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From: "Jillana Enteen" <jenteen-AT-pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
Subject: Call for papers: "Worlding the U.S. Wide Web" 
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:59:50 -0500


apologies for cross posting

Call for Papers

American Studies Association Panel, Detroit 2000

"Worlding the U.S. Wide Web"

In recent years, Internet communication has increased exponentially, with
participants from many nations and locations. Yet studies about the Internet
repeatedly assume that World Wide Web participation is accurately
represented by considering US-based users. This results in the United States
once again represnting the global. This panel will address and assess the
centrality of the US in considerations of Internet communication. How can
these assumptions be reformulated? In what ways is Internet use currently
perceived as raced and gendered? Who is excluded from current formulations?
How can theories of race and gender contribute to the study of the Internet
as a new medium? How can Media Theory and Internet research be theorized as
inclusive and within a global frame, yet still represent users beyond U.S.
boundaries? Please send 500-word abstracts and a brief c.v. by 10 January
2000 to Jillana Enteen at jenteen-AT-pegasus.cc.ucf.edu.




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