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ICE: Web Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically via Ethnodigitography
This new social research e-journal endeavours to develop the graphic and visual capacities of
the web to reciprocally transform and enhance both social research and photo-video
documentary/photo-video journalism in a creative interplay between technology, social research
and aesthetics.
The web has provided us with an astoundingly unprecedented technologically convergent
capacity to transmit and receive not only text, but also images, almost instantaneously,
interactively, yet also ephemerally. While The Electronic Journal of Sociology is accomplished
in text presentation, and Zonezero offers great (mostly documentary) photography, as yet no
other social research e-journal has thoroughly combined texts with visuals.
We seek to reveal the present "great transformation" from societies and cultures relying upon the
isomorphism between human interaction in written documents and speech, and print
mediated reportage thereof, to new worlds of multimediated cultures and relationships,
(incorporating not only words and print, but also sound, and visual images)--to change social
research and indeed our very understanding of what constitutes knowledge about ourselves.
ICE will provide an exemplary model for the transformation of social research journalism
into a "photoelectrified medium" able to engage and report on the new forms of human social
organization culturally mediated by information technology and communications.
We invite submissions from interested colleagues involved in social research, visual imaging
regarding social issues, or ethnographic aesthetic endeavours. Although we particularly
encourage work with visual imaging, we also entertain audio and theoretical ("text")
submissions.
Contact: Dr. W. Gordon West, Editor,
e-mail: gordwest@idirect.com
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