CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOK PROPOSALS Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America A new edited series by the University Press of Florida By Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste (Georgia State University) and Juan Carlos Rodríguez (The Georgia Institute of Technology) We are seeking original manuscripts for this new edited series on media, culture, and technology in Latin/o America. The object of this series is to provide an updated view of cultural production and information technologies in the hemisphere through a venue for novel theoretical approaches to Latin/o American media and digital humanities studies. This series aims to acknowledge the growing influence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) upon the shifting Latin/o American cultural landscape. Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America will explore how Latin American and Latino audiovisual (film, television, digital), musical (radio, recordings, live performances, dancing), and graphic (comics, photography, advertising) cultural practices reframe and reconfigure social, economic, and political discourses at a local, national, and global level. In addition, it will look at how information networks reshape public and private policies, and the enactment of new identities in civil society. Additionally, the series will cover how digital technologies allow for the construction of new ethnic spaces. It will not only contemplate the interaction between new and old technologies but also how the development of brand-new technologies redefines cultural production.Books in this series could cover an ample historical background—i.e., nation-building during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the rise of dictatorships, the rise of democracy in the 1980s, and recent responses to neoliberalism and internal conflicts in the 1990s and 2000s—but their argument and theoretical apparatus should reflect a fresh perspective on the subject of media, technology, and culture. The series wishes to put forward a group of studies that situate the analysis of media, technology, and culture in the context of new and changing social and economic realities throughout the hemisphere. In light of new uses of technology and how media foster new readings of historical and cultural practices affecting political and economic processes, contributions should be engaging and intellectually stimulating. Though the texts themselves should not necessarily be technologically driven, the use and influence of culture-oriented technology should be a meaningful component of their theoretical argumentation. Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America would provide the much-needed space for work integrating Latin/o America into the disciplinary platforms of media studies and digital humanities, providing greater diversity to these fields. Potential contributors should send a 70-90K words manuscript or a book proposal (prospectus and sample chapters) along with a short bio-bibliography and complete contact information to Héctor Fernández LHoeste ([email protected]) and Juan Carlos Rodríguez ([email protected]).
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