[P2P-F] Fwd: [Networkedlabour] tripleC - CfP Reminder - Deadline Jan 15: special issue "Interrogating internships"

[Michel Bauwens]

hi Kevin,

thanks for relaying this CFP via our blog as well, you will notice it has a
special category at the right hand side of the blog; as this was installed
by F.I. I'm not sure how exactly it works, but it would be good to continue
that initiative, as otherwise that scroll only has outdated CFP's,

Michel

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Subject: [Networkedlabour] tripleC - CfP Reminder - Deadline Jan 15:
special issue "Interrogating internships"
To: networkedlabour at lists.contrast.org



http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/17

Call for Papers: Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism &
Critique

Interrogating Internships

Edited by Nicole S. Cohen (University of Toronto Mississauga), Greig de
Peuter (Wilfrid Laurier University), Enda Brophy (Simon Fraser University)

When publisher Condé Nast cancelled its internship program in October 2013,
the response was mixed: many cheered the end of a program that asked
debt-laden youth to labour for free, while others lamented the closure of
one of the only routes into media work. When depicted in the mainstream
media, internships are surrounded by an aura of glamour: rapper Kanye West
did a stint at luxury designer Fendi, Lady Gaga arranged one at designer
Philip Treacy, and Hollywood portrayed the phenomenon in the movie The
Internship. The gloss is fading, however: digital electronics manufacturer
Foxconn was caught employing student interns on dubious terms on its
assembly lines; former interns launched a successful class-action suit
against Fox Searchlight Pictures; and Ross Perlin’s Intern Nation: How to
Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy (Verso, 2011) was
vital in pushing internships into a critical spotlight internationally.
Within just a few years, internships have become a high-profile subject,
garnering media attention, catalyzing activism, provoking government
action, and sparking lawsuits against massive corporations.

Although internships are prevalent in communication, cultural, media, and
entertainment industries, scholarly literature on internships from
communication and cultural studies remains limited. This special issue of
tripleC seeks to situate internships within the labour turn in research in
communication studies and beyond. The issue will interrogate some of the
multiple articulations between and among internships, capitalism,
communication, and culture. Employers in the media and cultural sectors are
regularly singled out as playing a key role in perpetuating the
normalization and intensification of unpaid or low paid intern labour,
illuminating the interplay of glamourous occupations, the reserve army of
labour, and discount wages. For many young people, internships provide an
initial encounter with and formative experience of the capitalist labour
market, yet the relationship between internships and the category of
exploitation is not necessarily straightforward. And many youth are shut
out of internships altogether, highlighting the way class divisions
structure entry into communication and cultural industries. Internships are
also an emerging trope in popular media culture, with television shows
ranging from Girls to Gallery Girls pointing to the gendered dimension of
internships. And, if internships are in the international spotlight today,
it is thanks to growing intern labour activism and the way interns and
their allies have turned their communicative capacities to alternative
ends, raising awareness through DIY video-making, engaging in creative
online protest and campaigns, and effectively naming-and-shaming intern
employers via social media.

Internships are an entry point for interrogating contested conditions of
life and labour in communicative capitalism at a time when precarity is an
overarching structure of feeling. So, we invite articles, reports,
interviews, and pieces that develop key concepts from academics, activists,
and interns (current and former) on issues including but not limited to:
* the political-economic context of the spread of (unpaid) internships
* the relationship of internships to student debt and youth unemployment
* social exclusion based on class, race, and gender and intersectional
analysis of the social relations of internships;
* the production of meaning, e.g., discourse analysis of media coverage of
intern issues, everyday talk of internships (‘paying your dues,’ ‘getting a
foot in the door’);
* representations of internships in popular media culture;
* government regulation, policy proposals, legal issues, and class-action
law suits;
* ‘passionate labour,’ governmentality, self-exploitation, working for
exposure, network sociality, and reputational economies;
* case studies of internships within and/or across particular sectors of
the arts, media, and cultural industries (e.g., journalism, fashion, film);
* historical perspectives on internships in the communication and cultural
industries;
* intern activism within and beyond the union movement; strategies,
tactics, and organizing models;
* critical and contextualized biographical accounts of internship
experiences;
* the role of education institutions in the intern economy;
* genealogy of the term ‘intern’;
* elite internships and access;
* theoretical key concepts for interrogating internships, such as
exploitation, youth, and intersectionality, etc.

Length:
* Peer-reviewed academic articles: 5,000-8,000 words not including
references
* Interviews, reports from organizations, non-academic articles:
1,000-2,500 words not including references
* Key concept entries: 1,000-2,000 words not including references

Publishing Schedule:

Jan. 15, 2014: deadline for proposals (300-500 word abstract)
Feb. 1, 2014: notification of acceptance (scholarly articles still subject
to peer review)
June 1, 2014: deadline for first drafts
Aug. 1, 2014: editorial feedback provided
Oct. 1, 2014: final drafts submitted
Nov. 1, 2014: publication of special issue

Please send queries and abstract proposals (including title, abstract of
around 300-500 words, affiliation, contact data, brief biographical note)
via email to the 3 co-editors:

Nicole S. Cohen
Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology
University of Toronto Mississauga
nicole.cohen at utoronto.ca

Greig de Peuter
Department of Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
gdepeuter at wlu.ca

Enda Brophy
School of Communication
Simon Fraser University
ebrophy at sfu.ca

About the journal:
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is a non-profit open access
journal focusing on the study of media, digital media, information and
communication in contemporary capitalist societies. For this task, articles
should employ critical theories and/or empirical research inspired by
critical theories and/or philosophy and ethics guided by critical thinking
as well as relate the analysis to power structures and inequalities of
capitalism, especially forms of stratification such as class, racist and
other ideologies and capitalist patriarchy. The journal is especially
interested in how analyses relate to normative, political and critical
dimensions and how they help illuminating conditions that foster or hinder
the advancement of an inclusive, just and participatory information
society. It publishes both theoretical and empirical contributions as well
as reflections and book reviews.

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