ABSTRACT:
This section will explore shifts in the production
of knowledge by examining how cultural discourses shape knowledge production,
how it is mediated through print and digital culture, and how knowledge
is used, “acted out”, or “performed”. Papers
may address single or multiple aspects of the following dimensions:
- Historical Intersections of Knowledge Production and Cultural
Discourses: What roles have publishers and intellectuals
played in shaping academic discourses and in the production of knowledge?
How have the historical intersections of academic, public, or popular
discourse shaped definitions of knowledge? How do publishers and intellectuals
participate in performing knowledge?
- Relations of Print and Digital Media: What are
the implications of the changing relations between print and digital
media for knowledge? How do media aesthetics construct discourses
on knowledge? What are the implications of the hybridization of the
book (e.g., electronic texts) for expert knowledge in the humanities?
What is the current/future role of libraries as material and virtual
archives for the production of knowledge, community centers, or platforms
for performing knowledge?
- Knowledge Communities: How do digital forums (e.g.,
Wikipedia) complement, supplant, or hybridize knowledge production
and dissemination through the creation of virtual communities for
performing knowledge? To what extent do they destabilize expert knowledge?
How does social networking (wikis, blogs, chat) alter the manner in
which knowledge is consumed and performed by students and/or publics?
What models/possibilities are available for creating critical frameworks
(theoretical and applied) for knowledge use?
Abstracts (250 words max.) and a brief biography (150 words) including
recent publications in Word format (12 point) should be sent to the
section chair, Mark Rectanus, Iowa State University, (mwr@iastate.edu)
no later than March 1, 2007.
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