[KS] KS: Call for Papers for "Digital Asia"--Asia Pacific Perspectives, Spring 2014 Issue

[Melissa Dale]

The Editors of Asia Pacific Perspectives invite scholars and graduate
students to submit papers for publication in the special spring 2014 issue
on the Internet and wireless communications, “Digital Asia.” This issue
will be guest edited by Andrea Lingenfelter, Kiriyama Fellow at the
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim.

The submission deadline is Monday, November 18, 2013.

Asia Pacific Perspectives (ISSN: 2167-1699) is a peer-reviewed electronic
journal published twice a year by the University of San Francisco Center
for the Pacific Rim. Our task is to inform public opinion through
publications that express divergent views and ideas that promote
cross-cultural understanding, tolerance, and the dissemination of
knowledge.  The journal offers a forum for the exchange of ideas from both
established scholars in the field and graduate students.

The upcoming special issue will be focused on the effects of the Internet
and wireless communications on literature and culture, economy, society,
political engagement, and human rights across the Asia-Pacific region.
Submissions might include explorations of social networking, gender
relations, free speech, censorship, and e-commerce and entrepreneurship.

Transnational, border-crossing and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome
and encouraged. While the growth of the Internet and wireless
communications is a global phenomenon, it has played out in particular ways
in the Asia-Pacific region and has been a conduit for new modes of
expression, economic development, and social and political movements.
Examples of new trends are serialized cell phone fiction in Japan, “Call
Center Novels” in India, and microblogs (weibo) as a forum for political
speech in China. By examining multiple facets of these technological
changes and their influence on societies, we hope to gain insight into the
diversity of experience throughout the region.

Guest editor Andrea Lingenfelter is a China scholar and translator of
contemporary Chinese-language fiction and poetry. This past summer, Dr
Lingenfelter was awarded a 2014 NEA Translation Fellowship.


To submit a paper:

Submissions should be DOUBLE-SPACED and approximately 8,000 words in
length. Your name and affiliation should appear on a cover sheet. Do NOT
put your name in the body of your paper. Electronic copies must be in MS
Word or compatible format; tables, charts or images may be inserted in the
text document or be included as separate files. Further guidelines are
posted at http://www.usfca.edu/pacificrim/perspectives/

Submissions may be sent electronically to Dayna Barnes at
perspectives at usfca.edu

Hard copies should be addressed to:

Dayna Barnes, Managing Editor
Asia Pacific Perspectives
The Center for the Pacific Rim
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA
94117-1080
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