations of body weight and size in the digital news media (and also how readers may comment on news reports online) · apps and wearable devices for weight control, physical fitness and energy expenditure · selfies and body size · the discussion and portrayal of such issues as weight loss, body size, fat activism, thinspo, fitspo, pro-ana, pro-mia and fat pornography and erotica in blogs, social media platforms and other websites · big data and body weight If your abstract is accepted, the following deadlines apply: · Full papers by 31 May 2016 · Revised final versions by 30 August 2016 Esther D. Rothblum, Ph.D. Professor of Women's Studies San Diego State University Mail Code 6030 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182, USA erothblu@mail.sdsu.edu<mailto:erothblu@mail.sdsu.edu> 619-594-6662 (work) website: rothblum.sdsu.edu<http://rothblum.sdsu.edu>