International Journal of Central University of Kerala, India

ISSN 2321-8010 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Vol. 2, Issue 2, July 2014
Focal Theme for the Issue:

Individual Agency Vs Hypermediated World

Humanities Circle is a peer reviewed biannual interdisciplinary journal of Central University of Kerala, India. Each issue of the journal initiates a multidisciplinary debate around a select theme. The focal theme identified for its July 2014 issue is Individual Agency Vs Hypermediated World. Unpublished, original research papers, project reports, critical commentaries, photo essays, professional reviews, and translations of historical/literary texts related to the theme are invited from scholars/activists around the world. All Submissions should be in English, between 50008000 words, in APA or MLA style. Last Date for Submission: 31 May 2014 Brief Theme Note: Platforms of expression, interaction, surveillance, mediation, intervention and resistance have exploded greatly in the current fast-unfolding era of multidimensional digital high technology. This makes any assumption on anything highly tentative and mediated beyond recognition. Most of our socio-cultural narratives frequently get intervened, modified and sabotaged in the contemporary hyperconnected, hyperinteractive, and hyperspontaneous world. Individuals and institutions are inextricably attached to the web of electronic traffic of ideas and contestations. Therefore, Humanities Circle thinks that it would be a highly enriching academic experience to explore the various ways in which the agency faculty of the homo sapiens is exerted in the hypermediated global order.

Sub-Themes: Socio-economic profile of digital players Digital poverty and digital affluence Divinity in the digital era URL cyborgs and IRL (In Real Life) homo sapiens Power of human agency in taming the digital beasts What are you doing in/with the WWW? Humanities studies at digital crossroads WhatsApp? Implications of internet applications Impossibility of total deletion and disappearance Journalism on Net and Internet Journalism Emerging genres: Selfies, Home videos, Audio-Visual-Docu-Narratives From print-first to online-first Piracy, hacking and online loot E-commerce and online middlemen Social networking sites and mass snooping Hypermediation, non-terminality and digital labyrinth Virtual gaming and gambling Photoshopping: (Un)real identity and hypermediated identity Traumatised self and transcending self in digital era Sociology of the republic of Net Cybercell policing, crime mapping and individual privacy Etcetcetc

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